Leaving on a trip tomorrow; be back next week. Meant to get an Adventurer’s Guide entry up, but it never happened. Sorry about that. I’ll try and get one up when I get back.

I hate “off days”. Days when no matter how hard you try everything you draw seems off, your heart just can’t get into it, and all you can see is the mistakes you’re making. It’s all the more annoying when you’re just a moderatly-skilled artist like me and your work is sloppy enough begin with. XD

Hopefully insperation strikes me soon, because I really want Swordmaster Odyssey to look its best when it resumes on Friday. 🙁

No Sketchbook Monday today. Sorry. Maybe next week.

Maybe.

It was in the 70s and 80s yesterday, but now it’s snowing. Go figure.

…And now my front yard is a post card! XD

We have internet again, so all two of you worried about me can calm down. Hurricane Ike did some major damage to our neighborhood, but our house came through just fine. Our lawn? Not so much so. :/

SMOdyssey should resume next week if all goes as planned.

Yet another major storm is making a beeline for the Gulf coast. Just a head’s up that if the storm keeps up its current path and significantly strengthens over the week, there likely won’t be an update this Friday seeing as we’ll be busy bracing for impact–or making a run for it.

Tropical Storm Edouard will likely hit us down this way as a hurricane early tomorrow morning, so we may be a bit late with updates this week depending on how much we have to clean up afterwards and whether or not we lose power.

I once took great pride in the fact that, although the animation is taking forever~ I’d never missed a Swordmaster Odyssey update. Sigh…

The simple upgrade that I mentioned a couple posts or so back should have taken only an afternoon or so. Yet, in the end, it wasted a week of my life, cost me over $200 more than it should have, and took the life of an innocent hard drive. Bah…

I backed up the important stuff (namely all the stuff for the company), but at the very moment that I realized the little diodes on the bottom of the drive had snapped off, images flashed through my mind of all the stuff I had somehow managed to forget! Unless I want to pay for a hard drive recovery–or go through the trouble of hunting down the exact same make/model/date hard drive and swap out the chip boards–it’s likely gone forever, along with a bunch of other stuff that got lost in the transition. Alas! What a fate to befall me!

What’s worse is that with all that time I spent getting stuff together, there was no way for me to do last week’s page, let alone upload it. Hopefully, I’ll be able to pull together this week’s. I make no promises. (The irony here is that I said that last week’s update would be up without a doubt, while I didn’t see myself doing a Sketchbook Monday. Guess which one made it and which one didn’t!) 😉

Sorry for not letting everyone know sooner–it’s been a stressful couple of weeks.

So, I was sick Friday and Saturday so… Now I’m behind. 🙁

Have no idea when the chapter 2 download pack will come out at this point, but between prolonged eons spent lying awake in bed I managed to toy around with a few ideas I’ve been wanting to test out. Not completely satisfied with the results, so I’m not sure if anything will ever become of it, but perhaps I’ll eventually show the results of my mad experiments here on the blog…