Ok; so that last journal was kinda messed up. To be honest I just wasn't sure if anyone was watching at this point so I thought Id have a little experiment.

Anyways: nothing to post. Because I'm still retreaving my files. And no it doesnt't take me a year and a half to restore my computer: I had to leave my Intell Hampster computer behind ages ago: but I'm not going to talk about the bulk of the vacation's reason. Again, as before, personal - and pretty much the conclusion (I hope) to what it's always been about.

And we arn't going to brign that up anymore. The negative side is that I lost not only the drivers and software that was on my computer during that time; but that I'm still looking for some of it. And pretty much all the work files I had (including old SLS and PWi files - which I was at sensible enough to save those to a disc around here somewhere). This means that commission requests are dead - with the one exception of a massively late commission that was already paid for. I'd like to say I'm sorry; but honestly - I'm not: I have no clue at this point where my process was on any of them anymore, and trying to retrace my steps from whatever scraps of hardcopy art I could find on them would likely just be a long and drawn out process that would delay me from working on anything else. And Id rather be doing something productive - so I apologize, and once I start doing commission work again I'll try and take those that requested before first if they are still interested at that time.

Feel me? Green.

Ok. At some point I'm going to start posting again once I find the discs for PSP and my scanner - at which point I'll likely be cleaning up my gallery and Poisonwind ink. If there are any images you are particularly attatched to: download them while you have a chance before I get to that step - I'm serious; steal my stuff. Once I start removing files I'll keep a disc (I dun learned) but I'd rather you archive anything you want to look at. But then: this is going to be a ways off - so there isnt a rush, think of this as advanced warning.

The state of Shadowlark will be moved back into updating once this happens also: and I won't reset the story again, but at some point I will likely want to redo the previous pages. The reason for this is mostly that what I have been doing theraputically while mindlessly killing my personality at my day job was increasing the ammount of time I spend on sketchbbok practice per day. Kind of went along with quitting WoW (and to be honest I went back to CoH; But I mainly just stay logged in to chat while I'm doodling - ask Blue, he's my witness). At any rate - it feels like Ive settled more into my style; if it's not a noticable improvement, well uh...actually I don't really care if its an improvement or not - but it is more comfortable (and this doesn't mean I'm coming back with stick figures or cut/pastes, I already missed April Fool's).

So that's it. I have my Old Man coronation next week, and I'm taking a few days off from work to just sit in a corner and try and put some pages together to see if I can get the mojo returned.

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Oh, and yes I deleted that other journal update: someone was nice enough to send me a link on the subject. For the record - I'm still gainst it, but I'm not going to tirade about it here.

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