An Evening At Home
July 29th, 2005I bought a new computer today… a second-hand PowerBook G4. My desktop is only a year older than the used guy, but I’ve never had a laptop before and it seems like a useful thing to have. I want to install Tiger on it (and on my desktop) at some point; it’s running Panther right now (though the previous owner wiped it completely before I took it over, I put Panther on it to test it out.
I made a few changes to the website as well… first in like, forever. I started work on a My Wife, The Ghost mini-page and finally am announcing the August Portrait Project (despite the fact only 4 people contributed thus far). Made new icons for the Projects page.
I called Jesse and asked for more ToyBiz work. He sent over two GhostRider characters they need control art for (the front, back and side diagrams for action figures). It’s awesome pay, but these characters are MacFarlaned-out… baroque with details… buckles, snaps, bones, flames, costume gee-gaws.
I was trying to calculate how long I could live on my savings and commissions if I decided to leave my job—two incidents this week pushed me further into the “what the fuck am I doing working at this place” camp. I’m reluctant to get too far into it since the first month I was working there, a programmer got fired for shit they wrote in their blog. That was more propriatary industry secret leak type content, but more than being fired I want to avoid a “lecture” from either of my bosses.