Hey! It’s that time again. Time for me to make the donuts. No wait, that’s another guy (I wonder if he’s still alive actually). It’s time to write the blog.

So I checked and the Time to Make the Donuts Guy passed away in 2005. RIP. Oh the days when you couldn’t skip ads so you got to know them REALLY well.

I dozed off for a bit when I got home. It’s already past eight. I suppose that’s a sign I should go to bed earlier. I just can’t bring myself to do it. There’s some crazy mental block that says that if I don’t stay up until at least 11pm, then I’m not making the most of my evenings. I could try waking up later, but my internal alarm clock won’t let me do that most mornings either. What can you do? Be sleepy I suppose.

I played Attack of the Jelly Monster on Friday. It’s a real-time dice rolling game. Players roll their dice as quickly as they can and place them one at a time in the various city districts to collect as much jelly as possible. It’s chaotic and not normally my type of game, but I picked it up anyway because the theme just seemed kinda cool.  I don’t want to play it all the time, but I don’t regret my purchase either.

My mind isn’t the steel trap that it normally is tonight, so I guess I’ll call it a blog. Have a good seven y’all and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

Hey-lo folks! Time for a blog entry.

This is the last of my three day weeks for the summer. July went by so fast. I’ll be moving up to four-day weeks for August. I can only hope they go by as smoothly.

Last week I got my Collector’s Edition of Big Trouble in the Little China: The Game by Everything Epic Games and it was truly epic. We had a lot of fun trying it out on Wednesday. I got some rules wrong which made the game a lot easier than it should have been, and we just managed to squeak out a win. We played again on Saturday and while I got some rules right, there were still some I’d missed and while it was definitely harder, it was still easier than it should have been and we again barely pulled off the win. I look forward to playing it a third time, hopefully with all the correct rules to see if we can win that way. There’s the campaign mode that I’m also eager to try. It was a year-long wait to get it, but it was oh so worth it. It got me to rewatch the movie over the weekend and it was awesome to see how deeply they dug into the movie for references in the game. Good stuff!

A while back I believe I mentioned that I was having some trouble with some of my drawing software. Well, to update, everything seems to be better now.   From reading online I saw that a common cause for the type of problem I was having is an incorrectly installed Microsoft Visual C++ update. I went back through the last couple and it seems to have done the trick. I can save without problem in Paint and I’m able to do my text balloons without incident in Manga Studio. While I was still trying to figure out what was going on, I switched up the way I did my strips. Instead of doing the strip in English and then saving a copy to change the text to French, I did two sets of text balloons in the one file. I can set one to invisible and save and then switch to the other layer and save again. I honestly don’t know why I haven’t been doing this from the start. It saves so much space to have just the one Manga Studio file. Something good came from all the problems I was having.

That’s all for this week folks. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

Welcome to the poor man’s Monday Blog: The Tuesday Lament, when all bloggers lament that they forgot to blog the day before. It’s a specialized type of post to be sure.

I only got four hours’ sleep on Sunday night, so my brain wasn’t in the right state of mind to be blogging yesterday. I hope to fall back into my normalized sleep schedule soon.

I would have posted sooner today, but I got some new Star Wars Destiny cards and I was motivated to try to find some new deck ideas. I have a crazy build in mind. We’ll see how it pans out.

So Fab tells me yesterday, he tells me that it’s Prime Day on Amazon which means all kinds of deals on assorted items. I don’t shop on Amazon very much anymore, but I decided to give it a look see just to be sure there wasn’t anything particularly nifty. I didn’t find anything in the sales items that really spoke out to me, but I got to looking through some other stuff and the idea struck me that maybe I could upgrade my drawing tablet. The prices are so much lower now than when I bought mine. I might be able to get a decent upgrade for a reasonable price. This will require some more investigating.

That’s it for this week. Lamentable, right? Well, that’s what you get in a Tuesday Lament. Have a good six and we’ll do this all again on Monday. Carja V.