No comic day
Sep. 3rd, 2008 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Due to Labour Day, comics are delayed until Thursday, and I really don't feel like a trip this week with what's on offer (only 'maybes' for me), I'll just go next week and get them then.
So what have I been up to? I have been UNSTUCK IN TIME. Though not in the traditional way. I've been straddling two time periods, the 'present', and somewhere in the 70s/80s.
You see, my cable went out. That is, TV cable. We were planning on changing providers but for reasons not worth getting into, we'll be cut off TV for at least a couple weeks. We have internet, that's what's important - that means we can download anything we really need to watch.
But I still feel a need to watch something 'found' now and then, something I'm not specifically 'choosing' to watch. So I used my old TV that I sometimes use for white noise generation while I sleep (the sound of my dreams is the sound of a television set, tuned to a dead channel), and use it as my main TV. I can get something like 7 or 8 channels on it, always a little fuzzy (in part because the TV itself is really old so there are picture defects no matter what channel it was on - even if you piped in a VCR image it'd be fuzzy), and only 3 or 4 with any real reliability (some come in crystal clear at some times, and I get nothing at others). But it doesn't have a remote. It has knobs. You also have to tune the knobs. So, my day is often spent between connecting to the internet, sometimes watching live streaming video in crystal clear quality, the latest cool things, and sometimes spent running across the room to adjust the knobs and tune in a television station. It's a rather unusual feeling.
Otherwise, I've still been in a very mehy mood. Don't really feel like writing, but I'll try since it's another writing cycle. It's not just the natural depression and self-doubt from another rejection, though (although I'm sure it's a factor), because even with that I'll feel like obsessing over some silly project, make icons, or play a video game. But lately, I don't really feel like doing _anything_, really, which kind of sucks, because I want to want to do things but I usually wind up just hanging around like a log and sleeping too much until something happens to be on TV.
Oh, speaking of I should note for the Canadians on my flist who are comic/cartoon fans:
Apparently, according to the TV listings, Canada will be airing WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN _before_ the US. Yay, us. Specifically, it will be airing the first episode THIS Saturday, Sept 6, at 7pm on YTV. Sadly, YTV is not one of the channels I have access to. So, I'll be hoping random Canadians will come through and I'll be able to find it through... other means soon after.
Oh well, at least the hot days are supposed to be over now. Maybe that'll help some in terms of my motivation. Anyway, off to work.
So what have I been up to? I have been UNSTUCK IN TIME. Though not in the traditional way. I've been straddling two time periods, the 'present', and somewhere in the 70s/80s.
You see, my cable went out. That is, TV cable. We were planning on changing providers but for reasons not worth getting into, we'll be cut off TV for at least a couple weeks. We have internet, that's what's important - that means we can download anything we really need to watch.
But I still feel a need to watch something 'found' now and then, something I'm not specifically 'choosing' to watch. So I used my old TV that I sometimes use for white noise generation while I sleep (the sound of my dreams is the sound of a television set, tuned to a dead channel), and use it as my main TV. I can get something like 7 or 8 channels on it, always a little fuzzy (in part because the TV itself is really old so there are picture defects no matter what channel it was on - even if you piped in a VCR image it'd be fuzzy), and only 3 or 4 with any real reliability (some come in crystal clear at some times, and I get nothing at others). But it doesn't have a remote. It has knobs. You also have to tune the knobs. So, my day is often spent between connecting to the internet, sometimes watching live streaming video in crystal clear quality, the latest cool things, and sometimes spent running across the room to adjust the knobs and tune in a television station. It's a rather unusual feeling.
Otherwise, I've still been in a very mehy mood. Don't really feel like writing, but I'll try since it's another writing cycle. It's not just the natural depression and self-doubt from another rejection, though (although I'm sure it's a factor), because even with that I'll feel like obsessing over some silly project, make icons, or play a video game. But lately, I don't really feel like doing _anything_, really, which kind of sucks, because I want to want to do things but I usually wind up just hanging around like a log and sleeping too much until something happens to be on TV.
Oh, speaking of I should note for the Canadians on my flist who are comic/cartoon fans:
Apparently, according to the TV listings, Canada will be airing WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN _before_ the US. Yay, us. Specifically, it will be airing the first episode THIS Saturday, Sept 6, at 7pm on YTV. Sadly, YTV is not one of the channels I have access to. So, I'll be hoping random Canadians will come through and I'll be able to find it through... other means soon after.
Oh well, at least the hot days are supposed to be over now. Maybe that'll help some in terms of my motivation. Anyway, off to work.
