What I did this weekend...

[telophase]

-Bought new TV on Friday, as old TV has a capacitor dying.

-Assisted myrialux in setting my entire TV/cable box/TiVo/DVD player/PS2 system back up. Said 'assistance' consisted mostly of handing him remote controls and cables and mocking him. He bore it well.

-Went to post office on Saturday morning to mail off BPAL packages to Canada while postal workers were available to authorize Customs forms. Domestic packages to follow later.

-Lunch with myrialux. Liquor store for him to get present for friend's birthday. Back home to keep messing with cables - S-video this time. Inexplicbly fail to work.

-Off to IKEA on the other side of the metroplex, first stopping by the Apple store, to return blinds myrialux decided he didn't want. Get sucked into INESCAPABLE VORTEX OF IKEA for hours. Or it only seemed like hours.

-Birthday party of friend. Had two other friends show to party dressed as Adam and Jamie of the Mythbusters. Host of party, ever culturally sensitive, shows up as Fu Manchu.* Got video of Brian Stelfreeze** explaining important aspect of comics art that I'll post to YouTube later. Also got random video of Stelfreeze painting, which I will most likely not post to YouTube. Visuals are perfectly fine, but audio is not, as many ... salty, shall we say? .... conversations going on.

-Sunday woke up, actually got out manuals of TiVo and TV and read them to work out problem. Texted myrialux to ask if he'd changed the input settings on the TiVo when the S-video cable failed to work on Saturday. Mocked him when he said no. Got TV working with S-video cable.

--Went to ConDFW meeting at con hotel on other side of metroplex.

--Met up with myrialux, youshou, ebony14, puppleball, and other non-LJ friends at their L5R game, after game went to dinner.

--Drove all the way back to my side of metroplex

--Read LJ until collapsed in exhaustion.


* This would be Dan, for those of you who know him.

** Comics artist, knows Gambit (birthday boy) and others through their work with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and flew in for the party. I learned more through watching him give a painting demo at a con for an hour and a half than I did in an entire semester of painting class in college.

Comments

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

Yes, Brain Stelfreeze is an all-around cool guy. Usually only cross paths with him at Dragon*Con. He did this amazing piece of Torch of Liberty (http://www.tychesgames.com/FoR/Torch-of-Liberty.html) (our NPC heroine in my Heroes Inc/1960s Superheroes RPG (http://www.tychesgames.com/FoR/champs.html)) for me many D*Cs ago as part of an art for the CBLDF thing.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Nifty! :D I learned how to give a good art crit from him, because he can find something good in every piece of art he's presented with.

(I heard his Prince of Wakonda story at the party and we all just bout died laughing. XD If you haven't heard it, ask him about it when you next see him.)

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

as old TV has a capacitor dying.
The flux capacitor?!

[cyancat.livejournal.com]

Id love to see the video of Brian painting... Could you remove the sound and put some other on top of it? YouTube has that feature now- Audioswap.

Would like to see how he works with painting, as I think I could learn more from him as well.

but boy was that a busy weekend.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*pokes about for AudioSwap* Oooh, useful! I may have to do that!

I don't know how useful it'll be, as they're mostly just 1-minute clips of him painting, and the quality probably won't be high enough to see much, but I'll post about them if/when they're up. :)

[cyancat.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! :)

I'll look forward to it!