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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2005-06-25 01:02 am
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Random pointless post.

I just freaked out my cat with the iPod. I was scritching her and held one of the earpieces to her ear, which made her start and twitch her ear a bit. She sniffed it, then I held it to her ear again which was just Too Weird For Words and she got off the sofa.

And I think of this every time I feed her the hairball and tooth treats when I get home from work, but never get around to posting it (because you are all SO INTERESTED in the minutiae of my cat's daily life): I can make my cat drool like a Labrador retriever. If I tease her a bit with the treats before opening the bag to give her some, she'll drool on my jeans. XD

[livejournal.com profile] rachelmanjia, don't panic if you see a large dump of Africa Letters over the next few days - I'm not spending time typing them all in. I thought I'd typed in 5 or 6 back in 2002; turned out to be more like 13 or 14, the majority of which are in January and February of 1975. I ought to properly parcel them out sparingly over the next week or so, but I have never been much for being able to build suspense like that because I am impatient, so you guys will probably get overloaded by them in a short period of time. Luckily, Mom started using aerograms a lot, so they tend to be only one handwritten page instead of 5 or 6 like she was writing before.

I mean, aren't you all on tenterhooks waiting to see if we ever get The Box? And I promise you gossip about the research scientists at SRI!

[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com 2005-06-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, thanks. I mean, the Africa letters are cool, it's just that... you know.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-06-25 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Heehee. I figured you were panicking every time I uploaded a new one, but (a) they really only take about 20 minutes to type in and (b) when I'm under deadline and under pressure I get insanely busy and do several things at once. And they provide a good I CAN'T FACE ANOTHER STROKE OF THE PENCIL OR I WILL EXPLODE thing.

I sort of realized yesterday that instead of knocking myself out trying to do the whole page at once, I shuld just re-draw the panels that need to be re-drawn, merge them into the other ones in Photoshop, then print the bluelines and do final pencils for the whole page that way. Seems INCREDIBLY FRICKIN' OBVIOUS afterwards, huh? I think I was running into a block and going slowly because I didn't want to re-draw all the detail in the backgrounds and things that didn't need to be changed.