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[telophase]

Argh, yesterday was one of those days where a horde of tiny little things go wrong just enough to annoy, anger, or frustrate me, but not be, in each of themselves, enough to be terrible. It culminated in my graphics tablet, which has been behaving wonkily for months now, going bad enough that I said the hell with it and ragequit the piece of art I was doing and bought a new tablet from Amazon that, at least, had free one-day shipping. And I went ahead and walked back on my principles because, dammit, although they have the customer service from hell, they make the best tablets. So that was yet another source of frustration.

And all that means that my head is doing twingey things at me because tension headaches are one of my big migraine triggers, so I'm not sure if I'm going to have to leave work and go take meds or not. Bah.

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[yhlee]

*support support* Sorry to hear. Hope the new tablet is good to you!

[telophase]

Thanks! I have hopes--I upgraded to the Pro version after looking at my art income account and realizing that I could afford it, so with luck it'll be nice to work with. (And I bought the warranty that Amazon offered me because if it goes bad, I really do not want to work directly with That Company.)

[yhlee]

Yeah, I don't blame you; I remember you writing about the truly atrocious customer service That Company gave you with the Cintiq incident. I've been very pleased with the performance of my Wacom tablet, but I wouldn't want to have to deal with them if something went wrong!

[movingfinger]

You haven't had that tablet very long, and it's failing on you already! No warranty?

[telophase]

This isn't the Cintiq, it's an off-brand dumb graphics tablet I use with my Mac that I've had for a couple of years. It's at least a year out of warranty, and I paid, like, $60 for it so it's not that surprising.

[movingfinger]

I'm sorry, minding your business there. It did seem possible that Cintiq would find another way to waste your time.

I hope you get more cover work. I have seen some truly regrettable ebook covers lately, from pro publishers who presumably have money. YOURS IS BETTER.

[telophase]

Thanks! I still get most of my work from Zoe Chant, but I'm getting a small trickle of clients who've seen my Zoe covers and contacted me, and I figure as long as Zoe stays popular, that trickle will continue and hopefully increase. :)

I need to update my Augusta Scarlett website and make sure her Facebook presence is active, but that's taken a sideline to overhauling Zoe's website, which has taken a sideline to getting the Torchship Pilot cover painted. But later in August I should be able to get back to Zoe's and my sites.