And a sad one too.

Dr. Jenny is coming home tonight, after being gone for a week. I think she has some good news. Plus it’ll just be good to have her home.

On the other hand, I got this in an email today, an obit for my friend Tj. I’ve known for about a week that he was dead, after some friends of his began spreading the word via email fowards. Lucky enough I was in someone’s address book and got the word, otherwise I probably never would have known. Part of me was hoping it was all maybe a mistake you know, or a prank, some malicious ex-boyfriend or something doing something skanky. But that article puts the nail into it. And I feel bad, I mean, I am gonna miss Tj for sure, he was a great guy, full of life and far more active and healthy for his age than most of the people I know ten or twenty years younger. But I feel bad because ever since I moved away from Seattle, most of my interaction with him was via email, we talked on the phone a few times but those became less and less the longer I was here. The problem is, Tj was one of those annoying emailers, you know the type. Fwd’s with animated gifs of Bush kissing Saddam, or buttcheeks painted up like a jack o’lantern on Halloween, all manner of goofy and not-so-funny imagery. SO, I kinda ignored him a lot. Wouldn’t reply. Deleted the emails sometimes without even really reading them. I always figured “fine, he’s way too annoying on the internets, we’ll be friends again when I move back to Seattle then because I cannot do this”.

And now that’s not gonna happen.

There’s no moral there either, because I haven’t really learned anything. I still won’t read your annoying fwd’d emails, even if you have cancer or AIDs or whatever. I think that makes me a really, really, really bad person then, doesn’t it?

Gah.

Jenny is in Seattle for the week taking interviews for jobs. I’m all alone until next Thursday.

I’m elbow deep into paint fumes and molding putty, fixing up toys and getting em ready to toss on the electronicbay.

I haven’t seen any of the pages back from the letterer yet.

It’s like 85º out today.

I’m gonna go buy a bottle of wine.

Somebody kill me.

And that’s a wrap!

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Today is my birthday. It’s not going to be a great one, but it’s here nonetheless. Can’t go around it, can only go through it, and that’s what I am gonna do.

Spending most of today working on art, I wanna finish a few pages by next week, so I can have ALL of the first 50 pages of the book off to the letterer. What kind of schmuck works on his b-day you’ve always wondered, and now you know! Master Jenny has a few interviews lining up on the west coast for later this month, so she’ll probably be flying out that way in a week or two. And then we might be having to pack up and move cross-country in record time. Whew.

All that, and the damn Olympics are trying to drown out my day of celebtration - the nerve!

Go have a drink tonight, for me, friends. For me, friends.

Put my Movie Masters Joker custom on ebay the other day (you can check out the gallery of it over in the TOYS section here!), although I’ve a feeling Warner Bros. is going to have it pulled, as they have been really cracking down on all custom figures of characters they own. LAME.

Anyways, go bid and give me some money - toys aren’t free ya know.

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Long time no update, huh? Well time to get back to it then!

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Just some pics for a work in progress custom action figure I am working on, WHICH SHALL REMAIN A SECRET (at least until someone guesses correctly or I post pics near the end) and thought it might be fun/informative to post progress info and techniques I use on it, not just for you guys reading but for me also to LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES in future customs. Gah!

UPDATED ON 7/28/08

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Long time no update!

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Finished a new custom figure the other day, and finally got some pictures up in the toy gallery HERE.

Also, put him on ebay today too, so go bid!

(back with more work updates in the next day or two….!)

Busy week, lots done, and even busier times ahead. Yay.

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