Hey there, hi there, ho there. First blog post of 2019! Well the first one WRITTEN in 2019. Last week, I’d written the post and clicked Publish, but WordPress has this setting where it gives you a chance to reread yourself before it publishes. You have to confirm and sometimes (too often) I click the wrong button and whatever I’m posting doesn’t go up and I don’t notice because I’ve already gone on to do something else. This was the case last Monday so my last post of 2018 actually went up in 2019. I believe I’ve disabled the function so my posts should go up on the first click now. Usually I’d only notice the mistakes I made in my post AFTER confirming anyway. I still have plenty of time to correct them before anyone actually comes in to read.
So today was my first day back to work. I was SUPPOSED to start again on Thursday but I asked if I could take the rest of the week off and my boss said yes, so I did. Man, ALMOST two full weeks (I went in on the 24th so it was one day short). That’s the longest paid vacation I’ve taken since I started working and I have to say it was pretty swell.
Last week I started and pretty much finished the Sailor Moon flashbacks. All that’s left is the shading. That’s eleven pieces in seven days. I was on a roll! I wasn’t sure when I started. After the first two pieces I felt I might have made a mistake revisiting the theme, but things just started clicking on the third piece and I was off to the races. I’m pleased with how the set looks. Hopefully I don’t ruin everything with the shading.
I also shaded the last X-Men flashback (which you’ll see this Friday). For some reason, I shaded them out of order and I realized that Shadowcat was supposed to go up this week, so I had to get that done. I finished half of it and then there was an unexpected error and I lost everything and had to start over. I was not a happy camper.
I was quite sad to see that we lost Mean Gene last week. He was the best and by all accounts nobody in the wrestling business ever had anything bad to say about him (a real rarity). I went through a bunch of interview clips on YouTube and I got to see so much good stuff that I never even knew about. RIP Mean Gene.
That’s all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.