Howdy!

I'd type something more but I'm on the phone right now! I'll edit this later.

Heh, I build my own Coffee house while you were on the phone. Sorry about that, feel free to lock it.


After long debates with myself, I've taken the big step and made an Elfwood account. Now I can go and post some original work, though the queue means that I'm waiting for a few weeks till it actually gets put into the library.

C'est la Vie I wish I was rich, handsome, not at all dependant on my Backup Dialup connection... meh. Can't even get a proper coffee nowadays.

Aww sweet Mil! Maybe you aren´t rich but you sure are handsome! (regarding the pics you posted!).....Come to Sweden, then I´ll make you a really nice cup of coffee! And I´ll let you use my broadband!

Being not a huge fan of coffee, I'm just gonna sit here and enjoy some hot chocolate. It's kinda chilly today, so I might spike it with something, not sure yet...

Just came back from watching the film, Invincible. Wasn't too bad, I'm sure American Football buffs would like it a lot. I'm not one of those but I still found it rather enjoyable.

Still, for best movie I've watched this summer would either be Clerks 2, or Bon Cop Bad Cop.

Ibis strolls by along the sidewalk headed for the local fishmarket - A new store? ... A Coffee Shack?? .. how droll! I must pop in and have a cuppa. I spy The Metal Mallet with his hot chocolate and rummage in my purse and pull out a cute little bide-a-wee purple bottle of Chamborg Liquoer ..."here, pour some of this in your hot chockie, it's delicious"

I spy Milanius and Minque talking. Yes, Minky - Mil is very handsome. Matter of fact, I'm gonna send you a present that I think you are really going to like. Let's just call it a new coffeeshack-warming gift. lol Yeh, you've probably guessed what it is Milanius, there's just no fooling him!

*Takes some of the liquor and pours it into his hot chocolate* "Thanks! Would you care for an assortment of pastries, I have danishes, doughnuts, muffins, you know... coffee food."

Hmm, to work on an update, or do some gaming? Difficult choices I have...

Oh I'll have a cheese danish please, since you have such a nice assortment. Yes, I myself was wondering whether to visit at FarFallen Studios after this or play me some Guild Wars.

Think I'll visit the Angelic/Demonic folk and then go play my necro ... I love her purple dress and it is so much fun to turn my newly killed enemies into a little army of bone horrors to kill more. I've gotta raise my healing skill so I can keep my undead army going longer.

Hmn.. saaaay, would any of you happen to have a CD key to Frozen Throne lying around? I finally found my copy, but I can't replay it.. seeing as I can't install it. Just send me a message if you have one, and thank you in advance.

God.. my computer (not this one, my game one) is so bad.. It has no side panels to its tower, the disc drive doesn't.. so I have to open it up with a butter knife.. and I have no desktop. I deleted a program I had that had apparently tied itself up in an essential file. I now have to get to everything through ctrl alt delete and then do new task from there. Everything works fine, I just don't have any icons or a tool bar. I know how to fix the problem, the fact is that I'm just too lazy. I don't have the heart to reformat it, so until I do I have to deal with everything through new task.

A hatch in the roof silently opens, a shadow blocks the sunlight for all but a single second. Eyes look to the cieling finding naught but thin air.

A voice calls from the booth that was unoccupied but a second ago.

"MMM, now THIS, this is a good cup of coffee!" said the coffee loving assassin.

Tee hee hehe ... isn't that hatch in the roof actually for wading birds to fly in from? Hmmm, I totally missed that .. but how kind of them to accomodate. My Stargelman's been along time on the phone, he still hasn't updated the rules .... so I guess we don't have any - coffeeshack ettiquette.

Ibis throws a cheese danish at the dark assassin Black Hand, butters Intesinal Chaos' nose, hammers The Metal Mallet on the head with a coffeepot and hops & jumps up on Milanius' n Minque's table violently flapping her wings!!! Chaos is such fun....

I raise a flickering shield to fend off everything that flies around. Chaos can be so annoying at times. With the buzzing sound of the shield in my ears, I continue writing down notes.

Well till the rules come, please keep this building in one piece, ok?

Great... now I smell like coffee. You spilt some on me when you smashed that pot on my head. Good thing I was wearing my steel cowboy hat That could've hurt! You know what I should do? Increase my quill collection...

You're lucky I'm more of a pacifist than anything else

Oh Ibis-birdie.....come and sit down for a while....Mil and I will gladly share our coffee with you!

Oh....and listen guys! I hereby bring some nice cookies that my daughter made for our party.....help yourselves they´re right here!

Crap..the weekends pass so fast, I would have needed some more days off!

I worked on my painting today.

It made me realize just how much I suck suck suckity suck suck suck.

I don't mean suck in a good way either.

Zarr, don't be so hard on yourself ... your desktop art was very nice. I remember that. I too feel that I suck when I haven't painted for awhile and then try to get back to it. Also, now that I am attempting digital art and can't do it very well yet. Oh well, practice does make perfect.

Ibis sits down at Milanius' & Minque's table .... coffee, cafe, caffeine buzz buzz buzz buzzzzz ... oh, what?? That was expresso I just had 3 cups of?? But the cups were so small, that's why I drank 3 ... no wonder I feel so rascally. Better eat something!! Dives into tray of Minque's daughters cookies.

(Eye-ing suspicioulsy at The Metal Mallet who is scribbling with a QUILL pen ... start counting tail feathers VERY suspiciously!!!)

I'm working with watercolors, which is 18 different types of pain.

The Great Rabbit always feels that she will "never be able to paint that way again" when she has been unable to paint for awhile. And yet, her ability has grown tremendously in the 17 years we have been together. Although many folks see watercolor as "beginner" paint, I am not so sure. As a non-artist, it seems to me that it is very difficult, because the color is so thin... With oil/acrylic/alkyd, the painter can really build up lots of color and depth and blend effectively. Truthfully, no medium is "easy"- they all take time to master. But the thing that cannot be taught is vision.... I think you have that- now you just have to practice technique.

(Small black, tan, and silver doggie grabs a couple of cookies and retreats under a table for a quiet munch).

Yes, watercololors require a degree of ability and the knack for getting it right the first time ... otherwise you may have to change the entire picture's concept in order to cover over or accomodate a mistake.

Oh, believe me, it isn't.

It requires patience. Lots of patience.

time for my weekly update amidst chaos.

this semester is gonna be tough as nails. I worked 42 hours last week and though it will slowly go down to the 30 hours a week I'm meant to be working, it won't do so anytime soon. My classes are actually somewhat demanding *though the work hours probably make it seem as such*. I also had to deal with falling out with some friends, which has made me in the slightest bit depressed (to the extent that a friend and I agreed to no longer be friends)

and wlel that's my update. I hope you have all been doing well.

Hey, Zarr just remeber that there are people out there (like me) that can't draw at all.

No.
You DON'T suck.
And there is no need to belittle yourself, really. Watercolors are damn tough and whatever the result is you should be damn proud of it.

EDIT: Now that I'm back on BeeBee I'll elaborate: Watercolors are, by far, the worst tool for making pictures that I've had the priviledge to use. Every single time I've used them, during obligatory art classes in elementary, or at home for projects, I have had the greatest urge to break down and cry. Temper colors offer some substance to be worked with, something that can be used on paper on canvas... watercolors ? They offered NOTHING I really & truly hated them. Anyone who can paint a 1/2 decent picture with them is truly skilled.

Yes this is true, Zarr. I used to hate the results that I got in my 6th grade watercolor class after school because I didn't realize it then, but I was looking for much more clarity of image, like what you'd get from oil or acrylic paints.

Now that I'm older, I've settled down to the realization that that watercolors have an enticing vaguery and difussion of outline and I appreciate the artform now for the way it is. Let your watercolors develop more on their own, put a little more water down and let the colors blur in a bit. Then when it dries naturally - see what you've got and embellish from there. My watercolor advice, for what it is worth ... (about a Ann Arbor cookie, if I smile real nice at Minque. hahaha)

Oki Ibis...you can have a cookie......or seventeen if you like!

Watercolors uuughhh.......I admire anyone who can use them....my daughter, the one in Ann Arbor is pretty skilled, but it has taken her quite some time to develop her skills.

I´ll try to scan some of her work, just to show you!

Oh yes, please do scan her work Minque. I'd love to see it. The person besides Geonox, whose work I most admire, isn't even really a member of Chorrol - except by marriage. It is the Great Bunny, Mrs. Treydog and she is astoundingly talented. I hope that her sales on ebay are going well. They certainly should be. Art galleries really do take way too high a cut, especially with new artists to them.

Well, I figure this is a good place to complain before fainting from exhaustion.

I just spent six hours on schoolwork after spending nine hours at work. I'm going to bed.

The nice man in the [un]employment office says "Next week", not even raising his head from the papers, when I walk in his office... it's always 'next week', you damn butthead X(
In other news, my throat still huths badly, but now it's getting a steady antibiotic bombardment, so the damn illness will yield - eventually.

Remember to finish all of your antibiotics Mil, even when you start to feel better. You've got to let them run the course in your system, if not - that is how people create false immunities to the drugs.

Next week, eh? Well, at least there is a next week and I assume you are able to collect unemployment benefits? I hope so. Hard enough to go without work, impossible to go without money in this world.

Ibis, there are no benefits, period. nothing.

Phew! that´s pretty hard Danny.....don´t overdo it ya hear!



Awww Mil.....I feel sorry for you.....and I know it doesn´t help if I say it´s bound to get better......so just try to keep your head up and remember I love you!


Hmmmm well that really sucks!

Indeed Milanius, that does extremely suck ... no work & no benefits. Sounds like they need to do something to stimulate the economy.

Minque, please give Mil and Danny some delicious cookies. They both can use them. Milanius wanting to work and can't find any and Danny working too hard. At least Mil will be going to school soon. That's good.

Why of course! *hands out chocolate-chip-cookies to Milanius and Danny*

"Hands off, Ibis!" You´ll get yours in a moment..those are for the boys!

Hmm..I feel somewhat related to Danny´s situation.....there will be a helluva lot of work for me this autumn!

Stupid school.... we're only back a couple of days and already getting the homework piled on, and lots of crap about Leaving Cert this year, very important, start studying soon, blah-de-blah.
This year is not gonna be fun

Aww Wolfie-Polfie......I know how you feel! (yeah I do......I went to uni once myself...)

Now have a cookie and I´ll keep my fingers crossed for ya!

Well I just had my first day of school. Turns out that I've gotten quite a nice setup for my classes.

For this semester, I only have 2 classes, Grade 12 Programming and Grade 12 University-Bound Chemistry. What's great about it is that the Programming class doesn't start until 10:55, which is followed by the chemistry class which finishes at 1:30. The rest of the time, I don't have to be at school!

My second semester is much more busy, but the courses are kinda fun and not gruelling like my other two courses. I have Film Study, French, Film Making, all grade 12 level, and grade 11 Philosophy. I did all most of my maths and sciences last year so I went with a more Englishy year this time.

Looking forward to this year. Hopefully Chemistry isn't as gruelling as I hear it is from people I talk to....

I worked a little more on my painting today. It's slowly becomming good-looking crap, instead of bad-looking crap.

Well, I went by my teacher's class today. When he walked out and looked at me, I couldn't say anything. I walked past and flinched like the poltroon I am. <.<

I am such a chicken****. I couldn't even say "hi."

Just a quick hit'n'run-

Mil- I have done the unemployed thing- hated it. Got a really terrible job that allowed me to go to school (1/4 mile from the job) and learn a little about PC repair. Hang on, my friend, and keep your eyes open for possibilities- even crappy ones.

Mallet- main thing with Chemistry is to keep up. You are in a good place with only the 2 classes- just be sure everything is making sense and ASK if something doesn't...

Everyone else- be good to yourselves.

We are pretty excited in the Treydog household- the GB has sold or has pending sales of $300.00 worth of paintings on Ebay. It is so fun to watch an auction count down through the last few minutes.

Oh that is fantastic Trey!!! I was wondering how the ebay thing is going and I am overjoyed to hear it went so well! Congrats to the Great Bunny.

Ah well... back to education for a lot of people now. Work hard and don't get in too much trouble. I feel weird that everyone is talking about going back to school etc. Now I've finished uni I don't have to go back into full time education now. I kinda miss it. I'd like to go back to uni and... well, be a uni student for 3 more years.

I still haven't found work. I've applied for all manner of things. I went to a recruitment day for this new department store a couple of weeks back. There was a group interview at first, then half the people got selected for a 1 on 1 interview. I was in that half so I must have done something right. I think I did ok in the interview. I can't think of anything major that I messed up or should have said instead. I am due a letter telling me whether I have a job sometime this week. But I'm finding that as the days go past, my hopes of a letter telling me I got the job are fading.

I've also been having some mind screwing dreams. I think someone was trying to kill me in a dream last night. I don't really remember it, but I remember a theme of killing in a Saw (film) like theme. Then theres these other dreams about... well, one person in particular who now hates me (long story).

And I have an extremely high stress level.

If your stressed just do what i do, I go to the gym and punch the hell out of the punching bag, and if not just punch something. That usually helps me.

I'm back.

Two things one should never be mad, stressed or worried about, what he can help and what he can't.

Doomie, welcome back home! I so enjoyed the updates from Peru at MySpace ... thanx. Did you manage to smuggle alot of tea home in your shaving cream bottle? I'd imagine that smuggling anything on airlines these days would be impossible...but you are rather clever about these types of things. So, I wouldn't put it past you ... not at all.

drug dogs are trained to sniff out coca, the best talent a pirate can have is knowing when he's working with something above his pay-grade, that's a pirate that lives to fight another day. Coca leaves are for tea, anyway, a really healthy, tastey, non-addictive tea, I don't see the purpose in going to jail for tea.

If you want a tip though in Mexico the cocaine cartels are taking over, and the process of extracting the cocaine from the leaf is easy to do, and once extracted without the same chemicle addatives they add to cigerettes, it gives the same high with 90% less of the physical craving. Look at a map of Mexico's ecological design and you can easily pick out likely spots for coca farms, and be a coca bandit, and then cross the border and if you get stopped by border patrol just say you're a minute man and you were chasing an illegal back to the other side. Yes, much easier than trying to get anything through the airplanes and you don't have to support the drug cartels in the process.

Lol i only have uni to look forward to. Right now still gotta finish Secondary school and do well enough on this bloody Leaving Cert to get into a decent uni in the course of my choice

It is a lovely day here- one of those late summer days that is a foreshadowing of fall. Low humidity, temperature in the 70's or 80's (21-26 degrees C for the European readers). Thursdays are my usual day off, so I have been able to enjoy it. Sent a few Ebay items on their way this morning (one painting and two computer games); sat on the porch with the original Trey and a good book; now I am charging the riding mower battery for a quick run at the grass. It's odd to be at home on a "work day," even now- as I was driving home, I got the strangest feeling of nostalgia- like I was 17 and skipping school. This time of year hits me that way- 30 years and more just disappear and I almost feel as if I can step back into a previous life....

What's with all the drug talk as of late?

Oh Danny, DoomedOne was in Peru and we were teasing when he was there about coca tea at MySpace. Guess I started it up here ... shouldn't have I guess, sorry. It's just a tease .. as you heard Doomed say, it's just tea.

He had a great time in Peru and got to see Machu Pichu and all.

So I got a rejection letter in the post today. I needed that job. I really did.

EDIT

I now have another interview on Wednesday

They send you a letter?

That's harsh...

Where Rainer is they just don't call you back.