The I Wanted Mousse But Got A Moose Instead Complaint Thread.
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That's a cute place!
And whileI think cooking downstairs over a fire would be romantic, I'll take the version you have... need that bathroom... 
Looks great!!!
Happy Monday.
Complaints:
- Thunderstorms and rain for the next 3 days
- Dark, ominous and gloomy outside
- Neck sore from sleeping funny
- Doc visit Thursday to get blood drained for lab work
- Gotta make a bank run at lunch, in the rain
- Feel aimlessly crabbity
- Feel singularly uncreative right now
- Need a bucketload of money
- Jealous of online friend who quit his day job to be a writer/speaker as he now makes enough to live on
- Did I mention I wsa REALLY envious of him too?
Non-complaints:
- All my Walmart goodies have shipped so soon soup, undies, and diabetes supplies arrive
- Leftover Ranch dry rub chicken wings for lunch
- Getting ready to upload my first new track in weeks
- Much accomplished over the weekend, despite my laziness
- Have brilliant idea for an industrial espionage/sex thriller set in Silicon Valley, probably sell better than a fantasy novel
- Got another great idea or an occult horror series based in an alternate world New Orleans (means I should go visit)
- Alive, mostly whole, employed, dry, and well fed.. I should be thankful for all that.
Tonight is set aside as a writing night, even if all I do is create Scrivener project files for the two books I want to start in on, I'll call it a win. I installed new sound libraries this weekend and will need to go through and audition them, this usually results in inspiration and a new composition or two. Hopefully thngs are slowly staring to get back on track, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!!!
I need a place about half the size of Chohole's, next to a farmers market, in the countrside somewhere.. with high speed Internet, of course! Within walking distance of a brewpub would be an extra bonus.. lol!
To all, I present: "Liquid Metal Kisses":
https://soundcloud.com/synthetic_aurality/liquid-metal-kisses
Another in an endless series of dark-ish drones.
New non-complaint: over-estimated the cost of new sound banks, now have money left in the bank for... erm...
..maybe more food or audio gear!!!!!
*edit* Got a nice audio compressor on sale, was $70, now $30 just for today.. mine mine mineeeeeeeeeee!
Don't get that cast wet on the bank run! Or is the cast off now?
Dana
No, darn cast is on until the 27th. of this month, argh!
It stayed dry, thankfully the jump into and out of the can was quick and I waited until the rain was very, very slow.. so dodged the bullet!!!
Once the cast is off it's Ace bandages until the blood stupid prothesis gets made.. I am sooooo feaking sick of not being able to walk.. that's got a lot to do with feeling crabbity.
I wonder if they'll let me put an espresso maker on my desk...
Need to dos:
- Write a little every day
- Create at least one new composition a month, two if possible
- Get rid of distractions at home to focus on writing and music
- Save up money and find an artist to work with on book cover art, I'll do art for my music
- Start worming my way into writing circles
- Get and stay healthy enough to write and compose!!!!
Seems like a reasonable list for the next year or so. You don't change careers overnight, my friend online took 5 years before he could quit his job for full-time writing, and he didn't have medical issues to deal with. Need to change one step at a time...
...only 11:30 AM and already 87º in "the hood". Warmest part of the day is still about five hours away.
Never understood why they take the "official" temperature at the airport when most airports are far from where the concentration of people in a city actually live and work. PDX is on the far northeast side at teh end of the Columbia Gorge which has a localised effect on the area compared to the rest of the city, Pretty much all that is out there besides aeroplanes are warehouses, coyotes, and raccoons.
...very nice.
Alas, my artistic muse has seemed to abandon me. Haven't done much in the last couple weeks.
Part of it is a lack of good readable documentation for Iray which has become a real source of frustration as feel I am spending more time messing with adjustments than actually creating works. Video tutorials just don't cut it for me. I'd go back to 3DL, however flagging SSS surfaces when using the AoA Advanced Lights has been broken since the 4.7 update and no fix seems to be in the works. Don't like using UE and UberLights because of the long render times (longer than even Iray in CPU mode) and the fact they makes my system run at higher temps.
Feh, sorry to hear your Muse is on vacation. Hopefully not for too long, though!!!!
Written documentation sems to be dying thing, even if just PDFs. Nobody wants to pay a tech writer and nobody wants to stick an engineer helping the tech writer do their job. It's pathetic...
Supposedly 69F here. They take the "official" temp at Camp Maybry, which is an airport of sorts but within spiting distance of downtown Austin, so it's more meningful than if it had been Bergstrom (down South a ways).
The whole "airport" thing is a mystery to me...
8:45pm and getting kinda chilly.
Airports need to record accurate weather information as part of their operations. Not just temperature, but dew point, cloud ceiling & cover, visibility, humidity, pressure, wind speed & direction, precipitation etc. Sure it's only valid for the airport, but with local knowlege it's usually possible to predict conditions in the surrounding area with a fair degree of accuracy. And it's there anyway, on the hour, every hour, so may as well use it. City is perfectly well entitled to invest in their own weather station, but few bother. Airport METARs and TAFs (actuals & 24 hour forecasts) are fed to national weather centres (the UK one is in Exeter), where they are used as the basis of area, national and global weather forecasts.
Tea tonight: Sausage inna bun, washed down with Mexican cerveza . . . :)
...12:45 and 92º in the local neighbourhood.
Seems our airports' gone "missing" (doesn't show up on the local weather station map).
Sounds like a nice evening! For me: Austin microbrews pita chips, and bean dip while I work on the computer.. several things need some doing...
Cripes, whatinheck is it doing so hot there?!?!?
Did we trade weather?!?!?! 
Maybe the aliens got the airport..
KPDX? Last report was just over an hour ago (19:53 zulu), so the next one's due any time.
KPDX 181953Z VRB03KT 10SM BKN250 28/09 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP176 T02780094
(28 degrees - 82F, 3kt wind, 10 mile visibility, clouds at 25000ft - soinds like a nice day :)
Raspberry jelly to follow, then it's back to making lily pads for my current WIP . . . Ribbit!
Flew away?
CERVEZA
makin linguini, cooks fast
topping mozza ballies, basil, olive oil
Fun times!
Come on, Carrara, how long does it take to export 12,000 polys to obj? I mean, really? What you doing in there? Zzzzzz
...heh, wouldn't doubt the latter considering how weird Portland claims to be.
...still AWOL on my local weather service.
82F feels like 86F here today
It is always good to remember where one downloads stuff incase one wants to install it.
Oh, good! And I can understand...though not fully...being crabby because of the foot thing and not being able to walk. I think I'd go crazy. Could you drive? That would be the last straw for me. I don't like being the passenger, I like being the driver. Not really a control issue, just a not trust other's driving issue. So many idiots on the road. I know I'm a good driver. I don't know that about too many others. Some of my friends, and family, scare me as drivers. I'd almost rather get out and walk.
Dana
I used to think that ours was at the small airport in town, but I found out it's at the Miles Standish Industrial Park at the other end of Taunton. And it's an official National Weather station. The dopler radar for our whole area is in Taunton. There's one in the Greater Providence are in Rhode Island, and one up in New Hampshire or Maine, not sure which. You can see them when they show the live dopler radar map. Still, I don't think it's the same temperature there that it is here. After all, it's in an industrial park. A lot of concrete buildings and blacktop. Where I live there is a lot of green. Taunton is rather big, area-wise, too. It takes me 15 minutes to get to that area. It takes me 25 minutes to get to my old city, and I go through two other towns to get there...actually, I think it's three. Berkely, Assonet and Freetown. Anyway, it's much warmer in the summer with all that concrete and asphalt than it is here in the winter. So I always know that when they say it's freezing, it's actually colder here. We get more snow here than on that side of town, too.
Dana
I can't drive because my right eye is shot from a hiking accident (I fell down a mountainside in the redwoods on the California coast, what a mess) and my depth perception past about 10-12 fet is gone.. everything looks like a painting.
Laser surgery isn't likely to help much, according to my doc at the time, and could make it worse (!!), not to mention insurance doesn't cover it and we're looking at about $50,000. Forget it! $50K is a LOT of cab rides.
None of this affects my ability to program, compose music, or even dabble in computer art. It DOES dramatically restrict where I can live and work, but not so much that it's a huge impediment.. I just need to have good public transit or reliable/afordable cab service.
Between the Web, delivery services, and the taxi I can actually live pretty darn well despite the vision (and now foot) thing.
So, for the past 9 yars I've walked everwhere and taken the bus, and being "trapped" not able to just jump up, grab a bus, and go shop/party/hike/get entertainment is driving me frigginnutz!!!
And Austin has some beautiful parks, creeks, and a river or two right on the bus lines!!! ARGHHHHHH HATEFUL CAST HATE HATE!! 
While I can get the knee scooter on the bus, the tires are slick, hard plastic and the thing has no shocks - unless the road/trail/sidewalk is close to perfectly smooth, it's a real hellride. But in the grocery store or drug store, look out! I'm hell on wheels, I move way faster than anyone on foot!!
Anyway, TMI, sorry...