I thought it might be fun, now that I’m on the East Coast and will be gaming again, to use some of the art I had commissioned of characters to do ‘covers of the media they were in’ mockups. Most of the ones I have are superhero RPH characters, so I did them to look like comics; the one – so far – that is from the D&D Forgotten Realms gameworld is done up like a novel cover.

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Trying to decide what to do around job applications. Work on drawing again? Play with a 3D rendered? Continue trying to figure out what to do next?

I need to develop myself a bit. I just need to figure out what to do.

Added two more of them: For Pathfinder, the Drow con artist and hitter Imago, and from Rifts Earth, the rather batshit Mindy the Dragon Juicer.

No pictures for either, unfortunately – once I get some money I need to work on commissions.

Set up things for some more characters, which was good. Another old character of mine looks to be next, as soon as I find some art to use.

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And now some updates:

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For one of my recent stories getting a character back in place, I created a new antagonist, Mister Blasphemy.

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I’m back on the East Coast, and so is my wife! That’s a positive. After February’s little Medical Adventure, the realization we had no support nearby really hit hard, so moving became an idea. When both of us became unemployed a month before our lease renewal, it became a plan. And now it’s mostly accomplished.

I’ve written a few things, and hope to do some more. I’ve also turned one of my other sites into an online resume in case someone googles my name, so they find that, and we’re just moving onwards.

Life’s changing. It’ll be interesting. And unlike so many other changes I’m not alone, and that makes it easier to take.

Mahalo. Talk to you soon.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Here’s what’s up.

Been through a couple jobs, with various levels of strain and difficulty. I got fairly ill in February.

And that told us that it was time. We don’t have much of a support network here. We need better. And so we’re going home. We’ve discusses it from time to time, but now we are doing it. Leaving Seattle and going back East. It’s just time.

We’re going by train – which some of you may recall I did before, just the other way – so expect photos and commentary on the trip.

See you soon.

We’re going home.

So the people I live with have been having a tough kind of few days. I decided to make dinner, and looked around the house for what we had. Thankfully, we had stuff from a Costco run recently, so I just asked for someone to please get me some mozzarella cheese, and boom it appeared.

So I thawed three of the very large chicken breasts we got from Costco (the house brand), then got out one of the larger pans. Put some sauce in the bottom, put the chicken in. Put some sauce on top, then sliced up some of the mozzarella cheese (not a lot, and not very thick), and put it on top. Then some more sauce on top of the mozzarella, and sprinkled it with basil and oregano, and baked for about 25 minutes. The cheese got soft, the chicken got done (you’d probably want to cook longer if you used the chicken frozen, but I think that might mess things up a bit), and it went over well. Served it over noodles, a little bread on the side.

There were leftovers (my housemates couldn’t finish the chicken breasts, which are very very large, to be honest), so they have food for tomorrow.

This is how I spent my evening, cooking. It’s terribly calming, in a way, when you have to consider what you’re doing and how to do it, and focus on it.