saturrday

Nathan is watching In Bruges on his monitor. Ahhh I love this movie.

I spent the evening drawing. Working on the Quentyn Martell drawing, and a little something something for mother's day. Nathan brought home a burrito after mountain biking. I watched Alien, he played this Zombie mod on a game. It was a good afternoon and evening.

Morning and early afternoon sucked. Took the car in to the shop, bright and early. Didn't seem like I really needed to make an appointment, but it was for the best I think. Better to have it, and have them ready for me. One of the car helpers said "Hey Washington" to me, so I dug that. But yeah, turned in my car and got a shuttle back. Had some orange juice, toast, and other breakfast. Nate went biking. I got the call about how much the repairs will cost, and I emailed Dad the amount. Lots of back and forth and now my car is getting fixed, and I'll get it back on Tuesday or so. Hopefully we'll get another 50k miles out of it without any other major improvements, ya know. Hopefully by the time it kicks the can, I'll be all employed and making bucks and things. That is a good thing to hope for.

So car bummer for the first half of the day, movie fun time and drawing and burrito in the second half. It balances out?

car-no-go

Well, I wanted to write up how awesome the Odd Owl show was. But I didn't get there. I was just getting onto the freeway, when my engine decided it was not having the idea of going faster than 45mph. The brake light came on, though I didn't know why. So I pulled off the immediate next exit, called Carmen to say I wasn't coming, and returned home. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I have a car appointment. Going to get it checked out and all that jazz. 9am. Wheee. Prius man, when the warning light goes on you really have no leeway. You have to get that engine checked. Immediately.

Ahh.

Didn't get up to much else the rest of the day. Car stuff. Had some pasta.

Weekend is here. Let's see how this car stuff resolves itself. Booo.

Poor Quentyn

Just what I spent the night working on. About four hours. A piece of fan art of Quentyn Martell, from the end of A Dance with Dragons. Want to finish it tomorrow afternoon, before I head off to the Odd Owl show. The text isn't going to stick with the piece, it is just a placeholder...of sorts. Anyway. Yay! Drawing! I need to get a move on with my ideas and concepts. Keep making art.

I didn't play that much Skyrim today...because I got stuck in a really tough dungeon and now need Nathan to fight my way out of it. Speaking of Nate, it is Midnight and he isn't home yet. But I also think that on Thursday, he and coworkers go out for dinner or something.

Made another food errand. Nate needed his Ovaltine. Hahah. The check engine light came promptly on. I'm going to clear the codes after a drive into San Francisco, and see if the problems compound. Agghh. I did NOT want car troubles this soon. I know it is pushing 200k miles, but COME ON!

Anyway. Did more job stuff that feels fruitless, but gotta keep at it.

a common Wednesday

I'm totally kicking butt at Skyrim.

On Sunday I will relocate to San Francisco and do the job hunt from there.

So no more Skyrim for Trill, come Sunday.

Did another check on my car, and only one of the codes came up. Just need to keep a watchful eye on it.

Washed some dishes. Looked for jobs. Mmmhmm.

Listened to the radio comedy Elven Quest. It was silly. Needed a break from all the American Gods and The Unbelievable Truth I've been listening to.

Here is a drawing.

Introducing Nate to Lily Allen, because I explained that her song Alfie is about her brother Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones. Yup. Nathan played my character on Skyrim tonight, and it is tough watching someone else play your character because they don't do it how you would do it. Yup.

Another day for slim job pickings. Boo. Need to start looking up screen printing studios to cold call and stuff. Mmmn.

Did the code checked on my car. Dad, I emailed you the codes, check them out and give me advice. Yup yup?

When I went outside, I just started sweating immediately. 81 degrees is 14 too many for me.

Later on in the day, I went shopping. Bananas, apples, bagel shmear, chocolate milk. Yumm!

Sort of a lack luster day. Hard to get enthusiasm for the job quest. But get it I must.

Ah, I also leveled up a bit in Skyrim. That will be a good thing about being at Carmen & Josh's. No Skyrim. That is a distracting game, and when I don't continually die horribly it only makes me want to play it more, because it means I'm getting the hang of it and getting better and all that jazz. Yeah.

mediocre monday, though I did kick butt in Skyrim

Jobs are slim pickings. Need to start the cold calling and awesome elbow my way in somewhere. Just been applying to people who say they want resumes. Well they SAY that, but they never get back to me, even the jobs for which I qualify.

Anyway. When I first opened my eyes this morning, I got a beam of sunlight right in my retinas. Gahhh. What a way to wake up.

Looked at meager jobs. Listened to The Unbelievable Truth. Ate a sandwich. Played Skyrim. Contemplated my life a bit. Swept a bit.

Drew a bit in the evening, but the image is a Tumblr inside joke that makes no sense outside of context, so I won't be posting it here.

Nate and I played this tandem car explosion shooter game thing. Can't remember the name of it, but it was quite fun.

Need to do some shopping tomorrow. OH and that diagnostic thing. Need to do that. I have all day yet still I don't get to doing certain things.

Sunday. Sweet Sunday.

Pretty mellow day here with the Spencer kids. Oleg and Chad were out doing something. Well, Chad was in Washington. Haven't seen hide nor hair of Oleg.

I made bacon & eggs for breakfast. It was good. We had fancy organic orange juice for breakfast with it. Nathan had toast, and I opted out.

After I made my internet rounds, and Nathan played his games, we went outside for a hike. He loaded his bike into his car and off we went to the Redwood City hills. It was a nice day for it. Warm, but not so hot. He peddled up the hills, and I hiked along aside him. I sat for a bit and read out of City of Thieves while he went up and down some hills. We looked at this sandstone formation, though Utah was much cooler in terms of rock formations. Wind and erosion can only get you so far. The park ranger dude that we passed on the way out was a UW grad, and he and Nate gabbed about being Huskies. I had to admit I brought dishonor on the family by being a PNCA Sloth. Oh woe.

It was a nice day to be out. Everyone on the trail was very friendly.

Afterwards we went to In-N-Out and got burgers. The pretty Chevy in the drive through in front of us had trouble starting. Nathan got out to help push it, but it started up before he had to. The burger was tasty. Mmm.

Back at the house, Nate and I sat outside and read and played with the dogs. We absorbed the last of the day's warmth. Then it was dinner time. Well, muffin and chips and hummus time. We are not complicated chefs. We watched more television (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones). And it was intense. And awesome. Now Nate is all caught up on Breaking Bad. Ohh man it is SO GOOD. Yup yup.

green & purple tell a tale

Nate and I are watching Breaking Bad, because now we are at the end of the season and it is all intense, and you can't NOT watch a bunch of it.

Now that I'm on Twitter, I can find out things. Things like Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, and Benedict Cumberbatch are in the Bay Area. Right now. Ahhhh!! How exciting. If I ran into any of them, I would probably implode.

Anyway. We both slept in and had oatmeal for breakfast. Saturday! Whoo!

We played with the doggies, and then went to Costco, because while we have food, we need more, and greater variety. This Costco was much larger, and quite disorienting. It also had much more selection, and different brands, oh, and hard liquor. It had my beloved Lagavulin, but I couldn't convince Nathan to buy it. Boo. He got me delicious cookies instead. Got bread and hummus and these lovely honey drinks that are made locally and all sorts of goodies. And we got hot dogs after, because we always get them at Costco. Yum yum tasty. Now we are up to our knees in tasty food. Need to get some shmears for the bagels, and some cheese to shred.

Back at the house, we chilled with the dogs. Played Skyrim. Watched Breaking Bad. Snacked. Tomorrow we are going to go hiking. Watched Adventure Time. Chad and Oleg are off doing something else for the weekend, so it is just the Spencer kids.

Ahhh Breaking Bad is so good.

Oh, we also got the mail and I got the car diagnostic thing. I'll do the diagnostic check come morning.