first, out of the blue, my wacom went wanky, it’s not totally broken, it has what I called ‘wiggling spot’ where the line will jiggle no matter what, I can still work on it but it gave me headache and I had to give in.
400$ short later, I got new wacom and went on my merry way.
then, probably a week later, my bro’s pc broke. which enough to send me bonkers, because I was using his pc to connect to the net, the only ADSL modem I had doesn’t work with mac, after it was sure that I couldn’t salvage his pc at all, I was left without internet connection.
shari - internet = dead shari
good thing that problem is easily fixed by just buying a new router, 100$ short, but I’m whole again.

my bro’s pc remain broken tho, and it is somehow my responsibility to fix it, ah, the cost of being older.
The bad luck not ending there, today I woke up intend to play some L2 after all the works done, while I was downloading patch, my pc froze, and I can’t do anything but forced restart (read: pull the plug), and it just went downhill from there, I end up wiping the xp partition off the hd and reinstall it on other hd, it works now, but, it smells like something is burning, none of the fan is working except for processor fan, I think I need new case if not whole new pc.
bonus pic: my bro’s pc

what will break next?! (don’t answer, please T^T)
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*cough*
we (that is, Fehed, the writer, and me) are told that The Clarence Principle is good to go and is scheduled for May 2007! whoopie! we thought it was going to be something like october or november, but May! that’s big yay!
in case the above paragraph isn’t clear, I can say it again, (I like saying it, now that I can XD) The Clarence Principle will be published by SLG publishing and to be released May 2007.
*echo*
in the celebration for getting properly published and also finished the commission I was working on, I did big update on my *current* main site, sharii.com, uploaded a few sketches/speedpaints I have done recently. not much time to do full-fledge cg tho, (the fact that I have time to play 5 different L2 alt, is irrelevant XD)
man, I want a Wii so bad T^T
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if you don’t know what Cintiq is, I could tell you that it’s probably a wet dream for every digital artist, It’s a “interactive pen display” or put it more simply, it’s a LCD screen that is also a tablet. with price tag of 3,000$, it remains in the dream (wet or not) for many amateur artists.
I have heard about it years ago, but I never personally seen or tried real thing until today, I was fortunate enough to arrive early and the shop was not busy, the salesperson was very sweet and friendly, and we chat alot and she encourage me and my friend to try it out for as long as we like and come back for more, I told her the shop should make it available for rental, hahaha
Cintiq itself works as good as a 3000$ gadget should. It felt very different, not really like drawing on paper but not like working on normal tablet either, for one thing, it made controlling the line much more easily, making work that require precise line like sketching and inking goes much faster, I actually stood there and sketched and inked the whole picture in about 20mins, pity I didn’t save.
one concern I have had with cintiq when I first heard it is that it would be too hot to work on for long period of time, that was what happened with tablet pc that rendered it unusable >: ( but I found out that heat isn’t the issue at all and it seems that I have no other excuse not to get it beside money XD
does anyone want my kidney? :D
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