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I spent most of yesterday putting together some website stuff, mostly finally putting up my outlines page in a new and improved format.
On the original version of my website, I had what was, honestly, a rather over complicated kind of setup involving both iframes and javascript that allowed me to grab two different webpages and load them into a single webpage, both of which used more javascript to select and isolate certain parts of the page for easy reading.
It was cool, but it didn't actually help me read and sort through my own works the way I'd hoped it would, which was the whole point of the thing. so I simplified, and now it's just a bunch of outlines you can page through with some CSS tied to links at the bottom.
Grabbing my original works and putting them back up for people to see is still on my agenda, but it's boring, so I'm still putting it off.
On my new (old) typewriter, I've spent the last couple of days absolutely kicking myself, because I, an idiot, accidentally put on the wrong ribbons, thinking they were the right ribbons, and am seriously worried I broke the damn thing trying to force the cover (which is probably the right cover) on. I couldn't get the ribbons to move to a fresh section when I typed, and I don't know if that's the machine itself or me fooling with incorrect ribbons that were incorrectly seated on the device.
I also found more dirt and erasure bits underneath the carriage, which I plan to clean maybe today, if I'm feeling it. I have the proper ribbons in the mail, and if that fails, I'm going to shop around for a repair shop that allows for mail-ins, since there aren't any within driving distance for my area.
Damn, I'm worried this one's on me.
Book-wise, I've gotten started on Orion in the Dying Time, and so far it's pretty much the lightweight fantasy I was hoping it would be. The gist is that the protagonist and his super-sexy goddess wife have been sent to ancient times to stop an evil god and his dinosaur minions from enslaving humanity and probably also conquering the world. Decent action, heroic heroes, and evil bad guys abound.
In terms of what else I want to do with my day, I've still got a couple of sketches I'm working on, including that one with the bats I'm still in the process of getting traditionally inked, and a fanart piece I'm thinking about inking digitally over my pencil sketch.
I don't know why, but the initial sketch phase feels so much harder when I'm working in digital, it seems to spur this sort of impatience in me that real graphite and paper just doesn't seem to.
I also have some things I need to transfer into the writing "sketchbook" section of my website, for both fandom and my original works. On top of that, I'm toying with the idea of writing something, either for an ongoing work or ginning up something new.
Knowing myself, I'm probably going to get one, maybe two of these things done today, so it looks like I'll have to pick and choose.
On the original version of my website, I had what was, honestly, a rather over complicated kind of setup involving both iframes and javascript that allowed me to grab two different webpages and load them into a single webpage, both of which used more javascript to select and isolate certain parts of the page for easy reading.
It was cool, but it didn't actually help me read and sort through my own works the way I'd hoped it would, which was the whole point of the thing. so I simplified, and now it's just a bunch of outlines you can page through with some CSS tied to links at the bottom.
Grabbing my original works and putting them back up for people to see is still on my agenda, but it's boring, so I'm still putting it off.
On my new (old) typewriter, I've spent the last couple of days absolutely kicking myself, because I, an idiot, accidentally put on the wrong ribbons, thinking they were the right ribbons, and am seriously worried I broke the damn thing trying to force the cover (which is probably the right cover) on. I couldn't get the ribbons to move to a fresh section when I typed, and I don't know if that's the machine itself or me fooling with incorrect ribbons that were incorrectly seated on the device.
I also found more dirt and erasure bits underneath the carriage, which I plan to clean maybe today, if I'm feeling it. I have the proper ribbons in the mail, and if that fails, I'm going to shop around for a repair shop that allows for mail-ins, since there aren't any within driving distance for my area.
Damn, I'm worried this one's on me.
Book-wise, I've gotten started on Orion in the Dying Time, and so far it's pretty much the lightweight fantasy I was hoping it would be. The gist is that the protagonist and his super-sexy goddess wife have been sent to ancient times to stop an evil god and his dinosaur minions from enslaving humanity and probably also conquering the world. Decent action, heroic heroes, and evil bad guys abound.
In terms of what else I want to do with my day, I've still got a couple of sketches I'm working on, including that one with the bats I'm still in the process of getting traditionally inked, and a fanart piece I'm thinking about inking digitally over my pencil sketch.
I don't know why, but the initial sketch phase feels so much harder when I'm working in digital, it seems to spur this sort of impatience in me that real graphite and paper just doesn't seem to.
I also have some things I need to transfer into the writing "sketchbook" section of my website, for both fandom and my original works. On top of that, I'm toying with the idea of writing something, either for an ongoing work or ginning up something new.
Knowing myself, I'm probably going to get one, maybe two of these things done today, so it looks like I'll have to pick and choose.
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