Work:
I’m having a productive day today. Feels good to be improving the website. Tiny things, cleaning up little things. Things few people will recognize as changed, but changes that now make buttons in some areas act the same way as buttons in other areas.

Thank goodness! I’m keep all the navigation in one central place, so I don’t have to change 30 pages with a nav bar in them because a link changes.

Comic:
Last night, Studio Anti Thesis got together to make the final touchups for our new zine. This is really the best quality of my pages we can make. Pete tweaked some of the lower res scans and somehow made the linework highres again, and Kim shaded my early pages with the shades that I use in the later pages. I spent a lot of time going through and making them print ready, at Pete’s bequest. Taking out the fake screentones, as the printer will actually create something similar, and we don’t want any nasty moire patterns.

They really look good. We likely won’t touch these pages again, after we go to print, for a long time. I predict the next time we’ll even look at these files will be when the whole 32 pages of Tabloid are done, and we want to collect them into one ‘big’ book.

Family:
Tonight, I have birthday celebrations with my Mother In Law, and fam. Should be fun. Husband’s stepsister is also in the country tonight. (She works in Germany)

Work:
I’m having a productive day today. Feels good to be improving the website. Tiny things, cleaning up little things. Things few people will recognize as changed, but changes that now make buttons in some areas act the same way as buttons in other areas.

Thank goodness! I’m keep all the navigation in one central place, so I don’t have to change 30 pages with a nav bar in them because a link changes.

Comic:
Last night, Studio Anti Thesis got together to make the final touchups for our new zine. This is really the best quality of my pages we can make. Pete tweaked some of the lower res scans and somehow made the linework highres again, and Kim shaded my early pages with the shades that I use in the later pages. I spent a lot of time going through and making them print ready, at Pete’s bequest. Taking out the fake screentones, as the printer will actually create something similar, and we don’t want any nasty moire patterns.

They really look good. We likely won’t touch these pages again, after we go to print, for a long time. I predict the next time we’ll even look at these files will be when the whole 32 pages of Tabloid are done, and we want to collect them into one ‘big’ book.

Family:
Tonight, I have birthday celebrations with my Mother In Law, and fam. Should be fun. Husband’s stepsister is also in the country tonight. (She works in Germany)

Tabloid Roulette Cover in progress low res.

I worked on the cover most of today. Studio worked hard yesteryday getting pages for a new dual zine ready for press, we hope to be all ready by tonight.

sleepy… time for bed.

got Flight zine as gift from K&M!

had good write/gab time with Heather and Jane on friday

went for hour long walk today!

just wanted to share before i pass out from the sleepy.

good night moon

Tabloid Roulette Cover in progress low res
Originally uploaded by Jaen.

I worked on the cover most of today. Studio worked hard yesteryday getting pages for a new dual zine ready for press, we hope to be all ready by tonight.

sleepy… time for bed.

got Flight zine as gift from K&M!

had good write/gab time with Heather and Jane on friday

went for hour long walk today!

just wanted to share before i pass out from the sleepy.

good night moon

I could have had enough organization to plan a big birthday party for myself, and invite people from all my interest groups.

I could have had enough organization to plan a big birthday party for myself, and invite people from all my interest groups.

I did blog directly from my phone to livejournal though. (without this text)

I did blog directly from my phone though. (without this text)

Today is my birthday, but it’s a bit stretched out due to scheduling with a variety of people groups.

Sunday I got to go out to dinner with Jason and Stephanie, and they, being the sneaky cool people they are, surprised me with a card, a digi-charat manga compliation, and a really yummy three layered candle.

Monday I got to hang out with bloodlossgirl, where she also surprised me with a kick-ass card, and an introduction to Edo. That means, of course, super awesome sushi dinner, and great conversation, as usual. We even managed to sneak in a walk with Jane, which was also lovely and eerie wonderful, at about 9:45pm, with the moon gazing down at the lake.

Tonight is Birthday time with my family! And who knows what else this week has in store.

These are good times, all.

yah!

Jaen and Sara @ Bristol
Originally uploaded by Jaen.

Out of the blue last week, Sara got a hold of me. I’d been emailing her for months, but didn’t know she didn’t have net access, and I had misplaced her number.

Turns out, she had misplaced my number too! It was good to chat, and she invited me out to the Bristol Ren Faire on Saturday.

It was a beautiful day for Ren Fairing. It was warm enough, but not too hot, with a good breeze. I haven’t been back to the faire for quite a lot of time. We missed last summer completely, and hadn’t planned on going this summer. Thankfully, Sara came to the rescue, and even helped me into my bodice and other things(we used my red cape as a skirt), so I could go to the faire, and feel pretty and fun.

We had a rather nice time, with the sun filtering down through the trees. I got a new green skirt(pictured), and a pretty bracelet made of chainmail links and green beads, and a great matching anklet that has tiny little silver bells and green beads.

It’s so funny, with both of us in bodices, we didn’t have much room for the yummy foods at the faire. We figured out a system though, we got small orders of things and split them; sauteed garlic mushrooms, almonds roasted in cinnamon, and homemade teriyaki jerky. (I think that’s all) We also made a stop for some sassafras. yum!

Speaking of bodices, we had to loosen mine after a stop at the flutemakers. After trying to make the flute sound, several times, I started feeling quite faint. No wonder women in the ages of more restrictive clothing were always swooning.

It was also nice to sit down and watch a couple shows. When we were going several times a summer, my husband and I stopped going to the shows as often. It was a real treat to watch the professional insulter, ‘Lady…you should be a nun…’, and Sir William Shakespeare’s 15 min Hamlet, ‘He’s acting crazy, licking the walls and talking to his booties’, and we even got to see the Joust to the Death at the end of the day.

We sat in the grass, on the quarter of the arena, and cheered for the lesser evil guy, until he was doublecrossed by the eviler guy.

I’d really missed the Faire. So glad I could check it out this summer. Also glad to reconnect with Sara.