Hey there, friendly neighborhood SpiderFriends…

I know.  I suck at posting, but I’ll get better.  Let’s see…what all has been going on.  Nothing new yet with getting the husband’s back fixed.  Waiting to hear the verdict back from neurosurgeon and pain management negotiations to get him to surgery still.  Apparently, doctors seem to require a month to get their shit together.  Sheesh.

Other than that…not a whole lot going on.  Trying to game more often with Lizard Games and also some side projects and hoping to get together the manuscripts for two of my stories I’ve worked on for a few years.  Cleaning them up for inconsistancies and severe character changes made.  Then onto making animated shorts for some in Flash…which will be groovy and I will share with you.

Saw a few movies/series that I should share my appreciation for:

1.  Howl’s Moving Castle - LOVE IT.  Renewed my obsession with Miyazaki movies.  Now I want that one, the art book that goes with it, and perhaps Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service.  I love that style of animation. It’s about the only one that I can take that isn’t more along the lines of what I consider adult anime art (Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, etc.).  This movie was brilliant and the backdrops they created in it are marvelous.

2.  BattleStar Gallactica - Okay, okay.  I was really pissed when I first saw previews for this and found, what I thought, the fact was that they turned all the Cylons into chicks.  Okay, so they didn’t and okay, so I ended up liking the preliminary episodes.  Thanks, Rabbit.  So now I apparently feel compelled to see the rest of the series.  Sheeyit, man, sheeyit.

3.  The Fountain - Beautiful costuming, brilliant acting, and quite possibly the saddest and most disjointed film I’ve ever seen. When I say SAD I mean “ball your eyes out depressing”.  Unless your in a slightly sadistic mood where you feel like depressing yourself, I’d avoid this.

That’s all I remember of what I’ve seen new that made an impression on me.  Back to RPGs.  I want to start up my X-Men RPG again that Lys and I had ran a while back along with some others.  I have to clean up DoM and to a major overhaul on 2050:TUA, but I think I’ll be dropping Greystone into the retired pile as it’s very hard to game things that involve the Astral Plane and not confuse even myself at times.  2050 will be darker, with the newer version, and DoM, well the characters may not even congregate at the castle before venturing into the Dark Plains.  I’ve got other things up my sleeve.  So I may get these started enough to where, with a good intro, I could start running the games on these as well.  Either of these, as far as potential to be published into a novel, I think might have a good run.  But like I said, major cleanup in the works. 

I have a new design I’ve created in flash for Toybox Design and will roll it out once I get the site portfolio section complete.  It will be a clean/fun look. 

Good times.