Meh

I am blah today.

Part of it is work overload. I'm looking at what I need to do over the next couple of days, and it's a pretty heavy load. Weirdly enough I wish I could get the crossover scripts so that I could have a legitimate excuse to put off some of it and do something else instead.

But the other part of it is just the lingering after affects of yesterday's drama.

Somebody told me they hated me.

A total stranger.

I'd never spoken to him, never done anything to him. Solely because of a label I happen to bear, he hates me. He won't even say why, or what it is about that label that's worthy of hatred. And he hasn't suffered any consequences for spouting his hatred in public, the moderator, on finally entering the scene, said "please leave furry hating out of it." That's it.

I don't know how many of you reading this have ever been here, but I find I don't like this place, where a total stranger has said they hate me, for no better reason than that I bear a certain label. I don't like it at all. And yet I am forced to be here. I can't do anything about his attitude. I can't do anything about the label. I can't keep him from saying he hates me. I can't impose any consequnces on him for it. I just get to be hated, and he gets to go on his merry way.

It sucks.

Paint!

I just got a commission for a PYO Windstone. Specifically a lava dragon. So it's something I know I can do, something fairly time consuming but not too intellectual, and I'm getting paid, so if I take paint breaks in between doing costume stuff I don't have to feel guilty. Woot. I've alread got a base coat on it, and I might manage to get the full "molten lava" undercoat done today. I'm taking progress pictures as I go, at the customer's request, and I'll be sharing them here eventually.

In other news, my sewing machine is costing me $30 to get fixed to good as new, and I've put in a bid of $150 on what appears to be a very nice light industrial machine, which does both a zig-zag AND and straight stitch, and that's 100% of my stitching needs right there. It's billed as a leather/vinyl sewing machine, so I'm pretty sure it'll handle velcro. So hopefully I get it.

And just to keep folks updated, I made a "skin" pattern for the fox-dog and the horse heads today. I need to put ears on the wig for the fox-dog, and I think tomorrow I'll get that one furred, maybe. Things are moving along quite nicely, in any case, and I shouldn't have to miss any deadlines.

Although I'm miffed because the m key on this keyboard is having issues, and appears to be dragging the j and k down with it. The usual method of prying the keys off and cleaning the gunk out from under them has failed to fix the problem. I've ordered a new mini keyboard from Newegg. 'Swhat I get for buying the cheapest mini they had, I guess. Hopefully the new one won't be any bigger than this, it didn't give inches, it just indicated its miniatureness, but one of the user comments complained about it being too small, so hopefully I'm good.

Lava dragon

http://bladespark.topcities.com/lava01.jpg
http://bladespark.topcities.com/lava02.jpg
http://bladespark.topcities.com/lava03.jpg

Because I'm doing detailed progress photos on this one, so what the heck, I'll share them as I go. Here we have the blank dragon, the dragon with yellow base coat, and the dragon with the first of about five layers of sponged on orange and red.