I give up.

The last update on this journal/gallery was a little over a month ago and plenty has gone by during that time.

Work got me busy/stressed and a totally unrelated allergic reaction deformed my face for a day or so and from there everything just went downhill.

My home computer's power supply unit has been on the fritz so I'm unable to actually access anything relative to anything creative, i.e. write or scan any of the few things I have doodled in the past weeks. My roomie at work just had her grandmother pass away, forcing her to take a few days off, leaving me to deal with everything in her absence along with my own work which had piled up because of the meetings that needed to be tended to. The apartment I'm currently living in is without air-conditioning, and with temperatures in the high 80s to low 90s, I have to leave my two fat cats in a semi-sauna environment during the day while I'm at work. The power in the building just fluctuates whenever, setting off power surges that is probably the cause of my faulty computer power supply.

The fires in Northern California may have me out of furniture and other stuff I had left in a storage place in that area. Been trying to get ahold of the company with little luck unfortunately. Hopefully it's all safe, or at the very least, insured. I'm not even going to talk about how incredibly homesick I am, cause then I'd just slide further downward into oblivion and I'll end up raiding the fridge and make my stomach even worse that it already is. Speaking of which, I just recently found out that I may have some medical issues with that as well, which is currently all a mystery while a battery of tests are being run and I follow a tentative treatment. All this while my parents are getting ready to retire out of the country and will be leaving quite a bit of property (not to mention my younger brother) that I will have to deal with when they go.

All of this isn't all that bad. In fact, I've lived through worse, been through darker places. I still have my job, and somewhat my health. But the worst of it is the fact that I've turned off/hurt two of the people I appreciate the most by writing/saying things that I probably should not have. It's just the icing on the cake and I have no one else to blame but myself. All I can really say at this point, is that I still do deeply care for them both and hope that things are going well for them, so virtual hugs for joo, if either of you is reading this. It was not my intention to hurt you, I'm just dumb sometimes and I don't think the years will make it any better and the fast-approaching senility doesn't help either.

It's just been a roller-coaster ride of a summer, and it's only just begun. I'm pretty sure it'll all get worse before it gets better. But hey, it happens to everyone I guess.

I had initially planned to go to the SDCC this year, but once again that's fallen through, with downsizing in personnel, no one else would be here during that time, and since I'm the lowest man on the totem pole, yeh you got it, I'm manning the fort. At this rate I probably won't get to attend that convention until I'm back in the US, several years from now. I'm consoling myself by saying that at least some of you will enjoy it and bring back plenty of pictures for me to see. That is if I get my computer back to working order.

Anyways, you can all stop wondering when I'm updating the gallery, the answer is "when the computer is fixed". Barring that, at least when I'm "repaired" which may be tomorrow or a couple months from now, all depending if I'm able to get away long enough to make a few phone calls and whatnot and if my test results don't reveal that I need a new titanium intestine implant.

Thanks again for stopping by regularly, sorry for the rant journal-entry, and I promise to be a better host and update the page more often once things are back to normal, and y'all have a great summer.