Ode

This is an ode to keshwyn and meiczyslaw
(and boy was I tempted to post it on Twitter,
but sanity and the desire to not spam Facebook prevailed)
who between the two of them have prevented me
from throwing the brand-new Droid through the wall
because its UI is just plain not obvious in spots.

And for that I am very grateful
And for learning about the difference between
widgets and apps, I am very grateful
(because boy that was Not Obvious)
And for their undying patience with
one very stressed-out fuzzball of a Leanne,
I am really, really, eternally grateful

because I have been having a rough couple of weeks
and have not been coping well
and this was kinda a last straw before meltdown
and now it is not so much a last straw
and definitely no meltdown
but a "hmm, I think I can cope with this, but
I wish it weren't NOW"

and that makes me a lot happier than I was
about four hours ago.

and now I gotta unload groceries
and get back to work
and hopefully remain a less-stressed fuzzball
thanks to keshwyn and meiczyslaw
who are really awesome people
just so you all know.

and on a side note

... I would like very much to stop having the "my work is not good enough" attacks now.

Really, any day now. ):

Looking at Autumnside

So I'm in the process of trimming and resizing all the Autumnside files, on the theory that I'm going to make a CD with Autumnside, Winterside, and New Year PDFs available for sale, hopefully at AX.

Autumnside ....

.... doesn't suck as badly as I was afraid it would. There are things that I'd do on one page now, instead of across multiple pages. And I've gotten a lot better with Jack and Mala and the other characters over time. But there are things I miss about Autumnside. Running the sketches with just pencils gives it a softer feel than Winterside and New Year, which are pen-and-ink and all-digital, respectively.

And the backgrounds are lovely, which I haven't really gotten to do as much with since I switched to the vertical format. Not sure how to deal with that; some of this is formatting issues because of potential design-for-book.

Meh, I'll figure this whole comicking-mangaing-thing one of these years ... Can't believe I've been doing it for almost four years ... disappointed that I haven't done more, but still learning.