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The national Do Not Call Registry opened for business today.

Friday, June 27th, 2003

The national Do Not Call Registry opened for business today. Unsurprisingly, the registration site is completely overloaded.

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I need to force myself to draw more.

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

I need to force myself to draw more.

My line of work and time commitments have reduced me to doodling on the sides of source-code printouts and on Post-It notes.

This has got to stop. It’s just not right.

I have proof that I’m letting this part of my brain go to seed: I’ve had the same sketchbook for almost three years. You’re supposed to go through them faster than that. At least, I’d like to go through them faster.

For your viewing displeasure, and my unending shame, I took some truly miserable photographs of select pages and drawings from the book. The autogallery is set to preserve the order, so you can see the progression from eVilla (2000) to dieselsweeties sketch (2001) (cf. the finished product), to some figure drawings (2002) (1, 2, 3, 4), to the arrival of the Zelda Master Quest (2003) (0, 1, 2).

eVilla, December 2000 Diesel Sweeties sketch, November 2001 Invented nude sketch, September 2002 Notes from Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Master Quest, Feb. 11, 2003

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You win some, you lose some.

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

You win some, you lose some. Internet is back up — has been since midday — but digital cable is out again. Well, I won’t be disabusing Time-Warner of the notion that I’m experiencing a complete outage; at least, not until they come out tomorrow morning. It’s like Darryl says: do not tell tech support the truth if you want service.

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From Jenny.

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

Senator Palpatine, meet Senator Lieberman. Oh, um, have you guys met already?

From Jenny. I pass it on without further comment.

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Hmm.

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

Hmm.

Red 6/26/2003 7:21 AM TW-HOUSTON

Road Runner is currently experiencing issues with the cable network. Subscribers in the affected area(s) may experience a loss of connectivity, usually indicated by flashing modem lights and/or a loss of video services. Our engineers are working quickly to resolve this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Cable modem still out; TV service going in and out.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

Cable modem still out; TV service going in and out. (Sometimes we have nothing; sometimes we have analog only; sometimes we have digital stations too.) The “CABLE” light on my cable modem (Toshiba, PCX2500) alternates between dark and slow-blink, both of which seem to mean “badness 10000″. I’d like to think that all this variability in the behavior of the network is the sign of technicians hard at work at this very minute. (Deep in my heart I know that this is not true; that, instead, things are so horribly wrong that they can’t quite decide just what kind of wrong they are.)

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Erin and I just had a little epiphany.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

Erin and I just had a little epiphany. Yes, the cable is out; yes, the internet is down … but our TiVo will gladly play back all our saved programs for us. Yes, yes.

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