i was not ready for the fall

OK.

So recently, several people have been asking Kitty for art pointers.  Kitty surprised, and flattered, since Kitty not really consider himself any good at this art thing, mew...

But at the same time, if Kitty's limited skills, or his mistakes can help anyone, mew, ^^; then that's a good thing, mew.

So Kitty sketched this picture, this morning on openCanvas 1.1 b72.  This is the oC version everyone uses for "network collaboration," aka, oC'ing. ^^  Another advantage of this version is support for event files.

Just in case you don't know what an event file is... well... when you open the event file in oC 1.1, you will see every step, and every action, in the making of that picture, from begining to end.  You'll see how the picture is made, every brushstroke, and everything, mew, so that should be helpful.  There is one final correction Kitty did with SAI, which involves resizing of the eyes, but mew, oC doesn't allow for resizing.

Again, you will need oC 1.1 to view the event file -- a great program to have, and easily available from the internets.  You will also need the event file, so click here to download it, it's about 762 kb. ^^

Once you do, 1. open oC;  2. from the "File" option at the top, select "Import Event File";  3. select the file;  4. click OK on the window that appears, (the button with the green check) and enjoy the show. ^^  It should run for less than 10 minutes, mew.

Again, Kitty wish he were more skilled at this... but like I said, if anyone is looking for a quick pointers on what not to do, ^^; this might be helpful.

ninety nine ministers meet

The usual preview of stuffs, and yes, I should be getting to work on that trade, but this will be a very long post, mew...



There's OMG important "health" and not-too-important "reality" updates behind that link, so look out!

Lots of random stuff!

Health first.

So Kitty felt OMG I'M DYING LOL last sunday.  SRSLY. Oo

So Kitty went to the hospital, and they prescribed blood tests, and other tests, and an ultrasound. oO

Finally underwent through all the tests... will pick up results tomorrow... but.

The doctor believes it's a very serious liver problem... TT

It might be Hepatitis A. TT

She's recommended: 100% ABSOLUTE REST, which means, "lying down on my bed doing NOTHING" -- not even work. oO  Lots of fluids and a VERY strict diet... TT

Personally, I doubt it's hep A, but I'll know for sure tomorrow, mew... I do agree it's a liver problem, and it's SRS... so I'm not arguing against the rest, mew...

A few people who have talked to Kitty over IM these past few days have been notified that lately, Kitty in intense pain.  Not as bad as at first, but still... ouchie. TT  Right now, it's less severe, but it's still there, and I should very much so lie down, but mew... >>;

Kitty taking care of himself, mew... went through the tests, they had to draw blood twice -- second time still hurts. TT  Ultrasound was relatively painless... but they tell Kitty he's very clogged up... ^^;  Hahah, news to Kitty, mew... >>;

tl;dr, still waiting on results, still in some pain -- will ask for sedation, tomorrow. oO  And Kitty taking care of himself lots...

To all the people who have sent in good wishes, despite the fact that I haven't yet announced this openly until now, thank you. ^^  Kitty will get better, don't you worry!  I'm still online -- even if I'm lying down, mew.  So if you have me on your IM list, do say hi! if you see Kitty online... he would very much like to talk, mew. ^^

Ok, that's enough health updates.

Reality/news updates: Our noble local leaders (may they all burn in hell) >>; tell us that we're again the center of attention because both Dubya and the president of China, and lots of important pplz are hitting town for the APEC Summit, of world leaders from the Asia-Pacific rim.

(ahahah, Kitty said "rim") ^^

Lima recently hosted a summit... back in may.  Not far from my home... >>;

This summit will also take place not far from where Kitty lives... <<;  The circled top location is the National Museum, which is supposed to have these wonderful auditoriums and stuffs, and it was where the yooropeean leeders met back in May.  The circle at the bottom marks the Ministry of Defense, reportedly, the location for a new round of meetings, this time around...

Hahaha... how funny that my house sits almost right in the middle of the straight line between those two. <<;

And Kitty too sick to start a one Kitty revolution. TT

IT'S A CONSPIRACY, I TELL YOU! >>;;;

Ok, Kitty done. ^^

with somebody who loves me

K.  Just another of them random posts about stuffs.  Preview, first: Who is that pokémon?


Hint: IT'S RAICHU!

Second, Kitty was digging through... Digg, >>; and Kitty found this sad TT yet funny ^^ yet sad TT letter from a puppy to the Obama girls.  As some of you know, the future Overlord (hail!) promised his spawn a puppy, once they move into the White House.  And apparently, word gets out quickly in the abandoned puppy community... ^^

Got Kitty to thinking about stuffs, so... well.  Might be a good time to link to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, since most of my visitors come from the Empire.  And you can be sure I'll be linking to the Peruvian SPCA from our company's pages...

And since we're busy saving the world, here... Kitty wanted to link to "The Hunger Site," you know, that site where you just click, and by just clicking, you donate food to the hungry -- also has sister sites to make donations for animal food, cancer prevention, the rainforest, etc.  A good idea, you say... well... apparently, they're not a charity, anymore... and they're kinda secretive about their total donations... <<;  Mew, ok, then again, if by just clicking you get sponsors to donate and stuffs, even if it's a diluted amount, here's the Hunger Site.

The founder of the original "Hunger Site," however, has a new site, which is more transparent, and although certain pretty wuffie had commented that "it's sad that, if someone has food to give, they would choose to taunt people with it, in order to get other people to answer silly questions," (you can't argue with logic...) ^^; Kitty still linking to them.  The way Kitty figure, mew... it's just hard to come up with sponsors to donate money, mew. TT  And if this gimmick works to do just that, well, so be it, and personally, I think it's kind of neat. ^^


Be warned that some of the questions are fiendishly difficult. >>;  But helping to donate food for hungry people is always a good cause. ^^

Although... considering the time it takes to generate rice... might as well stick a twenty in an envelope and send it to them. ^^;  But if oos has free time, and it's just easier for you to donate time, even a few minutes every day, mew... every bit helps, no?

Will move that link to the right bar soon, if no one objects.

tl;dr, mew... you can always help people and animals, in your community.  Your spare change, and your spare time can work wonders! ^^

Well... excuse Kitty if sometimes, he wants to make a difference, instead of just making people horny... ^^;

In other other news, hahahah... this is a screenshot from Pixiv, just a few minutes ago.  Can you read the tag near the middle, the one that's highlighted?  That's one of the most popular tags in the site, right now.  Lots of pplz are posting pictures on that topic...

Hint: The three katakana characters are: "O," "BA," and "MA." ^^

In other other news... Kitty not entirely 100%, but will get there. ^^

cadillacs lincolns too mercurys and subarus

Mew, told you I was working on this, mew. ^^  About time, too.


So.

As has been tradition for Kitty for 12 years, Kitty went to a chinese buffet to talk about the US election with a friend, and pig out on sweet and sour stuff as the drama unravels. ^^

And in spite of heavy opposition from the state of Texas, it appears the gringos have selected "the other guy" as their leader.

(I miss those whiney, liberal wussies back home) TT

Regardles, Kitty congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president.  May death come quickly to his enemies. ^^

i can see a new horizon v 0.9

Jery Softpaw recently sent a little note on the CubCentral Mailing list, which he also posted on his FurAffinity page.

Kitty fully agree with Jery, so Kitty made this!  It's slightly tongue in cheek, ^^ but you know Kitty doesn't kiss without punching in the liver, at the same time. *^^*


And now, a Chris Stevens moment -- don't worry, Kitty be brief. ^^

Today, like we do every four years, when the air becomes chilly, and the leaves become red, we celebrate Democracy.  Today we take a sip of this warm cup of bourbon-laced cider for the spirit, we pat ourselves in the back for having made it four more years, we throw the dice, we light a candle, and we prepare to curse the glare.

It's funny, you know.  To a faraway alien observer, democracy should be something that we celebrate every day, not just when it's time to dress all warm, brave the weather, brave the lines, and the mud slinging, and cast our civic conscience in a pull of a lever.  But I digress...

Democracy, you see, doesn't happen only during elections.  Elections happen during elections.  But that precious, wondrous gift passed down from the ancient Athenians, tempered by our forefathers, and handed all the way down to the chaotic here and now, is something that we live every day.  Or at least, something we should live, every day.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, you see, is constantly listening to the people.  It's constantly being guided and changed by the people.  And that would be you.

Cast your vote today.  Cast your vote every chance you get.  Celebrate your freedom, celebrate the fact that your future is indeed in your hands.  But most importantly, live that freedom, every day, every moment, with every breath you take.  Get involved, move things, change the world.  In the end, that's what Democracy is all about.

all the world is babylon

Mew... a sketch of Cayenne I'm currently working on... unfortunately, it will most likely be delayed like most of my arts.


As for Kitty... Kitty not well... reason for delay, mew. TT

Kitty being all whiney and stuff behind this link.

Ok.

So Kitty underwent treatment for his ulcer.  Antibiotics, yay.  The problem with the treatment is that Kitty's liver didn't like it.<<;  Also, it seems to have decimated his "good" bacteria, which has been a SRS problem for Kitty in the past... >>;

Kitty can't get a break, apparently. ><

So... Kitty think the ulcer well in process of healing, but his stomach cramps have returned.  They're strong, mew TT, just not OMG terrible as usual, which is what worries me... Oo  If they were, I could just take valium, and be done with it... as it is... I'm not sure whether such strong medicine is called for or not. oO

Also... well... for about a week, Kitty was actually feeling fine!  Responding nicely to treatment, no pain, no discomfort, mew.  It suddenly started again last Thursday... it should peak today and be on the way out tomorrow.  I hope...

Thus you have an achy, whiney Kitty... more quick tempered than usual, and pretty much unable to work.  It's good that all Kitty has scheduled for today is just a meeting to pick up some money he is owed, and an advance on a new project he's getting involved.  I think that on the way back home, I will get a refill on those pills... TT Kitty feel he has no choice, really.

put another dime in the jukebox baby

The oC session with PK and Amy is live, on FA!  Need to have the mature filters turned off, though.


Regarding my "Maverick" McCain avatar: Some furries found it objectionable, (go fig...) but the point remains that OMFG Y DO THEY INSIST ON BEING MAVERICKS? >>;;;  Even the hopelessly un-funny SNL pplz noticed this much. <<;

This Maverick very displeased. >>;  Kitty need ice cream. <<;

i had no illusions

Kitty is a Maverick. ^^  My current FurAffinity avvie is proof. ^^;


Mew just a little commentary on how it has somehow become fashionable to "be a maverick." Oo  Kitty turned on the tele a couple of days back, and there was this lady saying how some guy she knows is "a real maverick."  She must have said it like 20 times. oO

Well...

Not an endorsement of anything or whatnot.  SRSLY.  But just in case some "maverick"s aren't to your liking, I certainly hope this one is ^^ :

gonna be a sudden craze

A preview of a Saffron picture I'm working on.


Still working a lot of the details off, mew.  And Kitty know he shouldn't start new pictures, if there is a whole bunch of pictures (good ones) that he's already working on, but mew, Kitty adorable like that. ^^

In other news, it appears Kitty's monster has a name: gastric ulcer. >>;

If you want to keep reading, click here.

Personally, I don't think it's that bad.  Ulcers are not only treatable, but they're not really SRS.  Kitty actually relieved that, for a change, the condition has a name.  I never did figure out what the cramps were about. oO


Considering the little arsenal that I'm using to tackle this (Mylanta, a sucralfate, a form of valium oO, tetracycline, acetylaminophenol, and metronidazole), well... Kitty a bit weary about a few side effects... so Kitty will be careful.  This little array was assembled by two doctors and a pharmacist, but considering that ye olde internets has conflicting information about these medicines, mew... <<;  Kitty will definitely be careful.

time i had some time alone v 1.1

strange days indeed

Hai, guise, look, I painted a catgirl.


Also, Kitty installed the new Google Chrome Beta, the brand spanking new, just-released-moments-ago browser by Google.

It looks very interesting... although I'm not sure it's living up to its own hype of being "light" and "fast."  Base install is around 60 megs. >>;  Compare that to my full 24 meg install of Firefox 3.0.  The browser looks very neat... very clean.  I would like it a lot better than Firefox solely on looks.  However.

It's not... that fast. oO  Not on my PC, at least -- size would have something to do about it. <<;  I'm still testing the hell out of it, and although it does look like it will deliver on the features that it promised on that 40-page comic, <<;;; I don't like the fact that it takes 60+ megs of disk space, and worse, it doesn't let you choose the installation path. ><  For someone like Kitty, who likes to keep his o/s partition mostly clear from program files and configuration stuff, this is just... not good.

Ah, hahahah... also, fail japanese support.  Mew... definitely not good. Oo

But some of you might be ok with it, so... mew.  Just in case you haven't been paying attention, now you know. ^^

that's all they really want

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tl;dr, a cybunny named Lucie, covered in goo. ^^

i want you to know it's a little

So the link on the main page that says "Journal Labels," is a link to the journal labels page. ^^  Since my hosted Blogger journal comes without a "labels" widget, I had to write a little PHP script to collect all my journal labels.  Hopefully, it'll make it easier to the kind of porn that you all are looking for, with just a couple of clicks. ^^

The label system enabled and functional, it's time to start uploading all those pictures.  Of course, they will be labeled appropriately, so that they can be easily accessed through the "Labels" page.  The germans call it "vorsprung durch Technik," which roughly translates to "Kitty finally got off his adorably cute lazy little tail and wrote that script," in the beautiful and evil german language. oO

Moar chibis.  The background for this one took me a good couple of hours this morning. Oo


I'll make a note to go easier on the "cutesy-ness," next time.  "Cute" != "cutesy."  But you knew that, already.

Edit, 10:56 am: So I'm enabling some 301-code redirects from my old site, and pointing those pages here.  And I decided to check my old site stats one last time.

The stats have... changed. oO  The couple of things that have remained constant about my visitors (at least, according to Quantcast) is that they are: 1, male, 2, mostly teenagers, (Hi, teens!) ^^ 3, heavily japanese, and 4, without kids.

But I always took pride in that we had a higher-than-average % of visits from people who made 100k or more a year.  And people with graduate degrees. oO

Now, however, Quantcast tells me that my visitors tend to be poor and uneducated... >>;;;

<<;

Get an edumakashun and a job, pplz. >>;  No ruining my stats kthxbai.

now we're fighting in our hearts

So FA is down, and will be down for a while -- but better things are afoot.  A big thank you to everyone who has donated to the cause, btw. ^^

Kitty's life is hectic as usual. Oo  But Kitty finally ready to get that domain and stuffs... and now, Kitty can't find a reasonably priced webhost that will allow me to post my "cub" art. >>;  Any suggestions, Kitty gladly hear them, mew.

Kitty also getting strange messages on AIM. oO  If anyone is contacting me through IM, please let me know that you're not a stalker, maniac, or worse: a spammer. <<;;;

On top of OMG EVERYTHING, Kitty no wanna read the news, anymore... <<;  On this topic, mew...


Mew... Kitty not a pacifist -- then, he would be a hypocrite. ^^;  Kitty just tired of all the bloodshed, mew. oO  So sing it along!  You know you want to. ^^

my mind was aching v 2.0

This one was about the 4.4 magnitude quake that woke me up at 1:42 am. <<;


I don't feel like making one about the 5.4 magnitude quake that followed at 7:52 am -- which also woke me up. >>;

Sheesh, what did we do now, Jesus?  As if.  We're not the ones opressing Tibet.  We're not the ones voting for Hillary... ><

spring love

...

Yah. >>;