The fortnight from hell

So the the new manager of my shop has arrived and turned the place upside down, everything is all new and it is doing better than it has in the past year, just in the last 2 weeks.

The hell part comes in because I’ve been working overtime to get the shop in a much better condition and my employer has a known history of not paying overtime correctly, or even normal pay correctly.

No more art commissions for a while, until I feel the work situation has been worked out.

I will try to continue practicing my art though, in what precious little free time I have.

Peace out.

- Nightwolf

Not feeling well

I haven’t been feeling the best since my trip from melbourne, which is why I haven’t posted any more parts of my trip yet.

I may have them up soon.

Hopefully.

Melbourne trip & Midfur 2011 (January 2012) Blog Post (Part 1)

Okay, Now that I am once again back from MiDfur 13, Tales from the Crypt, I can *finally* post to my blog about it

The trip started at home, back in Perth, I packed all my belongings and left for a fellow furries (Brunalli’s) place for the airport at about 12:30 pm. I arrived at about 4:00 pm. We were driven to the airport by Brun’s mum, therefore saving money on a taxi fare.

The airport was fairly nice, I had plenty of time to have a Strawberry Sundae with Brunalli and Valindil …

Anyhoo, I boarded a flight to Melbourne on a Tiger Airways Airbus A320, Like last time it was a fairly uneventful flight for me with no inflight entertainment or anything of that nature, not like my return flight from MiDFur back in 2010 – see my MiDFur 2010 posts for more.

Once in Melbourne (at 3:30 Pm btw) I headed for the Skybus terminal, with Brun and Valindil and took the Skybus into the city, and followed that up by taking the hotel transfer option, to the Arrow on Swanston hotel in Melbourne.

Once in the hotel, I checked in and got all my gear set up for MiDFur, which was due to start the following day.

Once I’d finished setting up my stuff I went to the Foodworks down the street with Brunalli and Valindil and bought some supplies for our stay in Melbourne, all the essentials. Valindil couldn’t take his eyes off a Jonnie Walker Gold Label, which was $170.

At some point we tried to find the Melbourne Mana Bar, with Spikey and Sasha, to no avail.

This concludes day one.

Anyhoo I shall continue this blog/diary later… Part 2… To be continued!

Happy new year!

Wishing everyone and their families a Happy new year, I know this is late but I’m doing it anyway

I’m hoping 2012 will be better than 2011, because my shop had that fire, but it should be, got so much stuff planned

Anyhoo, I’m supposed to be doing other things…

Stay cool guys. Peace out.

- Nightwolf

Computer recycling in WA

In the absence of one of one of my thought of the day posts…

If, like me, you need somewhere to recycle an old computer, head over to:

Computer RecycleIT Centre

(A) Inspiration Business Park, Unit 20, 110, Inspiration Drive, Wangara, Western Australia 6065

(T) 08 9302 6008

(E) info (at) recycleit (dot) net (dot) au

(W) www.recycleit.net.au/

Free for walk-in customers. Pick-up is available for a fee (based on volume of items to be disposed) can be arranged for Commercial and Government clients.

Help support a local computer recycling business, as far as I can tell, It’s the only one in the state.

- Nightwolf

Local Charity Shop Fire

A witness has described how flames engulfed a Salvation Army store in Greenwood this morning.

Employees and some customers were in the store when the fire began, The West Australian understands.

Michael Dawes said the fire started “very small but within the space of 10 minutes it was massive”.

“I saw a guy running around the front of the place on his phone and the fire kept growing,” Mr Dawes said.

“The flames started off about 2m high but then got up into the roof, and then they were about 10m higher than the roof of the building.

“It was pretty crazy. Then windows started exploding, which was really loud.”

FESA spokesman Allen Gale said there was significant structural damage to the building but some of the items in the back of the premises would probably be recoverable.

Mr Gale said the flames reached about 10m high, but fire crews had the blaze contained within 10 minutes and controlled in 35 minutes.

They’ve used some great tactics to get the fire under control, he said.

Firefighting crews from Belmont, Osborne Park, Duncraig, Perth and Wangara are attempting to extinguish the blaze.

Mr Gale said the cause of the fire was yet to be determined, but said it was probably an accident.

The Fire and Emergency Services Authority rated the fire as a “third alarm”, which means there was a serious risk from the amount of electrical appliances in the building.

Updated: Employees were permitted to retrieve their belongings once the fire had been dealt with.

Motorists are advised the fire has resulted in the closure of Wanneroo Road between Canham Way and Cockham Road.

Updated: Road closure is no longer in effect.

Post adapted from this post.

-Nightwolf

Anime Films I’ve Seen

After reading this blog post on Tor.com, I have decided to check off the ones that I’ve already seen in a blog post of my own.

• Akira (1988) [SEEN] [OWNED]
• The Girl Who Leapt through time (2006) [SEEN] [OWNED]
• Porco Rosso (1992) [SEEN] [NOT OWNED]
• Ghost in the Shell (1995) [SEEN] [OWNED]
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988) [NOT SEEN/OWNED]
• Voices of a Distant Star (2002) [NOT SEEN/OWNED]
• Perfect Blue (1997) [NOT SEEN/OWNED]
• Memories (1995) [NOT SEEN/OWNED]
• Patlabor: The Movie 2 (1993) [NOT SEEN/OWNED]
• Royal Space Force: The Wings Of Honneamise (1987) [NOT SEEN/OWNED]

Some that I own, seen (or had), but are not in the linked list;

• Millenium Actress
• Vampire Hunter D
• Steam Boy
• Evangelion 1.11
• Evangelion 2.22

I’ll of course update the ones that I’ve seen and currently own – once I have the time to do so, in a future posting.

- Nightwolf

Thoughts on Everything, Nov 21 2011

Today’s post is going to be short and sweet., just a few lines – no full page essays… I’ll try not to do a full page…

WORK
SOOOOOOOO busy, so busy. We’ve got our spring sale on to boost sales at all our Western Australian Salvos Stores

Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim
So, on the 12th of November, I got to play my copy of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim after letting it download for most of the day.
It’s early days for me in the game, and I’m having fun with a Kajiit Mage/Thief roughly halfway through the main quests. I’m loving the updated engine, but I’m still finding that the animations still need some work.

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
This is an idea I’m having. A thought. It could be a birthday present. I may leave it for xmas though, I’m NOT touching it otherwise, as I still have to pay for my flights to/from melb in January and MiJFur.

My Puppet Show
… I’ll try to get some more filming donefor the show, but no promises. Stay tuned to the blog for more information as it comes to hand.

My short stories
… still working on them. The prisoner is almost done with the first draft as is the other story.

My adventure game
… first few combat encounters have the basics done, but i need to work on the other parts of the combat system, or else the player gets an odd endless combat loop.

My fallout 3 and new vegas mods
… still working on them, when i get some free time, which is rather rare.

- Nightwolf

This house… Be falling apart…

Another entry for my rantlog folks, It’s been a while… And here goes:

Okay, I know I’ve said it before, but this house is falling apart. Every time something is fixed another problem arises that needs to be solved… It is really quite frustrating. As an example, I am sure I repaired the roof, yet here it is leaking, in the kitchen, splattering my electric stove with water (It’s a miracle I don’t get an electric shock)

I’ve managed to patch it up a little, so it shouldn’t leak, But the landlord is supposed to be doing this, not me, I’m not really supposed to be touching it :/

On top of all that, I have a feeling the kitchen ceiling is going to collapse again (It’s sagging) and the loungeroom ceiling isn’t much better (It has cracks all through it, you can see them whenever you look up)

This house is 45+ years old and was around when my mum was a kid, so some issues with the house are to be expected… But yeah, hehe…

- Nightwolf

Movies and Other Things

Lately I haven’t had the time to edit my blog, what with numerous projects being undertaken, so apologies to my readers.

I’ve been seeing a few movies lately, including a recommendation from 7 years ago to see the movie Orgazmo – which was a crazy movie and quite funny, well a bit.

I’ve also had the opportunity to see all three of the Mad Max movies, though I preferred the last two, which felt more post-apocalyptic than the original movie.

Other movies and TV series I have watched are: Going Postal, Terra Nova (Could have been better) and classic Doctor Who (With my favourite doctor being Tom Baker and his odd scarves).

Oh, And my phone’s back from repair, though I’d much rather keep my replacement phone, as the keyboard is better and easier to use.

The game is coming along nicely as well, I can’t really disclose anything at this time though, as I would prefer the game to be in a more complete state.

- Nightwolf