No, really, I am. Two years ago I was 165, toned, and not all that bad looking. Today I am 181, lethargic, and very unhappy with my physical shape. This month I plan to turn that all around again. A few years ago I tried the Body for Life program with astounding success, but I ran into one issue: I plateaued. I got to a point where my muscles simply stopped growing.
This month I will start trying P90X. It seems to be the same thing as Body for Life, but they have found a way around the plateau effect. Plus I can do the whole thing in my house, as my gym was shut down last year. Also, like B4L, there is a nutrition plan. I always follow a nutrition pretty well, so I am looking forward to eating real food again instead of all this processed food that I tend to consume (although Tommy’s Original was fantastic the other day).
As many of you noticed, I am not at Tar Valon or Mistborn Empire all that much at the moment. I am busy with the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. I have a semi-leadership position there that takes a lot of my time as well as doing animations with Ben. The animations take even more time than the Rollmaster job, so some things had to be put on hold.
My art is taking a slightly more adult direction at the moment. Any of you that like to see my art will have to sign up for an actual account at DeviantArt if you want to see it as I have to put an adult filter on it. Having an adult filter on it means that only Members get to see it. The registration is free, so yeah, take that for what it is.
That is all I have going on at the moment. Feel free to comment if you like.
A friend of mine showed me another friend’s video that he had made for the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. After looking at it, I figured I could help…refine it.
After working on it for 6 days, here is what I came up with:
You know, you would think, by now, that uploading a file would be an easy thing. “Click on Add File, find file, click on OK”. Does that sound hard? I mean, seriously, the file was less than 500k! Good thing Alicia gave me a fantastic art gallery here. <3 for Alicia!
The new picture is in the Sci-Fi folder. Let us see who gets the reference.
A couple of friends of mine asked me to be part of the Admin group for a new website community, based on Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series. It is Mistborn Empire and we believe that, in the months to come, it will be a highly informative and fun site.
We will have an RP section as well as a Community section. Be sure to start reading the books. I am sure you won’t be disappointed
I got to meet and have dinner with Brandon Sanderson during DragonCon this year. The man is simply made of WINN! He is the the Author chosen to finish the Wheel of Time series after Jim Rigney’s passing.
I have started reading his series Mistborn. I like it, but it is definitely not as descriptive as the task he has on Memories of Light. Not as many places to visit to be sure. Which brings me to my next topic: Art.
I had waited to ask for a signed book from him. I didn’t want to bother him until his signing, so when it was time, I went on over to the Marriott and asked him to sign my copy of Mistborn. He signed it, “To Joe- Where is my Mistborn art?”. How do you top that? I started last night on a key scene that takes place inside, so I didn’t have to render all the ashfall.
BUT! Obviously Brandon hates 3D Artists. He has a couple of things in his world that are horrible to render. He has a creature called a mistwraith, which is described in the following:
“The creature had smoky,
translucent skin, and Vin could see its bones. It had dozens
upon dozens of limbs, and each one looked as if it had come
from a different animal. There were human hands, bovine
hooves, canine haunches, and others she couldn’t identify.
The mismatched limbs let the creature walk—though it
was more of a shamble. It crawled along slowly, moving like
an awkward centipede. Many of the limbs, in fact, didn’t even
look functional—they jutted from the creature’s flesh in a
twisted, unnatural fashion.
Its body was bulbous and elongated. It wasn’t just a blob,
though . . . there was a strange logic to its form. It had a distinct
skeletal structure, and—squinting through tin-enhanced
eyes—she thought she could make out translucent muscles
and sinew wrapping the bones. The creature flexed odd
jumbles ofmuscles as it moved, and appeared to have a dozen
different rib cages. Along the main body, arms and legs hung
at unnerving angles.
And heads—she counted six. Despite the translucent skin,
she could make out a horse head sitting beside that of a deer.
Another head turned toward her, and she could see its human
skull. The head sat atop a long spinal cord attached to some
kind of animal torso, which was in turn attached to a jumble
of strange bones.”
EGADS! Are you kidding me?!? I think my CPU would melt if I had to render that! He also has a piece of clothing called a mistcloak. This thing has a normal cloak collar, but then it has a hundred ribbons as the cloak. Ugh. He hates us, I am telling you.
So that is what will be eating up my time soon. I fully plan on showing him a scene from his books. I really hope that he will like it.
Today is the day that I have been waiting to see for over a year. Today the 2009 Wheel of Time Calendar is available on Amazon. The reason I have been waiting is because it will be my first published work. I don’t know where my art is or how it is displayed, but it is in there.
I am so friggin’ happy, I can’t stand it. I was supposed to get a free calendar, but it has yet to arrive. I think I will stop by Barnes & Noble and pick one up, since the proceeds go to charity.
Hello everyone. How are you all? I see that many of you are updating pictures, updating your profiles and playing games. First, let me say I love you all.
Now, PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! Stop sending me applications! I know you all mean well, truly I do, but jezuz, if I get another one, I am going to go through my list and hunt you all down
Just so you know, I am blocking all new application install requests. I like reading your blogs, seeing your pictures, and generally knowing what goes on in my friends lives, but I do not want to attack a pirate, nor be a knight in a kingdom, or even know how hot I am. I love you all for just being you.
Right now…
…Ed is playing the piano.
…People are having unprotected sex.
…Opportunity is passing you by.
…Justice is being perverted in a court of law.
…Blacks and whites don’t eat together very much.
…You could be outside.
…The light from a star in M-5 is heading toward earth, right now, light that left M-5 a thousand years ago is getting to your house.
…God is killing moms and dogs because he has to.
…Guilt is turning someone inside out.
…VanHalen is planning a world tour.
…There’s a bomb factory hard at work.
…You are sitting to close.
…Somebody’s got the wrong idea
…Oil companies and old men are in control.
…It’s business as usual in the woods.
…Nothing is more expensive than regret.
…People who can’t breathe are bumming.
…Is just a space between ice ages.
…Youth is king.
…Maybe we should pay attention to the lyrics.
…Is a good time to repent.
…The truth is being obscured.
…Science is building a better tomato.
…Pigs are becoming lunch.
…Someone is working too hard for minimum wage.
…A convenience store is open.
…Mike is thinking about a solo project.
…Your parents miss you.
…Oysters are being robbed of their sole possession.
…No one is safe from loneliness.
…It is cold where someone you love is.
…It’s nicer in Cabo.
…A mad man is wandering the streets of the town you live in.
…A tired man with a wounded heart is sitting in a coach seat on a east-bound transatlantic flight looking out the window wondering how to say “dog”, “howl” and “moon” in French in case it comes up.
…She is going on with her life.
…Time is having its way with you.
…Forces are aligning against you.
…Someone is walking onto a nude beach for the first time.
…Ed’s got his hands full.
…You wish you had a larger tv.
…Write NOW!
…Our government is doing things we think only other countries do.
…You aren’t doing what you most wish you were.
…Is harder than it looks.
…Your memory is getting longer while your life is getting shorter.
…Dogs have it good.
…Is not the fault of the Japanese.
…There is no cure.
…People are doing it for money.
…A bowl of soup would be nice.
…Keeps happening.
…”I” must be going.
At the beginning of the month, my best friend passed away. Yesterday was a momentous event. With the help of several of my, and Horace’s, friends I was able to finally finish either storing, giving away, or throwing everything that was in his house. This entire process took long because Horace NEVER threw anything out. I found software I had given him dating back to 1995, as well as a tape deck he had from 1986.
If I take anything away from all this, it is to check all the crap I own in the garage and in my closets every 6 months. If I haven’t so much as THOUGHT of it, it will go straight in the trash can. The ultimate realization came when I hired my gardener to help me get rid of half the garage I had designated as “crap”: Televisions, old Macintosh (Power PCs) computers, printers, etc. He just came in and in three truckloads got rid of it all. He had no emotion about any of it, just loaded it up and hauled it away. He wouldn’t look at it and think “Horace and I used to spend hours on this!” so it was easy to get rid of for him. That action made me look at the “keep” side of the garage again and I was able to get rid of stuff that WAS actually junk. Quite a realization, let me tell you.
SO! All of you, I implore you, go through all those old boxes of yours and start getting rid of stuff you will never use. Some of you ladies, face it, you are never going to get back into that size 2 dress and fellas, no, that old concert t-shirt is NOT going to come back into style, nor are you EVER going to repair that old drill you found all busted up at the yard sale. Get rid of your clutter!
Hi, it’s Joe. Yeah, yeah, I know you know, but hear me out. I would like for you to remove my sinuses forever. I will deal with the extra weight. I know it is supposed to make my head lighter and all that, but unfortunately, you made a tiny miscalculation in the design. You see, you allowed the sinus cavities to fill up with liquid. On top of that, your drainage system for this is horrendous. Did you know that you also allowed the molars to be able to grow their roots INTO the sinus cavity? Still not fixing the plumbing, eh?
Having to go between buildings 400 times a day takes its toll on the human body when conditions are not ideal. Temps reach in the low 40’s and the inside of the building is a balmy 65 to 70 degrees. I woke up this morning with a head the size of a piano. I have been waiting for the drainage to start, but all I am getting is huge headaches and a tired feeling that made me fall asleep on my shift for an hour. When you have 3 Chiefs look at you, at different times of the day, and say “Trimarchi, why don’t you go lay down before you fall down?”, you know you are looking pekid.
I am hoping that this breaks in the middle of the night so I can get some real work done tomorrow.
