Life bits

Sitting at the table, Jake is watching me eat.

Velcro (invisible): Meow? Meow?

Me: Where is she?

Jake: *looks in the basement and the bathroom and at the top of the stairs.* I don't know!

Velcro (still invisible): Meow? (then quiet)

We continued talking until I remembered in alarm that I had been in the icky chemicals cabinet with Velcro milling around my feet some 20 minutes earlier - and I hadn't seen her since. Jake opened the cabinet and *sproing!* out jumps Velcro.

Velcro: Meow!

She had just been hanging out on the shelf in there next to the trash bags. I don't understand why she didn't make more of a fuss!



Later, driving in for bellydancing class...

The moon! I have never seen a moon like this before in my life! It was RED - more red than orange even, and not yellow or pinky like I've seen before, but the color of the sun on smokey days - brilliant, huge, full and RED. Incredible.

I tried to take a picture of it on my cellphone, but what a flop. It's a very bad picture of a blurry snowbank with something bright in the background... looks more like a streetlight than a moon.

I am doing better in class now. Last week - total flop. Fell apart when in front of people, couldn't keep the beat, total disaster-girl. This week - I feel tremendously triumphant! I was totally able to lead for several steps, kept the rhythm, transitioned between the steps without looking like an epileptic monkey, didn't die of mortal embarrassment or anything. YAY.

The next day, on the phone...

Bank of America Technical service: What browser are you in now?

Me: IE. I usually use Firefox. (I have tried my account in 'a different browser' at their request.)

BOA: You don't have Internet Explorer?

Me: ... IE is Internet Explorer. I? E?

BOA: Oh.

They were unable to solve my problem... Surprise!

Businessy bits!

I have improved the backend functions to the point where I *think* I can leave submissions open indefinitely. They are definitely staying open until the end of the month.

The group calendar, however, has not been a lucrative project the past two years. Right now, we're not quite breaking even on the project (let alone paying for my time and efforts in designing it and administrating the project), and that's just plain bad business. They are awesome, amazing, gorgeous calendars, but I can't run a charity.

If you want to save the calendar project, I need to make a dent in the calendars I've got in stock, so I'm issuing a challenge: if I sell 20 more calendars (any group project calendar!) before the end of the month, I'll do it again. If not, nope, the group calendar will be going away. If you have a blog, or DA gallery, please be sure to link to the calendars in question:

Fantasy Babies: http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/fantasyart/emggroup.php?id=31

Legends of the Sea: http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/fantasyart/emggroup.php?id=16

All future group calendars are at stake! And yes, calendars purchased as part of the bundles count towards that count. So do wholesale sales - and all included artists get wholesale pricing on their projects!

In news of the boring kind...

Today's coding triumph: Got the artboard voting for EMG-Zine fixed. FINALLY.