AslanCross

It's been over a year since my last journal entry---mostly because I've been in the worst creative slump I've ever been in. I guess it's really difficult to maintain art as merely a hobby. I'm way too busy (and not good enough) to make it a professional thing, so it's just something I do to get my brain continuously working. Right now I've been trying to do a decent drawing of Azarr Kul, the last boss of my current D&D Red Hand of Doom campaign. Unfortunately, this past year has almost completely sapped me. Ugh.

So the end of a rather interesting summer vacation is at hand once more. I was able to go out of the country and accomplish some art, so that makes it one of the better vacations. There are some reasons why this vacation was nasty, but eh, you don't want to hear that. My laptop is mostly fixed. It still BSODs, but I've been able to narrow down the culprits, and its overheating problem has been fixed. To those with laptops---VACUUM your air intakes and exhaust vents. Thank God for a dad who knows how to fix things the easy way. Anyway, I've been running a Dungeons & Dragons campaign over the summer. Needless to say it's been a lot more re

I've been having mysterious problems with my laptop for a while now. I've no idea why it does this, but no matter what I do it only seems to get worse. My problems are detailed here. http://aslancross.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/building-castle-walls/ So yeah, it crashed once (taskbar problem), and then after that it began to hang regularly. I just don't know what to do about it so that I can at least have a harmonious relationship with this machine before it bites the dust.