Busy busy busy

Wow, jammed packed weekend.
( Friday, Saturday, Sunday )

While waiting for the latest layer of paint to dry, I laid out my next painting. Here's a fairly rough version of the line work.

The final version of the line work is much nicer, complete with mask and her emerging from the trunk of the tree and the tree growing up over her arms and back. I don't know how I ever did any painting before photoshop. Now I can draw the roughs whatever size I'm comfortable with and then shrink or enlarge it to my actual canvas size. Its wonderful.

ya just can't win

So my work is somewhat notorious for not giving me much warning when I need to go on travel. The winner for the no-warning contest was less than 15 hours notice that I needed to be in Baltimor at 8 in the morning. Well, I've pointed out a few times that this is not an ideal business plan. I mean, what if I had plans or a life or something and couldn't go on short notice? The only reason they send me anywhere is because, um, I'm the only one with the particular skill set and they don't have anyone else. My managers seemed to have taken this to heart and gave me a full weeks notice that I was needed in DC this coming Wednesday. Now me, being me, said "cool, I can plan my week, kickass" and didn't give it another thought.

Today, one of my managers came in and talked about setting up a meeting on Wednesday. "Wait!" says I, "I'm on travel". Response, "You might not be, with the hurricane and all". Me, "There's a hurricane?" Indeed, there is a hurricane that might be making landfall in the middle of the week distubingly close to DC. So I'm on hold again. Maybe I go, maybe I don't. I hope someone is getting a kick out of this...