A while ago, my BossMan informed me that, as an employee of AwesomeCompany, I had an allotted number of vacation days that I was required to use… otherwise they go poof. Poof. They just go poof like that. Can you believe it? Apparently I must use said vacation days to prevent them from going “poof”, so I threw them at the calendar for the remaining year and let them stick wherever they wanted to stay.
Needless to say, I took a long weekend here and there. In fact, I’m taking a long weekend right now. I am continuing to take a long weekend. It’s kind of nice. I am currently chilling my shit at The Farm™, where my Mom built and art studio for the two of us in the basement. It’s got nearly everything for ceramics, painting, and metalsmithing, so I’d say it’s pretty useful. Occasionally I head out here to paint, and that’s just what I’m doing now. Well, not right now. If I were painting right now, this computer would be a mess and covered in paint. I painted earlier.
It turns out that MAB was also out here this weekend working on a new album. Yesss. New album!
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Did I forget to mention that The Farm™ is also the home of Big Walnut Studios? It’s pretty great. If you need to record something in Indiana, you should give them a call. Yes.
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Anyway…
I don’t know if I’ve blogged about it much, but I love coming out here. It’s the kind of place that’s so isolated that it takes half of an hour just to get to the nearest town to get groceries or gasoline or what have you. Imagine being thirty minutes away from the nearest McDonalds. In turn, you’d be thirty minutes away from insane traffic and obnoxious youths with loud speakers (or whatever it is obnoxious youths are carrying with them these days). It’s pretty great if you like to actually relax when you’re trying to relax.
This is just one of my many vacations I’m taking for the second half of two oh one ten. The next big run-away-from-work-and-still-get-paid time is in November. What is in November, you ask? Why, the Up! Fair.
The Husband™ and I will be going to Up! Fair with a few members of IWG. It should be pretty great. I’m working on some neat and extra special prints for Up! Fair, and I may even do an ashcan to hand out to really cool people. (If you’re not cool, you may not get an ashcan. Dude, you’d better be cool if you want an ashcan.) If for any reason you already are or will happen to be in Lexington, Kentucky, then you should stop by the Up! Fair and see what everything is about.
To sum it up: The Farm™ is awesome; come to the Up! Fair in November!
GenCon is probably the biggest convention in Indy… well, I really have no fact to back that up, but it is definitely the most visible. You can always tell when GenCon is in town. For years I’ve seen Storm Troopers moseying down the street to get a coffee or a sandwich or to just, you know, march around the place concerning everyone, and this year I finally decided to see what it was all about.
Squirrel Dan comes in to town to see it all go down, and I hadn’t seen him in a while, so I decided to acquire him as a guide to GenCon. Seasoned Pro and all that. We got a one day pass and I think it was pretty neat. Keep in mind that this is coming from a Very Boring Person™.
Aaaanyway, links to stuff as described in the GenCon Report:
The Tall Leprechaun was pretty creepy.
Geeky Clean is the best soap. Seriously. Go buy it now, bitches.
Jennie Breeden, previously met at Wizard World, continues to be the nicest lady ever.
Video Games Live is a great show, and I recommend it to everyone that has a chance to see it.
I have no link for Fat Magneto because we could not find him. I suppose you can Google him yourself if you’re really that curious.
