Wow it's been ages since I've done anything here. That's kinda pathetic.

I'll keep this quick:-
I've been focusing on other things this year mainly my running.
Tomorrow I'll start going through the hundreds of deviations and journals etc.
I'm going to bed now.

Cheers
Enigma

To do list
Same as before.

Friday
Left work. Stayed in hostel. Friday night was fantastic. Pub was the Rose at Erko. Food was good. Furs were better. Bit hot. Angry Barman. Chatting and catching up. Had a few. Then a few more. Flay clearing tables, should have been paid. Aimz had quite a few (Do the robot!). Unbeaten at pool. Tasty cocktails (apparently). Didn't sleep

Saturday
Stayed in bed instead of a run, bad boy. Yuppie breakfast noms. Walked from Bondi. Met at Centennial park. Teh Husky an' Co were missing. RobW an' Co head off to find them. Teh Husky shows up. So does everyone else eventually. BBQ foods which were very good. Lots of chatting. DDD and others with soccerball. DDD and others without soccerball. Tree with soccerball. Moski with waterbottle vs tree with soccerball. Tree with waterbottle and soccerball. Artjam, Weasley vs Ara in epic art battle. Furry Chef battle. Fursuits, mysterious fox in orange shirt. Hot day but good shade. Bus. Hostel. Japanese restaurant. Best Japanese food in years. Walk. Koneko carrying many bags of snacks and a chocolate cake. George street movies. Wall-e. Best Pixar film since Incredibles. I WANT ONE. Walk. Bed. Sleep

Sunday
Check out of hostel and take stuff back to car. Darling Harbour. Lazer skirmish. Ray makes an appearance. Free for all. I still suck. Teams. Cats vs Dogs n Foxes vs Other vs random little kids. I'm on Other. Other's camping strategy foiled by Aussie's Jack-in-the-box attack. Repeatedly XP. Circular Quay. Koneko still carrying cake. Cake is blamed for morning no show. Cake has evil powers. Furs on a Ferry, where's Samuel L Jackson. Manly. Good fish n chips. Aldi fire but no-one evacuating. Manly Ocean world. Many fish. Cats like fish. Extreme Shark Diving......TO THE MAX!!!!! Touch pool. Proposed do not touch pool. Cake is FINALLY put to death via Robbie and Moreth. Ferry drawings. New dinner plans, Watsons Bay trip canned. White bread guilt. Femoral arteries and instant death. Drive home with Flay, Ray n 'neko. Close call with cop car. Get lost in Parramatta. Get reeeaaaaally lost towards Windsor. Instant U-turn freaks little kitty . Home late. Bed. No sleep again, too wired. Epic weekend

Monday
Work. Call in a sickie. Sleep

In exactly two years time, I am going to run the Sydney Marathon.
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and I'm serious.
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That is all.....See some of ya'll next weekend ^^

I scored a day off!!! Yay. Take that Bitterman!


Sunday was the 2008 City2Surf so I'm feeling a bit stiff and sore right now but god it's good fun. This year there was 70,000 people which made it a record. I managed to drag one of my (much much fitter) mates along this year too. To get into the city on time it meant an early start and waiting on the station when it's 2 degrees (no joke) in shorts, kinda get you motivated to get moving asap. This year I took some photos of crowd at the start line but I cant get them off the phone Anyways the race went really well, we went hard the first 4km's, eased it back in the middle and then caned the last 4km's. RT and I had a gentleman's agreement that we'd stick together until the 13km mark but in the last kilometre, it was on. LOL I tried, but he just disappeared off into the distance.

Last year I did it in 147mins.
This year I wanted to beat 120mins.
Unofficial time this year...111mins. Booyah 36mins quicker!! I'm pretty stoked about that. No injuries either.
Next year the goal is 90mins.

cheers
Enigma


Art to-do

Tassy's Halloween comp - 60% Inked. Due 15/11/07....Brickwall
Armish Zeke B'day pres - 75% Inked. Due 15/3/08...Brickwall
FAP ' Polecat' - Done
FAP 'Koneko' - 50% Sketched. Abandoned. Newstarted. 20% Inked. Abandoned. Newstarted. 10% Sketched
FAP 'Fima' - 30% Thought about. Need ideas!
FAP '?' - 5% Sketched
Fap '?' - 1% Sketched
Crystal ref sheet - 80% Inked....Brickwall
Crystal clothes ref sheet - 10% Sketched
Enigma conbadge - 1% Sketched, Due before FurJAM
Enigma dA id

One night recently, I woke up in the middle of the night, and couldn't get back to sleep. A great idea crept into my head, and it wouldn't immediately leave. The more I thought about it, the better it sounded. Namely that it was about time that I had a FAP. I've been in the fandom for 6 years now and have never had a FAP, so I grabbed all the required materials, and 20 minutes later I was quite satisfied with myself. It was a good session, and afterward I slept quite soundly.

So peeps I give you.....

ENIGMA'S EPIC FAN ARTZ PROJECT

Like I said, I've been in the fandom for 6ish years and have met an absolutely great group of peoples. There's also another group of people who I haven't met, but have influenced me through their art, comments, general existence etc. There's people who need to be thanked for the enjoyment they've added to my life for organising events, having a chat, making me laugh, making me cringe , everything. Furs who sacrifice a small portion of their enjoyment to the benefit of the community. I get annoyed because I can't put my thoughts into words here, I've been trying to say this for awhile. The furs who organise meets, run forums, host websites, draw artz, transport peeps, help out at events, or generally put something back instead of just constantly taking, earn major respect from me. So I've made a list and am drawing fan arts to show my appreciation to these people who, in varying ways, have made the fandom a better place.

Currently there are 52 names on the list, which will be done in randomerical order, with the peeps I've promised stuff for, up first ^^

Heya peeps, s'ose I'm due for an update.

All the planets have aligned in the correct way such that simultaneously I am on the internetz, I feel like typing and I have something to say. Rare!

A very strange thing happened to me two weeks ago. I got home from work, sat down, and went 'Jesus fecking christ I need to draw'. But unlike other times, it hasn't left just as fast. After a three year absence THE MOJO"S BACK BABY YEAH! With the return of the urge, so has inspiration. Ideas have been pouring out of me faster than I can get them down on paper. For two weeks I've been sketching like back in '04, nothing good but plenty of it. Some of it will be polished up with a bit of luck. So year, artist block can go bite my arse!

Second major news, I've finally got my new car. It took 6 months but it's soooooo worth it, carpet is a luxury worth waiting for ^^. Stage 6 of my plans for world domination are complete, now onto stage 7 muahaha!

Stage 7 involves me getting back to my old fitness level. Hows it going!? Average. Recently I've done the Mothersday Classic (8km), Blacktown Fun Run (10km) and the MS Run (8km) all in reasonable time. In a couple of weeks is the Sutherland-to-surf (11km) and the city2surf (14km) which I should be training for. Unfortunately I haven't been properly. So it averages out.

Does anyone else have problems with FA? When it's actually up I mean. For some reason I can only see FA for about 5 mins before I get a time out error. Which will only clear if I re-boot my router. Which then lets it work for another 5 mins. I've never had this problem with any other website, just FA. The forum site works just fine, which means the only time I can get to the FA home page, is when it's down and redirecting to the forum. I can't see it when its up and I can't see it when its down. Starting to get annoying.

So what's everyone's opinion on V6? When I logged on this morning I was like "WTF have you done AGAIN!!! I'VE JUST GOTTEN USED TO V5" but it's grown on me. I didn't like the new frontpage (showing all the recent subs) mainly because I liked the old channels system, but I've found that again so its all good. Otherwise, I think it looks good, tho how good it works is yet to be seen.

I can't believe you people have read this far! Why, for god sake! Surely its TL;DR! Anyways at work the other day I'm standing in the middle of the production floor, doing something, when suddenly the gentle strains of 'Caramelldansen' come blaring out at full volume from the other side of the room. Here is my thought process.

"Is that Caramelldansen!?"
"It IS Caramelldansen, that is soo cool"
"Who has that for a ringtone?!"
"Wait, who would even know about Caramelldansen!?"
"Other than me!"
"Why has everyone stopped and are looking at me"
"OH SHI.......!!!!!!"

Alas my train of thought has no caboose so it took some time to realise that said music was coming from my office. A few days beforehand I'd had dinner with Phe, and she thought it would be cute to personalise my ring tones. Major respect lost at work, I won't be living that down for a little while yet.

Much lurve to ya'll

Enigma


Art counter:- running

Tassy's Halloween comp - 60% Inked. Due 15/11/07....Brickwall
Armish Zeke B'day pres - 75% Inked. Due 15/3/08...Brickwall
FAP '???????' - 95% inked
FAP 'Koneko' - 50% Sketched. Abandoned. Newstarted. 50% Sketched
FAP 'Fima' - 25% thought about
Crystal ref sheet - 80% Inked.
Crystal clothes ref sheet - 10% Sketched
Enigma conbadge - 0% thought about, better hurry up, MIDfur's only 8 months away lol. Forget MIDfur, FurJAM's even closer!! Craaaaaap!
Enigma dA id



*BeerGoggles http://BeerGoggles.deviantart.com/journal/18012218/ http://BeerGoggles.deviantart.com/journal/18012218/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:26:54 PDT


G'day guys and gals (wait....theres no wimmins on the internet)

Thought it was about time I updated this thing, it's been a couple of months. Sorry to ya'll for the complete lack of replies, comments and activity, the interwebs has been a bit too much for me to handle of late.

I haven’t been real good the last few months and I can't work out why. Most days I have no energy or motivation to do anything, chronic apathy. By the time I get home, I crash out on the lounge and watch a movie. These are mixed up with the occasional day of manic activity, where I'm practically bouncing off the walls. One good thing is that I've been sleeping normally now.

But today's one of the good days so I'm going to be making hay whilst the sun shines, so to speak.

In the last two weeks work has improved from 'hate' to 'dislike'. Sitting in my top draw is my letter of resignation and an application for a Canadian working visa. Unfortunately I lack the sufficient balls to hand them both in. My best mate has said iron balls, and is over there right now, touring around and living out of the back of a Dodge getaway van. We’ll see how my plans go in November before I make up my mind. I’ve been watching too much of Ewan McGreggor’s ‘Long Way Round’ and ‘Long Way Down’ and badly want to do something similar. I’ve been toying with the idea of hitch-hiking my way down to Midfur later this year, just to make it an interesting trip.

Training has been sporadic at best, with the weather being a convenient excuse. I’ve been maintaining but not doing enough sessions. The first event (8km) is in a couple of weeks (eep) so I’d better get back into it eh. I don’t think I’ll be doing the half marathon in October lol.

Art has been sporadic at best, with the weather being a convenient excuse. I’ve been prodding a few things along here and there, but not as much as I wanted. I’m going to have a solid crack at it this weekend.

My car has been delayed . Like I said before, it’s like waiting for Christmas. Except you’ve got no idea when Christmas will be, until you catch Santa in your house screaming “Fscking RAAAHHHH!!”

Anyways…cheers

Enigma


Art counter:- Sneaky reset >.>


Tassy's Halloween comp - 60% Inked. Due 15/11/07....Brickwall
Spread dA love - Kraden - 50 % Coloured. Due 12/12/07
Armish Zeke B'day pres - 75% Inked. Due 15/3/08...Brickwall
Art trade - Koneko - 10% Sketched
Crystal ref sheet - 70% Inked.
Crystal clothes ref sheet - 10% Sketched
Enigma conbadge - 0% thought about, better hurry up, Midfur's only 8 months away lol
Enigma dA id




]]> *BeerGoggles http://BeerGoggles.deviantart.com/journal/17389579/ http://BeerGoggles.deviantart.com/journal/17389579/ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:31:12 PDT