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Was helping out in the am with a few things today when I felt a bit more tired than I would have expected. Still shaking off a bit of a leftover sniffle, so attributed it to that.

Then, my chest started to squeeze. No real pain, just an ache in the middle that sat there. Sat and glowered. I found myself hyperventilating off and on, the asthma spray having no real effect in dislodging this unwelcome sensation. If anything it grew stronger, right along with the heavy beating of my heart as it started to practically shake me with each thud while revving at somewhere aroundabout a hundred a minute.

So yeah, after mentally trying to calm down for a while, I gave up and mentioned these symptoms to a registered nurse, who called the hospital while calling someone else to drive me there -at the same time-. Nifty trick.

Spent most of the day in the emergency room, wired up and shanked in the bloodstream, while explaining to the doctor that I really could breath just fine on my one if I just had a second to catch my breath.

Tests were run! Samples were... sampled. Consensus is not a heart attack, nor a micro-stroke, although there's the chance of something funky with a valve that has to be stress tested on me later on. So I got hit with a big dose of an anti-anxiety medication and watched carefully to see if the sensations settled. No dice. Second hit, a li'l. Third hit, pretty passive.

Who knew it was possible for me to be even more paper-mache than I already am?

tl;dr. Had to go in for possible heart attack which was downgraded to severe anxiety attack and possible minor heart funkiness to check out. Wooden personality now curiously mushlike on reduce stress drugs.

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/21923876/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/21923876/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:13:18 PST
Over six years of my life just wrapped up, tho'. It's a bit rattling.

Excuse me, I am off to do some drinking.

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/20756541/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/20756541/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:24:06 PDT
Just cuz, really.

Most likely forced inflation hijinks of a nonconsensual yet strangely cartoonish nature will be asked for. Perhaps involving silly outfits and or ludicrous physics, perhaps not. Possibly slightly jerkish, since I'm in a vague mood, but whatever.

I gots the money, if you have the inclination and time, say so. Heck, even if you just have someone you'd suggest I check with, say so.

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/19901468/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/19901468/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:43:17 PDT
For those of you who've never heard of it. [link]

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/19133092/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/19133092/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:12:06 PDT
Leave a comment, and I will...

a) Tell you why I friended you
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, et cetera
c) Tell you something I like about you
d) Tell you a memory I have of you
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you
f) In return, you must post this in your journal.

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/18656604/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/18656604/ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:22:22 PDT
Yet another airport delay. So I departed the San Francisco airport at o'dark thirty, got to watch the sun come up over the clouds, and landed in the middle of a rainstorm with roundabout 30 feet of visibility. Glad the pilot knew where the ground was, since I didn't.

Just can't sleep on planes. I can't even think on planes, to tell the truth. Think I'm going to see about getting a prescription for a valium if I fly again.

Anyways, it's 7:00 am , and I've not slept since 7 am yesterday. Gotta get back on a regular sleep schghgdfsdfnnnssssnnnzzz.

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]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/17508629/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/17508629/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:13:39 PDT
There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Been at work since 6 am, and now am home. Made scratch-built cherry cheesecake (one million calories per square inch!) and shall now munch on a slice of said cake, drink something unpronounceable, then go to sleep.

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/16237906/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/16237906/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:20:00 PST
Instead, I offer you the chance to crash zepplins into dev art.

[link]

Do eeet! Do eet now!

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/16092502/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/16092502/ Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:55:11 PST [link] ) that he finished up and put online here at DA. He has actually had it complete and online for a week or two, but I was too stupid to figure that out until now. No, he is not at all into this sorta thing, but is more than happy to tackle the subject if paid.

[link]

There had originally been a bit of a notion on my part to explain who these two are and what they're up to, but screw it. No one's actually read past the aforementioned link! Suffice it to say they're my characters. Enjoy.

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/14674701/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/14674701/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:24:54 PDT ost, here.

[link]

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/14407452/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/14407452/ Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:45:39 PDT
Also, I was originally intending to put up my various attempts at stories/the occasional art commission I've purchased.

Lazy takes care of the first part, and as to the second....

Wtf. Seriously, is it too much to ask that if you do commissions that you're at least vaguely professional about it once something is agreed on and paid for? Hell, I'd settle for reasonably polite or even slightly communicative. Not even, utter indifference and actually doing the job as ordered sometime within the next year'd be ok. But no, can't have that.

Apparently I have an inborn knack for spotting con-artists and liars, assuming they're upstanding folks, and then going on to be stupid enough to figure prior experience won't be repeated and pay them to doodle something for me.

Please note, this rant is only about paid for commissions that the artist is stalling out on actually doing. If it's a 'ay when complete' deal, take all the time in the world! It's an equitable transaction. If I've not paid, then I should not ever expect a time table. When I _have_ paid, perhaps it's time to step up to the plate, however?

Considering my abysmal luck with commissions, I've stopped purchasing them. Thus, this page will probably stay very low key insofar as actual postings go.

*Tarring with broad brush and will regret it later, but for now is too grumpy to care*

/rant brought to you by the committee for stupid people who are lousy judges of character and need to really stop posting about it/

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/14041356/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/14041356/ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:42:13 PDT
I also had to switch over to wireless, due to the positioning of the computers, along with dropping from cable to low end DSL. Things are a touch slower, now. We'll see how that works out, since I'm still figuring out how to tweak it all. *Crosses fingers*

]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/12317368/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/12317368/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:34:23 PDT
[link]

Don't forget to hit the previous page links at the bottom. They just keep going and going and going....

It's been an interesting birthday so far. The car's done its best to suck up all my spare money for the weekend so I won't be doing too much, and I have to work most of the day. But on the plus side I have a great de-railer conversation piece to throw irate customers off their stride! It should be fun.

Now I'm off to celebrate with some sleep on my 'one year closer to certain death' holiday.

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]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/8614362/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/8614362/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:05:35 PDT
So, yay me.

I can now be one of the harassed and harried middle managment types of the world!

Still no inflatable secretary, tho'.

...

Dangit.

Seriously, just had to note somewhere that I succeeded! ]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/8278402/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/8278402/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:46:43 PST
Another birthday came and went on Saturday, which made for an ok afternoon. Went and hung out at the parental unit's abode, then bummed about for a bit with several friends I'd not seen in a bit. Presents wise, you might ask? I got me a nifty card, as well as a set of flashlights. Now I can blind aaaaanyone! After that I went out and purchased all that's been released of the second edition of Exalted, since I'll most likely be demoing that come GenCon this year.

Aaaand the timebox was opened! For those of you (all two!) who are curious, this'd be the box o' letters to myself to be opened on birthdays divisible by 5. Said letters get sent whenever I feel like it, so they range from a decade or two ago to a mere year. It was... an interesting read, to say the least. I was slightly precocious in some areas at a younger age, and skull crushingly stupid in many others. Yeah, yeah; nothing's changed, I know.

Time passes. ]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/8258432/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/8258432/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:57:06 PST
I rather like March. It contains both my birthday (on the 25th, a mere few hours away) as well as three friends, which often results in a pleasurable low key party through all the weekends.

This year's gonna be a bit unusual for me. Since it's a birthday divisible by five, it's a timebox holiday! What's this, you may ask? In my folks basement there rests a box with my name on it. In said box are folders labeled 25, 30, 35, and so on. Ever since I was 12, whenever I feel like it I write a letter to one of those folders and either toss it in there m'self or mail it to my folks to do so. Then when the birthday of that corresponding age rolls around, I get to open all the missives to me and wallow in the past for a while.

...

Good heavens I'm old. ]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7976012/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7976012/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:26:45 PST
Bummer.

Guess it's just general access to online with a few moments now and then on a friend's machine. Ah well! If the one or two of you who I occasionally chat with wonder where I went, now you know! ]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7581430/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7581430/ Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:01:22 PST
Bwa-hah hah!

Suckers! ]]> ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7396592/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7396592/ Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:21:46 PST ~Seritaph http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7341160/ http://Seritaph.deviantart.com/journal/7341160/ Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:08:38 PST
Just figured I'd update some of my old writings (ooold, aaaancient!) and post 'em, since they suuuure could use the help. I'll admit to never having been a very good writer, but re-reading some of those makes my brain hurt. What was I thinking?!? ]]> ~Seritaph