I got stuck in "after I finish this bit" loop again when I thought about taking screenshots.

It's been mostly overcast with bouts of rain so the last week has been kind of slack and kind of relaxed.  We've been three times to two different beaches (though I didn't take photos of the second beach partially because it was late when we went and I wasn't sure how good the photos would turn out in that light, and mostly because I was going to be swimming as well, could have given it to my dad though), one loopy nature trail (which was slightly longer than I thought but a decent walk nonetheless, and we didn't go to the lookout because it was probably too long a hike for the kids) and a few epic Minecraft sessions.  I haven't got as much art done as I was hoping but bits and pieces are getting done.  The kids have been watching a LOT of Pokemon, a couple of other movies and reading books borrowed from the library (independently during the day in the case of the bigs; they each have a book on dinosaurs and Tao has one on space and Ru has a cookbook in addition to bo

It was slightly overcast and we almost didn't go thanks to a (relatively) minor allergic reaction I had to lunch, but we got there and it was good.

Epic shot! Or at least one that I was really glad turned out good

Threw this one in just because it's cute

This is what my weather widget claimed the temperature was when I woke up my computer (and after all the bits and bobs had caught up) at 7:30something in the morning.

Get stuffed this is Perth >_<

Erm...note: these are actually notes for me so I only have to do other similar systems once (hopefully), not a bek's guide.  If they come in useful for someone else to follow great, no guarantees blah blah blah.

System:

Horize Clevo W110ER from Logical Blue One (on sale at time of writing) AU$919 with 3 year warranty

Specs

Right up at the beginning of the week we spent half a day out.  Morning was pretty cruisy, and then fell over a bit as we ran late to get to Nanna's and then slightly later again as the road I usually take was unexpectedly closed and I don't know my way around the area well enough to reliably navigate around the roadblock (pulled in at a medical centre and utilised the trusty GPS).  While I was in the meeting (which ran unexpectedly long) the kids played down by the river and made some new friends, Ru with a pair of sisters aged 6.5yo and 4.5yo and Tao with a gaggle of boys who were a few years older but they all played Minecraft so everything was cool (he apparently invited them over for a Minecraft party, I told him their parents would probably not want to drive out so far).  Back at the grandparents' they didn't want to leave immediately so we waited out rush hour and Pop let them play with his walkie talkies for a bit.

Had to temporarily drop theAbysmal dates as I got completely and utterly lost.  Stupid Gregorian calendar and it's shifting days ;) I'll try to pick it up again next week.

And just as you're enjoying the nice blissful month of no weekly posts from bek, we're starting again! Anyway we're about midyear so this is part catch-up and part vague plan for the rest of the year.

We had one week of staggered flu (nothing too serious, just lots of sleeping, lethargy and general blarginess) followed by a week of gastro (again not too serious in the grand scheme, the kids were a bit lethargic but not listless, the biggest issue was the washing machine choosing to break down immediately before the gastro hit and it was out of action for a couple of weeks), followed by a short week (thanks to a public holiday) of me taking it easy because I was exhausted from the previous two, followed by a week of Josh catching a really bad flu and then a week of me catching a much milder version of that flu which technically only lasted a day, I just chose to take the rest of the week easy.  We did have a few bouts of okay or mostly okay in that period fortunately.

[first scene - spy movie sendup]

8yo: how do they get all that stuff on the car? It's not big enough.

[at some point during sweeping cinematographic scenes]

8yo: how do cars grow? How do cars make stuff anyway?

Husband: ...you're thinking too much into a movie that has talking cars.

So I'm hideously slow on WiP shots.  Part of it is because I'm feeling a distinct pointlessness in them (there are many characters and whatnot to come) and most of it is simply because I keep putting off taking the screenshot when I think about it, and then eventually forget.

Every now and again though I need to remind myself I'm making progress.  Here I've hidden the wing membranes so I can see what I'm doing, and left a point highlighted so that the close up pane makes some semblance of sense.  Done some work on the arms but not a lot, none on the legs, focusing on the torso and pretty much making up the anatomy where the wings are attached as I go.

I should also resize these things properly and not let the blog do it as it doesn't do it very well.