Happy new year everyone! gleki ninyna'anunsla if you speak lojban :)

Somehow, from somewhere, I have this 7 year old.

The Little Big Boy turned 7 a couple of days ago.  He requested and got a chocolate cake which my mum made.  It was very tasty.  The "oldies" were commenting on how fast he turned 7.  I'm trying to work out how he survived that long ;)

Cub made a new friend (and had people teasing about his "girlfriend" and them going under the tree to look at the lights was "romantic").  Their conversations were supercute.  The little girl had a Tigger doll which she put in a plastic toy wheelbarrow and Cub pushed it around after her for most of the night.

Seeing as I've decided to use lojban as the IAL for AEfter Ragnarok (easy way to facilitate communication between people who don't speak the same language; all people are strongly encouraged to learn their own culture, language, traditions etc first and foremost), I figured maybe I should have a "culturally neutral" (or something to that effect) global calendar as well.

The calendar reform article on Wikipedia had a bunch of links to check out.

The most popular types of calendar reforms seem to have 13 months with 28 days with intercalary ("leap") days and/or weeks to adjust for the fact the planet takes a slightly incomvenient slightly less than 365.25 days to potter around the sun.  The extra month tends to get grafted between June and July and called Sol or Luna.  One calendar called it Aten.

A lot less common (I've only managed to find one easily, probably would find more if I looked harder) were calendars based off varying the number of days in a week, like 6 Day Week, which advocates dropping a day from the week (they proposed Tuesday and gave reasons why) to make a 4 day work week with the standard 2 day weekend, 12 five week months of 30 days each and an Intercalary Period of 5-6 days depending on whether or not it's a leap year.

So, looking for a calendar that's either reasonably culturally neutral or at least flexible with the naming conventions and isn't going to blow my head up with implementation.

Here was supposed to be yet another whingepost about how I'm doing everything wrong and there is now nothing that I "can" drop.  So I'm going to see if I can somehow write myself into doing "it" right.

The computer room is a f***ing mess

There is more crap than there should be on the desk.  Most of it is paper that needs to be filed or recycled, and I have just been too damn lazy to process them into the appropriate location.

It needs to be cleaned up, if just so I can find the stuff that usually lives on my desk (phone, wallet, Lightwave dongle) easier and the cables are slightly less likely to get tangled.

This time for the arm rigs.

The "blue" arm is using IK boost.  The "red" arm is in default T pose still but is using the original rig which was modified from the leg rig (which works really well so far).  The elbow directional on the arm just wasn't working.  I have ikstop on the collarbone and handles on the elbow and hand to make them that bit easier to see and grab.  Need to remove the elbowD bone from the right hand rig (it's the red bone pointing downward), reorganise the bone hierarchy and apply ikboost to that.  Then have to associate all the sliders with the hand bones seeing as I won't be needing the IK goal nulls anymore.

Cub loves being read to, and is constantly bringing books to us and demanding "Wead book!"

I can also say "duduk" to him and he will sit down.  All three kids understand "makan" and "bagus" (Tao used to pronounce it "ba-goo-doos" when he was Cub's age :) and that's as far as I've gotten with Malay; my vocabulary is shocking and grammar non-existant.

Many face tweaks.

The "entire area" vertex may pinch the mesh strangely with that many patches using it as a corner, but will have to see how I go with the face morphs.  Also I'm stupid and the "moved outward" applies to the vertex above the one highlighted, I am too lazy to change the diagram.

There are also two  points on the torso along the obliques and on the top part of the shoulder blade that need looking at on the Flier models, I fixed them at some point on Base.

After moving the corners of the mouth inward, the insides of the mouth will also have to be readjusted so they're not poking through.

Rapture and armageddon and all that are upon us, and as per usual Josh has taken the kids to Tao's Auskick game and I stayed home, trained the dogs (could have gone for another 5mins on top of what I did do but I got defeated by the cold) and ripped through an Anki session with a Lojban gismu deck.  We know we're not going anywhere.

With the few precious moments of time alone, I then plugged into Lightwave for more practise on avatars before tackling AEfter Ragnarok characters.

Starzone is the mouse.  Zara is the human.  Zara uses "Starzone" as a callsign.

The original Starzone was a Biker Mice from Mars fan character done in the usual style of fan characters, she was way overpowered and Mary Sue and may have had stupid random flaws attached to not make her seem as overpowered and Mary Sue as she was.  I redeveloped her a bit later and she turned out all right, though I never got around to publishing the fanfic with her and her coterie.  I only roleplay her these days.

Firstly, what in the hell is with the life category?!

I've been (very slowly!) importing livejournal entries so I can replace missing photos.  Very minor regret that I didn't bother skimming through my shadowshifter livejournal before I deleted it as I probably had a few progress reports for my various projects kicking around on it, but oh well.

Done while I was testing out my new toy.  This was actually done the first day I got said new toy (Wacom Cintiq 12WX which I will review later after I've used it a bit more), thought I better get over myself and just post, incomplete and dodgy looking notwithstanding :)

I'm too used to painting anthros, I gave him way too much fur.  These are the "undercoat" layers, I hid the top coats.  More therio, less anthro, so not so much fur! I think I need to start the fur over and work out how exactly I'm going to deal with it as he has a puffy tail.

This is a paintover of a friend as photographed by my husband after I told them to go make me some stock photos.  Gnarus' appearance is based on the friend in question, although Gnarus is a lot shorter :)