incredibly hot and sunny today like it's been since the beginning of the week. In fact the weather is far better than it was during july/august… maybe the earth has moved on its axis or something ?

in my quest to find a game i could play while the kid's around, i exhumed the old PS2 and shadow of the colossus (somehow i find it more acceptable to destroy gigantic stone-like monsters than shooting guns in GTA in front of a 4-year old …). a bit old but still good.
I've been watching to this new channel too called "nolife", and i enjoy most of it (it's a tiny independant channel, relying mainly on subscription, and dedicated to video-games, comics, mangas, japanese pop-culture…) most of the programs look very cheap, but they manage to do great shows…



if you had to pick a new job, what would you like to do ?

Maybe! Our summer seemed to shift to August/September rather than July/August. Today it is sunny and cool again, which is just fine with me.

Actually did some inking last night! Strangely what spurred me on to do it was discovering that the guy from the Nerdist podcast was on the WTF podcast. A meeting of the two podcasts I listen to! So I started inking to give myself a context to listen to that in.

I was listening to a nice Mary Margaret O'Hara song this morning and thought how strange it is that she only ever did one album, then maybe a soundtrack. Such strange nice music.

Just yesterday someone at my was asking wouldn't I want to have a design job, and my answer was no, not really. I enjoy doing little design-y jobs for people but as soon as they get too nitpicky about it I have no patience at all. So my current mishmash of a job (a bit of data entry, a bit of design and photoshoppery) is fine for me. Limited stress, close to home, decent hours.
If not comics full time, this will do.

I'd own a little cafe or something. I'd know all the regulars by name, have local artists on the walls, and just be low key and awesome.

I don't have kids and I'm drawn to games that you could play with kids around. Most of the time. Looking forward to the new Zelda.

Jet lag woke me up at 4am and wouldn't let me drift back to sleep. Plus I think I've contracted something from the recycled air in the airplane. A regiment of vitamins, Cold FX and garlic are on the menu.

Crisp and cool this morning, but I haven't dug out any scarves yet.

Really having trouble concentrating today.

sounds cool. I'd be afraid to own a bar though, and to have to deal with drunk angry guys…

i tend to be attracted to craftmanship, i think i'd like to build furniture or be a jeweller, or tailor even though i know nothing in any of those domain and have no particular interest for fashion…

I too am a fan of craftsmanship in pretty much all it's forms. If it's done really well, I'm impressed by it. Doesn't much matter what "IT" is.

I could think of a number of different subareas of "illustrator" and "artist" I'd be happy to do, but that seems a copout to the question. . . . . . hmmmm . .. .. Oooh, I'd want to be some kind of scientist or engineer. Probably more engineer-y, building new types of stuff. This plan, like "Doctor" would probably require a time machine so I could go back and get enough schooling.

Manien and I sometimes imagined opening a bar and calling it Drinking by Numbers, inspired by Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers. So it would be really densely decorated with interesting, beautiful things. And I guess you would order drinks by their number?

Though in reality it would be a lot more fun to design a bar/restaurant that you could go hang out in, than to actually run one.

v. true.

I actually would want to run a bar and try to make it a place for progressives and radicals to hang out. Obviously that would probably be easier in a big city.

I wanted to run a bar. For a long time I wanted to run a used book shop. Also, when I was finishing my phd I was seriously considering running off to become a bartender in Lisbon. If I could pick any job I would say Lonely Planet or Rough Guide guide book writer. If I had to go realistic I'd say IT specialist.