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I am alive.

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I know it's been a long time since I've posted any art, or written a journal entry here... I've been rather busy with my job (Maintenance of Traffic, where I set up and run lane closures with some flag persons - I leave the house at 5am and, for example, today didn't arrive home til 7:15pm)., and with a 'new to me' 88 BMW 735i (3.5L inline 6, computer controlled Automatic Transmission, and Limited Slip rear differential)... it runs and all, but it has some issues. The A/C control has a mind of it's own (had to remove the fuse), not one window will work (and can only find cause for one not to work - a 2x4 was wedged holding the window up, it wasn't connected to the lift arms, so fixed that, only to have both clips that hold the lift arms to the lower slide brackets break, seriously)... 

So, on other updates, I have a WinXP Pro (SP3), a Debian 6.04, and a Win7 computer all set up in my dining area. (will probably reload the Debian with Ubuntu later this week, in order to have Blender, GIMP, and Rosegarden, I have Blender on the Debian, but it's an older version, and I like the latest build versions of Blender, GIMP is the latest version, and Rosegarden will not work for some 'timing' issue error.... so yeah.

Anyway, typing this on the Win7, and about to head off to never never land...zzzzzz

I'll try to keep the journal here updated - 
I won't be trying to go through the 10k messages and art this week... but will try to look through by the end of the month.

Cheers.

Randy
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I know I haven't been on dA very much, I have over 10k deviations to look at, over 900 journals to read, yeah... it's gonna take a while, but .... I will go through them all.

Now the reason for my typing today is that I can view dA via my Asus Transformer TF101, as a full web page, not just the 'phone' type web page... which means that I can now keep up with all of my peoples again... yeah!....

I choose to get a keyboard/dock/extended battery for my tablet (and I should say, anyone with a tablet should get the keyboard dock for the 9 hours of extra battery time if nothing else) ... it is truly convenient for typing this,  it basically turns the 10.1" tablet into a mini laptop, with the full convenience of still having multi-touch screen ability.

I do miss having my real laptop (I still have it, and it still overheats after an hour being on... and that's with fresh paste on the CPU and GPU, cleaned and tested fans (2) and a 20mm undercooler fan... ) I have a desktop = but no 3d card in it... so yeah.

But at least I can type journals and respond to all of you now.

I am working again, I found work painting, ... not houses, or such, but in a paint booth, with mixing paints, and thinning paints, and the whole blower system, and facemask, painting industrial machine parts. I like it. And I'm pretty good at it, Getting paint smooth and glossy from from a non glossy paint is serious work. yeah.

So, yeah, I'll get to looking at all those images later tonight.

More soon....
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Yeah, I'm still alive.
No, I'm not currently working on a project.
No, my computer can't 'do 3D'.
so Yeah, I'm still alive.
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Randal W. Lovelace



:iconmarkopolio-stock: << Check out Mark's stuff :D

:icondeviantartfilm: oh a place for my animations :)

:icon3dmodeling: Joining a new club.

:icon3d-asuarus: IS BACK IN ACTION :thumb107022983:

Well, as with all good things, my premium membership is going to end - I have about two weeks left, then it's back to seeing all of the crazy ads...

:icondeviantlyenlightened: :iconbluesnowgiesha:
Visit :iconmarkopolio: - He's an excellent artist :D
:icon3d-asuarus:
Artist :iconsuloinenenkeli: :iconrobakowska: :iconcambion-art: :iconheidivylyn: :icongonzale: :iconcyanide227: and :icondancingperfect:

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Randal W. Lovelace



:iconmarkopolio-stock: << Check out Mark's stuff :D

:icondeviantartfilm: oh a place for my animations :)

:icon3dmodeling: Joining a new club.

:icon3d-asuarus: IS BACK IN ACTION :thumb107022983:

Well, my Part 2 for Blender 2.54 beta Tutorial series took more than I expected - I actually finished it late last night - but the wife was saying that 3am comes terribly early... so I had to wait till today to upload them.

In the tutorial I refer to MatLab - which seems to no longer be available on the Web... so I linked to most comprehensive materials library for Blender that I could find.

Linky - matrep.parastudios.de/index.ph…

In Part 3 of my Tutorial series I'll be covering how to bring in materials from other Blender .blend files. This next tutorial will be a bit more advanced and will include a lot of model work 'how-to'. It will step by step show how I create my Rims and Tires (which I've done many of) - it will also cover creating a building and display stand, as we will be putting the tire and rim on a display stand in the window of a tire shop.

Lots to do - this tutorial will take me several days to create - as it usually takes me a full afternoon just to create a rim, and other afternoon to create a tire with tread and white raised letters.

Well - off to get started...

Randy

Part 2a
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Part 2b
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Part 2c
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:icondeviantlyenlightened: :iconbluesnowgiesha:
Visit :iconmarkopolio: - He's an excellent artist :D
:icon3d-asuarus:
Artist :iconsuloinenenkeli: :iconrobakowska: :iconcambion-art: :iconheidivylyn: :icongonzale: :iconcyanide227: and :icondancingperfect:

Header Image created by ME - code for it's placement by Flickr
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CSS created by: :iconthiefoworld:

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