Arrant Nonsense

Finished the icons for whedon100 today. This finally frees me up to work on fic without iconage eating my brain...and maybe I'll actually finish the ficathon entries I'm supposed to do. Heh.

But first, a couple of little news items.

We were out walking the other day, and Da Boy noticed an itty bitty little garter snake in the street next to the curb. It was SOOOOO cute! It was too small to get up onto the sidewalk, and it was a tad upset by this; we were trying to help it, and it kept striking at us. Ineffectively. Did I mention the cwoot? Oh, my heck, it was adorable. Anyway, it calmed down enough for me to pick it up, and I carried it down to the canal and turned it loose. So.Damn.Cute. Really.

This morning, I went to get Da Boy's milk for his cereal...and the light was out in my fridge. Hm, thinks I...wonder if the fridge isn't working, or if it's just the bulb? A couple of hours later, the temp has gone down in the fridge, so I sigh and decide to call the repairman with my new handy-dandy cordless phone. Annnnd...it's out too. TV's been working all day, as has the computer. Hm, thinks I, wonder if it's a breaker? So I toddled out to the breaker box, and apparently someone in the neighborhood thought it would be funny to turn half the breakers in my box to "Off." They hadn't been popped, because they would have been halfway, not Off. And all the breakers below one point had been turned off. Very funny. Nearly cost me a Sunday afternoon service call, and I'm real glad I decided to sit down and use the phone next to my chair rather than the phone on the wall--otherwise I wouldn't have caught it. Grrr. Nothing else appears to have been tampered with.

And now...on with the iconage. First, I'd like to point everyone at my new default icon, which I'm pretty pleased with. This little snippet of video is the first time I've tried to animate something to make it look like a movie, and I think it came out pretty well. And the red made it come out even freakier. LOL

Teasers:

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
( clicky for more! )

Dude, I'm totally overextended on ficathons. I've got four fics to write and am inspired not at all. Le sigh. I think the Muse might have decided to stay in San Diego. However, I did manage to get them each their own Wordperfect doc, so progress of a kind has been made. And I noticed, in doing that, that there's a taskbar at the bottom of WP that lets me click easily between docs, which made me unreasonably happy. It's the little things in life, I guess.

I've got nine more icons to do for whedon100 for the "Out of Gas" ep. I have to keep reminding myself that, No, they don't all have to have text. Textless is fine, textless is good. Especially since I'm kind of running on fumes right now and pulling stuff out of the shooting script. Not the dialogue from the shooting script, you understand. The stage directions from the shooting script. Yeah.

Anywho, I'm going to post them in two batches of twenty-five. And the first batch will be here, in this post. Dialup users beware--but I'll stick them under a cut so's not to screw up others' flists.

Teasers:
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
( icons ahoy! )

Whoo, that's a lotta icons...