Monday, April 27, 2026

Diary 2021: The End of April


2021 Diary

4/28/2021: Up at 4 AM. Prayers and Bible. Took a shower that led to me cleaning the shower and around the toilet. Man, those Clorox wipes really do the trick! Had 4 eggrolls for breakfast, washed dishes. Meanwhile had METV shows on (Dragnet, My Three Sons, then cartoons); with the cartoons on I was relaxed enough to take a little nap. At 7:30 AM I took out the bathroom trash and the recycling. An overcast morning again.

Started rosary while waiting for bus with Kam. Andy left a little late today. Finished rosary by 8:30 AM.

 

4/29/2021: What a damp day! Up, prayers and Bible, and out with Kam at 8 AM, where, thank goodness, it wasn’t rainy, though rain was predicted on and off all day. At 9 AM went out and waited for my HEB order (it was all soda and a pain to lug in).

Played a bit of DQ8. At 1 PM waited for Kam to get back. E-mailed John, and he’d been having diarrhea and sore joints as well. At 2 PM or so Andy called and said not to cook supper, they had BBQ plates. And so it was at 6:15 PM. Puttered and tooted around all evening and then Rosary at 9 PM. Think I’ll play more DQ8 till sleepy.

 

4/30/2021: The last day of April, and a rain-filled soaker, especially when I had to go out. Ate too much today, which led to nausea when I tried to go to sleep at night. But I go too fast.

Prayers and Bible. Waited with Kam for bus. Had spaghetti and meat balls for breakfast. Fried Taters and fish for supper. Had a few sodas and played DQ8. Real soaking rain all night, and my knees were killing me, with pain zinging through my left foot. Ate a plate of meatballs with ranch dressing, even though I was already feeling queasy, then spent a few hours with a cook-pot next to me in case I barfed. Rosary. Spent much of the night twixt 2 and 5 AM playing DQ8 to distract me.


 

The Road to Roth

 


For decades the best picture we had of Roth was this one, drawn in the early Eighties. When AI for everyone came along, we saw new opportunities. It was hard to get across our ideas. Here are new animations of our efforts along the way. It's been a long strange trip.










The last picture features the best Roth yet with the rest of the crew of The Wizard, The Prince, The Warrior and His Son, including a cameo of yours truly. I need a better title, one that's at least inclusive of the girl, Ketta.

Sunday, April 26, 2026

I Go There Sometimes




M&Ns












I can hardly believe how sensible and compliant the AI was this morning (I use Grok for animations). That's not Merlin, that's Meteoras, and I must credit the AI for coming up the magically appearing text. The Musing Hobbit should in retrospect been on Tolkien Tuesday, but eh. We'll be seeing more of Nathaniel Horsehair, the villain from The Shadow Over Alben. The poor dragon has forgotten to pay his protection money, and must now undergo Negotiations.

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Back to the ABC's















I feel I may be pressing things by posting so many animations in one go. I went back to the beginning and made more ABC films. Angel of Death comes from a story I considered writing about the Angel of Death wanting to get into Heaven to ask God a question. Aurelian is from Star Trek: The Animated Series; the Avery Girls are from Tex Avery's famous cartoons about 'red-hot' ladies. Barek is from my own Ortha tales. The last animation, Capricorn, is actually the first one I made today. The story behind the fish-goat is that the god Pan got caught mid-transformation as he was escaping between land and sea.

Friday, April 24, 2026

More M's











Not a whole lot of action in these animations, but I was going for subtlety. Monstrous Foe was supposed to show an Ogre Mage; I now don't think such a thing is possible, thanks to developments in the Lore of Ortha.The last frame of Mr. James and the Demon looks to me like they're about to kiss, but maybe that's just my suspicious imagination.