Just wanted to show off my guitar, Ruecaer! He knows he’s inferior, but he takes it in strides. He’s currently not strung due to my persistence in re-conditioning his fretboard. Whoever the previous owner was did NOT take proper care of him. T_T For the longest time I though his fretboard was ebony and just not polished! GADS! =falls over= Yes, it was THAT black. Ah well. Repairs are long over-due! But I love him, regardless!
FINALLY! After moths of confusing antagonism, I have finally beaten Blogger into submission and can now post my entries! Oh joy of joys! Yay for me.
Well, I’m hoping to start posting once more as we’ve now gotten the internet at home… but it will be the usually fight for usage for awhile… T_T
Anyway, just a short message to get back into the groove and such! WHOO!
Luffles! ^_~ and a mwargh!
Copied from The Dispatch, a local newspaper
(My dad and sis witnessed the near-end of the chase)
December 20. 2005 12:00AM
Deputies hurt, cars damaged in chase
By ESE ISIORHO
The Dispatch
A Virginia man is in custody after a 25-to-30-mile car chase involving 15 Davidson County Sheriff’s Office vehicles, four N.C. Highway Patrol cars and several Lexington Police Department vehicles Monday afternoon.
Ruben Noel Torres, 36, of Welford Avenue in Richmond, Va., led officials on a chase that resulted in the injury of two sheriff’s deputies, the damage of six sheriff’s vehicles and the wreck of Torres’ stolen 2005 Dodge Stratus rental car, said Davidson County Sheriff David Grice.
During a struggle with Torres, Maj. Chris Coble sustained broken bones in his right hand and Detective Robert Miller suffered bruising to the bone of his right knee.
The chase, which reached speeds of 100 mph, began after a sheriff’s deputy attempted a traffic stop on Interstate 85 near mile marker 94 because Torres was following too closely, Grice said. When the officer approached the car, Torres sped off. After contacting the 911 communications center, the officer learned that Torres was considered armed and dangerous due to a prior assault on a law enforcement officer.
Torres left I-85 at the Highway 8 exit and drove through Lexington at excessive speeds prompting the Lexington Police Department to get involved, Chief John Lollis said. Officers attempted to halt the fleeing vehicle with “stop sticks” but were unsuccessful.
The Virginia man drove across a walking track and an embankment during the chase and continued on side streets toward South Main Street, Grice said.
During the pursuit, two sheriff’s vehicles collided at the intersection of Second Avenue and Main Street. The officers pulled the fender off one of the cars, placed it in the back seat and continued the chase, Grice said.
Torres eventually left the city and headed west on Old Highway 64 in the vicinity of Forest Hill Memorial Park.
The Virginia man made it to Old Highway 29 near Belmont Road Extension, where the road was blocked due to construction, officers said. He crashed his vehicle and officers were able to arrest him.
Torres, who admitted to smoking crack while attempting to elude officers, Grice said, had just been released from Deep Meadows Prison in Virginia after serving a 30-month sentence for attempting to elude officers in a stolen vehicle.
“He was obviously pretty high on the cocaine,” the sheriff said after the arrest.
Torres is wanted for probation violation by the N.C. Department of Correction and for larceny of a motor vehicle in Winston-Salem and is a fugitive from Virginia for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
He was charged with 13 counts, including possession of a stolen vehicle, assault with a deadly weapon and speeding to elude arrest with a motor vehicle. Additional assault with a deadly weapon charges, for striking officers’ cars, are pending.
Torres is being held on a $100,000 secured bond in the Davidson County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 31.
Ese Isiorho can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 228, or at ese.isiorho@the-dispatch.com.
Lately, I’ve been having great fun with the FireFox portable web browser and accompanying suite. Not much to do, but otherwise hanging in there! ^_~
Yay! I have a-published! ^_^ I need to write more, ne ne? I miss writing in my journal… twas a hard pass year it twas. Ahwell, anyway, sitting on the floor currently with a dinosaur of a laptop writing in my journal. The ethernet cord won’t reach to the couch and I dun feel like sitting at the desk, I’m silly.
I plan on making a separate blog for my fictions. I work on things so randomly and then if I post them here I have to delve through hours of posts before finding it… ^^; Therefore, setting up a fic blog.
Blogger’s done a bunch of new changes. I don’t think I like the users panel much, cause I like to go straight to posting and I haven’t figured out yet if there’s an option to put it back on the main page for editing…. But everything else is pretty nice. I LOVE the fact they finally got around to having a “comments” option. I need to figure it out and add it to this blog, whoo!
Last night I wrote for a good near two hours. Felt good. I’ve been needing to get around to that. Devart’s made me a bit lazy cause it makes thumbnails and sets up the page for me, lol, and I’ve been neglecting my artsite, especially with all the new lovely arts needing to go up.
But a story I started yeeears ago and only wrote about a page back in August I’ve decided to write more on. Since I only have word pad on this laptop I don’t know how many pages it is, but it’s not too shabby. An entire chapter! *_* I even ended it as such, YAY! If it actually amounts to anything, and I finish it, and it’s GOOD… I might even publish it.. who knows? =whistles=
I’ll set up my fic blog and post a portion of the first chap. The beginning of the first chap is on the other computer. Ahwell. Anyway, I’m happy for it.
Also, I’ve been working more at Aku-Tenshi… look for new manga releases that I have edited, YAY! *_* Shinshi Doumei Cross and working on Kannade currently. And anything else they have me do.
And that’s about it for now… I need to make a post later, anyway, when I set up my fic blog. It’ll be mostly dry looking until I can get around to prettying eht! ^_~
saaaaaaaaaa!
I figured I should post the link to my Japanese re-armament issues thread on Gaia and show off my edited avatar here as well. ^_^
Go here to read the thread: http://rufus.go-gaia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=306633&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
and also… because it’s too kawaii NOT to show… I must show my edited avatar. I dressed her up to look like Symmea, hehe! ^_^
Let me know what you all think! ^_~ (I need to make it transparent, oi ^^;)
I have lost what I was typing TWICE now! T_______T I hate loosing long paragraphs… T_T
Anyway, I’m not freaking typing it all again, instead, just enjoy the pretty art T_T One of which is a pic done for my lovely Trin. One of which is what I am sending the goddess Jen. All of which (‘cept for one) was done over the summer. All of which is NOT all I have that needs to be scanned in. Enjoy ^_~
This is a rough sketch that I wanted to do of Hisoka from Yami no Matsuei… although… he turned out looking a bit old… however, he still favors Hisoka, and as that was who I was originally attempting to sketch, I’ve stuck with him just being Hisoka rather than a random sketching, heh ^^; But still, he looks quite adorable, ne? *_*
This is a Caimyr, a variation on a draconic creature. Essentially, it is a creature I created in my Symmea of Kyorh story. I sketched this over the summer and it turned out horridly better than I had ever dreamed. This scan is actually a really bad scan. Especially when I re-sized the picture… ^^;; There are some finite detail in the sketching that just won’t show up in the scan. But for all that, it’s still a pretty wicked looking piece! ^_~
Ah yes, the elusive Harry. This is a pic I’ve been promising to show folks the moment I got to a scanner…. instead, I scanned in Indrud first. Ah! The horror! =blushes= Ah well, finally, unveiled, is my beautiful male concubine, Harry! *_* Isn’t he absolutely gorgeous?!?!?! I originally couldn’t bring myself to draw him, being as how gorgeous he is and all… but then, one day, the lines flew out of me and into the most wonderful of creations. This is merely a sketch, but soft and beautiful in its simplicity. He is meant to be in peaceful slumber giving you a soft feeling when gazing upon him… =dreamy eyes= Did I accomplish this? I hope so! Even if none of you like him, he holds special places in my heart! =sigh= Soooo loverly! *_*
This is my horrid attempt at coloring such a gorgeous picture. Now, before any of you jump down my throat about calling such utter wonderful colors horrid, let me explain. First… Harry’s hair is not supposed to be pink… >_< It's supposed to be silvery-white. The marker I had at the time dried in the worse possible way. =sigh= Then there's the face. My dears, he looks anguished. Now the pic is nice even for that, but I am disappointed in because it just doesn't have the same appeal as the sketch. I REALLY screwed up the inking around the face, getting the light and dark lines backwards. bleh. But then.... the colors on the outfit and the utter brilliance of the jewels on his belt more than make up for it and allow this rendition to be utterly stunning, putting aside personal preferences.
And this pic, my dears, is for none other than the absolutely WONDERFUL goddess, Jen! *_* It is but a scan and when I have the monies I shalt send him you’re way! mew! =molests=
And finally, but HARDLY the least, yet once more a scan in promise of the actual picture! My dear Trinity, HERE is your small, but adorably cute, Shuuichi piccy I promised! Again, the colors are more brilliant in person, but for now the scan will do. ^_~ I’ll get it to you as soon as I can, my dear! =huggles=
Ah yesh… and now, back to the drawing board… litterally… for requests for my loverlies Xandra, Di, Deathy, Rae, Amy, Nezumi, and by god, I’m sure there are more! ^^;;;
Dude… a FF VII movie would sooo totally rock!!! FWEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Okies, the over-put-off posting of new art… and I should NOT still be here… T_T;
Fanart:
Well, I couldn’t resist doing an adorable Chibi Subby piccy! ^_^ I was thinking on his love for animals and I though, why not have him hold something cute? A puppy is a little redundant, so why not a birdy? Therefore, here is the drawing. It was original very messed up, and then I realized his waist was WAAAY too low. Once fixed, it turned out great! ^_^
I love and adore Tsuzuki, especially puppy Tsuzuki. (I identify so well it’s scary…) Anywho, this drawing came shortly after my first Chibi Subaru. Originally, this was not to be colored, but finding myself deterring from work, I messed around coloring it. It turned out so well, I almost squeeled with delight. This would not have been a good thing with so many people around… ^^;; I love the way it turned out. I only wish now that I had colored the larger scanned pic for better print quality.
This seems to be a fave. I finished coloring this last night. I am MORE than happy with the outcome of this pic. I sit back and go MY GOD! Although, I must say, the perfectionist in me still sees a few minute details I would have liked to change, but I refuse to touch the pic. This was a gift to Jensie, who absolutely adored it! It’s always good to know the art has been enjoyed. ^_^ (And everyone else who has glomped this pic! LOL!)
Original Art:
This was a random sketch turned drawing. I have no intentions of coloring this pic. In truth, there are many things that need not be colored. This is one of them. I love the gentle subtleness of the pencil itself, and though most would ink their pics, I remain stedfast in not touching certain ones. However… to me, I can’t help but not think the boy only has one leg… or two melded to one… I’ll try to think of it as a skirt… ^_~;
Sketches:
MORE Tsuzuki puppy love! This time he’s eating an odango! ^_^ I am working on a colored version of this, but had to share the sketch. He’s adorable, getting ready to woof down a nice odango. Who wouldn’t love him? Give him love! ^_^
CG Art:
Finally, I just finished this tonight. Currently, the banner at the bottom is off-centered, but I’m too tired to fix it and upload it tonight, so that will be done tomorrow. I chose a hair color not often used, and since the mouse I was using likes to squiggle lines, it has given this cg an almost oekaki feel to it. I also went ahead and allowed the hair to be “crimped” in effect simply cause I wanted to kill the mouse and since the mouse was already squiggly… presto! No trouble hair! lol ^^; It’s cute, as far as instant, fast, rushed bishounen go. I didn’t hassle too much over this, nor spent much time. So feel free to bash if you will.
And that’s it for my updates tonight. WAAAAAAAYYY past time I’d planned to go home. it’s almost 1am and I haven’t studied for my test. Almost like it matters, baka test… doesn’t matter how much I study for them… =sighs= baka tests…. T_T
And as soon as I finish this week’s edition of the Critograph, I’ll put up the update. I made a special layout for the special edition section and I think it’s spiffy, at least! ^_~
Now sleepies musts I goes…. And add a cute Kerroppi to my list of to-does. ^_~ (Not a difficult one at all! LOL!)
OYASUMI ~ MINNA – SAN!
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Trying out the extension Deepest Sender for FireFox… la la la