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Something simple, messing around with Manga Studio and bouncing (yet another) script around in my head trying to work it all out.

They are below the cut

( Sir, I bet your pa was mighty proud of you. )

I am now in that period of being ill that all the days are merging into one. I sleep and awake at no particular time, in no particular pattern. Time passes in fits and starts without any sense of weight. Moving forwards as if drifting, falling in slow motion.

Amongst other things it makes driving slightly unnerving.

Work is going well, apparently they don't want to get rid of me yet. (Just wait, I'll be fired tomorrow).

Exhausted though. MCM on Friday. So much to do. Argh.

This has been your bi-annual Lem Update.

"The government hopes that the private sector will keep its promise to take up the slack in the labour market caused by the large shedding of public sector jobs ( Read more... )

A commission for someone's birthday.


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I want to post this here really without much in the way of comment, because I think it's adequate, damning commentary on it's own.

Budget 'hits poorest the hardest says IFS' BBC Online
A spokesman for the Treasury said: "The government does not accept the IFS analysis ( Read more... )

Received phonecall ( Read more... )

I recently invested in some pressure-casting equipment (also known as a 2ltr pressure paint pot, some brass fittings and a compressor)... and the results for the Pondering Pink figurines has been quite astonishing ( Read more... )

If this turns out to be true (and it might not) then I have but one thing to say.

Double dip recession fears as service sector growth stalls via Guardian.co.uk

Choice Quote
The companies surveyed - which account for about 40% of the economy - were only slightly more optimistic than in June, when Osborne's austerity budget hammered their hopes of ( Read more... )