joe randel's art dump

I’m a bad tipper.  I always let my wife decide how much to leave when it’s time to tip.  I’ll leave nothing and not feel bad about that.  It’s not because I thought my server was bad, I just don’t feel like I need to leave a tip.  I know that servers make less then minimum wage and that they live off of tips, I understand all of that.  And I know that if I was in that situation I would want people to leave me tips for a job well done.  But even after all of that… I still don’t like the “you have to leave a tip” attitude that people give me.  No, I don’t…  Does that make me a jerk?  I am getting better with tipping.  I don’t always tip as much as I should, which is why I let my wife take care of that.  I have no problems with the tips she leaves, I just couldn’t do it myself.

Are you a good tipper?

So this day marks the 3DS’s first birthday.  It’s been a rough year for the portable what with slow to start sales, the e-store late to the party and a not so great game line up fr most of the year.  So how do I feel about my own 3DS?  Well, I still only own one game for it, Super Street Fighter 4, but I’ve been super happy with my purchase.  I bought it when it was crazy expensive which kind of sucks, but I really love having the 20 free games Nintendo offered after the price drop.  I play the NES games when I can only get a few moments of game time and the GBA titles in between DS games.  I say in between DS games because I use my 3DS to play those titles mostly.  Although I have downloaded a few games like Cave Story and Shantae: Risky’s Revenge plus any demo I can.

Before the 3DS all I used was my DS.  That’s regular DS.  Not a Lite, the old DS Phat, so I was about due.  I’m not sorry about buying it early.  Heck, I use the thing every day!  I check my Nintendo Video and Swap Notes.  I love getting Street Passes and trying for new hats for my Mii or puzzle pieces.  I know others that bought one that are not happy with it and I can understand why.  But for me… I love it.  Maybe one day I’ll buy a new 3DS game for it. ^_^

3DS Friend Code – 3523 – 2038 – 5290

Let’s play pretend for a moment and imagine that you just won the lottery.  Holy crap!!!  You’re a millionaire!!!  16 million dollars for those looking for a more exact amount.  What are some of the things that you might do?  I know first off we would pay off all our debt.  Next, we would give amounts of money to family or pay for things that they really need.  Like a new car or pay off a mortgage.  After that we would renovate the house and update all the things we’ve been wanting to.  I’m sure after that we’d buy ourselves things that we’ve been wanting and probably go on a vacation or two.  Finally, we would save a bunch for later and make some donations to special causes that we would like to support.  I think that would just about cover it.  Maybe I’d start up my own game studio too.

Do you know anyone that’s won a large amount in a lottery?  I know some that have won smaller amounts.  Like $10,000 or so.  The money goes fast regardless how much though if you’re not watching it.  I’d be afraid that we’d blow through it so I’d make sure we keep a close eye on it.  I’d want to make sure that there is lots to live off of when I’m old and can’t draw anymore.

So yesterday I received a ton of traffic to my little blog.  Why?  I have no idea.  I just know that I kept seeing my stat graph go up and up and up.  Up how much ask?  Well, normally I get 300 to 400 views for the day.  If I get a lot of traffic it’ll jump to 800 or maybe even 900.  But yesterday I received over 1,500 views. o_O  What the hell?  My stat tracker can’t track where all this traffic was coming from.  It was able to tell me the over 100 of them came from Hentai Foundry, but other then that I have no clue.

Even though yesterday was crazy… it wasn’t the craziest.  The best day I have ever had in terms of traffic was May 6th 2010.  It was the day I posted my Double Brittany image.  I had 2,939 views because of that image.  The next highest post made was for The Medusa and that had 1,999 views.

At least the top posts I have are for my art and not for something ridiculous I might have put up. ^_^  Oh, on a side note.  I’ve put up the option to subscribe to this blog on the side.  Enter your email and you’ll get a notification when I put up a new post.  Just one of the little things I’ve been trying to do to make the site better.

We all have chores to do.  There’s the dishes to do and laundry to take care of.  Floors to vacuum (or sweep) and general clean up in and around the house.  Now, of those or any other chores you might have on your list, which do you hate the most?  Which ones can you not stand in the least and would love to avoid.  Me, I generally take pleasure in doing chores.  I like knowing that I’m working to making the place better and/or cleaner.  I love knowing that progress is being done and I love to be as efficient as I possibly can.  But if I had to pick, I’d say that I hate to deal with dishes that need to be soaked to get baked on stuff.  I hate gross food water.  It totally makes me gag.  Ugh!  I’ll just about anything else to get out  that task.  I’ll pick up dog poo from the back yard before I tackle food water.  Seriously…

Sometimes I draw too much.  Recently my drawing have involved… my work, where I draw or I’m at least creative for 8 hours during the day, then I do free lance at home too or commissions.  Oh, plus the Tinkerbell portfolio too.  Did I mention that I usually draw during my lunch time too?  It adds up.  I pile it all on myself though so I have no one to blame but me.  The crazy thing is… I love to draw.  Art is pretty much my life but I need to learn to take more breaks.  Step away from it from time to time.  When I’m not drawing, I feel like I should be and that’s not right.

I know I’m not the only one that feels like this though.  My buddy at work is the same.  He just wants to draw all the time too and we understand each other in this regard.  But again… I need to take a breath.  Now, I’m not saying I’m going away or anything.  Heck no, I wouldn’t do that.  I love drawing smutty things too much.  I just have to realize that  if I don’t draw in the evening… that’s okay.  There’s always tomorrow to draw something.

I wonder if other artists have this issue…