Archive for February, 2007
Photos of Jr. Pac-man kickplate
Richard got right back to me today, told me that the Jr. Pac-man sideart looked really good, and had taken some photos of the kickplate for me to work on as well. He said he would also be more than willing to help me do any color matching I might need to do. That may be tough, but I am glad that he is willing, really nice guy. He is in PA, and not too far from Indy. I have started thinking about going out there to see his collection, maybe in late April.
28th February 2007
Another solid working day. A big event is taking place at our company, and we had to prepare yesterday, so I worked until dinner time. Then I went and met Sarah up at church, and we ate together at the soup supper. She had a little book study with Kate, and I came back to the office to work on the updates for the church website. I wanted to try to get them done before the weekend in case we have visitors.
We didn’t get home until just after 8, and I am looking forward to the rest of the week getting home a little earlier than that. I called Jen and we talked for over an hour, and Sarah sat and worked on some papers from school. After I was done she made a phone call before she headed off to bed a half an hour later. I stayed up and worked on another piece of my Jr. Pac-man artwork.
Final vectorized image of Jr. Pac-man sideart
I emailed Richard with a small image of the final Jr. Pac-man sideart tonight and explained it a little bit. I asked him for some feedback, to look at it carefully and see what he thought. I also told him, that I thought I had a vector version of the kickplate art, or at least some larger images, but I didn’t and I asked if he could take some photos of that for me also.
27th February 2007
Worked another solid day at work, but we were able to come home tonight and get back to the gym with Kim and Brian.
We had a couple for a free Pizza Hut Medium pizza, so we picked that up on the way home, and then I went out really quick to get a movie. I returned Contact and got Cellular in exchange. But before we started, we sat down and talked about possibly taking advantage of the special RCI offer for vacations later in the year. Sarah really wasn’t going to have enough time available, so we decided to not do it. I talked with Justin some about it, having invited them earlier in the day. I think we are still going to try to plan something else instead.
The movie was decent, fairly fun and a neat idea. Sarah was pretty tired afterwards so she went right to bed. I stayed up and worked until about midnight then joined her.
26th February 2007
Today also flew by, even though it was a longer work day for both Sarah and I. Sarah had a science related school competition, where the kids had to make little vehicles out of household stuff within a small weight parameter that would roll down an incline. I have a ton of work to do, so we met up for dinner, and then went back to our respective places until we got home about 8 pm for “How I Met Your Mother”.
I wanted to relax, so I worked on the laptop and my blog some until about 11:30, and we both sat and watched the tube. She did some school related stuff but was really tired, so she just relaxed.
25th February 2007
Today went by in a flash. We went to early 8:00 service because Sarah’s kids were singing. That got us out of church pretty early, and me very tired since I went to bed so late. I left with Kenny and went back to his house to get some rest and Sarah stayed, she ended up doing some work later.
At 11:00 I got Sarah and we headed down to Kroger to get some fruit, and then back to John’s house for a young adult breakfast. There was a good size turnout, 15 or so of the good ‘ol regulars. Then, from there we carpooled downtown to Easley winery for a set wine tasting with some food and fellowing. It was a fun time, and we had a lot of first time tasters so that was cool to see their reactions. Hard to believe it has only been a year really since we started doing this on a regular basis. I thought the wine there was solid, I just didn’t think it dethroned Oliver or Brown County, and I think a lot of that had to do on the presentation at the winery, and how the wine looked and such.
This is where the day got really interesting. Earlier in the day I realized that my cell must have slipped out of my pocket into the couch at Kenny’s house, and I had mentioned it to them. We told them we’d call, but we didn’t and took a chance in just heading over to their house. They weren’t there, so we waited about 25 minutes before we thought it should be time to head out. Except, we couldn’t leave. The car wouldn’t start. I thought that was really weird, it was acting like the battery was out of juice. Eventually we got the neighbor’s attention and he tried to help us jump it, but that didn’t work, so we used their phone and called Kenny.
He was really helpful as always, we got right at checking the battery out, and he has the experience and tools to know that the battery actually was bad, it had shorted out. So he made some calls and we went and got a battery at Auto Zone. He put the new one in, it started right up and we were ready to roll. We even made it home in time for Simpsons. He’s such a great guy, I am really thankful he took so much time out of his day on Sunday in different respects, to help us out.
When we got home, we returned some phone calls, watched some tv, and called it a night. It was a long day and we were pretty beat.
24th February 2007
Today ended up being a lot busier than I think either Sarah or I planned on. For whatever reason from the little beer I had the night before, I was hung over with a serious headache early Saturday morning. We were going to meet Brian and Kim at Long’s for some donuts, and apparently they called because Sarah woke me up and told me it was time to go.
We finally stopped talking about it, and just stopped at the Gerdt furniture right next door to check out what they have. They were running a half price sale on their mattresses, so it was worth it to check, but still not a better deal than what we have waiting on the back burner with someone else who sells at wholesale. But nothing really is.
When we got home Sarah started some laundry and I made some calls to friends, and made some arrangements. I found another arcade game, I know, another one, for really cheap a touch south of us, so I enlisted Kenny and his car to help me go and take a look at it. We figured out that the dimensions of his hatchback would work perfectly for one game.
I knew from the description that it was probably something I didn’t want unless I got a phenomenal deal on it, and that is exactly what I got. It was a hideous white conversion cabinet that was a Pac-Land. White outside, solid green control panel, and some home made Marquee. It even was hick authentic with an ashtray affixed appropriately right below the control panel for that in between game smoke. The guy got it at an auction south of him a year ago, it didn’t work, and had sat in the barn for a year. He wanted $45 which is an ok price, but I gave him $24 and he took it, so whatever.
Kenny and I got back to the house, ate some lunch, ran some errands, and then headed back to his house so I could show him some stuff about their new laptop. We got through a lot of stuff in an hour and a half, and I think both Lori and Kenny learned a lot too. Not to mention, we sped it up by taking out some of the programs from boot.
Sarah picked me up from her direct sales party for knickknacks, and we headed back up Post road to visit a lady who had a ton of arcade parts. Her husband used to be an operator in his spare time, so he had a ton of stuff built up. We cataloged a lot of it, and took photos over the course of about three hours, but it got to be late, we were tired, hadn’t eaten, and the weather was terrible. We didn’t finish, but maybe another day.
When I got home I shoveled the driveway and our neighbors driveway while Sarah made dinner, then we watched our newest movie Contact until just after midnight. She didn’t make it through the movie and went to bed. I stayed up and got some things done, uploaded photos to the site, installed the printer on the laptop, and took some other photos before I called it a night just after 2 am.
Reworking parts of vector Jr. Pac-man sideart
Retraced Jr. Pac-man’s kite tonight in the hour or so worth of time that I had. I also adjusted the original sideart artwork that I had done for the Jr. Pac so tomorrow I can size in the more correctly drawn kite, and hopefully start to get some feedback on the colors and overall look of the traced piece from Richard.
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