19th Jan

Had what feels like a decent nights sleep in....... foreverrrrrr.

No blipping. Or chest pressure. Or tingles. Or weird shit.

I think I was lying in a perfect way and then fell asleep like that and didn't move. Heh. Jesus. 

Anywho. Somewhat invigorated today therefore. So I have been doing some chores - I have energy, wheee - and some work and yada.

I also, rather hilariously, shut down the extraneous bits of the Company That Never Was for games development and tidied it up on google. Well. That lasted all of.. ooh.. 2 seconds. And then....

Created a new one ! Woo. I do so love noodling with domains. So I got myself another domain name. Eh. I have a whole suitcase full of domains at this point. Like my various internet identities, many and varied. Ha ha.

This one I optimistically registered for the next 10 years. Yeah. A decade. That should do ? And I picked the name I originally liked but my friend didn't, because, I stupidly realised, wait, I can pick what the fuck I like now, why stick with the old name ? Fuck the miseries. Go with the cool name. Huzzah. And this name means something. Double huzzah.

Dweomerdin.com ( pronounced for the record as, dwimmer-din, the dw as in dwarf, the immer as in swimmer, and din.. well... as in dinner )

The domain does nothing. Goes nowhere. But it is mine. And I know. Your very next excited question is, what does the name mean ? Because. I know you're super interested.

Not.

Dweomer - old english for magic. The spelling is subject to argument, as archaic wording with weird lost in history dipthongs are wont to do. Tolkien was a user of the word ( and arguably the source of modern usage of it ), except he tended to use different spellings. Dwimmer.

Din - Celtic. Gaelic. Old Welsh. Old english borrowing. Meaning home, fort, city. That kinda thing. Also morphs more commonly into dun. This one is quite archaic and gnarly. But is definitely a thing.

Hence you get. Magic home. Or home of Magic. In old borders english.

Ha ha.

*dabs*

I am far more pleased with myself about this than I should be. On the other hand. I have been noodling with that magic theme thing for more than 20 years. I have some old school (1990s) 3d art I did around just such a theme. It has always stuck with me. And here it is. Brushed up. And ready for some pushing into the world.

The world needs a little more magic.

Woooo. 

*runs around the house excitedly*

The next question is whether I finish my old bit of art I had envisioned for the old domain name. It was shaping up to be an epic piece of art. But now. I mean. I could still use it. But the theme is slightly off. And there are a lot more cool and sexy art things that suggest themselves to me for dweomerdin.

Eh. Maybe I will stick it on my pile of nice things to finish if I have time.

In other news.

Bought myself a new chair. I am kinda fed up having uncomfortable office chairs. Which. To be fair, is probably less about the chair, and more about my fat ass spending too much time in them. Fat. Time. Although saying that, none of the other chairs in my house are uncomfy.

So. I've splashed out. With an unwise purchase. Particularly as I will soon to be on a very tight money budget. But anywho. We shall see how this chair does. A Titan Evo gaming chair nonsense for the record. I am dubious about "gaming" chairs. They smell like an excuse to sell up priced office chair to me, when, what you really want, is the 24 hour emergency response chair malarkeys that cost near £1k. But. Eh. Yeah. Anywho. That chair is on its way. Complete with a "free" magnetic head pillow. The mind boggles. Pillows need to be magnetised now. Apparently. Global warming. Climate disaster. But. At least your pillow is magnetised. Ha ha.

Positives for today.

Going to have a think about new art for new company. I would like to lean on old school Ultimate Play the Game ( who now go by the company name of Rare ) theming. Stamper art to be precise. But. That's quite tricky to mimic. And. I don't entirely want to go hardcore down that route. Inspired by perhaps. 

Quirky. Fantastical. Mysterious. Dark. Comical. Spoopy. Stylised. Bold colours. Throw back elements.

That's your brief. Go forth and art.

Also a company mascot would be pretty cool, but. Hmm. Always hard to pull off. Ooh. Ooooooooooh. *dusts off my old wizard toon art from my teenage years*. It's like fate. There is, for the record, a 1.5m tall drawing of said character on the bare walls of one of my parents former homes. Under the wall paper. Lying in wait for redecorators. A practice I recommend when redecorating. Draw some art on the bare walls that will sit there *forever*. It's cool. Anywho. I used to draw that dude, over and over again. Practiced. To nail it in a 60 second sketch. Uh huh. Muscle memory. Heheh. Man. It's been many a long year. And I get to draw him again. Holy shit. It is fate. Sometimes. I think the god/gods/aliens/simulation programmer are watching. And sometimes they don't dick with me, they help.