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	<title>&#124;&#124; Tranquil &#9733; S o l a c e  &#124;&#124; &#187; life</title>
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		<title>Cleanup and then some!</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2010/07/21/cleanup-and-then-some/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting inking another disgaea chibi today after doing a little cleaning around the house, writing up a lab report and customizing the look of this blog. Can&#8217;t believe the number of features built into this theme that I&#8217;ve only learned about after&#8230;a good 6 months of using it? Well it&#8217;s better late than never as]]></description>
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<p>Starting inking another disgaea chibi today after doing a little cleaning around the house, writing up a lab report and customizing the look of this blog.  Can&#8217;t believe the number of features built into this theme that I&#8217;ve only learned about after&#8230;a good 6 months of using it? Well it&#8217;s better late than never as they say!  At least things are nice and organized now!  Now that I&#8217;ve gotten the hang of using Paint Tool Sai, let&#8217;s see how long this line art will take.</p>
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		<title>Upgraded!</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2010/01/26/upgraded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone&#8217;s Christmas went well and that their 2010 is going smoothly so far! Mine was pretty good, nice and quiet, ate and drank a lot&#8230;all that good stuff! Well here&#8217;s my first(of hopefully many) posts of the new year. Remember how I posted about needing a new laptop? Well&#8230; Yeah&#8230;It was definitely time]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope everyone&#8217;s Christmas went well and that their 2010 is going smoothly so far!  Mine was pretty good, nice and quiet, ate and drank a lot&#8230;all that good stuff!  Well here&#8217;s my first(of hopefully many) posts of the new year.  Remember how I posted about needing a <a href="http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/11/03/its-that-time-again/">new</a> laptop? Well&#8230;</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/cracktop.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="378" /><br />
<center><em>Yeah&#8230;It was definitely time to replace this one!</em></center></p>
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<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/maskingtape.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="378" /><br />
<center><em><em>Laptops really shouldn&#8217;t be held together with masking tape&#8230;doesn&#8217;t look too nice!</em></em></center></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/oldlappykeyboard.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" /><br />
<center><em>Had to replace it&#8217;s keyboard&#8230;it&#8217;s been through a lot!</em></center></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/sleeve.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" /><br />
<center><em>I wonder what&#8217;s inside?</em></center></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/newlaptop.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" /><br />
<center><em>Just what I needed!  Dang&#8230;Santa&#8217;s really good!</em></center></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/newkeyboard.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" /><br />
<center><em>And this one doesn&#8217;t need it&#8217;s keyboard replaced!</em></center></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/desktop.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="377" /><br />
<center><em>Gotta love them abstract destop wallpapers!</em></center></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/photos/laptops/crumplerbag.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" /><br />
<center><em>A brand spanking new laptop bag I got for my birthday.  One of the problems with having a huuuuge laptop(17.3 inches) is that most bags sold in stores are too small.  Thank God for <a href="https://www.crumpler.ca/flash/flash.aspx#/english/default.html">Crumpler</a> *shameless plug*!</em></center></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had this bad boy for about a month now and I love it!  Windows 7 is the OS, 4GB of RAM, 500GB for the hard drive, it&#8217;s fast, the screen is huge&#8230;it&#8217;s like I can see everything lol!  I have Photoshop, Corel Painter and Paint Tool Sai installed on it, so I have no excuse to not update my dA page and website more often.  I&#8217;m even going to go back to inking things with fineliners in order to churn out cg art more frequently.  Wish me luck!  Last but not least, have a work in <a href="http://tranquil-solace.com/art/wips/pupilswip.jpg">progress</a>!  Gah I&#8217;ve been working on that one on and off since summer started last year!  I almost want to just scrap it or toss it in the junk art <a href="http://tranquil-solace.com/art/junk">folder</a>&#8230;But I&#8217;m also sort of determined to finish inking this.  Could always use the colouring practise!</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that time again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/11/03/its-that-time-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My nearly 3 year old Acer laptop is on it&#8217;s last legs. Part of it is actually being held together with masking tape(almost tempted to take photos and show off it&#8217;s condition!). On top of that, the power cord I&#8217;ve been relying on since the battery is only good for about an hour and a]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My nearly 3 year old Acer laptop is on it&#8217;s last legs.  Part of it is actually being held together with masking tape(almost tempted to take photos and show off it&#8217;s condition!).  On top of that, the power cord I&#8217;ve been relying on since the battery is only good for about an hour and a half, two hours tops of standby time, has decided to fray.  Now depending on how the cord is bent, <strong>sparks</strong> will actually fly while using it and the power will cut off.  Now no one wants to use a potentially dangerous laptop.  I know I don&#8217;t&#8230;So some promising laptops have been added to the <a href="http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/wishlist/">wishlist</a>.  Just a matter of saving the money to buy one, or maybe I&#8217;ll get lucky and Santa will bring me a nice laptop that I could run photoshop on, do school work and enjoy a little gaming&#8230;</p>
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<p>So halloween has come and gone with me managing to produce not one, but <strong>2 PICTURES</strong>!!  Now this may not be much to some people, but since 2007, something has always prevented me[work] from finishing or starting a holiday image.  So I&#8217;m glad that didn&#8217;t happen this year!  Here you can see the first design ideas I had&#8230;</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://tranquil-solace.com/art/original/hallobookmarks.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="450" height="550" /></p>
<p>Now I&#8217;ve been curious for a long time about how people print out their artwork for conventions and the like.  Now that I&#8217;ve learned how to resize images for different prints and things, these two will be the first <del datetime="2009-11-03T21:39:59+00:00">victims</del> test subjects!  Might even send one or two out to friends&#8230;</p>
<p>Well that&#8217;s it for me!</p>
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		<title>Blog Action Day Ver 2.0</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/10/15/blog-action-day-ver-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my last post didn&#8217;t seem to be recognized on the Blog Action Day site, I&#8217;m trying again! So today is Blog Action Day. The idea is that through blogging, people can spread awareness about issues like climate change, global poverty, environmental problems, world hunger and all the other topics that should be of importance]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since my <a href="http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/10/15/blog-action-day/"><strong>last post</strong></a> didn&#8217;t seem to be recognized on the <a href="http://blogactionday.org"><strong>Blog Action Day</strong></a> site, I&#8217;m trying again!  </p>
<p>So today is Blog Action Day.<span id="more-216"></span> The idea is that through blogging, people can spread awareness about issues like climate change, global poverty, environmental problems, world hunger and all the other topics that should be of importance to everyone. </p>
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		<title>Blog Action Day</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/10/15/blog-action-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today is Blog Action Day. The idea is that through blogging, people can spread awareness about issues like climate change, global poverty, environmental problems, world hunger and all the other topics that should be of importance to everyone. I think this is a great idea personally! There are millions of blogs out there and]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So today is <a href="www.blogactionday.org "><strong>Blog Action Day</strong></a>.  The idea is that through blogging, people can spread awareness about issues like climate change, global poverty, environmental problems, world hunger and all the other topics that should be of importance to everyone.  I think this is a great idea personally! There are millions of blogs out there and millions of people to read and follow an author&#8217;s posts.  If enough people notice this or any other blog that&#8217;s participating in Blog Action Day, it is my hope that people will be inspired to make changes, no matter how small, to combat the issues that this event stands for.  Happy Blog Action Day everyone!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogactionday.org"><img src="http://www.blogactionday.org/imgs/badges/bad-88-31.jpg" border=0 /></a></p>
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		<title>*watches tumble weeds go by*</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/06/17/watches-tumble-weeds-go-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh man, I really need to make a better effort to keep this place updated if I want people to read and comment on the entires! So what have I been up to? Well last month, I went to Toronto&#8217;s anime north convention(I really need to make that convention report!), I FINALLY updated my PC&#8217;s]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh man, I really need to make a better effort to keep this place updated if I want people to read and comment on the entires!  So what have I been up to? Well last month, I went to Toronto&#8217;s <a href="http://www.animenorth.com/main/"><strong>anime north</strong></a> convention(I really need to make that convention report!), I FINALLY updated my PC&#8217;s ram so I&#8217;m cging and inking up a storm. So expect more new artwork in the <a href="http://tranquil-solace.com/gallery"><strong>gallery</strong></a>!  </p>
<p><img src="http://tranquil-solace.com/art/wips/inkedetnajournalwip.jpg" alt="null" /></p>
<p>Ahh the joys of digital inking&#8230;and by joys I mean the tediousness!  But at least I can get my lines nice, black and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nrr6bc"><strong>THICK</strong></a>!  And that image right there is for something special, so it may be a little while before you see the finished result. Other than that, I&#8217;m pretty good!</p>
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		<title>Memory&#8230;I needs it!</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/05/05/memoryi-needs-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be so happy the day I get 4 of these. It&#8217;s no fun having your pc slow to a crawl, just because you only have 1GB of memory on your pc!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be so happy the day I get 4 of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/c748a6"><strong>these</strong></a>.  It&#8217;s no fun having your pc slow to a crawl, just because you only have 1GB of memory on your pc!</p>
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		<title>Summer and spam!</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/03/30/summer-and-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seriously cannot wait for the summer to arrive. To be finished school and hopefully get that B mark I want for chemistry. To be back to regularly blogging, drawing and updating my galleries online and of course on the site. I have less than a week to go and I hope it all goes]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I seriously cannot wait for the summer to arrive.  To be finished school and <del datetime="2009-03-30T20:38:36+00:00">hopefully</del> get that B mark I want for chemistry.  To be back to regularly blogging, drawing and updating my galleries online and of course on the site.  I have less than a week to go and I hope it all goes through smoothly.  That reminds me, I need to buy my tickets for <a href="http://www.animenorth.com/joomla15/"><strong>Anime North</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.hobbystar.com/fanexpo/"><strong>FanExpo</strong></a>.  Hope to get some cute figimas and nendoroids this year if I&#8217;m lucky and it doesn&#8217;t cost an arm and a leg&#8230;</p>
<p>Speaking of blogging, not sure if it&#8217;s because people are noticing this place more but I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of spam here.  Not sure what&#8217;s going on but it&#8217;s annoying as all hell! And for some reason it&#8217;s all targeted towards the <a href="http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/guestbook/"><strong>guestbook</strong></a>. I&#8217;m trying to find some sort of plugin to protect the gb but no luck so far, any suggestions? Last thing anyone wants to see is a bunch of comments and all of them are for viagra/cialis/adult friend finder. Better yet, why do I keep getting these kinds of ads in the first place? Last time I checked I <strong>wasn&#8217;t male</strong>&#8230;oh internet, sometimes you just baffle me!</p>
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		<title>Temptation</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/03/16/temptation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since first hearing about and seeing japanese youtube videos related to it, I took an interest in the game Shin Megami Tensei Persona 4. Luckily I got it last December, even though the store I pre-ordered it from was a little delayed in getting their shipment. But I have it and have been playing ever]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since first hearing about and seeing japanese youtube videos related to it, I took an interest in the game Shin Megami Tensei Persona 4.  Luckily I got it last December, even though the store I pre-ordered it from was a little delayed in getting their shipment.  But I have it and have been playing ever since&#8230;</p>
<p>So it&#8217;s December in the game, and what a roller coaster ride the story has taken!  Now I&#8217;ve come to the point of the story: identifying the <strong>real killer</strong>!  Now I&#8217;ve had a couple of theories in my head as to who it could be, one in particular &#8220;clears&#8221; one character but can&#8217;t explain why another is the culprit.  I really want to know if this theory is right, but this game is so good and I&#8217;d hate to spoil myself over this!  And what&#8217;s worse, there&#8217;s tons of fan art out there that looks really &#8220;suspicious&#8221; when it comes to one person!  Guess I just need to play through and see if my theory is right after all&#8230;so to anyone reading this, ever been tempted to see how an rpg like P4 would end(and PLEASE don&#8217;t spoil the ending for me!)? Or have you tried finding the answers through trial and error?</p>
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		<title>Plurk&#8217;d</title>
		<link>http://tranquil-solace.com/blog/2009/03/04/plurkd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reafu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I went and jumped the bandwagon a couple of days ago and joined Plurk. Now for the obligatory link to my profile and to try and entice pople to join: Join me now I wonder if there&#8217;s a sidebar widget for plurk? Only one way to find out&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I went and jumped the bandwagon a couple of days ago and joined Plurk.  Now for the obligatory link to my profile and to try and entice pople to join:</p>
<p><a href="http://plurk.com/thatchickleelee/invite"><strong>Join</strong></a> me <a href="http://www.plurk.com/thatchickleelee"><strong>now</strong></a></p>
<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s a sidebar widget for plurk? Only one way to find out&#8230;</p>
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