{"id":233,"date":"2009-11-03T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2010-08-02T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T05:38:43","slug":"its-that-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/its-that-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s that time again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<p><!--more [ Read More &#10140; ]--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/art\/wips\/failedtwinwip.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<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>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/art\/original\/hallobookmarks.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"450\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<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>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s it for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-life","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranquil-solace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}