six new paintings
These three are mine.
Max painted two. One was a significant deviation from his usual style--far simpler, or more subtly complex, and really in actuality more complex because the level of noise is reduced.
Jill painted one--it's her second (ever, ish, and it's really amazing; scary, even.).
I suppose after that teaser I should show you all of them but I only actually took pictures (blurry, it seems) of mine. When they dry in a month or two... and I need to come up with some CMS for my dad's paintings and my mom's existence.
Maybe I should make a 3d art section on my page. I did take a picture of the beaded gourd. I could probably take better pictures. It is _not_ well done, but it was interesting and fun and such. I suppose there's a lot more 3d stuff I could put up as well, but that will come. That will come.
Missing Amy considerably, which warms my heart. :)
Played starcraft with Max today. He's pretty good, especially for not having played against a non-computer opponent before. He got bad luck on the draw against computers, and I threw him off by existing, but it was really good to play (against) him, and I look forward to playing (with) him in the future; I far prefer the 'top versus bottom' game style versus the competitive-versus-people-I-know style; playing against someone is very stressful. I think I played my best terran games ever (probably luck, largely), but man. I was really nervous.
Looking forward to a starcraft tournament Aug 20-29 I signed up for. I really don't know how I compare to people I don't know. I'm sure there are people much, much better than me. But ... we will see. It would be cool to even just qualify. I have no idea what that would mean, but it would be cool. Some recognition for all the time I squirrel away on this ever-addictive game? :)