Remember last week when I wrote that I was in hopes that things would get back on track and I would start making a lot of progress again? That didn’t really happen the way I had hoped. Things went off the rails pretty quick after that. I suspect it was facilitated by an injury acting up and making things unpleasant. I don’t know about you but when I hurt, all bets are off.
Unfortunately for me it takes a while for me to recognize that I am hurting. I was probably hurting for a couple of weeks before it got bad enough for me to register it. And that was only because I couldn’t do a tornado kick with one foot. I could do it with the other foot but the one foot, yeah, just not happening. There is something of an interesting silver lining to this. I learned a few things and now know some things I don’t need to do or try.
For example, I had been entertaining getting a standing desk. I have a desk that I can adjust the height on. It takes some work but I can do it. So I tried raising the desk to a height that would work as a standing desk a few weeks ago. As much as I like the
aesthetic of the height, it turns out that it doesn’t work well with my body. I have some weird mechanics and such happening on one side of my body, the side that couldn’t do the kick. When I stand for very long I tend to plant that foot and leg and shift all my
weight there. Even when it hurts. So that eliminates a standing desk. Ok. One less thing on my think about list. It makes a lot of things easier when deciding how to go about setting up my work space. I also discovered a few other things that will prove to be helpful.
As a result of the pain and the desk and the like, I couldn’t really get comfortable at the
desk to work on anything new. I did spend some time playing with the materials editor and the smoothing functions in Maya. That was a good thing. I still think I could benefit from watching a couple of the comprehensive Maya tutorials so, I may start on that soon.
I had in mind to start a stuffed bunny model. But with not being able to get comfortable and work for too long, it didn’t get started. I’m still planning on starting it. Just not sure when. It may be soon. Though, the day job gave me an opportunity to come up with another character that I think will be fun to model so I may be working on that as well while I finish up with the Penguin and the Worm Guy.
I’m sure that for many people day job meetings are productive in regards to said day job. For me they can be a great doodle opportunity and I find some fun things in those doodles. This week I got to attend two meetings. The first one resulted in this guy hanging out in the shallows.
The second meeting resulted in this interesting character. The little doodle in the upper right corner of this one is what started the idea of the bigger doodle. I think that’s going to be fun to model. And the possibilities. I’m excited about this one.
I took a couple days off from the day job so that I could have a break and to take care of some of the boring administrative stuff of life. I had also hoped to get a lot further with those exciting models during that time. I haven’t so far. However, I have solved some of the issues that were getting in the way and I might even be on the way to getting to be able to do that tornado kick on that messed up side. Which means, I once again, have hopes of getting a lot of stuff started so I have fun stuff to share with you all. In addition to that I’ll be studying for a test for the day job, preparing for my black belt test, trying to figure out
what to do about business cards, having a chat with my tax guy, learning more about Maya, and who knows what else.