JetGirlArt

In 2012 I was still doing screenprinting at the house. I had a manual one color press that I used for shirts and stuff but was able to easily use it for paper as well. I designed and printed some Halloween prints with it and it went well enough I figured I could do Christmas cards that way as well. I used a nice cream colored blank card and set it up for a three color print by doing each color in batches. Green first, then red, then black on top. You can see in the photo (Taken with a Windows…

I worked at a hibachi/sushi restaurant in college. It was great because I could go to class in the mornings and work dinner shift till midnight. The plates averaged 25 bucks each and sushi bills were higher so our tips were amazing for anyone working in 2005. You can figure out where this is, they are still in business but I do have to let y'all know that 0% of the people who I worked with still work there but still has the original owners. If you go there, be nice, order a bunch of food. I've…

So I don't know where yall all are but here in Tx a steak from Walmart will run you about twenty bucks a pop. Less if you go early and snag the discounted meat that needs to be cooked that day. But still, it's not cheap. Ground beef is seven or more per pound. So to feed all four kids and the husband we end up eating more ground beef, pork, and chicken. But once in a while, like every few months, we have steak. Four steaks cut in thin slices is enough for everyone to have some. Long ago I would…

When do you listen to the radio? In the car, in the shop, while walking around, while doing other things that require your visual attention. Same goes for audiobooks, music, etc. Looking at a book or watching a show requires twice the time and effort because you can't really do other work while giving all your attention to a screen. On a daily basis the majority of us are either commuting somewhere or are working at a desk, shop/garage, or outdoors. Obviously you can't sit and listen to your…

We went to a nice Italian place we had never been to before. Food was good, didn't get sick after eating. They make their own tiramisu which was great, most of the places closer to us use Sysco premade stuff and still charge five bucks for it. The kids were bummed the kids menu was actual Italian food in kids portions, but we managed to get them to eat a chicken parm sandwich. For some wild reason my kids all hate pasta. Meanwhile I can eat some form of noodles for every single meal without…

I spent the day playing Skyrim. I made it through the Dawnguard quests with Serana "helping" along the way. A vampire princess who is hundreds of years old can't one shot a random bandit but the rat hermit who has been living off skeevers in a cave for six months nearly kills us both. I love this game. When I add bits like this to my story people will read it and get upset that it's not "realistic". "That's not how it should work in the story." Yeah, but that's how it works in games. I once put…

This is kinda silly to point out but here we are, I mean, yes a game will be best played using the controller it was designed around. This isn't a thing to dwell on, but I had some notes. This weekend I saw an ad for preorders of the new Fable game. Having played the first two eons ago I figured I should give the first game a run through to jog my memory. I's on gamepass so it was pretty simple to download and get running. We have the Series X black tower xbox with a nice fancy wireless lime…

I figured out how to use Indesign back then and made these little guys. Dioxazine was supposed to have more issues but I got a job shortly after. Jet's Cook Book This one was all the recipes I had collected and used often enough that I wanted to keep them in a little printed book. Feel free to print it out and try them. Dioxazine Issue 1 This one was a bunch of stuff I cobbled together. I drew the cover and comics, made up the fake ads in the back and wrote the essays in it. The idea was to…

I've been continuously selling off the bulk of my Magic cards. Last month I set all my prices to like five cents under market and let the things fly. Hobbit cards have people buying again. Not going to invest in anymore for the shop outside of what extras we might need to offload when we buy personal packs in the future. I really wanted Hardcopy Collectibles to take off so I could make enough money to open a physical store and sell vintage games, comics, manga and stuff like that. But the…

It's not a new bike, its from 1993 but it's in flawless shape. My birthday is at the end of the month but I didn't want to get outbid on the ebay listing for it lol. It came with different handlebars and tires which I swapped on to my sons bike so he can take it to college. His is an old Raleigh we had in the garage I took the liberty of putting on new click shifters (It had grip shifts which I hate, everyone hates, ew ew ew), chain, and tires. It's also too big of a bike for me or else I would…

This weekend is prerelease for the Hobbit Set. It costs $50 to enter. You get six packs play boosters, a random foil card, and a spin down d-20. (They removed stamped promos.) From that you create a 40ish card deck of the random stuff you pulled hoping you can play well enough with it. The event takes about four to five hours to complete because each person plays best of 3 and at least 3 opponents. When the prerelease is a normal set the price is closer to $35 to enter and a much better deal.…

And I'm not talking about becoming a "sneaky archer". Yeah that's a fast way to get through stuff like the Dark Brotherhood quests and the Imperial/Stormcloak fights. But eventually you do have to go close quarters with things and you gotta splash one handed or magic. I'll spool up a new character who is a non human once in a while. In Oblivion I almost always go Argonian so I can breath underwater and jump super high. But in Skyrim that doesn't matter as much, not in the way I play anyway.…

These were the go-to joke gift. Your grandparents had one, your boss had one, the shady sales guy at the car dealership had one. There was one in an episode of the OG British Office. If you haven't seen it, it's just a plastic robot toy fish covered in cheap airbrushed rubber that sings various songs while moving its mouth and head. They were hilarious for about 20 minutes. Lately we have been watching the Sopranos. Last night we got to the episodes with the Big Mouth Billy Bass. The show uses…

In an effort to speed run community college to catch up after leaving the Art Institute my parents had me take a summer classes. Classes were from 8am - 11pm every day for 5 weeks leaving me time to work in the afternoons. I had managed to get through a government and math class doing this without issue the first summer. A bunch of my classmates from high school were there as well to take cheaper basic courses while on break from UT or A&M. But then one summer I took an English class. I figured…

I first read her books back during the pandemic. I think we all had more time to read back then. Lately I've been writing on my Isekai story and watching House of the Dragon so I needed a little palate cleanser. I had bought a copy of Kitchen two years ago and never got around to reading it. Which is fun because this is like, the main Banana Yoshimoto book folks start with. I started with Hard Boiled/Hard Luck and was hooked but after finding a copy of Kitchen. I think the reason I didn't want…

A few weeks ago we went to Shreveport for a work meeting. We stayed at one of the casinos because my husband likes to play blackjack and it's super cheap to play there. I typically like to play slot machines but this time around they were pretty lame. I think half of them were the "buffalo" game and the other half were some flavor of Chinese dragon or gold coins. Now, I like the buffalo game, but I also like the movie themed ones like Wizard of Oz and stuff like that. I will hop from machine to…

The other day I was listening to this episode of Decoder Ring where they talk about how bad modern sculptures tend to be because we no longer have the educational pipeline and infrastructure to produce professional level sculptors. We do have sculptors. We have a chunk of famous artists who work in 3D space. If you listen to the podcast they talk about how hard it is to find artists who can still create the classical marble and bronze statues that one would expect to see in public spaces to…

I always see these posts about ditching smartphones and going back to flip phones that only call and this and that. I assume these people don't use auth apps or phone 2FA. If you don't need them to access work or have a non cellular device just for apps then maybe you can sneak past this. We just nuked a couple of streaming services in order to get HBO again so we could watch the Sopranos. (He watched all of it years ago but I've never seen it.) In order to log into the app on the TV I just…

So, I've noticed that Twitter has had an auto translate thing for a while now. You'll see a post from someone with an all kanji name but the text is in english. Then under their name is a little note that says "Translated from Japanese." Used to, you had to click "translate" to see what something said. I know it's easier to keep scrolling and be able to read what someone wrote automatically but it's kind of jarring to notice that a chunk of tweets are auto translated. I don't think I would have…

Did I write anything in the last few days? No. Did I decide to spool up an aggregate site to show me all the stuff I follow on one page because it's too hard to have numerous RSS Feeds proc in a Discord channel? Yes. It has light/dark mode. I'm still messing with how many things show up at once and getting the grid to play nice. The links are all to things I check daily or so and follow regularly. I've got youtube, subreddits, podcasts, news, and Bearblog's top feed in here: feedz Also, Reddit…

In 2014 I decided to try my hand at writing a book. I did, and it was terrible. Then in 2018 I tried again and wrote something not terrible but not great. Neither of these books had anything in common. In art school you are told you need to pick a style, or create a style. That way you stand out and become something marketable. The same thing applies in writing but you also have to choose a genre as well. Most people use Steven King as an example for this. He writes horror novels. If you picked…

I do not enjoy Commander. I know that's the way everyone likes to play these days and what most of the events are. The whole reason it's played so readily is because you can use your older cards from a much wider pool than standard. I know about Pioneer, Pai Gow, Modern, Pauper, etc. I don't have any friends that play them. Everyone plays Commander. Now, I do have Commander decks. I have an enhanced Mrs Bumbleflower, Tidus, and Tatyova, Benthic Druid landfall deck. In a perfect world I would…

That's what that title sounds like, lol. The kids were watching the Nintendo announcement video yesterday to see what kind of shenanigans were going on in Switchland. I sat and watched it with them to see if there was going to be anything worth $500. The short answer to that is no. The long answer is eventually. The video starts out like so many other Nintendo Direct's with one of the big wigs from Nintendo stoically announcing upcoming titles and showing a little snippet from each one. The…

So I got that little zine marketplace site to work locally on my machine. Got it hooked up to the stripe sandbox stuff to test payments and it all worked just fine. I added a bunch of dummy zines to test the checkout and user reading section. I have the domain ready, I'm just contemplating wether or not to make it live. Would people actually use it? Would someone hack the whole thing and ruin it? If it does take off and I can't afford to keep it going how many people would sue me? I haven't set…

That's what videogames are for, right? Driving around in the cars you can never afford? Racing like gas isn't 5 dollars a gallon? Where if you work in a pizza shop or cafe you actually make money? Where if you throw a rod into a pond you catch a fish? Where if you complete a quest you get rewarded?

"Wrestling is fake!" Well, no. It's not fake, it's choreographed, practiced, and performed by athletes who spend hours in the gym to safely do their part. That's like saying a play isn't real. Is it a MMA fight or boxing match? No, but is every "real" fight legit? How many stories have you heard of a fighter being asked to throw a fight? That goes for every sport. Fixed soccer games, fixed car races, anything that has money bet on it can be swayed one way or the other. With certain things I can…

I can ride a bike just fine. As a kid I had the little red tricycle and moved up to a pink Huffy with tassels and training wheels sometime around kindergarten. We lived on a narrow unmarked road as a kid so watching for cars was important but our driveway was long enough for me to have fun just doing circles around that. Sometime around elementary school (93? 94?) mountain bikes became the big cool thing to have. We all traded up to bikes with chunky black tires and hand brakes. The more cables…

So a while back I wrote a post about zines. In that post I talked about how I felt that making a marketplace for zines would be too difficult to monetize. And by monetize I don't mean make me money but generate enough money to pay for its own hosting and upkeep costs. But to have like, some sort of online zine hosting website that was user friendly and auto created a PDF for readers to download. It would be impossible to monetize and therefore fail but the idea is fun to mull around. Maybe just…

this post is in response to this post by lwgrs and this post by donthave2sting. I am also not going to talk about shortwave radio in this post as it's outside the scope of these two but historically speaking it predates FM radio and was crazy. Google it. It's crazy. I have probably mentioned this before when I talk about listening to podcasts in the car. I am the same age as lwgrs so I grew up with the world of radio that he describes. We listened to the radio in the car every morning because…

I have to preface this with the fact that I am objectively bad at shooter games. Worse when I am on a team where my job is to assist. Last week my husband was playing ARC Raiders after work and mentioned the fact we never play videogames together. We really haven't played a co-op game since Diablo III and even then it wasn't too often. Before that we joined a WoW server in college. I did try playing some Counter-Strike/Call O'Duty type war games back then as well and did poorly. To be good at…