I just wanted to do a quick update to let everyone know I’m still alive. I am. My finger is healing nicely and I’ll hopefully be back on the carving path before too long. For right now, I’ve just been playing a lot of Halo in preparation for a little tournament we’re having here this weekend. It should be fun. I’m also working on the comic at HandRooster and we’ve also introduced a HandRooster Blog. I’m still doing some backdated entries for old comics, but I’m also doing entries for each comic per weekday, so check it out if you feel like it. I’m hoping someone will. I hope everyone is doing well, and I wish you all the best.
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Yesterday I was carving my sister’s wedding gift and I failed to put on my carving glove. I also did something very stupid and placed my hand in the front of the carving. I went over a slightly difficult section of wood and my tool slipped and sunk into the flesh and fingernail of my left index finger. It bit down to the bone and formed a flap, partly fingernail and partly flesh. A nice flow of blood started and I ended up getting some quick first aid. I then went to the hospital and got further treatment…mostly cleaning and bandaging. They used paper stitches because they said they couldn’t do much for the tips of fingers.
I’m fine now, and I’ve learned a valuable lesson about safety while carving. I don’t think you’ll find me without my glove anymore, and I’ll certainly be much more careful about my hand placement. I think the key is patience and focus when carving wood. I’m not an inherantly patient person so I think that this is a learning process for me.
I’ve been thinking a lot about some things that annoy me about working for people - at least these people. One of the most annoying things is knowing what needs to be done, prioritizing these things, and then having a “superior” who isn’t even aware of all of your projects come in and push their own priorities. Everyone seems to have a different set of priorities and each person wants their top priority to be your top priority. I know what needs to be done and I always have a plan in my mind for getting these things done in time. I’m guessing this is the same sort of thing which happens in the civilian sector, but it is a big reason why I’d like to work independently someday. There are many other things I dislike about being in the military (such as violence, disregard for other people and cultures and our interdependence with these people) much more than this sort of thing, but this is something that bothers me in the sort of day to day aspects of working in the military in general. The military (especially this branch) is like a failing business. Everything is done in ways that aren’t thought out by the people who really know, and people are treated like rusty old tools.
We’re still doing comics every weekday on HandRooster and I think we’re doing ok. We’re also toying with the idea of doing a sort of news/talk post associated with each comic, in a sort of Penny Arcade style. It would probably do me good to do that, honestly.
I’ve been involved recently with a lot of Halo 2. We sometimes hold Halo 2 festivals, which we call Halofest. I got that name from my friend Frank, but now I give them individual names. For example, the one this last Saturday was called Halofest 2007 - Tragic Ending and the one on the 26th of this month is called Halofest 2007 - Rite of Passage. We just tend to play a lot of different gametypes in the community center. We eat a lot of junk food and play all day. We had about 7 or 8 people show up this last time and we’re hoping to have more on the 26th. We’re all very excited about Halo 3 - if it ever comes out.