New art, plus technology rant.

Yesterday morning I was working on Exalted stuff to prepare for the evening's game session. Struck by a total lack onf inspiration, I switched over to illustrating something for it instead, which I sometimes do to clear my head and fire up the idea machine again. So I put something together for the Fair Folk noble that the group was likely to encounter that evening.

http://alum.wpi.edu/~wes/images/lady_ravel.jpg

I was reasonably happy with it, and all set to conjure up new stuff, until I tried to print it out. My printer crapped out on me. It skipped a lot and printed at much lower resolution that I expected, even though the ink level was supposedly at at least half. I tried again and it printed not even one dot of ink on the page. So I fed it a new cartridge. It tried to do its calibration thing and print a test page, but most fo that didn't print. Eventually, it let me print again, and it looked just as bad as the first one. Fooey. Why are printers such junk these days? My last printer did something like this to me, too.

Alas, this turned out to be only the first frustration for the day, which also included us trying to get a new, functional DVD/VCR combo unit that won't devour videotape.

( Sony hates me, and I hate Sony. Magnavox doesn't seem to like me either. )