Missed doing something with Oded Fehr, and because there can never enough Mummy wallpapers around and because Ardeth is still my favorite character of all the characters he’s played… here’s a new Ardeth Bay wallpaper!
I’ve been thinking I want to do a Frank Donovan one too, never did as many of those as I intended. There were so many gorgeous Donovan photos!
It’s been a while since I’ve made any textures, and suddenly I wanted to make some! So here’s my two newest:
Head on over to Textures page to download.
Watched Westworld 3.04 yesterday and got stuck on the scene where this music played – so happy to find it released 😀
Made this today 🙂
First off, I’m so done with migraines! My everyday non-migraine attack headache has been at 5 (out of 10 where 10 is the worst pain I can imagine) for the last 1,5 weeks, and the last two weeks, I’ve had a migraine attack every two or three days in addition :/ My sleep schedule is all out of whack because either the migraine won’t let me sleep either because it hurts too much to stay in sleep so that I wake up about once an hour. Or I can’t even try to sleep because the hurt worsens when I lie down 🙁 I’m running out of patience with this bullshit.
I started using fountain pens two years ago. My first one was Pilot Metropolitan Retro, with an F nib, and turned out I hate it. I thought it was the nib, but I’m not sure. Think it’s the barrel actually. Feels too small in my hand and cold and smooth. I like all my other fountains pens just fine. Second fountain pen I got was Lamy All-Star and I like it a lot, I now have two of them, Vibrant Pink and the new Turmaline. I’m currently using M nib on both All-Stars, but I also got a 1.5mm stub and I’m going to get an F and maybe even an EF to see if I like them. I also have PenBBs 267 and 323, and I like them, especially after I switched an M nib to the 323. Also got two TWSBI Ecos – Pink and Mint. The Pink is M nib and the Mint is a Broad nib. Oh, and also Parker IM Premium which I think I would love, but it dries up in seconds when I try to use it. I find myself reaching for the two TWSBIs Ecos the most lately – I used tothink all the TWSBIs are sooo ugly, but I’ve come to enjoy their look and I love how smoothly they write. The Mint is Eco-T and I like the different grip more than I think in Eco.
I’ve also looked at the TWSBI Diamond 580 series, especially the Purple and Emerald Green, but I can’t justify the price and quality compared to Ecos. Seems to me the quality upgrade isn’t significant enough. Until TWSBI announced the new TWSBI Diamond 580 Smoke RoseGold II. It’s even more expensive than the regular series Diamond 580s, but I’m drooling! I may have to use some of my tax return in August to buy, if it’s still around at the time. It’s just so gorgeous!
I had the need of a wallpaper for my phone, so here’s a modified version of one my recent Star Trek: Picard/Jeri Ryan wallpapers 🙂 Size 1080×2340. Also opened a page for these sorts of wallies, you can find the link on the Wallpapers page.
My country Finland has declared a state of emergency because of COVID-19 starting today (March 18, 2020) until April 13th. I’m okay so far but I belong in the high risk group because of three of my chronic illnesses or their medications, and in addition I’ve been having a Crohn’s Disease flare since early January so I have been mindful already the last few weeks, and will continue to take as many precautions as I can going forward to avoid getting COVID-19.
Right now, I’ll continue to update sites and making wallpapers etc. as normal, but should I disappear for a bit, it’ll probably have to do with COVID-19 and/or Crohn’s Disease.
The nationwide shutdown of services is going to be weird – due to my illnesses, I don’t go out much because I don’t have the energy and my migraine is ofteen too bad or it would make it worse, but still! I’m used to going to the rehabilitation activity and talking to people, as well as to library every week and always having at least a few new books to read! Now I’ll have to resort of e-books, which is a huge relief that they exist! I think it’s also think it’s going to take a toll, staying home because I have to, not because I want to and not having face-to-face social contact. (I live alone).
My Mom is 75 and her SO is 80, so they’re both also in the risk group and they have some illnesses. I’ve been trying to talk them into either taking advantage of their neighbor’s offers to grocery shop for them, or to do grocery shopping via the internet and have them delivered home. So far, nope. They think they’re ok going to the shop in the off-peak hours ;/ I might be able to talk my Mom over to online shopping, but she said even if she did, her SO wouldn’t. He’s stubborn.
Also it’s kind of scary, being in a national state of emergency, when I think about it! The last time that was declared was WW2. So it’s a whole new thing. Although I did consider during the swine flu, remembering the bird flu and liking The Walking Dead and movies about epidemics, that it was only a matter of time until outbreak big enough to cause societal interruption would come along. So it’s not a total surprise, and I feel like I’m at least a little prepared, mentally.
My newest wallpapers: 2x Lenore Karidian (from The Conscience Of The King), 1x Christine Chapel (The Naked Time) and 1x Kirk (also from The Naked Time) 🙂 Loved making these, and am very happy with them!
Xenacentral.net domain will expire sometime on Friday – that’s day after tomorrow! Can’t believe it. I’m both feeling a kind of terror, as well as terribly excited! Terror because I’ve had the site for something like 16 years, I think, in one form of another. I love the series as much as ever, and still follow Lucy Lawless’s career so whenever I see her in something new, I get the urge to watch some Xena again, and when I do that I want the site to exist. The cons just started to outweigh the pros.
I wonder if there’ll ever be a Xena release in HD, on Bluray. I will cap it from Bluray if there ever is one. I very much wish there will be!
