I'm quite pleased that I've finally got around to posting some new work on DeviantART. I used to live and breathe that place a couple of years ago, but ever since the Great Apocalypse (where all the good artists got swamped out by the not-so-good ones, I have very rarely done much than spectate on the main articles and Daily Deviations. Despite my lack of involvement I have always remained proud that I was there from pretty much straight after the start - I remember coming across it when looking for a new wallpaper. It was just about the time that I had discovered Photoshop, and afterwards began submitting my own digital creations. That was in 2001.

Not that I wasn't as bad as all the other 15 year olds now, just it wasn't so busy, and people were a bit more generous with their time. But things change, so that's that. I'm not going to abandon the place, but I think I'll be lucky to get more than two or three comments on any of the work I've just submitted.

I had Subway for lunch; the first visit to the new and fabled Stourbridge shop. It was lush. It always is. One of my friends tryed to pollute my mind with propaganda the other day that the bread contains nothing but reconstituted potato starch, but even if that is true, my ears have been sealed from the start. Give me another.

Another great food re-discovery I made the other day was GrapeNuts. Not the most tasty sounding of breakfast cereals, but it has to be my number one - right up there with Lucky Charms. Trying to come by either of these is usually stopped by the prohitive price tag, the fact they stopped importing them, or simply in the case of the GrapeNuts - the box is too small to notice in a supermarket.

I ran into Brian Carpenter this morning. This is the first realisation the year is over - now two years on after I departed OSH. He seems to be doing well, and Neil, his youngest, has just finished up at OSH. It won't be long before he decides to retire I would have thought. It's funny that in just the two years since I left there has been a distinct shift in staff. The Old Guard are handing over to the new. Quite strange to think about it really. By the time I'm twenty five most of them will have hung up their Dry-Wipe markers.

Nothing really has moved on the work front today as Mike called to cancel our lunch appointment and move it to tomorrow. I spent this afternoon browsing through my photo collection and holding casual conversation with Gwyz over MSN. Lazy days, but it's sooo nice.

I still haven't replied to all those emails in my inbox. If you are waiting on a reply, please give me a kick. I wan't to get on. The only ones I seem to jump to are the ones involving amusing conversations with people e.g. Emily and Waddle. Despite my inertia, everyone else seems to have a bit of the same too, so I can't totally be blamed. The number of emails and phone calls I'm waiting on is innumerable. That's what the summer does to us all.