So it's been a week since my best day, and though I don't think I've had any day quite as amazing since then I have done some amazing things! I thought I'd detail them in a sort of hybrid spin-off and follow-up chronicle.

So what's up? I'm behind on my Project 2017 stuff again... but almost caught up with Inktober! I've been doodling like crazy. I think I spent a bit too much time in the details of the first few, so the last ones have been almost Overly simple to make up for time lost there. Both have their own char though: the overly complex and gritty and the overly simplistic and styleful.

It seems like artists overall often start with the complex, but lean towards the easier route the better they get. The better: the faster. When it's done right it looks good, but on the other hand if it's sloppy then it looks excessively sloppy. When you add detail even a piece that doesn't look professional can look like it took a lot of effort to make, but the opposite isn't true.

I'm not sure I'm the point where my simple pieces all look professional, but this Inktober thing is amazing practice. It feels like I've barely drawn a thing since last year too. Bit rusty. Polishing up.

I fixed the Wacom thing with a few Driver re-installs, and uninstalls, and finally a restart, and then a little tweaking the settings panel that finally started working after I had the right driver set installed!

If you happen to be using a Bamboo: make sure to download the LEGACY drivers, not the newest! And if a driver CD followed with your by-now-ancient tablet, disregard those, they might not work anyway. The newest version of whatever drivers are compatible with your device are the best choice. Look it up. If you have multiple drivers you'll need to uninstall the wrong ones for the right ones to work, too, since Wacom in particular doesn't do that for you.

The Hexalist thing worked out too! I couldn't get it too run on my default computer no matter what I tried (we ran through a serious troubleshooting checklist), but then I tried it on my other computer... and those zeroes turned to numbers! Still haven't posted the latest update, but at least the data's all ready and waiting now.

The bowling session went great (link), the dinner's coming up, Halloween celebration's coming up, a short trip up North is coming up, I played out RE Revelations and started again on 'Normal' difficulty (yeah I'm a casual player... normally), but then I got too deep into Metro 2033 on the train to work and yesterday found myself reading it for four hours straight before bed; falling asleep after 3. I woke up at 11:40 today. Bedtime routines took another serious blast there, holy hell, but at least winter time's coming up soon...

Wish I could spend a whole day just reading a book sometime, but then again I probably wouldn't appreciate a day full of book-reading as much as a short book-reading session when there's really no time for a full day ever.

In other news I went taste testing smoothies earlier this week, tried some sushi and zone therapy yesterday, and backed 12 projects on Kickstarters. Money flies. Though only if any of them get funded...

I started today with a walk, and ended with one too, but it was all clouds and darkness this time. Orange leaves shine bright on the wet pavement though. Pretty pretty. It's still autumn, but the first snow of winter fell last Sunday: October 22. A sparse powder at Spånga station one late bowling night. Pretty cool, but I won't give up my shorts before November anyway.