Haha, what's with everyone faving that Spy picture? Cracks me up a bit that out of, say, every 30 favs, only 2 of them are NOT the Spy pic LOL.

Anywho, thanks to those who've fav'd and watched me lately - I haven't been around much, but I still appreciate it. C: I'll try to be a little more active on here, but college eats up my life like crazy.

I'll probably do more TF2 stuff too, lol. Usually I'm not really motivated to do fanart, but dang TF2 gets in your head.

Like most people, I only have an 8 1/2 by 11 inch size scanner. Unfortunately, mine's got elevated ridges as well, so I can't even scan piece by piece very well because of the resulting annoying shadow. So I figured that since my scanner isn't suitable that I might as well look into getting a bigger one.

Except I can't hardly find anything near what I want for lower than 3000 bucks. What the hell. I don't want any of those bajillion-page jobs or ridiculous DPIs, I just want a functional scanner I can fit things on. Something like this [link] , but bigger y'know?

Like, look at these screwy prices: [link] [link] The best price I could find was on EPSON's GT-2000 - $1800 Canadian.

The Contex one looks flippin' sweet, but holy pants it's trying to cost almost 7 times more than my COMPUTER with that reduced price on that link. WHY. My silly scanner that's part of my all-in-one has quality enough for me, it's just the SIZE that's not right (and the ridges), and that only cost me 50 bucks. :I I don't care about "color feature extraction" or "error diffusion halftoning" or "adaptive thresholding." DO THOSE PHRASES EVEN MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL.

Fffffffffff.

Anyway, do any of you guys have any idea if such a thing as I desire exists, and if so where? Just a flatbed scanner, size maybe around 11x17 inches. Preferably not a thousand dollars.

Nnngh I have nothing to say. Except that I want school to start soon. Got quite a few DVDs for my birthday, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas/Horton Hears a Who (on the same DVD), which has pencil tests on it! Which I am going to watch momentarily.

Oh yes, and you know what I forgot to mention? One of my cats, Hazel, croaked on the 13th. Very odd and unexpected, as I believe she was only 7 or 8 years old, and we're not sure what exactly it was. She was perfectly fine the day before too, and post mortem turned up nothing unusual. But there's no need to say silly things like "I'm sorry to hear about your cat" or anything haha, my family has had so many cats croak that none of us were really particularly fazed by it. We've got a nice little urn collection going on now, of our one dog and, including Hazel when hers comes in, three of our cats. So it goes!

Anywho, I'm going to try and increase art output for the rest of the summer. We'll see how that goes, lol.

So. My dad was brought to the hospital today by an ambulance about an hour ago. He'd just been standing at the fridge, closed the door, then just about fell over from extreme unexpected lower back pain. He had to be shifted onto the couch, and was on the verge of passing out and extremely dizzy. He could still barely move when the paramedics came. Mom went with him.

No idea what it is yet. He seemed well enough to at least retain his sense of humor - as the paramedics were wheeling him out, he said "I'm fine now," whilst grinning disarmingly.

Time to play the waiting game.

EDIT: He's fine, the dork. Just a spontaneous sort of muscle pain thing. He was dizzy and groggy from the pain. He's taking a nap, feeling good on anti-inflammatories and painkillers. The man has a history of very poor pain tolerance, so my mother was exasperated as well as relieved.

Anywho, that's the end of that. XD