BogusRed's Sketchblog

Random musings from the PaperDemon admin.

Mike and I have been engaged for about 6 weeks now. I've been jotting down random wedding ideas in a Google doc. I've got some crazy ideas for what I want to do. But I'm going to stick to a strict budget of $10K. Some of my friends and co-workers who have planned weddings tell me that doing a 10K wedding is hard and the average cost for a wedding in this area is about $30K. I can't imagine spending that kind of money on a single day. Even 10K sounds like a lot to me.

I started using a wedding budget calculator and I became depressed. There were so many things that I didn't consider and it was starting to look impossible to get a wedding for under 10K. But then I came across a website that had links to places in the area that do a whole wedding package. They take care of almost everything from food, DJ, ceremony space, chairs, tables, centerpieces. And they do it all for an affordable price under my budget. Now I am excited about planning again.

I've got some crazy ideas about my dress. I am thinking of making my own dress and everyone is trying to talk me out of it. I want something kind of fantasy/medieval style. I'm going to probably try on some regular dresses to see what kind of shape goes well with my body type and if at that point I figure out that making my own dress wont work, then I'll just buy one.

But I really want to try making my own. We probably wont be getting married until summer of 2010 so I have some time to figure out what I want to do. I might try making it and if it doesn't come out that good, i'll save it for a halloween costume or something and just buy a dress.

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So now that my cosplay endeavors are over for a while, I'm going to spend some time on heavy development on PaperDemon and other projects.

I have some other website projects that will need code from PD. So I'm working on making it easier to customize and reuse. I've realized that over the past several months, I've been spending way too much time watching tv and wasting my "project work time." I'm going to spend more time working on my web dev projects and get some major action items completed. I estimate to have the majority of my planned work done in about 6 months. Once that's done, I'll get back to working on my multimedia projects.

I'm really excited about jQuery. I just got a lesson from a colleague at work and I'm totally reved up about it. I can't wait to start doing some awesome ajax and dhtml work with jQuery. I wish I had learned about this a long time ago. Currently, I'm using the Sarissa js library. But jQuery is so much better. it has such a better structure. The code is easier to understand and will result in you writing less lines of code. And the things it can do with the DOM are amazing. Why couldn't they have designed Javascript to function like jQuery from the start? It's so unfortunate that Javascript had to be such a poorly structured language. Traversing the dom is rediculous, not to mention all the weird browser compatability problems. Gah! But jQuery will solve ALL of those problems.

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Mike's costume is done and looked great!

From Halloween 2008 Ike, Link

I had to work late on Wednesday night so I had less time to spend on Mike's costume. On Thursday evening Mike tried on his costume and we realized that we could do without the pauldron+chest piece so we'll save that for another time. Also we did not do the black boot covers. Since we decided to not do those pieces, I had a chance to do some changes to my costume. I made a new set of pants that are stretchy and more slim fitting and fixed my chainmail that broke at AX. Pants are still a little loose but I can bring in the seams more.

And we looked mighty fine!

From Halloween 2008 Ike, Link

 I think I'm going to retire my TP Link costume for a year or two. The next costume I make is going to be simple and comfortable.

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