Someone mistook the back of my truck for a parking space on the highway about a month ago. I'm mostly okay, but it did slow me down somewhat and I'm just now beginning to catch up on things. For anyone that's been waiting for feedback, conversation, et al - well, that's what I've been up to and where I've been. Gimme a couple of days and I should be fully caught up. Apropos of nothing, did you know that your windpipe can be moved? They had to move mine to get at the muscles behind it because of the parking space thing. Neat.

I started this account six years ago to go on massive crawls, looking for art and inspiration. I downloaded a lot of landscapes, a lot of character portraits, and slowly got sucked into the DiD community and several other fan based groupings. I only really started taking DeviantArt itself seriously in the past two years, actually Watching people as opposed to just lurking, and it's worked out for me. Also during this period, I've recommended several artists I know to get their works up here in an effort to live off their art - endeavors which have been met with various degrees of success. The technologies available to artists in this era all