The Grax Domain

28 Feb 2005 Dammit, Why won't my elbow heal??

Man I'm pissed off about my elbow.

So I was doing an Aikido class (Yeah I do Aikido, don't believe me? Check out my Bio) and my training partner was a little rough on me. He got in a arm lock move that really threw my arm and elbow out of place. Now I get this pain in my right elbow whenever I bend my arm to its maximum limit or straighten it to it maximun limit, though any other position is fine. It looks like I've strained/twisted the muscles around my elbow. This was over a month ago and the pain won't go away.

This is getting silly! I went to the doctors and all they 'recommended' was to take painkillers for a while. I did for a short while and it didn't work. Doctors are rubbish anyway; unless your dying they don't give a crap. And they always have bad news. Sorry if I've offended any doctors who read this. I'm not bitching about you, just the profession.

Does ANYBODY know a way to stop this pain?? It's affecting me badly. I've stopped going to the gym because I can't do weights on it. I know I could do other things like running but that's boring! I go to the gym to work on my guns. I'll try anything (sensible) to stop the pain. Hell I'll even be willing to give you something back in return for this favour.

Anyone got any bright ideas?

24 Feb 2005 "In the World of Darkness" mini-series (Still not thought of anything better)

I've finished off the other pictures for this comic thing and stuck them in the Art of Grax. I even made a start on a second issue but gave up halfway through. I wasn't fully in a drawing mood then. To save precious seconds here's a direct link to the page:

WOD comics thingys

I also did a doodle that is completely unrelated!

There, don't you feel better now?

22 Feb 2005 Dreams of War, Death, Loneliness and Friends

I had a dream the other night.

I dreamt that I was in a war, stuck behind enemy line in a sand-dug trench with my comrads. The enemy was japanese men dressed in World War 1 Nazi uniforms and they each had rocket launchers that had a delayed explosion on them. Fortunately I had one of these rocket launchers too. I was totally whupping their asses! Then one of them got a lucky shot and it was about to go off. To save the rest of the squad I sacrificed myself and smothered the rocket with my body.

I then woke up in a fairly modern shopping center-type place. I knew what I had done. I knew I was dead. I started to feel sad. Then my ex-girlfriend phones me on my mobile phone. I start babbling to her saying things like "I'm so glad to hear from you", "I'm dead", "I'm alone and afraid", etc etc. The thing is I know that my ex is dead too (even though she is alive and well in real life) so I figured she had to be here in this shopping-center-type place somewhere. So I start looking for her.

During the search I start getting all scared, emotional and sad, about being dead and alone and everything. Then out of the blue I see my old mate, Phil, who in this instance has his long hair, even though he cut his hair a few years ago in real life. I run to him and start babbling about how I'm glad to see someone I know and that I was so alone, etc. I ask Phil if he want to join me in find other people I know and he agrees. Later on we both find Phil, except this is Phil with his current short hair. So there's old long-hair Phil standing next to new short-hair Phil. At the same time.

Then I was suddenly outside the shopping center (you know, that good old transaction process that seems to happen instantly for no reason) on my own one again. The surroundings are quite industrial looking, though by no means dirty or evil looking. After a little exploring I see my other friend Si. He walking with his mates and he doesn't notice me. I start running and shouting at him to get him to notice me.

Then I wake up for real.


Intregued by this I went to Dream Moods.com for a possible solution:

• Nazi - To see a Nazi in your dream, represents a form of evil and merciless force that cannot be reasoned with. You may feel that others are putting you down.
• War - To dream of a war, signifies disorder and chaos in your personal affairs. You also be experiencing some internal conflict or emotional struggle. You are feeling torn between aspects of yourself. Perhaps the dream may indicate that you are being overly aggressive or you are not being assertive enough.
• Die - To dream that you die in your dream, symbolizes inner changes, transformation, self-discovery and positive development that is happening within you or in your life. Although such a dreams may bring about feelings of fear and anxiety, it is no cause for alarm and is often considered a positive symbol. Dreams of experiencing your own death usually means that big changes are ahead for you. You are moving on to new beginnings and leaving the past behind. These changes does not necessarily imply a negative turn of events. Metaphorically, dying can be seen as an end or a termination to your old ways and habits. So, dying does not always mean a physical death, but an ending of something. On a negative note, to dream that you die may represent involvement in deeply painful relationships or unhealthy, destructive behaviors. You may feeling depressed or feel strangled by a situation or person in your waking life. Perhaps your mind is preoccupied with someone who is terminally ill or dying. Alternatively, you may be trying to get out of some obligation, responsibility or other situation.
• Alone - To dream that you are alone, indicates feelings of rejection. You may be feeling that no one understand you.
• Afraid - To dream that you are afraid to continue on some situation, signifies trouble in the home and failure in business.
• Ex [girlfriend] - ... Seeing your ex in your dream also signifies aspects of yourself that you have x'd out or neglected.
• Friend - To see your friends in your dream, signifies aspects of your personality that you have rejected, but are ready to integrate these rejected part of yourself. The relationships you have with those around you are important in learning about yourself. Additionally, this symbol foretells of happy tidings from them and the arrival of good news.

I haven't had a chance to properly analyse this yet. If anyone else want to have a crack at it then feel free and let me know what you think.

22 Feb 2005 Entry Category Thumbnails

The thing is y'know I said that I've categorised all these enteries? And that I would do work on other things like applying proper style to the other sites I got? Well... I couldn't help myself. I've created little thumb images to indicate what category they come under. Much like the one to the left of this one. See? It me behind my computer, thusly indicating an update. Clever isn't it? I will say now that I have blantantly copied this idea off various other blog sites, including Mia's site. Or in other words; "Thanks for the inspiration guys." ^_^ Anyways I'll get back to the other proper stuff that I'm mean to be doing later.

19 Feb 2005 Grax Domain V1.2 ish

Behold the newer looking Grax Domain!

Not a lot different from the last one, is it? Well it's better because I've completely saturated this site with DIV tags and is nearly running entirely on Cascading Style Sheets. Which means in theory I can apply different looks to the site by changing the CSS. But then you knew that part already. If you look hard enough and if you actually care you'll notice a few little tweaks on this site, like the hyperlinks.

The only things that are not affected yet are the 40k Gallery, The Art of Grax, and the 8 Ball. Why? Because it took sooo damn long sorting this site out that I feel I deserve a break. But threat not, they shall be converted in the near future.

I've also categorised each of these entries and you can view the past entries by category. Go to The Past News to see the old rambles.

Now all I gotta do is go round the site and make sure I haven't broken anything...

15 Feb 2005 "In the World of Darkness" mini-series (working title)

I got bored with my roleplay group the other Sunday (we play White Wolf's World of Darkness) because my character wasn't doing anything. So I drew a mini comic thing of what everyone else was doing. I'd like to share the result.

The characters in the game are Alyssa, a reincarnated egyptian witch who's going out with a high powered vampire (Meket I think), Jude, a multi-club owning Deva vampire, 'C', a human who works in the criminal underworld, Giles, a vampire that's no longer with us, Arnold, a vampire Dick Tracy wannabe, and Adrian, a human DT teacher who use to be addiected to drugs. Not a bad mix I'd say. I realise that it'll make absolutely no sense to anyone except the people I was with at the time. Tough. Just sit there and try to appreciate my crappy art.

There's a couple more sheets that I need to complete before I can upload them. Also I won't be colouring these in unless I become obssessed with colour them in. I dunno if I'll do another comic set. Maybe if I get bored again next time.

Also I've added a Bio section. Wanna know more about me? No I didn't think so. Still it's there if you want to look. If you want me to add more stuff to it tell me.

12 Feb 2005 Art of Grax Update

I've done a couple of drawings in the Art of Grax. Go look at them.

.....That is all.

10 Feb 2005 Ok Marvel, this is getting silly now.

I recently picked up the latest issue of Uncanny X-Men #455 (the latest volume) and I have to say I'm not entirely liking what I see. But what I'm about to say will contain spoilers for people who haven't read it or any of the recent comics, especially the people from the UK who only have the X-Men comics from Panini Comics to rely on. So I thought I'd be nice and continue my rant in the comments bit below, so that the people who don't want to be spoiled won't have to read it; thusly they won't bitch at me for ruining it for them.

Click on the comments link below. I can wait...

5 Feb 2005 Tablets are cool.

After several months of debating I've finally given in and got myself a graphics tablet for my computer. This one to be precise, mainly because it was the cheapest one I could find. My face was filled with glee when it arrived this morning and I decided to give it a try. So I quickly knocked up this picture below (note: this was drawn directly onto the computer using MS Paint. I didn't sketch it beforehand. Promise!):

My first Direct Tablet drawing

It'll be in the Art of Grax, under Miscellaneous.

It's a bit crap, but it's not too bad for my first try. The tablet itself is pretty good, although I wish there was a bigger drawing space. You only get A6, roughly the size of a postcard. But what do you expect, you get what you pay for. There is this funky high-tech tracing facility on the tablet, which is simply lift the front transparant sheet, put your drawing underneath it, and trace around it with the pen. Brilliant!

I can't wait to try the tablet out on a proper drawing. *glee*

2 Feb 2005 NERDS!!

Damn you Mia, making me waste my valuable time with silly tests like this nerd test for example... Oh well.

Here's me score:






I'm not sure what to say about that. I thought I'd be a little more nerdier than that but I guess this "highly accurate" test proved me wrong.

Too bad it had nothing to do with comics. Now that's were my nerdy skills would shine. :)