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Today my editor on HB asked me to get the job done as quickly as possible -- not an unreasonable request. I told him that I would have the last 28 pages done no later than Saturday morning, and that I would have gotten the job in sooner if my grieving process hadn't been kicking the stuffing out of me. He replied that he understands and that anything I can do to get the job in quickly will be appreciated.
What did I ever do to deserve such a wonderful editor.
I got five pages done today on the G4, then knocked off an hour ago to do some internet surfing on the iMac. About half an hour ago, I turned around for some reason to glance at the G4.
... for a few months now, a monitor that a fellow artist loaned to us has been languishing in our hallway, taking up floor space. It irritates George, who has occasionally bugged the artist to come and pick it up...
... it's just as well that he didn't, because the monitor on the G4 just went ka-blooey in a very subtle way. It's as bright as it should be, but all the blacks and colors are washed out to about 50% intensity. You can read the screen and move files around and such, but it's impossible to use it for color work.
*crosses fingers* Please, Gods, let it be a monitor problem and NOT the G4's graphic card!
(It probably isn't, since restarting the computer produced some strange monitor effects that are more typical of monitor malfunction than actual computer trouble, but still... yikes!)
So right now, using file sharing, I am busily transferring everything I'm working on now and will be working on in the near future from the G4 to the iMac, in case the G4 becomes totally inaccessible. Hopefully just replacing the monitor will solve the problem -- it's a smaller monitor, but any old port in a storm, as they say. Or perhaps turning off the currently wonky monitor will magically give it several more hours of useful life.
If not, I'll have to split-shift with George on the iMac. And all the Transmit passwords are on the G4 and cannot be transferred into the iMac's version of Transmit, so if the G4 goes I'll have to get new passwords from my editors. This is not a big hassle with NBM, but with Marvel it means having a new password snail-mailed to me, which IS a hassle and a half.
*headdesk, repeatedly*
What did I ever do to deserve such a wonderful editor.
I got five pages done today on the G4, then knocked off an hour ago to do some internet surfing on the iMac. About half an hour ago, I turned around for some reason to glance at the G4.
... for a few months now, a monitor that a fellow artist loaned to us has been languishing in our hallway, taking up floor space. It irritates George, who has occasionally bugged the artist to come and pick it up...
... it's just as well that he didn't, because the monitor on the G4 just went ka-blooey in a very subtle way. It's as bright as it should be, but all the blacks and colors are washed out to about 50% intensity. You can read the screen and move files around and such, but it's impossible to use it for color work.
*crosses fingers* Please, Gods, let it be a monitor problem and NOT the G4's graphic card!
(It probably isn't, since restarting the computer produced some strange monitor effects that are more typical of monitor malfunction than actual computer trouble, but still... yikes!)
So right now, using file sharing, I am busily transferring everything I'm working on now and will be working on in the near future from the G4 to the iMac, in case the G4 becomes totally inaccessible. Hopefully just replacing the monitor will solve the problem -- it's a smaller monitor, but any old port in a storm, as they say. Or perhaps turning off the currently wonky monitor will magically give it several more hours of useful life.
If not, I'll have to split-shift with George on the iMac. And all the Transmit passwords are on the G4 and cannot be transferred into the iMac's version of Transmit, so if the G4 goes I'll have to get new passwords from my editors. This is not a big hassle with NBM, but with Marvel it means having a new password snail-mailed to me, which IS a hassle and a half.
*headdesk, repeatedly*
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