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The 2K11 24/7 CCXCIX: What DID You Want to Be?

Sick, tired and slowly making headway through a heaping pile of work.

Yup, you heard me right — I'm a bit under the weather from a cold going around the office, and while I'm sitting here trying to fight it, I'm leaning (literally) on a pile of work, trying to figure out how to make it all go away.

If only it were so easy, right?

We're all given our place in life — it's simply up to us what we choose to do with it. For me, being a young bureaucrat by day and trying to piece my destiny together from what seems to be a million different thoughts by night, I can't honestly say that I've figured out what mine is. Not yet, anyway.

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Views // Posted October 26, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CCLXXIX: Voice Post — Checking in

Hey all,

So I have a lot of posts that are in "draft" status at the moment, so I figure you could do with hearing my voice, since it's been a little while. Enjoy a little slice of my life as I try to keep improving the things around me and trying to create a diamond out of the rough clutter all around me.

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--Casey E. Palmer

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Views // Posted October 7, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CCLXVII: Beware the Dark Side!

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I think we're all broken in one way or another. With some people, it's a little more obvious — they might not look the same as everyone else. They might act a little funny. There's people we can point out that aren't the same as everybody else quite easily.

But what about the rest of us? Those of us who don't show our battle scars so easily?

It’s easy to condemn the world. We look at a world full of war, crime and injustice, and we shake our heads at the horrors we inflict upon one another. We see friends, family and acquaintances perform acts that are morally wrong and we look down on them while trying to sweep their indiscretions under the rug. But we all have a dark side; it’s just that when it comes to ourselves, we absolve ourselves whenever we do something we know we shouldn’t be doing. We justify why we knowingly do things that may not be the best for us or for others, because there has  to be a good reason for it, right?

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Views // Posted September 25, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CXCIII: Scrum

Sometimes our nights go longer than expected. Couple this with the fact that family is important, and you come to a simple fact - sometimes writing an awesome blog post won't be one's first priority. 

Sad as that is, I try my best to plan for such occurrences with a wealth of half-written content and advice provided to me by friends of mine.

Today's is from Kenna, the brain behind Amathia Soapworks, who let me in on the SCRUM system, something she uses to keep track things in order to keep her clients consistently clean:

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Views // Posted July 12, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CLXXXVI: More Time Than Ideas

So I did a lot of writing while I was away on vacation. Seriously. A lot. I wrote when travelling, when up at nights in apartments, when Sarah wanted to go off to the pool to enjoy the water (and if you don't know, I loathe water if it's not a hot shower). This entry, in particular, was one I put together while having a horrible day where we were stuck in Charles de Gaulle airport. I could tell you about it, but other than learning how to be extremely patient, I don't know if this blog is the place to put it!

But this entry was all about killing time — I know that many readers here don't often have the opportunity to even have a second to think, but you never know when the moments will come that for choices outside of your control, you've wound up with more time than you have ideas. This entry is only the tip of the iceberg in that respect, but I hope that it would give some ideas to think over, and maybe you too can write an entry on it someday!

Enjoy!

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Views // Posted July 5, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CLXXXIV: Inspiration, Ahoy!

Sometimes you need to travel a long ways to find the inspiration you need to continue on — sometimes you’ll find it as close as your own backyard.

When travelling through some of Italy’s countryside, I paid close attention to my surroundings. Partially for pickpockets, making sure I wouldn’t have to slug anyone with a strong right. But MOSTLY because it was a source of inspiration for me to take another look at some of the designs I’ve made.

For instance, looking at the structures that were put together to harvest lemons in Sorrento gave me the gusto I needed to design “Tree Town” for my comic. 

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Fig 184-1: Sketch of Tree Town

On the train from Sorrento back to Naples,  I noticed a kid who dressed almost exactly like my Ruddiger character, and decided to observe his style and mannerisms to flesh him out a little more.

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Fig 184-2: Ruddiger

Inspiration is everywhere. Every time I get back to Toronto after being gone a while, I see things a little differently. Things affect me in different ways, and I get inspired in ways that may not have previously occurred to me.

Keep your eyes peeled and your wits about you, for inspiration is everywhere!

--Casey E. Palmer

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Views // Posted July 3, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CLXXIV: The First Day Back

Sometimes you've gotta go the short but sweet route.

We've all had those first days back to work that weren't QUITE what we'd expected.

The first day back is ALWAYS the hardest. After being away from a job for a while and having some sense of freedom from routine, you need to get back in the swing of things, and often FAR more quickly than you'd like.

But you've gotta do what you've gotta do.

So what do you do when you get sucker punched by missing lunch? (Stay with me here — it was a busy day, hence no time for lunch!)

  • Keep your friends close
  • Talk about it
  • Do some physical activity
  • Do something you love
  • Get some rest

Try one or more of these, and I think the next unexpected day you have will be a LITTLE bit easier.

As for me, I'm off to try the last one.

--Casey E. Palmer

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Views // Posted June 23, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CLXXIII: Battling Boredom

Some days it's challenging to come up with a blog topic. Especially when you're tired. Especially when you're tired and you really haven't done much over the course of a day.

You're more driven to follow your passion at the times where you're trying to avoid doing something that you're SUPPOSED to do.

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Views // Posted June 22, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CLXXI: Getting Back in the Swing of Things

So it's my first full day back on Canadian soil, and my first full day back with no deadlines looming over my head. Feels pretty good. I promise that stories and pictures from the three weeks abroad will be shared, but there were other things that required my more immediate attention.

Unpacking. Organizing the house with all the new stuff we got from the wedding. Starting the laborious task of combining the stuff from my old life at home with those of my new life with Sarah.

This is not a one-day job.

I've re-discovered things that were at the bottom of boxes, that were at the back of cabinets - I've likely never been as organized as I am right now. Ever. And yet my thoughts couldn't be more discombobulated.

One is never truly ready for the changes that life will have in store for them, but even if they don't know it, they are always adequately equipped.

Over the coming days, I'll be going through all the notes I made while travelling, as a day wouldn't pass by without me scribbling SOMETHING in the notebook that's definitely seen better days.

But this day, there's not much I can enlighten you with. Here's a sampling of what I learned today, and I hope it helps you in life:

* The farther you get from a city's downtown, the more the signage on the front is inaccurate - for example, the hours of operation
* Toronto will never be better than Paris for pastries. But where possible, find patisseries in Toronto owned by Parisians. It's as good as you're gonna get.
* If "gourmet" is in a store's description, it's code for "triple the regular price"
* All chores are easier when you're listening to an iPod
* A place for everything and everything in its place. If neither of these apply, get rid of the thing
* Whenever possible, don't rush. You'll miss so much along the way.
* Never reply to something faster than the other person in a conversation. You'll only frustrate yourself.
* The amount of time you've been gone is inversely proportional to how much the little things that used to bother you about your hometown will do so upon your return

And with that, I'm off to see Thor. Planning a wedding doesn't really give you a moment to get out to the movie theatre.

Ciao, bambinos!

--Casey E. Palmer

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Views // Posted June 20, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CXLIX: Post-Wedding Cooldown

So let's start with the obvious — I'm MARRIED. Everyone I know an believe it just as little as I can, but there's a ring on my left ring finger, my phone has been buzzing constantly with well wishes from friends on Facebook and Twitter, and I suddenly feel some relief from no longer having to plan such a MAJOR event. I'd totally tell you all about it, but I'm exhausted and between an intense reception and getting ready to vanish from the public eye for a few weeks.

So as promised, there'll be some posts from me today and tomorrow, and then you can look forward to several days of my friends and peers and their interpretations of "life improvement", the topic I asked them to write about! I hope you'll enjoy reading them over the coming weeks as much as I did!

See you tomorrow, and I hope your weekend was just as crazy as mine :)

--Casey E. Palmer

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Views // Posted May 29, 2011
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