Ann Vole

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03:27 am: Everything on hold
My goals seem simple but each is held up by a rather trivial thing I am required to do instead of what I really want to do. Raising animals for my own pets (and eventually for a pet raising business but just my pets is still well out of reach); I need a place to keep them and assurance that I will not be forced ever again to get rid of them. Play the piano; I need a place to put a piano that will not require to move it again. An alternative is a $2000-$3000 electric piano with fully "weighted" keys. My keyboard I bought might do but it needs software which I hope to get with "ProTools" (so I refuse to buy different software first). Fix my house in Colfax; I was forced to get rid of my cars instead of fixing them... now I need another vehicle that can drive on gravel. Fix my bus; it needs a bit of power tools and welding and a new battery and has to be worked on in Colfax. Draw comics and animation; need a light table but cannot have one in my house for sale and Colfax is too far away from work. I have a graphics tablet but I think someone threw away the pressure-sensitive "pen" for it. I want to start my own business; need to advertize but I want my web page for it set up first but that needs my art tools set up (light table or graphics tablet). It is all so close but so "not here yet". For slightly more complex goals like making a film, they all hinge on one or two of the above-mentioned things to be going first.

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From:[info]akktri
Date:April 1st, 2009 05:36 pm (UTC)

Necessity

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Sometimes the greatest breakthroughs and moments of genius come from a lack of something a person thinks absolutely necessary. If you use your mind, you will be able to create a substitute for your light table, or find a method of drawing that doesn't require it. Maybe you can build a light table using a piece of glass and a light bulb. That's basically all they are anyway. Don't have a drawing tablet? Try something else. The guy who invented hot dog buns used to hand people hot dogs with gloves, and the customers kept taking the gloves. Don't let the lack of something get in the way of your goal. Improvise. The first light bulbs were made of strange materials like cotton and wood until Edison noticed that tungsten worked.
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