So, I was cleaning my working place, throwing away antediluvian stuff, and I came upon my old Wacom Graphire3 4x5. Which reminded me that I had planned to sell it quite a while ago and eventually forgot about it. And here we are.

GREAT DEAL!
VINTAGE WACOM GRAPHIRE3 TABLET 4X5 FOR SALE!
A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION SINCE THE "GRAPHIRE" SERIES DOESN'T EVEN EXIST ANYMORE!!1!
STEP FORWARD, STEP FORWARD, DON'T BE SHY!

It's used, of course, awfully used. I don't remember it malfunctioning though. The nib might have to be replaced for optimal use, or the pen for that sake, but it's still working fine. I didn't change it because it fucked up or anything, I just upgraded for a bigger tablet.

Everything is there, the tablet, pen, pen holder, mouse, and original CDs (although the drivers must be WAY outdated), and it even comes in a Graphire4 6x8 box to fool your friends! As an extra, a neat background for the tablet from one of my illustrations.

Here's a thumb (curse you, suscribers only features!)

AND for the price! Seriously, I dunno. 40$ plus shipping? Or best offer? Anyone? PLEASE, I NEED TO EAT! I'll check with my post office for shipping fees if I get an offer.

Thank you!

Yeah. Felt like clearing this.

update
SUCCESS! FUCK YOU, NTFS.SYS! PWNED!!!1!11

So yeah, after wasting a whole lot of cds (my girldfriend's cd burner doesn't really work... although it acts like it does) trying all sorts of boot options... I managed to bring my PC back to life retrying the Linux thing. Turns out I wasn't doing it right the first time. My recover partition is gone though... haha I don't give a flying fuck.

Right now, my all new (and ugly red colored (and weird)) external HD (I named it Phong ) is being fed all my important files. Phew.

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It was a pleasant evening. My girl and I had fallen asleep on the couch. While she had drifted to the bedroom later on, I remained there, drowsy as one can be when his life is dull and devoid of challenge.

But as good things come to an end (and I would soon find the true meaning of this) I finally woke up and went to my PC, oh so fidel Hal9000. I was in need of action and art, in need of binary.

To my great disgust, instead of a welcoming spacescape and comforting icons, I was greeted by a Blue Screen of Death, rambling about NTFS.SYS. OH THE IRONY OF LIFE.

Yeah so poetry aside, I can't fucking boot my PC. No XP, no safe mode whatsoever, no reinstalling either or formating from the XP CD. It crashes every time. I've looked it up and it seems this particular bug (somewhat common though with many different causes) occurs when NTFS.SYS gets corrupt, resulting in any write attempt on the HD to cause a crash. Fuck, I say.

SO here comes YOU, the friendly neighbors, the PC pros, whoever has experience with this. I need help, because I do not want to format. Especially since my XP CD is actually a XP reinstallation CD (since my HD came partitioned (sp?) with the first half being the reinstall backup... ah the so fucking constant irony) and I kinda fear a completely formatted HD will confuse the CD....

So, what I've accomplished so far:
I've ran a diagnostic CD that came with my DELL, it detected only some problems with RAM, always the same DIMM... I dunno if this is of any use, but I've read somewhere that the ntfs.sys bug is sometimes caused by faulty ram... I thought of booting with the ram removed, but dunno... is it pertinent?

I've burned a KNOPPIX boot cd and it works. I can see my hds and even transfer shit on my ipod and all. Doesn't seem to see my network but that's irrelevent. I tried the ntfsfix thing, but first it said my acces was denied and then kept saying the device was busy. SO... any LINUX pros around? Help? Also, I tried to rename ntfs.sys to ntfs.old (in hope of then rebooting with the xp cd and replacing it with the original) but it never gave in. Linux said I couldn't "delete" (?) the file.

Tomorrow I'm gonna buy a portable HD to backup my shits... and maybe ask the dude if he knows what to do, but I'd like your opinion too. This is starting to look more and more like a fucking format-resolved issue. But will my XP CD work?

Wow, my life sucks these days.

Well it's not getting better.
The fun slash pain ratio while drawing is pretty tight now...

I guess partial unemployement is really getting to me

...

How is everyone?

I can't tell if it's an art block... but I'm not drawing anymore.
Ok I'm doodling a lil bit, and working on a few pieces that never come to an end... but that apart, I've never been so unproductive. I don't color. At all. I developed a sorta phobia about it.. about the never ending process of experimenting, about each new piece being a synapse-bending research of how I'm going to develop the lighting, the atmosphere... It's just become such a horrid task. I get to the flat colors and then despair about the hard work to come.

Working in animation really did kill it. My brain has changed its main focus.
It'll come back... I guess.. some day.

So to anyone who cares, I won't be submitting for a while, except maybe for scraps, so you might wanna watch that, again, if you care at all.

Later.