How is everyone? Great, Personally, I'm sucking right now.

After finishing up my course of Anti-Biotics and other fun medication, the sinus/throat/stomach infection pretty much disappeared, right in time for me to get this nice little head flu! YAY! and of course, once that ran it's course, one of the wisdom teeth they wanted to extract started to do it's impaction thing, and the entire right side of my jaw is in a rather un-happy amount of pain. It's difficult to eat, swallow, yawn, yell, etc.

I finally have some time off work (a few days before, and after the surgery) so I thought I'd make a little update to the site. There are about 5 new items in the various galleries which were completed recently, and if you have not noticed yet, the first of the "Shade Tree Brewing" shirts is available from the Zazzle store. DarkSev.Com is pretty much the Official merchandise location for ShadeTree brewing from this point on. (If you do not know, Shadetree Brewing is the local homebrew group started, and run by John Sr., which employs pretty much all of my gang of friends as minions of beer)

'll let you know how things are going here in another week when my jaw is swollen shut :)

Hmm, been awhile since I posted something, suppose I should bring everyone up to speed.

Things got horribly, horribly busy at work lately, so busy we had to hire in another 2 techs to just keep the work from crawling off the bench and killing all of us, so I had overtime for a few weeks in a row (and I ate that up like crazy).

About 3 weeks ago, I started feeling kind of under the weather, "just sinus', it's fall, yo!". there was this nagging pressure behind my temples, in my jaw under my ears, and I got a few more headaches than usual. nothing to serious. About a week after that, I had some "creative differences" with Zazzle for a bit, and because the world is run by evil lawyers who all need to be hit by a truck, some of my art was taken out of my gallery. by itself not a huge issue, but the way in which this was communicated had the effect of throwing my psyche into a meat grinder. I couldn't even look at any of my projects for 2 weeks.

A brief bit of inspiration via music and one of my absolute favorite online manga's pulled me out of my slump, and lead to me finishing up 3 projects in reletivly quick times ("muse" is in the store, but not on the site yet, and the other 2 wont be posted until their recipients OK everything).

Then I start feeling worse. I've got this nasty copper taste in my mouth all the time, I'm nauseated constantly, my stomach doing agonizing flip-flops onto a bed of nails. I can't eat, or even look at food, I even had to call off work for the first time in years. A trip to the doctor reveals a number of things.
1) probably as a result of the anti-biotic eye drops from my lasik surgery, combined with the constant dust and airborne irritants from work I developed a sinus infection, which was now raging, and had spread to my throat, and possibly my stomach.
2) The jaw pain, while partially caused by the tubes in my ears being blocked up, can be attributed to the infection causing my wisdom teeth to put pressure on the rest of my teeth, cause swelling, etc. etc... so now those need to be removed.

So now I'm on some great drugs, and I get to go see a man about having some of my teeth yanked from my skull.