PirateCaptainDark

Hello. I realize that I have been away for quite some time. The truth is that I needed time to myself. Over the past two years, I have experienced a number of incidents in my life. Their aftermath have impacted my outlook on life. The impact has been so great that I can safely say I am not the same person I was two years ago. However, giving up has never been an option for me. It doesn't matter if I experience pain, loss, betrayal, heartbreak, or even hate. Sure, they are something I would rather avoid if possible but you have to take the good with the bad. It's only through experiencing both victory and defeat, sharing laughs and shedding

Summer is coming to an end. School is drawing near. I'm trying to make the most of the three weeks I have left. I guess the best course of action would be to make a checklist and finish most if not all of it by the end. That to-do list will probably include my Pokémon FireRed Nuzlocke comic. I uploaded a sneak preview of it earlier today so feel free to go check it out. For the most part, the story is coming along nicely. I really wish I had a tablet though; it has been rough drawing with the touch pad on my laptop. I have been feeling tired and lazy lately but I guess it's time I picked up the slack. My internet may not have gotten bet

The past 2 weeks have not been fun for me at all. After I made my last journal entry, a nasty bunch of malware, spyware, and trojan programs decided it was time to make their presence known. Horrible timing as usual. I was rendering a video in the middle of the night and I decided; "Hey, closing my eyes for a few minutes isn't going to hurt anyone..." I woke up 5 minutes later to find everything in a mess; my desktop icons were gone, the program rendering was gone, and the taskbar was LITTERED with Alert Triangle notifications. According to the diagnosis of this "recovery" program, my hard drives were experiencing critical failure (or someth