Summer ends. Back to college for Semester 7.

Just want to make a journal real quick. It's now September and that means that it is officially the end of summer so that means that I better head back to college class for me to re-take that algebra class. Time sure flies by when you're having fun and busy doing things. I've been making so many art pieces and from May till I start my seventh semester, I have done a whopping total of 154 art pieces over the summer alone. Well, I have done one last night, but did not upload it yet, which that will come on Friday. So technically, I am at 153 being posted throughout this time during the course of the last four months. I've not participated in any college class for over four months. Since May 1st, which was my final day of Semester 6.

I will be gone during the mornings of college on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Since it is only one class which is the fact that I need to re-take an algebra class, I'll only be gone from my home through about three hours at most. So which means, I'll be home while it's still morning. However, it's during the morning for almost two hours. Since it's a workshop class this time around which means that computers are involved, I hope that it may be easier for me to pass this time as I had a hard time the last time as all computer work had to be done outside of class and I had a hard time remembering algebra equations and factors and it really disappointed me that it was the second time that I had to drop out of a math class.

Once the morning starts, it's my sad duty to announce that my artwork stream is going to slowly decline in favor of my college work that I must do, if I am willing to pass and earn my credits. I also must get ready to begin this year's holiday project since we're getting closer to the end of the year. I am quite sure that this may be a little bigger than last year's 300 characters. I am pretty nervous in all honesty, as I'm not sure how I can do this year's project. 2016's project itself was pretty hard alone. But now that I got college, it's actually unknown if I should go along with it or just take a break from doing a project this year to focus on my work. And I know this might shock a lot of yous, because I've been doing holiday projects for six years now, and this would count as my seventh year if I choose to go with it. I was told that I don't need to include everyone, while that is true indeed. I just need to figure out what can be possible to satisfy all parties. But just remember that college work is top priority. If I am unable to earn a certain amount of points before a deadline comes, I have no choice but to withdraw. Because to me, failure should never be a factor.

Today but unrelated, it was also kind of a rough day with one of my art programs because as I've been using this PC for over four years, my Paint Tool SAI program is kinda acting weird. See, when I close Paint Tool SAI for the last few days in a row, I have got this weird User Account Control popup asking if I am an admin or something I don't know. Earlier today, I accidentally clicked on some User Account Control setting that is now causing my PC to go dim whenever I open up the program as well as opening any file onto the program directly by clicking on a .SAI file and right-clicking another type of file and choosing to open it with SAI. It gets pretty annoying and I was real angry about it. I even told my friends my disgust toward this. I can't uninstall it because this was actually given to me by a friend so essentially, it acts as a "portable," when it was actually a cracked version that I got from him years ago before he departed and pretty much left without a trace. I also have a copy of the original file that he gave me and it can actually open without having that UAC popup, however, I won't have any of my color palettes or brushes present unless I import them over. I also have a newer version of SAI (v1.2.5) that another friend gave me, but my Anti-Virus program treats it like it's a potineal virus and it kinda leaves me paranoid into fearing that it may leave my PC open to attack shall I choose to trust the newer version. I guess I better either deal with the annoying UAC warning popups, make a fresh new folder directly from the original .zip file out of the box, or just get a different free art program that can also use stabilizers for my lineart. I use Paint Tool SAI for most of my work, but I also use GIMP and Adobe Photoshop for special effects, text and other portions that SAI can't provide with. I can still use Paint Tool SAI and it'll work like a charm, but it's just that it's annoying to deal with that bullcrap UAC popup. It also doesn't help that because of this, dragging and dropping files directly onto the program is no longer possible for me to do at all. And as I said before, if I want to directly open things onto SAI, I need to go through the UAC when opening a .sai file and I need to right-click another type of file and choosing to open it with SAI, then accept the UAC message, pretty much at all times. I know you can disable this, but it's not recommended as it's there for a reason. However, I only want to disable it for SAI so I won't get this annoying message anymore. I'll gladly appercicate it if anyone can help me out.  But sooner or later, I may need to invest some of the money that I have been saving towards a custom build PC that I might be satisfied with. Everyone's going this way in the world of technology.

That's all I got now guys. I hope to see you all later.

Blue out.