So as I sit here waiting for the qualifying session on iRacing to start I figured I'd type up a new blog. I'm willing to bet none of you knew that I am a sim racing fan. Well I am. iRacing is not the best sim for anyone on a budget or just generally a cheap bastard (like me) but the physics are good and the free content is decent enough that you can get a few races in each week as long as you're flexible. I was on Race2play but to be honest the scheduling over there just doesn't work for me. Plus almost all the races are on RFactor which is not my favorite sim. The mods are just too different for me to really get used to. I cut my teeth on Simbin sims and like your first love I always go back to them. I know the physics really well and that game just suits my driving style so much better. I can not wait for Raceroom Experience to finally bring its offline/online racing modes online. That game rocks and I am not afraid to spend some money on it. Until that does though for my racing action I'm stuck with iRacing.
Holy shit! Where did winter come from? My friends living outside CA (which I'm fairly certain is actually all of you but I'm too lazy to check) are probably looking at the screen thinking "Dafuq?" Well in my neck of the woods we have had some pretty warm weather as of late. During the day the temps have regularly risen into the upper 60's and one or two days we hit 70+. Along with that we have had no rain. Just a heavy misting one day last week. Well this morning I woke up to a freezing house and outside was soaked and the wind was howling worse that Russel Crowe at a restaurant. My wife is snoozing comfortably in her bed in the very warm bedroom while I freeze my ass off in the living room. Since she's still asleep I stole the space heater.
I was supposed to get a lot of work done all this week on my new webcomic Aphrodite's Favor but I didn't work on any of it until last night. Thankfully I did manage to finish sketching a page I started a week ago and start and almost finish another page. I'm going to try and knock that out after the race in about 38 minutes from now. In case you're wondering what the fuck is Aphrodite's Favor? here's a sample:
It still needs some work, the focus lines on the last panel for instance need to be tweaked or just ejected altogether and the background could some touchups as well but there you have it. As Gotham Dies won't start until summertime, I'm still waiting for permission from Kevin Smith but if I don't get it by the beginning of March I'm going to replace the Bludhaven Academy storyline with something of my own creation. It'll still feature Selina Kyle it'll just be somewhere else in Gotham.
That's all for now. Qualifying starts in three minutes and the sun just came out.