K-Day! [And a kontest!]

As in, the day to celebrate Kaitlin!

I'm celebrating it a day early so that she can check out the new CHARACTER QUIZ
now available on the Riccy Quiz page.
This means that all other PTEr's can check out the ridiculous new "quiz" a day early! It is reminiscent of the Riccy Quiz...

It also has 2 "secrets". First one to find them both and mention them in the comments of this post win! Prizes limited to 1 of following: PTE banner of winners creation, PTE banner available on banners page, Winner gets to write a post, or Winner gets to choose PTE's background.*
Contest Closes April 30, 2014.

* 'Winner' must have a named account. 'Winner' limited to ONE person. PTE banner of winners creation must be safe for work and is subject to acceptance by Eric Riccy. Banner must be 1200px by 400px, unless chosen from the banner page. PTE post is also subject to acceptance, if deemed not safe for work or if deemed inappropriate for posting (i.e. racial slurs) then will not be posted. Post must be in english. Winner will be responded to by Eric Riccy in the comments, and [if not known] will be required to post an email address of which Eric Riccy can contact. The email address will be removed from comments upon being read. PTE claims no responsibility for any damages somehow caused by the contest. (Seriously there shouldn't be this is all virtual like how) By posting with participation in the contest you thereby agree to these terms.

Happy Birthday Kaitlin!

Dem old files

I've been reorganizing my office space (Read:Base 50) in order to make a proper workstation for creating projects. Part of doing this meant going through things that I had left behind here when I moved back to Hometown way back in 2011. It's kinda awesome cuz it's like going through something that was frozen in time.

While going through these things I found some very interesting things, so interesting that I'm making this post about them.

First wacky thing I found was a career matching result from way back in 2009. (Like way back when PTE may or may not have existed!) The top result on it was Director of Photography, second was Director, third was Set Designer, Seventh was Animator, 11th was Cartoonist, 19 was computer animator, essentially the entire list was of creative jobs. The paper also says my suggestions fit under the cluster of "Arts and Culture".
Abridged version is I was meant to never make money at all ever from the start. And probably doomed.
This helps explain my weird hobbies(Animation, music making, city designing in vidya games) and lack of being able to figure out where I fit in the world though, figuring all these jobs are low paying "you need to draw mona lisa" type jobs. My art marks never were very good, meaning my interests and my skills don't match. (Granted there's arbitrary marking schemes of Art Teachers, but at the end of the day they're still right since I'm not making money on my crap drawings.)

Second thing I found was stuff from a course called "CALM", essentially a life skills class which I took somewhat seriously back then but never really made the connection of what it was trying to teach me until I fell flat on my face in Hometown.
That connection being I found a "Working a budget" exercise where you had to take a fix amount of cash and try to stretch it to work with different commodities like food and gas and clothes. The first thing that got me smiling about it was the fact the budget I made up included working with TWO jobs, making approximately $1400 a month. Compared to Hometown where I was squeaking at best with ~$900 a month. (And at worst with ~$300. March was baaaaaaad.)
My costs and this budgets costs were obviously much different, but in general my costs were much much higher. I may not have paid $40 (a month) for gas (which is impossible lol, good try past me), but I was dishing out a solid $60 a month for a bus pass. (which was useless half the time due to my location)
To sum things up, the budget I had made up made me in the red about $75 a month. In reality going in the red meant I was dead, soooooo uh
maybe that helps explain why I'm here again. 


Third thing I found was just an intro thing to the CALM course, which I found entertaining due to some of my answers. Examples being "What is your impression of what this course is about?" which I answered "Same as some other course but with sex ed" (priorities!), "What motivates you?" which I answered "- Girls -Money -Boredom" (Aside from the stuff I've made to annoy PJ, thats actually held pretty true...) And "What do you hope to do after high school?" which I answered "Hoping to get into business at University of New City, get degree then get job as a financial planner/advisor. After that, maybe eventually return to Hometown."
Makes me smile that that plan got changed so drastically. More smiling because the idea of me as a financial planner. (Bankrupt in 5...4...3...2...1...)
I could probably try for it now, but I can guarentee I know I wouldn't be walking into that position. I'd have to start as an intern and work my way to whatever opportune job comes my way. Get years of experience before even hoping to start planning/advising.
So much time everything requires I tell ya.

I'll keep cleaning away but I may make another post about the silly things I find sometime soon.
Or maybe I'll just make a new game soon. MAYBE

btw expect shenanigans ~April 24th.

Riccy-21

heyyyyyy remember riccy-18?
no?
Strip club?
Yes?
ok cool.

abridged version is I did that cuz I wanted to feel like a true adult. It was the craziest thing I could think of, at the time it was super cool and yeah.

Now I'm old as dirt and am not planning on going to one this time. But the banner is a playful nod to that time.

(I also re-read that post and wow I sound so much different.)

There was a time also when a certain someone's guy wasn't sure if he could be friends with me because I did the strip club thing. Good times. We're good friends now. (I also learned about that certain someone actually saying something along the lines of "Ric's been my friend since too long, he's batshit insane but he is who he is." +respect to them I tell ye.)

alright im done rambling, yay for being 21

only 179 years to go.

I'll make another post later if I do something cool  k.

AVOIDED BUMP SHIFT!

my work probably hates me now though lol

i have the next 6 days off so expect lots of birthday craziness

weeeeeeee

Goodbye Radio Project!

I'm in a stitch for real news.
So long story short I deleted a page and am calling it news. (That's right we're going professional.)

Uni doesn't start til fall, work is the same as it always is. (albeit lower hours means more time to work on projects, but aside from that nothing else to say) I had a small sim city addiction but my projects managed to kick it, so now looks like Sim City Addictions are a thing of the past. (cue cheering.)

Speaking of Projects, I'm planning on ruining PTE for my birthday. (As you may have expected.) I plan on also maybe releasing a little something else I've been working on around that time. (More details later maybe)

Also I'll mention now and remind post again later, but later this month and early next month I'll likely be not posting or doing anything with PTE, as I'll be spending time with a very special guest at that time.

Also Also I revised the Banners and What is PTE pages. And Added a Riccy Rule. Still Deciding what I'm going to do with the Riccy Quiz Page.

Alright that's all the jabber news I got for now. Making up news is hard work.

PARTNERSHIP OVER!

What seemed like a great idea has gone up in flames in a mere 24 hours.
Disagreements about the sites direction (I wanted to allow adult content...) and colour schemes (I think you can figure out what two colours we fought about.) led to Snowfire quitting.
I could try running KK-E myself but figuring Paper Train Express still exists, might as well just keep running my golden staple.

So, as always,

NOT DEAD YET!

(Maybe next year?)

PARTNERSHIP?

After long discussions with Snowfire, we've decided to join forces in making a brand new blog, one that would take the Great things of PTE and mix it with the decent things of KK-N.

Introducing...

KITTY KITTY-EXPRESS

Snowfire and I will share posting, Snowfire will handle the blog design and banners, I'll be designing random little games to add to the site. We've agreed to keep the Daily Squee page. (As I proved it does get usage on PTE)
We've still got more details to bump out such as what other pages to add, and actually telling Snowfire about this.

As this new blog is meant to replace PTE, PTE will be deleted tomorrow. (Don't worry I'm saving the banners and Riccy Rules juuuuuust in caaaaaase.)

Hope to see you all there!