Sunday, March 1, 2015

2015 Teaser 11 - What's in a Name

Last of this year's teasers so far!

First, I'd like to say this has been a CRAPTASTIC weekend.  It all started Friday when I got home from work and had a couple calls from my bank...not a good sign.  Apparently somebody hacked my credit card and proceeded to make over $5000 in charges.  The bank blocked most of them, but $900 of charges still got through before then.  I spent almost an hour on the phone with the bank as she read through the list of charges...until I finally told her, "Look, I work from 6am to 6pm...anything during that time is NOT me."  To which she replied, "Oh, then that covers the other 22 charges..."

Sigh...so filled out the paperwork to get my $900 back and am getting a new card.

The problem is I only use that card for my 3D content...so it narrows the list down considerably...to only 3 content stores.  None of them admit they have any problems, but I know it's one of them...so have started using PayPal instead to buy my 3D content.

Then Friday night I lose Internet connectivity.  Apparently my domain controller which controls my logons, the security of my NAS, my internet connectivity, etc. died.  So spent all day Saturday dealing with that...replaced the power supply, no go.  So took it in to the Geek Squad for a diagnostic...will find out tomorrow.  Have a feeling it's one of the hard drives, but I did  not have any spare parts to swap things around to test...so we'll see.

The problem, as I stated, was that machine controlled EVERYTHING.  So it took me about 10 minutes to get my internet connectivity back, then it took an hour or so to get access to my NAS.  Then it took me a couple hours to get my VOIP working without everything trying to authenticate to the dead server.  Needless to say, by the time everything was somewhat back to normalcy (about 6pm) all I wanted to do was watch TV, hehehe.

In other words, didn't get much done this weekend...particularly what I WANTED to do.  Did work on Lifeguard a bit more today, as well as kicking out another render, but it's been somewhat of a lazy day.

So on to the teaser!

This one probably isn't too interesting, as it's right in the beginning.  The story's premise is a wife who used to be a beauty queen being obsessed with titles.  She's been out of the scene for a while and discovers there's a bar holding various contests...and she misses the beauty pageant so much, she considers entering...


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