Took The Day Off

Well, sort of -- took it off RPing, at least. I just -- for some reason, I woke up in an absolutely foul mood (not to mention groggy as hell), and it took ages for it to properly clear up. And when it did -- well, that's when my parents came home with the new TV for their room, and the mild chaos there ended up getting me frustrated all over again. I'm fine now, but I decided "screw it, tags can wait until tomorrow. I need some time to recharge."

I'd hoped to get Chapter 6 up by now too, but that's not looking likely either, sadly -- mostly because I find myself having written a bunch more for it! *shakehead* They're good additions, I feel, but still. . . I'm gonna keep working on it off and on through the night, and hopefully should have it up tomorrow morning/early afternoon.

I did do one interesting thing today -- I've been playing around with animated gif resizers and such online after discovering one old gif I'd dumped in my recycle bin was a lot smaller in file size than I remembered it being. Smaller than Dreamwidth's icon size restrictions, in fact. I've been fussing around, and -- well, do you think this would make a decent icon for forgotten_vows?



For comparison purposes, here's the icon that's currently in the slot that would take up, made by anonymoose_au:



Why is the first one faster? I used one of the online editing programs to drop every second frame to reduce the size. Which worked well, and makes for a pretty funny image -- I just don't know if it would work better at normal speed. On the other hand, normal speed never looks that good when I try to make it smaller. . .

So, yeah, thoughts? (Particularly interested in yours, Moose, because -- uh -- yeah. ^^; Sorry? It's just blurry. . .)

Okay, I should get back to work on my story.