Tears of Algeron – Travel Journal

Tears of Algeron – Travel Journal

After getting some free time upon leaving school earlier this year, I decided to fully dive into Space Empires: Starfury. Very great but buggy game, especially if you’re trying to run it on an Windows Me machine with an 8MB Vanta graphics card. It’s a big departure from the strategy titles of the same name, such as Space Empires III or IV. Still, I never thought I’d be commanding my own starship; not like this.

I really got immersed into the game, seeing lots of opportunities for storytelling and imaginative writing. That’s what started me starting to a “make believe” journal

This is that account.


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HP xl847 Battlestation – Millenium Mainframe

Sorry if the desk is a little messy, but I figured that someone would like to see what my computer is for all that I currently do, such as deviantART and the like. Meet the Millenium Mainframe.

 

This is an HP xl847. Windows Me OS (hence the name “Millenium”), 40GB hard drive and two optical drives, one being a DVD-R. Graphics card is an HP Vanta 16, and has 128MB of RAM. Optional equipment is the yoke on the bottom, sometimes for flight games.

 

Also I know fishie’s tank has low later, I’m giving it a cleaning in a bit.

Eateries – Food City Lunch

As far as I know, this was the first time I actually started taking pictures of my food. It wasn’t something I did very often then, but more as a historical kind of documenting moment. I don’t have a lot of photos showing what I did in my teen years, so anything that exists is almost a big peek into my past; even if it’s an insignificant thing as what I ate.

 

Here, we have fried chicken, mac and cheese and a cup of water. Usually paid about $2 for all of this, and bought it during my 15-minute break. The only time I wouldn’t buy this is if the deli was closed, which was after 5PM. In that case I’d revert back to candy or something else.

WSCC – Natural Science Building Lobby

This was my favorite building out of the entire WSCC campus besides the library. It always had a science feel to it. It also didn’t quite help that this is where I was taking my astronomy classes either. In fact, this photo was taken before I went into the lecture hall, trying to snack on Cheetos and wondering if I’d go eat at Ryans or Golden Dragon that night.

Flip Phone Photos of the Traficonus

I took me a bit to get this up here, but a guy I knew out of Astronomy class snapped this with his camera, back when we were building our traffic cone for the Walters State drunk driving event. Traditional film, black and white. About a week afterwards he gave me a print, which I did drag my feet to post.

 

Either way, he thought it was funny that the res of us had our phones out taking photos.

 

Never got taken out in that kind of medium, I will admit!

 

Traficonicus Borealis

So some peeps and I from Astronomy class were putting together our decorated traffic cone for the drunk driving awareness event a few days from now. I snapped this at Sarah’s apartment before we got ready to take him back to the student affairs office.

 

I’m sure I have an HD picture of him somewhere; I’ll try to get it up if I find it.

Astronomy Club Represent

This was taken at the Drunk Driving Awareness event we were running at Walters State earlier today. You could count this as a sort of “press release” photo if you’d like, showing off the members of the Astronomy Club that was there to participate in the event. Sadly I had to leave to work shortly thereafter, so I wasn’t around for very long.

 

From left to right: Me, another member of the Astronomy Club I don’t remember, Sarah Manuel and Stephanie Whiteley.

Whoever said that nothing was impossible obviously never tried slamming a revolving door.
Author Unknown, from a quote on a deviantART comment

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Cooky Mannequin Face

I ran into this dude at the Morristown Mall, while my Mom was taking me clothes shopping for my first semester at Walters State. Typically these things have blank faces or they’re extruded without paint, but this literally looked it was scribbled on with markers. My sister just made up her face when I showed it to her.

Scarlet Fury

Just at the beginning of summer I did this for my sister; she wanted artwork of a character in a story she was writing, known as Scarlet Fury. So I drummed this up one afternoon.

 

I wasn’t too happy with how the feet came out, but I love the details I put into the background. She liked that about the piece as well, apparently.

 

Maybe one of these days I’ll actually get this colored. I don’t usually do full scenes.

 

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

My name's Janeil.

Welcome to my part of the galaxy.

Moonlight game dev, creative writer, sharing my personal experiences.