I just finished putting the final touches on my entry for this years Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest and sent it in.

I feel like this years entry is much stronger then last year's. Last year I didn't even make it into the top 300 and after seeing last years winners I'm not sure how confident I feel about my chances but win or lose I'm proud of what I made and I'll upload it for everyone to see after the entry cutoff date.

It took a couple months because I was basically building it with things that I found like the box itself was some type of side table that I found at the Teen Challenge Thrift Shop also the the back wall is made out of thin plywood that used to be shelving for a CD Rack that someone was throwing away and the door was a cabinet door from a bathroom cabinet...that was also being thrown away : D) I could have just bought a kit iff of amazon but those are $300which is WAY too much and all of those kits where the sane generic house shaped design and I wanted something different.

It's mostly filled with Kids books since those are what I know best and there are a lot of kids in my neighborhood but I've collected a big box worth of book(that I actually have in a big box) and I have a few things that a normal adult might find interesting in there as well.

Progress steps

You ever drop a dollar into the children's hospital donation bin at Walmart then go home to play Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing featuring Banjo-Kazooie (its the best of the 3 games and it's not Backwards compatible on the Xbox One for some reason) on your Xbox 360 that you bought at the thrift shop two months ago to replace your original 360 that red ringed on you years ago...just to find that it red ringed on you?

No good deed goes unpunished, I keep saying that and people keep telling me it's not true but unfortunately I keep proving that it is....

A few doodles from the past month(I've never drawn anything Dragonball related before but a coworker asked me to draw her a scene from Dragonball so I had to try and this doodle of Master Roshi and Kid Goku was the best I could come up with on the spot but she seemed pretty happy with it so I guess it was good enough.

I did it, I finally ordered an Analogue Pocket

I've wanted one for awhile now but I would always talk myself out of it because of the price and the fact that it's a preorder instead of a straight up purchase (I don't like spending money with nothing to show for it)

Analogue made an update over on twitter that orders before July 20th would be shipping in August so if I had ordered one a week ago it would've been in that batch but the website still says "shipping 2023" so I can only hope mine ships out next.

I REALLY want an Analogue Pocket but that's more than I can justify spending ATM so I've decided to just upgrade my PSP and keep using that as my portable emulator (there are a couple Pokemon ROM hacks that don't seem to work on GPSP but other than that it's still great)

So far I've bought a Micro SD to Pro Duo adapter (don't know why it took me this long to get one, being able to use my 128GB Micro over my old 4GB Pro Duo is great, seriously anyone who plays their PSP regularly needs to buy one)

I bought this Clear shell. I've always loved see through cases ever since my very first Hand Held which was an Atomic Purple Gameboy Color (wish I still had it)

The next upgrade I want to do is an IPS screen but so far I've only seen one for the 1000 series PSP

I'd like to say that I've been working on a lot of new Art projects but I've mostly been working outside the past few months cleaning up and turning my backyard into an extra garden/private hangout sorta.

I've posted before about putting up a new fence to cover up the neighbor's rotten one, well they finally took the rest of it down(on one side at least) so they can enjoy my nice new fence instead of their old one. I've also been continuing to fence around the rest of my backyard which I'd say is about 70% of the way there.

I've been occasionally collecting DS Games, when I come across them, still even though I don't have a working DS and even my 3DS is out so I've been without a way to play DS games until I stumbled across this gem at the pawn shop for less than what the retro shops ask for them.

There were two options this pale pink one and then a white one for $30 but that one didn't have a charger and it was in questionable condition so after going home and sleeping on it I decided that I wanted it even though it was pink.

I also ordered an R4 for it though there are a few Japanese game Roms that I'm having trouble finding, namely Utacchi so if anyone knows a good place to download that one I'd appreciate a point in the right direction.