Cathat: Yeah - one step at a time.

- we just wrapped up getting the fixes for pub 39 finalized - or rather our time to shift to pub 40 has come. Looking to insert my new flower garland artwork in pub 40 if bigger fish to fry don't pop up. Still working on finalizing a dragon cloak - but that will likely take me and design a while to work in. Ack - well lots of stuff on my own personal desktop here. Some are pipe dreams and some will be reality eventually. Fixes of missing things seem to take priority over new things - which is common sense i guess. Finish whats in your mouth before you take another bite kinda logic.

As for pub 39 i just added my all new 2d artwork for the dragon armor pieces, helms of Swiftness - and a bunch of badly neede changes on the 3d client that hopefully won't have folks buring effigies of me - well more than usual anyway. Speaking of effigies...

I've also crafted art for a slew of little "fun" world/house items i think will be in a 'spring' gift set for pub 39 - Very Takuno stuff - One of them a useful statuette dedicated to Myself - lol - yea you'll be able to spot it I guarantee you will. Can't comment on the details of this particular gift set going out but I know it is fun stuff i think many will want to collect. I'm really liking the way some of it came out Personally i'm wondering what some of this stuff will actually sell for on the UO marketplaces when it arrives - lol. Everybody seemed to dig the Sled and Reindeer stuff I did for the December Winters Gift set. - though from what folks have said there wasn't enough to go around -but hey, thats not my doing.

Also been hard at work fixing 2d paperdoll art - trying to get rid of some of the old ugly black spots and manicuring poorly painted items without hopefully screwing anything beloved up in the process. More of that to do no doubt - that chore always seems endless and full of suprises.

We're all pretty busy here with how to fix or renavate things for you guys - been in A LOT of PVP discussions - (*cough* the IRC community and Dev discussion on PVP happened last night as many of you know). We're on about armor talks - tech discussions about monsters and gear, spells - well absolutely everything thats pretty much been posted on the boards - thus my coma induced silence. LOL

In short we'll be busting our butts for some time carefully addressing big issues for you guys. Ain't that just sweet. Heh. So if you poke me with a sharp stick and you don't see much movment from me on the boards its only casue i'm recharging for the new day. And i'll still try to answer people's emails in a timely fashion too.

Well no matter how busy we get with big scope stuff - i hope we can keep these cool new things trickling in with each publish. Heh - keep your eyes peeled for pub 39 headed your way soon - hope verybody on the UO team put as much into this one as i did.

Workin' hard. Well - Not so hard that i'll deserve a boss UO tattoo like Binky has - but enough so that I deserve an abstract UO logo surfer's necklace I got a while back.

CatHat