IN LOVING MEMORY OF JUDITH ANN DOYLE (MY MOTHER)---12/12/44 - 6/30/03 RIP
Paul J. Doyle, 31 October 1973---
I'm married and have a son. I have been working on my novel, artwork, and have been dealing with a lot of real-life stuff lately. Currently (In addition to everything else) I am researching ways to get buy a first time house, despite numerous financial setbacks for my family in the past year.
ART EXPERIENCE: I have only been drawing actively since June of 2003, around the time my mother passed away (a much better coping mechanism than alcohol, tobacco, television or drugs, in my opinion.) I am slowly getting better. I have a huge amount to learn. I have no pretentions of my art abilities. They aren't bad, but they aren't great, either. Keep that in mind if you are thinking about a request or a commission.
WRITING EXPERIENCE: I have been writing since I was a small child. Always have, always will. Now I am trying to get published the old fashioned way.
I am currently finishing the first novel of a planned five-novel sequence, all to be illustrated here and there :) I do not plan to publish the novel online (for copyright reasons) but I will certainly post the art :)
I'm a shade "different" than most people, without following "different" trends and fashions
If you really want to know, I'm 6'0" (183 cm) weigh about 210 pounds, am thickly muscled for a non-bodybuilder, and walk/talk with a swagger and a faint lisp, even though I am completely drug, alcohol and tobacco-free (except for second hand smoke I get from the casino I work at, full time)
Much more on my LiveJournal, which is rather unfiltered:
I'm sorry I haven't been active on SheezyArt in quite a while . . . I have been insanely busy lately. I got a job promotion to Assistant Flooe Supervisor, meaning that I still deal casino table games, but more often I supervise. I am changing shifts to Swing shift (8PM-4 AM) which was the big "catch" that I saw coming a mile away, and thus agreed to that condition. I am also beginning to write Novel Two!
So what's it like, being a newly-promoted Assistant Floor Supervisor at one of the largest casinos in the world? Well, I have now supervised twelve times, and find it to be a challenge, in the very best sense. I am still learning, of course, but I am becoming progressively more efficient and confident.
I'm also starting to get used to wearing a suit, or at the very least a coat and a tie. Still, I'm much more comfortable in cutoff shorts and a dragon shirt, but that's not work wear so I can't go that route I find suits to be somewhat confining, yet I've gotten a number of compliments about my looks when I am wearing them.
The suit does not make the person---the person makes the suit. I wouldn't be caught dead strutting around in a suit, simply for the sake of strutting around in a two-piece suit. I could do the same job in my birthday suit. Every time I wear a suit I make a conscious effort to keep my ego in check. After all, I'm just a guy. I'm goofy, brainy, eccentric, hard-working Pauly, whether I'm dealing or flooring ("flooring" means supervising). I may have limited authority, over the dealers at 2-5 gaming tables, but at the end of the day I'm but a strong spoke in the wheel-cog, and I am there to serve the customers and to coordinate one section of several, inside a table games pit. I'm part of a team, and not an egotistical smartypants.
Now that I've gotten a feel for supervising, my bosses are more confident in my abilities. Today I supervised five blackjack tables in a steady pit (table games pit). I watch the dealers, accept players' rating cards, calculate their minimum/average/maximum bets on the computer (this helps determine "comp"), keep an eye on each of the five tables' chip inventories (with priority given to black---$100 chips---and purple---$500 chips. I have to keep track where each one goes. I order and confirm "fills" once the table inventory runs sufficiently low. I also help keep the tables clean, I settle disputes (several minor dealing mistakes, helping cool down patrons who might have had a fistfight had I not intervened, and notified my pit manager, and so on), and I help out as needed in certain circumstances (for instance, another supervisor is busy with a fill, so I OK a $200 cash buy-in, put in the computer in that section, and notify the other supervisor once she's no longer tied up). There's a bunch of other little things, too.
I try not to be like a hamster on a wheel, but I am constantly moving about, anyhow. When you have five tables to watch, you simply can't get lax. You need to focus, determine your priorities, stick to them, and stay reasonably flexible. Unfortunately I can't chat with the dealers and the players anywhere near as much I like, because I am so busy with the five tables---none of which go "dead" for the entire eight hours. People buy in, leave the table---many people do not "color in" to a more compact equivalent (for example: coloring in $450 in green and $150 in red---18 $25 chips and 30 $5 chips---for one $500 purple chip and one $100 black chip), many patrons are "refused names" who need to be dociumented anyhow if they bet large amounts, or at any time win/lose blacks, purples, oranges (bigger-sized $1000 chips) or greys ($5000 chips, the same as the oranges). There's also the "grind", which is the estimated amount of under-$101 dealer-approved cash transactions at a given table. There's also the occasional beverage spill, error (EVERYBODY makes errors. It doesn't matter if you're dealing, supervising or managing; the errors need to be recognized, recorded and rectified.)
There is lots and lots of paperwork, too. There is so much state and federal and tribal regulation (which is good, because the need to preserve integrity is absolutely critical.) If so-and-so wins a lot of money, I don't sweat it. Any table can---and will---"blow out" every now and then. If customers are happy and the dealers are happy, I'm happy, too. Teamwork is so totally critical in a hectic atmosphere where you're interacting with the public.
I am so glad I started eating healthier around the New Year; lots of bananas and soy products have lowered my blood pressure and helped me stay focused and (somewhat) relaxed in a very busy, very hectic work environment where it might help to have eyes on the back of one's head.
I'm looking forward to supervising Pai Gow Dominoes (my main game as a dealer) very soon :) And yes, I still do deal, though not as much anymore; hence the job classification "Assistant Floor Supervisor", also known as "Dual-Rate."
The future is now :)
And oh, I'm back to doing art. I don't need to actively brainstorm Novel Two anymore. After all, I start writing it tomorrow night, after work. My 16 July schedule is (24 hour clock) 1300-2100. My 17 July schedule is 2100-0500. I start Swing shift just one day after ending Day shift. So I have to stay up all night so I can sleep during the day. This is why I am starting Novel Two tomorrow night
Photos of myself in a suit, and a screenshot of the first page of Novel Two, soon to follow
well, fancy meeting you here... I admit i haven't got any sign of life from you in quite a whille... I must have offended you quite harshly... sorry if I did...
I haven't updated this page in ages, since the last huge Sheezy crash. In fact, the only reason why I'm here right no, is to give a friend the SA addy.
Basically, I have been ludicrously busy between my person life, my job, and the rest. I'm still quite active on Elftown, still do the art and writing, and the rest.
I must admit I am rather behind everywhere online, but I've skipped updating Sheezy the last few times.
I'm busiest on DeviantArt and Elfwood, though I haven't updated either in months (although I do have a good bunch of silly and not-so-silly pics to update)
I'm busiest here, in case you're wondering what I've been up to. 90% of this is viewable by anyone:
http://paul-doyle.livejournal.com/
A few months back I did put in a request on your Yahoo messenger. Also, I am on MSN as PaulyDragon@hotmail.com.
So . . . I've been rather busy of late, dreadfully behind here, and everywhere else. the last time I had a vacation was before the last time I updated this SA page :3
I seriously did not think you would ever answere. Thanks for prooving me worng, I understand that you are really buisy... I am begining to know what it's like... but I am not on Yahoo messenger at all... I only have my yahoo mail acount. Well, god luck with everything you are undertaking at the moment and thanks for repplying. Nice to hear from you again.
Wassup!!! Schuff is up, that's wassup. Along with the sky, and clouds, and the birds and schtuff.
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but tonight after work I've been here, there and everywhere. Probably won't have all my attention on the computer for a little while longer, but one way or another---just as the geese return every year, so do I return :3
Yeah, SA seems to be having a few issues. And yep, I'm an oldie here, I've been here since the halcyon days of... November '04. Um. Hmmm.
I hope you don't have allergies, because the Flower-slinger you faved is liable to toss flowers at every single one of your dragons.
Well, generally they are deathly allergic to human flesh (humans having toxins), and I wouldn't be surprised if they were allergic to such things as Spam and diesel fuel exhaust and soap operas. Yet they are all for ecological preservation (as they are much more dependent on the environment, than the humans with whom they share the New Earth.) They might actually like the flowers. The anthro-dragons might return the favor, even.
I just wish SheezyArt would get rid of those annoying "free iPod' ads. I have to run the anti-spyware programs each time I log off of SA. More important, the "free iPod" thing is just a dishonest scam. I might just get goofy Pauly the Anthro-Dragon (a silly prototype for a more serious, genetically engineered and flawed race I'm planning for the last part of the planned five-novel sequence) to artistically vent his frustrations in a typically ridiculous fashion.
Anyway, I continue to love your art. Keep it going
I'm just glad Elfwood is back up and running. No ads! I don't know if you know, but I'm a big bad mod there now.
You know, I never get the I-Pod ads, so I can only offer my sympathies in a vague, meaningless fashion. *offers sympathies in a vague, meaningless fashion*
There we are. Nice.
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