The good news is that I am working on some new piece of art, specifically some artistic cartography. It was stunningly beautiful, until I lost 2-3 hours of work due to the GIMP crashing.
I finished making the mountains this morning then made the forests, which involved a great deal of tinkering. I had moved onto detailing the marshland and had started on producing on producing the rivers. Then I found the forests clearcut, marshes dredged and rivers dried to oblivion. While I am redoing the work, it is incredibly frustrating. Gotta say though that even what I had achieved up to that point was awesome.