There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
It’s been hard getting into gear this week. After needed to take some time off from the coffeehouse I planned out my week, even making lists (which I never do.)
How much did I get done? Not much. Maybe 10 cards that needed to be done by next week, but I think more [...]
This has been a stressful week.
Juggling work schedules, fighting a cold, and a couple infuriating situations have knocked me down. I’ve cleared up my schedule a bit, and am trying to take it easy, but still get things accomplished. We’ll see how that unfolds.
Today I get to go to the post office. [...]
I have been politically silent online in terms of who I was voting for. And, I intend to remain so. But I will reflect a bit on this race now that the silly season is over:
1) I think its great that in a country where minorities have been legally discriminated against for [...]
Done. In and out in barely 10 minutes.
Where were the crowds? At Starbucks that’s where. All you suckers who got up early to wait in line to avoid the crowds…you guys were the crowds. Thanks for making it easy for me.
Before I went in to change the course of history with [...]
Today I chained myself to the desk and cranked out two pages of sample to send to an editor. I have been in the habit of checking email frequently, and it’s kept me from getting in to a groove. So I forcing myself to refrain from surfing the internet until I take a [...]
A rare no art day.
I was throwing the coffee around from before sunup until around three today, and managed to soak myself in warm soy milk. By lunch I sat down to eat with cold, soy soaked pants, feeling exhausted and achy. The cooler weather this week has brought about a season [...]
This afternoon I made the mistake of wearing my Dunder Mifflin shirt. A mistake because I knew I was going to see my grandma, and I should have foreseen that while she was lumbering through the dentist office, teetering on the brink of falling to the floor and breaking a hip, she would fixate [...]
I just don’t get used to getting up at 6 AM. My arms and legs don’t want to move. My brain doesn’t want to think. I lumber through the house like a drunken Sasquatch, I bump into door frames and cabinets.
Before long I’ll be handing scalding beverages to unsuspecting commuters.
A few weeks ago Sarah heard that Costco has the breakfast bars she eats for way cheaper than she gets at the grocery store. Joining was unavoidable.
This is the only adequate explanation as to why I own two giant tubs of Nutella, and two equally enormous containers of organic peanut butter. [...]
First, I went to church
Then I ate Mexican food
Then I moved a couch
Then a nap came next
Followed by much grogginess
Dinner, now dessert.
Today will be spent and nigh upon wasted in the acidic belly of that coffee belching beast. Five hours that cut out the heart of my day, and tomorrow, four early morning sunless hours that cut the heart out of my mood. Normalcy will return on Thursday, I hope, as least much normalcy [...]
I made the mistake recently of wearing my good shorts and a good t-shirt while helping Mike and Kari paint. As a result, a couple times a week I look like I work for a home maintenance business. Today, for example, I tucked a dark t-shirt and pair of shorts into my bag [...]
I’m in the middle of the next batch of cards for the third Marvel Masterpieces series. I’m trying to do more action shots and multiple-card images this time just to raise my own bar a little. After seeing what some other people are able to achieve in a 2.5 X 3.5 area, it [...]
About a mile into the woods, a dry creek bed is revealing the secrets of its rock-strewn bottom. A snake slithers through the leaves, but remains unseen, while a lizard suns itself on the western side of a large oak. The sandy path glows an ambient green from the light peeking through thick [...]
This year I was unable to attend Comic-con due to a large number of circumstances that came together in a perfect storm that left me at home. Sadly, the 20th anniversary panel for MST3K featuring the entire cast was there, leaving me a bitter, bitter man for having missed it.
All I can do [...]
This morning our building had a meet and greet where business professionals showed up to swap business cards, drink coffee and eat pastries. I attended, hoping to snag some commercial work, braving the small talk and bored looking ad guys. As I sit, growing more uncomfortable in the setting, failing at small talk [...]
Let’s talk briefly on those people who ruin things for everybody. One such person has forced me, for example, to stop doing free sketches when I’m out and about at different events. If a man should come up and request four sketches, each one for a specific member of his family, and [...]
So here I am out of town. Sucking down coffee and a cinnamon scone before I check out of my hotel, pack up, do the last day of this show and hit the road. This morning I had the pleasant surprise of finding out that the coffee place in the lobby that shall [...]
You know, this whole technology thing was fine when it was all Star Trek communicators and the promise of better, faster toasters. But really, when you get right down to it. This should bother me…
Yeah…that’s my house. Within the last 3 months the Google camera car went out of its way to [...]