Friday, February 1st
Update...
By 3am this morning (when I leave for work), the roads were cleared off. I was slightly worried about driving, but there was really nothing left.
By noon (when I come home), there was even less of the nothing-to-speak-of on the roads, and the snow on the grass is clearing.
I never did get around to making a snowman, but hey, it's only February. I'll probably get another chance.
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Sunday, February 3rd So, time for a pretty picture. This is tonight's sunset, the view is west from the driveway.
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Tuesday, February 12th So, that finishes out January.
Survey on bobthewombat.com. Answer the survey and you get free cards. 2 free greeting cards in exchange for a few minutes and some opinions from you. Yes, it is worth that much to me. I even pay shipping. So free free free. Seriously.
Also, I'm tired. But not in the lazy-tired way I often am. In the my-brain-is-fried-and-my-eyes-hurt way that prefaces a long long night full of me doing extra work on things that I probably could & maybe should wait until tomorrow or the next day to do. But no. Things to be done! Websites to update! Life to live!
Oh yeah. And I get a little loopy when I'm tired.
Soon I plan on making a list off to the left of all the pictures, sorted by type, so you can look at all of them together, rather than having to go through all my old posts to find pretty pictures, or pictures of snow, or whatever. Maybe that'll happen tonight, maybe not.
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Thursday, February 14th So the whole picture thing isn't happening today either. I'm tired, and I haven't figured out how I want it to work. And if I don't know how I want it to work, I can't really build it.
This week has been really productive. Not in any way I can realistically explain, but it has been.
Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day!
I still need more survey responses, so go there and answer questions for me.
I also need more links for my link area. I want enough that I can change them out periodically. So send me your links and I'll look at them and maybe I'll include them.
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Wednesday, February 20th Update: 12:30pm
I added a pictures page, like I've been meaning to. Check it out.
What day is it again? The 20th? I seem to be missing a few days. Eh.
No, seriously though, I thought it was the 17th. Or possibly the 18th. But I'm trusting my computer on this, because it's probably right.
I discovered a new thing though. I don't generally mix media in one piece; I tried charcoal & colored pencil, but the textures are significantly different, and so I was fighting it the whole way. I figured chalk would be pretty much the same. But, if I spray it with workable fixative first, it works out beautifully.
Why am I so excited about this? Because covering an 11x14 sky with colored pencil is somewhat time-consuming and tedious. Covering it with chalk is easy and quick. However, with chalk, detail is difficult. So, I can do massive areas of ... say, blue, with chalk, and then add the detail with colored pencil. Finished an 11x14 color mixed-media in about 3 hours yesterday. Admittedly, I'd had the draft already drawn, and had been working on the same darned picture for a while now, so 3 hrs isn't normal, but still... beats 24+ hrs.
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Saturday, February 23rd
Also, I messed with the character spacing, etc, on the home page. If you love it or hate it or couldn't care less, let me know.
So, in Oklahoma it's been unreasonably cold. To me, "unreasonably cold" is sustained cold below 30 degrees for more than 2 days. Which means, pretty much the whole winter. I like the snow, and I've seen several snows this year, which is wonderful, but I'm constantly dried out, constantly cold, and I'm just sick of it. I need spring, when the days alternate between WAY-too-cold and WTF-is-up-with-this?-weather.
Also, I think I have a cold. I had a sore throat, then my right nostril was clogged, and today I've been sneezing and have a sore throat. But it's one of those weird colds that isn't quite bad enough to want to take medicine for, but just annoying enough to get on my nerves (and presumably everyone else's). Hopefully it will go away tomorrow.
I also added a link to my CafePress Store. It has stick figures on shirts and such. You should buy things. Or you could always buy things from my other site, which actually makes me even happier. But hey, whatever works for you.
Side Note: I'm sortof half-ass thinking about putting ads on this site, like some of those google things up at the top or something. If you have a strong opinion on this one way or another, email me and tell me. But you have time to think about it, because I'm not real motivated about ads.
Coming Up Sometime In The Future: Another Recipe
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Wednesday, February 27th It is my younger sister's birthday today, and I wish her the best. If you know her, you should do so also.
I promised a recipe, and so a recipe you shall have. Egg Sandwich.
Ingredients:2 slices of bread
2 eggs
1 slice of american cheese-food
margarine
black pepper
What to Do:toast bread
fry eggs... like you were doing over-easy, only break the yolk so it cooks, add pepper to eggs
when the bread finishes toasting, add margarine
and then you put it all together: toast-egg-cheesefood-egg-toast
The timing on all of it is somewhat tricky, because you want it hot, and you don't want to worry about flipping the eggs when you're in the middle of margarine-ing your toast, but you have to find the system that works for you.
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Friday, February 29th
There isn't enough time in life.
Yeah I know. I'm 23. I'm supposed to hit this realization at 50 or so, when more than half of my expected life-span is already gone. GONE.
But really, why wait?
Think about it. If I live to 80... which means I don't die in a tragic car accident, or from a heart attack at 50, or lung cancer, or any number of other things.... assuming I have until I'm 80... I've already lost 25% of that. One quarter - of my life - is over. And I can't go back and do things different. That trip to South Africa that never happened, the concerts I've decided not to go to, all of that... I had a chance and I didn't take it. I may be able to do it in the future... but how many things do I want to do, and how much time do I have left?
Say I change my mind about my career and decide I want to be a doctor. How many years will be devoted to that? Or decide I want kids? Go back to college and learn music theory or something? I can't do everything. There just isn't enough time.
And some things I want to do can't be done now. And I probably won't live long enough to do them. Like move to Mars. I want to make it off this rotten rock sometime, and I don't doubt humanity will at some point, but I doubt I'll do it. And forget being an astronaut... that's years and years that I'm not spending doing other things. Just to knock off ONE item. Not worth it. Don't want it that bad. I want too much else.
And don't get me started on sleep. If you sleep 8 hrs a night... which in theory some people do... don't know too many... but that's 1/3 of your life. 33%. Slept through. Gone... not wasted, because you dream and learn in your sleep (well, I do anyways), but it's time not spent owning my own island. Time not spent going to Antarctica. Skydiving. The North Pole. Taking photographs high in the mountains.
So it comes down to this... assuming I don't die first... I've got maybe 60 years left on me. Assuming I sleep, knock off a third of that. 40 years. Everything I've ever wanted to do, the things I haven't yet realized that I want to do, all my achievements and hopes... 40 years to accomplish them.
Side Note: Yes, I know some people live past 80, and the longer I make it, the greater my chances of increased lifespan. But I'm a smoker who barely exercises and has a diet like a college student. I'm not taking proper care of myself... and probably won't for a while yet. So making it to 80 sounds awfully improbable to me, much less 90 or 100.
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By 3am this morning (when I leave for work), the roads were cleared off. I was slightly worried about driving, but there was really nothing left.
By noon (when I come home), there was even less of the nothing-to-speak-of on the roads, and the snow on the grass is clearing.
I never did get around to making a snowman, but hey, it's only February. I'll probably get another chance.
Top of Page
Sunday, February 3rd So, time for a pretty picture. This is tonight's sunset, the view is west from the driveway.
Click For Larger Image
Top of Page
Tuesday, February 12th So, that finishes out January.
Survey on bobthewombat.com. Answer the survey and you get free cards. 2 free greeting cards in exchange for a few minutes and some opinions from you. Yes, it is worth that much to me. I even pay shipping. So free free free. Seriously.
Also, I'm tired. But not in the lazy-tired way I often am. In the my-brain-is-fried-and-my-eyes-hurt way that prefaces a long long night full of me doing extra work on things that I probably could & maybe should wait until tomorrow or the next day to do. But no. Things to be done! Websites to update! Life to live!
Oh yeah. And I get a little loopy when I'm tired.
Soon I plan on making a list off to the left of all the pictures, sorted by type, so you can look at all of them together, rather than having to go through all my old posts to find pretty pictures, or pictures of snow, or whatever. Maybe that'll happen tonight, maybe not.
Top of Page
Thursday, February 14th So the whole picture thing isn't happening today either. I'm tired, and I haven't figured out how I want it to work. And if I don't know how I want it to work, I can't really build it.
This week has been really productive. Not in any way I can realistically explain, but it has been.
Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day!
I still need more survey responses, so go there and answer questions for me.
I also need more links for my link area. I want enough that I can change them out periodically. So send me your links and I'll look at them and maybe I'll include them.
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Wednesday, February 20th Update: 12:30pm
I added a pictures page, like I've been meaning to. Check it out.
What day is it again? The 20th? I seem to be missing a few days. Eh.
No, seriously though, I thought it was the 17th. Or possibly the 18th. But I'm trusting my computer on this, because it's probably right.
I discovered a new thing though. I don't generally mix media in one piece; I tried charcoal & colored pencil, but the textures are significantly different, and so I was fighting it the whole way. I figured chalk would be pretty much the same. But, if I spray it with workable fixative first, it works out beautifully.
Why am I so excited about this? Because covering an 11x14 sky with colored pencil is somewhat time-consuming and tedious. Covering it with chalk is easy and quick. However, with chalk, detail is difficult. So, I can do massive areas of ... say, blue, with chalk, and then add the detail with colored pencil. Finished an 11x14 color mixed-media in about 3 hours yesterday. Admittedly, I'd had the draft already drawn, and had been working on the same darned picture for a while now, so 3 hrs isn't normal, but still... beats 24+ hrs.
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Saturday, February 23rd
Also, I messed with the character spacing, etc, on the home page. If you love it or hate it or couldn't care less, let me know.
So, in Oklahoma it's been unreasonably cold. To me, "unreasonably cold" is sustained cold below 30 degrees for more than 2 days. Which means, pretty much the whole winter. I like the snow, and I've seen several snows this year, which is wonderful, but I'm constantly dried out, constantly cold, and I'm just sick of it. I need spring, when the days alternate between WAY-too-cold and WTF-is-up-with-this?-weather.
Also, I think I have a cold. I had a sore throat, then my right nostril was clogged, and today I've been sneezing and have a sore throat. But it's one of those weird colds that isn't quite bad enough to want to take medicine for, but just annoying enough to get on my nerves (and presumably everyone else's). Hopefully it will go away tomorrow.
I also added a link to my CafePress Store. It has stick figures on shirts and such. You should buy things. Or you could always buy things from my other site, which actually makes me even happier. But hey, whatever works for you.
Side Note: I'm sortof half-ass thinking about putting ads on this site, like some of those google things up at the top or something. If you have a strong opinion on this one way or another, email me and tell me. But you have time to think about it, because I'm not real motivated about ads.
Coming Up Sometime In The Future: Another Recipe
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Wednesday, February 27th It is my younger sister's birthday today, and I wish her the best. If you know her, you should do so also.
I promised a recipe, and so a recipe you shall have. Egg Sandwich.
Ingredients:
What to Do:
The timing on all of it is somewhat tricky, because you want it hot, and you don't want to worry about flipping the eggs when you're in the middle of margarine-ing your toast, but you have to find the system that works for you.
Top of Page
Friday, February 29th
There isn't enough time in life.
Yeah I know. I'm 23. I'm supposed to hit this realization at 50 or so, when more than half of my expected life-span is already gone. GONE.
But really, why wait?
Think about it. If I live to 80... which means I don't die in a tragic car accident, or from a heart attack at 50, or lung cancer, or any number of other things.... assuming I have until I'm 80... I've already lost 25% of that. One quarter - of my life - is over. And I can't go back and do things different. That trip to South Africa that never happened, the concerts I've decided not to go to, all of that... I had a chance and I didn't take it. I may be able to do it in the future... but how many things do I want to do, and how much time do I have left?
Say I change my mind about my career and decide I want to be a doctor. How many years will be devoted to that? Or decide I want kids? Go back to college and learn music theory or something? I can't do everything. There just isn't enough time.
And some things I want to do can't be done now. And I probably won't live long enough to do them. Like move to Mars. I want to make it off this rotten rock sometime, and I don't doubt humanity will at some point, but I doubt I'll do it. And forget being an astronaut... that's years and years that I'm not spending doing other things. Just to knock off ONE item. Not worth it. Don't want it that bad. I want too much else.
And don't get me started on sleep. If you sleep 8 hrs a night... which in theory some people do... don't know too many... but that's 1/3 of your life. 33%. Slept through. Gone... not wasted, because you dream and learn in your sleep (well, I do anyways), but it's time not spent owning my own island. Time not spent going to Antarctica. Skydiving. The North Pole. Taking photographs high in the mountains.
So it comes down to this... assuming I don't die first... I've got maybe 60 years left on me. Assuming I sleep, knock off a third of that. 40 years. Everything I've ever wanted to do, the things I haven't yet realized that I want to do, all my achievements and hopes... 40 years to accomplish them.
Side Note: Yes, I know some people live past 80, and the longer I make it, the greater my chances of increased lifespan. But I'm a smoker who barely exercises and has a diet like a college student. I'm not taking proper care of myself... and probably won't for a while yet. So making it to 80 sounds awfully improbable to me, much less 90 or 100.
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