Tag: art
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Laundry and Motivation
Now that I’m billing for the boys I don’t technically have days off. There’s always work to do for them around the house. I also need to do my laundry today. I don’t HAVE to get out of my pajamas for any of that, but it might give me more motivation to get dressed. There’s…
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Evenings and Weekends
A long time ago I realized that the willingness to work evenings and weekends was an adaptive trait in a capitalist economy. I have never gone to the bars on the weekend and have rarely felt the need to just leave town to blow off steam. So I’m spending another Saturday night at Walgreens. Over…
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Phone Calls and Paperwork
Less work at Walgreens means more work from home. I spent half an hour or the phone doing a monthly checkup for the boys and agreeing to what needs to be on the paperwork so that I can bill hours for them. All told I’ll be technically working a forty hour week. But only technically.…
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Wrestling with the Sabbath
I went to church today. I told a few people about the week I’ve had. My wife leaving The Church. Letting a homeless man stay in our basement. Losing power for half a day because of financial security issues. Anxiety attacks and meltdowns. Arguments about doctrine most of it bad. And my confidence that even…
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Crafting
Today has been quiet compared to the past week. I actually got out of the house for something fun. I have a friend who does crafting. Little pieces of physical art to trade with other crafters. So she and I went to the Dollar Tree so she could pick up more supplies for her next…
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Change (Part 2)
Things are changing quickly. I missed church because I overslept. The bishop came to the house to verify that my wife wants her name taken off the official records. And we got the canvas of the art that I made for her. A copy of the canvas is available for $100 (sorry we’re not selling…
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Crawling Brain
I have mainly been doing my art in two formats lately. I have an app on my phone called SketchPad and a program on my computer called GIMP2. Today I tried to draw a walnut on my phone. It needed something, so I gave it legs and a little trail behind it. It still needed…
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Weird
I like to think I’m weird. I’ve certainly exposed myself to a broader scope of ideas than is typical in our culture. But even my weirdness seems commercial most of the time. For instance I grew up with “Weird” Al Yankovic. It has been described and I identify with the description as “music to keep…
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Pills Are Therapy Too
Among the things that I do and advocate that other people do is to express myself creatively. I’ve mostly been doing digital art in the past few years. My preferred program is GIMP 2.10.32 though I have others. I have a fairly large collection of designs at this point. Some from trying to sell t-shirt…
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