I frequently tell myself that things could be worse.

But I'm not sure I have any idea what that means.

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. I know neither what my burden is, nor what can be done to ease it.

I find myself thinking about Renee a lot today. I should probably have noticed. The last few days she has been on my mind a lot. I suppose I am just having trouble coping with it today. I slept badly last night, and my work schedule is so badly slammed I may not make it through the month at the quality levels I expect of myself ( Read more... )

A nightingale has found its way into the trees outside my house.

This isn't nearly as pleasant as Shakespeare would have me believe. Fuck you Shakespeare, and fuck you, nightingale.

I spent a few days in Santa Maria this weekend. Mostly I stayed on my parents' couch and read. I came back around noonish, yesterday. I feel a lot better thanks to the change of scenery. I almost feel like a normal person for the time being. I'll need to make sure I do it more often.

This beautiful Chihuaua/Shiba Inu mix, Zoe, is a little angel. She was a stray, but you would never guess it after meeing her. She is very sweet little girl and a fashionista too!! Zoe has a closet full of cute outfits ( Read more... )

My miniatures painting deadline has pretty much come and I'm not going to make my original deadline. Too many other deadlines have interfered. I'm not too upset with myself over this. After all, why beat myself up over what is essentially a hobby meant to relax me ( Read more... )

Our crazy neighbor came out again to investigate my Weber charcoal grill. She's always convinced that there must be a fire nearby. Nevermind that I make a tri tip on it every couple weeks. She's always convinced it's a fire. It can't be my grill. No. Even when I've walked her to the grill, and shown her it was the source of the wood burning smell ( Read more... )

I'm way behind schedule. I have been speeding up overall production just by virtue of painting similar features over and over again (for example, painting dwarf faces is basically the same over and over, so I learn how to paint them quickly, effectively, and what parts can be effectively ignored). However, I was losing a lot of time in an ( Read more... )

So, after having worked for about three weeks or so on my miniatures challenge, I'm making some pretty good progress and I believe that I'm more or less on schedule. It took me the better part of a week to get the two boxes completely assembled, cleaned, and primed ( Read more... )