Random Art: Unfinished Business- Incomplete With Too Much Heat

Posted on March 6, 2015 by geelw

Thankfully, other than a few more days next week of colder temperatures, it would seem that this stupid winter has run its course*. I generally don’t get too ill during the season (or I don’t get sick at all), but the last couple of weeks have been rough thanks to wide temperature variations from day to day and the dopey new boiler put into the building about a year or so ago that works all too well. Hey, some like it hot, but I think constant indoor temperatures in the early summer numbers haven’t been the best thing for me. Of course, in a city where too many people don’t have proper heat, complaining about it being too warm in the apartment is a bit odd. On the other hand, one result of all that heat has been my wretched throat condition over the past week or so. It’s clearing up okay, but I certainly didn’t get much sleep last night thanks to all that water and tea with honey I’d sucked down to sooth my fur throat. I guess the good thin is I got more exercise running back and forth to the bathroom than I got walking through the freshly fallen snow yesterday. Ah-ha-ha.

Eh, have a very incomplete tree sketch. I may as well post something more interesting than this post.

*Of course, watch me be totally wrong if we get hit with a last gasp snow blitz right before spring hits. I’ll be the one screaming so loudly your windows shake no matter where you are when that happens.

Random Art: Waiting on the Weekend on the Weekend…

Posted on February 28, 2015 by geelw

Hmmm. I see the cold weather here isn’t keeping people inside at all. It’s extra packed at the library to-day, so I’m stuck with a slightly to moderately chuggy connection and needing to pop over to an outlet plug in the laptop as my usual and backup spots are taken by people doing nothing but facebooking their weekend away. Bleh. Oh well. It seems that changing the backdrop and banner will need to be done tomorrow or later this evening at some point. That’s actually a good thing, as I have no idea what to do theme-wise. I could just post some of my art for both, but I don’t want to seem too desperate for attention or anything (he typed, while posting some unfinished art). Feh. Productivity is also a bit frozen, but I do have a film review or two to tackle at some point as well as completing a bunch of stuff that’s either in note or draft form.

Hokay, Back to the salt mines with me (*whipcrack!*)…

Random Art: Shhhhh, Quiet Zone!

Posted on February 3, 2015 by geelw

I’m back. Well, not really “back” back… but let’s pretend. Anyway, yikes, a lot of people want to see me at Toy Fair, it seems. That’s a good thing, as I like seeing fun stuff and passing info along to anyone interested. Anyway, I had to download some files and event tickets for the show earlier and while waiting, whipped up the above. MS Paint, a mouse and some patience as usual. Hokay, let me get back to it, then. “It” being reading some stuff I needed to read, tinkering on a fun new feature column for later this week (you’ll see) and maybe thinking about what’s for dinner. Not necessarily in that order, by the way…

Random Art: Let’s Twist Again…

Posted on January 17, 2015 by geelw

Meh, just some filler because I had to reinstall some stuff on the laptop a few days back and did this while waiting. I don’t like it much, but that’s okay. Back in a bit. It’s been a shorter day than usual, but I need to get back on the horse tomorrow and catch up on some stuff.

Random Art: It’s Not Really A Day Off, As I’m Still Breathing…

Posted on January 13, 2015 by geelw

Yuck. Between the cold weather outside, the home being too toasty (hey, at least the heat is on, but yikes, does it get steamy up in here!) and someone who moved back in recently with his nasty smoking habit (who needs to quit before he gets beaten senseless or drops dead himself), I’m a bit under the weather today.

(Thanks, chshaw87!)

Well, it’s not THAT bad, but past experience tells me that if I get too occupied with cranking out work when I’m starting to get sick, I usually end up this way in a few days. Anyway, I’m going to go out for a short walk (I ran out of aspirin and need a refill), pop back in to get some resty-rest and be back tomorrow with more intelligent things to say. Have a tree in the meantime.

See you all tomorrow. Or perhaps later if I pop up and feel less froggy and possessed.

Random Art: A Minor Cure For Some Major Madness…

Posted on January 7, 2015 by geelw

Well, I was going to post more pictures yesterday of the kitchen, which has been partially painted despite a rather glaring repair omission that sticks out like two sore thumbs thanks to that fresh coat of paint. But this whole mess of ass-backward insanity that should have taken maybe a week or less according to This Old House rules has sucked up too much of my energy and is affecting my workload. Blech. Anyway, I’ll probably post some pictures in a few days, but here’s something to look at in the meantime. My poor mind is boggling over how such a straightforward job anyone else would do or have done in a specific order has gotten so surreal. Thursday should be interesting, as it’s when we see if the next guy who shows up to do some work actually figures out what the hell it is he’s supposed to do and gets it right the first time.

Random Art: Good. Buy Roux, Be Tuesday…

Posted on December 23, 2014 by geelw

Let’s see now. Went to sleep at 3, got up at 6am to do laundry. It’s dreary and rainy out now, but I need to try and get some work in on the site down at the library at some point including a massive game download that should take about 5 hours. However, I also kind of need to hang out here and wait for some packages, as I missed UPS last night by a few minutes (oops!) and I have a few other things coming in via regular mail as well.

Hmmm. Oh, and I need to do a bit of grocery shopping at some point, as there’s some chicken broth I made taking a snooze in the fridge and I’d like to turn that into a decent soup for the rest of the week. Or maybe I could make a really big pot of gravy? Nah. I’m not much of a gravy guy. Eh, let’s see where this all ends up. It’ll probably be just a few types of mushrooms and something green going in that pot before I toss in some rice noodles.

Okay. off to grab a cup of coffee and go through some files. Go have a tree or something. I did this MS Paint last night while taking a break from poring over a ton of ideas I’d written down. My brain seems to not like resting during the winter, so I have too many ideas that I sometimes write down and discard to make room for new ones. I think it’s the bad ideas that get tossed. Or at least I hope that’s the case…

Random Art: Nothing to Tree Here, Move Along…

Posted on December 22, 2014 by geelw

A-ha and ha-ha. I’m surprised I had the time to whip this out, but that’s “thanks” to some stalling time in a long download and me not wanting to beat my poor laptop up. It wasn’t its fault anyway. Well, the kitchen is still a mess and there’s a new leak in a pipe in a wall in the back that requires a wall to come down (again!) at some point. Of course, having this place ALL fixed up at once would be the smart thing to do, right? However, between the management here stiffing the union guys and getting rid of some in favor of less experienced new hires and all the under-funded not so hot work they do, it’s going to take a while before this place is back to where it should be. I don’t like this new normal coming up one bit, but I have a few plans to get people back on the ball. All legal, folks. All legal. I’m not one to rouse the rabble, but there comes a point where one needs to raise the damn roof before it falls on one’s head (ouch).

Back in a bit…

Random Art: So Much For Sunday Success…

Posted on November 23, 2014 by geelw

Well, today was a total bust on the productivity front. Two Starbucks with two crappy signals meant me getting some exercise walking from one to the other and not posting anything all day. One had a connection that kept dropping out and the other had no connection at all. This particular location has an issue with their wi-fi being there sometimes and slow when more than ten or so devices are being used. Sometimes, waiting for the place to clear out helps. Today, it didn’t. Anyway, it wasn’t a total waste, ladies and gents. Have a tree on the house, a-ha and ha-ha.

Well, let me see if I can whip out another quickie post before pumpkin hour. I’m going to have a busy week coming up anyway playing catch up with a ton of posts, downloading some games to review and generally being occupied every day with some writing. I hate being so far behind, but every so often, this sort of annoyance can kick off a creativity spurt. Fie on you, still busted kitchen and other stupid troubles! POW! BAM! I’m a mushroom-cloud-layin’ motherf***er, motherf***er! I’m Superfly T.N.T., I’m the Guns of the Navarone! Yeah, stay out of my way Monday – you’ll just be bad for yourself at this point, grrrr!

Random Art: Sunday’s Off For a Few Reasons…

Posted on October 19, 2014 by geelw

Oof. I wasn’t feeling too well this morning, but that was probably more due to lack of sleep and the weather outside getting more winter-like (Today only! Temperature 20% off!). Anyway, I was going to watch some movies and write about them, but I didn’t get around to it. Yeah, you know something’s off when you blow off entertainment to do other stuff. Actually, I ended up going through some stacks of PC games looking for a few titles for a future article, but got sidetracked going through two hard drives here to see if I had a really old game installed someone asked me about last week. Meh, I didn’t find it (yet), but while online looking up stuff earlier, I did eventually knock out a quickie tree drawing (enjoy!):

Hokay, I’ll be back tomorrow. It’s going to be a long day, as I need to pop up early and see about doing some laundry. It’s starting to get up and walk around, which isn’t a good thing… Eeek.