It’s fall here in the Shed, the weather is turning cool and I’m loving it – especially just getting outside a bit more. I’ve been trying to take a short morning walk everyday after getting up (before looking at my phone) and it’s been really…
Back from a nice weekend in Blacksburg. Visited with the kids, met Marcus’ roommate and his puppy, caught a football game and generally had a nice time. Great weather and the Hokies got some revenge on ODU. If you recall, ODU took us to the…
Snow day. Came out to the shed, cleaned up my desk, got some inking done on a Wandering Cities drawing, and updated a few things on the website. Work has still been tough and the past two months maybe were the hardest I’ve ever had…
Quick post for Sunday night to wrap up the week and look forward to the next one. Times are still hard in the federal contracting world and next week will be another tough one for my company as we are doing another layoff starting tomorrow.…
Nice quiet weekend of getting outside: running and kayaking on Saturday; riding bikes and watching soccer on Sunday. Sun and exercise tired me out in a nice way. Got to bed really early on Saturday and even a little early on Sunday. Feeling pretty good…
Just back from a short camping trip to wild and wonderful West Virginia. The camper has been sitting in the garage for over a year now, camouflaged by little bits of stuff – things that don’t have a proper place – plopped on top or…
Random stuff. Company left on Tuesday AM and I sort of checked out from working on projects to stress about work/life, spend time in the garden and fart around on the couch. (Re: the bouquet of poison ivy below- don’t try that at home kids…
Update on “Chiro”. Made a big push to finish the pencils and get started inking this drawing last week. trying to finish inks today and move to color. This is close to the biggest ink drawing I’ve ever tackled, and it’s making me want to…
Snow still on the ground here. Trying to find some time and energy to move forward on three projects I’ve been stuck on for a minute. Found a little inspiration in Jessica Abel’s Autonomous Creative podcast from a couple days ago. The whole thing had…
Lucky enough to have a great friend in Ann Arbor that can get tickets to see Michigan Football games. We try to get in for a game every year and this year we got to see a doozy against Southern Cal. Compete with a 4th…