1. External drive failure. Thankfully, a false alarm (system restore to a week ago fixed the problem), but that’s what it took to kick me in the ass and update the backups of my high resolution illustrations and photos. Backup everything!
2. Guitar Hero Aerosmith. A must-have for an Aerosmith fan (me). Besides this game being totally addicting, it’s also full of neat caricatures, cartoons, and illustrations of the band members. I can’t find any examples on the internet, but I’m too busy playing to really look anyway.
3. Ability to sit still. Maybe it’s the weather and I’m just used to being outside more, but it’s been easier to get distracted and ditch the drawing board and do other things. I’m actually thinking about chaining my leg to the foot of the table. It might be harder to go to bonfires and conoeing that way.
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I sent some work to IWantYourSkull.com and they were posted, yay!
I wish I knew for sure, but for a long time I’ve suspected that I have some sort of dyslexia. I never had trouble learning to read and write, that was really easy, but problems in math surfaced in 7th grade. Up until then, I had straight A’s, then it all went down hill and I barely passed Algebra. Geography was easy, but that involved a lot of graphs and logic. My problem is numbers. For example, at work when I run the cash register and I have to ring up a total for $249.81, I’ll try to type $294.81, or $281.49, etc, because I’m automatically skipping to the next or last number in my mind before I read the one before it. So I can’t even trust myself and always have to recheck that I entered it correctly.
At it’s worst, a customer explained to me for about 15 minutes how to figure out an order with different equations in a certain situation. I finally understood but it was really embarrassing for me even though he was really nice about it (and was super good with numbers).
This number scramble happens with everything like phone numbers, addresses, account numbers.
Yes, I dial a lot of wrong numbers.
But it’s not just numbers, it’s keeping other things in sequence. If I don’t think about telling a story beforehand, I’ll skip to one part, then remember that I haven’t talked about the part before that one. I also have to think about where right and left is.. And forget about giving me directions, unless I can draw a map or something.
Yes, I get lost, a lot.
Sometimes it’s really annoying but I’m used to it and there’s nothing else I can do.
I’m excited because I was interviewed by Carmine Magazine recently. Yay! Read it and love it! Or hate it, that would be fine, too.
And a very nice writer at SFWeekly mentioned my ‘Purple Balloon‘ print. Thank you! Are you serious, my work is in the same article as Luke Chueh and Sylvia Ji? I must be underestimating my awesomeness.
After all that, I’m a little artistically constipated and should be following my own advice in that Carmine interview.. But I’m finishing a fun commission and getting another drawing ready to be mailed out to an upcoming show.
My first two years of living in America were in Wisconsin Dells, where a lot of businesses like the Tommy Bartlet Show had relied on Lake Delton to entertain the families who came to vacation there during the summer. Wisconsin Dells’ population is only over 2000 but the place is packed with tourists during the summer. We refer to the Dells as ‘family Las Vegas’. John and I went there for our honeymoon last year in July. Even more recently, us and some of the family took a quick trip there a month ago.
On Monday (June 9) the lake had drained into the Wisconsin River in just four hours. How did this happen?
It’s crazy seeing that house break in half, because I’ve seen it up close. I was always amazed that there was a lot of houses like this so close to the water.
I think at least four homes were washed away. No one had flood insurance. In Baraboo (15 miles away from the Dells), Ducks were used to rescue people from the flood.
Lake Delton was a man-made lake and will be restored, but it won’t happen fast enough for this summer.
