I decided to do one more prompt: Draw an object and give it a face. This is all I could come up with. Just this morning I had my first emotional hiccup during all this. Having seen a sign yesterday that the UPS Store was open, I took a pre-paid package to drop off this morning. I waited for the people inside to come out, and then entered. There was a floor-to-ceiling sheet of thick […]
Read moreMonth: March 2020
Day 10: Mythical Creatures
Today’s drawing prompt: Combine animals to make your own mythical creature. After four days, I finally beat that awful jigsaw into submission. Even when I was down to only twenty pieces, it was still a battle. A few days ago I got some old photos in the mail from my high school friend Kathy. Here’s me in about 1971, after I’d applied stage makeup randomly across my visage. Those were the days, my friend. In […]
Read moreDay 9: Inertia
I wrote too much yesterday so I’ve run dry. Today is hard. I can’t think of anything new to do. Spent additional time with tech support people on chat this morning, and they finally got my blog’s back-end behaving again. Almost. But of course things are going to get a lot harder before they get easier. And I am, every hour of every day, well aware how lucky I am in so many ways, not […]
Read moreDay 8, Part Two: On Spam
With all this time on my (well-washed) hands, I decided I should poke around the dark and dangerous realm of my blog’s innards: see what’s there, make improvements, clean things up. Hah. I got totally lost, and in an attempt to make things right I ended up buying a $39 software plug-in that I may not need, and now its installation has caused a technical traffic jam that has required me to spend several hours […]
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