Cut it out
No such thing as the real world
This might have been the inspiration for the color scheme of the Horribles website. I wanted to give the doodle a 50s feel. Notice the string holding up the earth? That was a last minute addition, and gave me the title.
Seattle, WA | 2007.07.04 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Earth
Shades of gray
Do you get it? Shades of gray!?
Okay, I got that out of my system. Sometimes my lack of cleverness knows no bounds.
Things are quiet this weekend. Even though the masthead tells other stories, the weather has been better than expected. Today is looking to clear up nicely as I stare at a beautifully cold blue sky. I woke up early after a dreadful headache day yesterday. Even after my magic pill, I spent yesterday sleeping and hiding under the covers until early evening. The dog park (combined with the magic pill kicking in) took me out of my funk late in the afternoon, and we managed to go to Indian food for dinner to pretend that we did not waste yet another Saturday.
I'm not sure what it is with Saturdays, but I've ruined too many of them with headaches. Maybe there's something in the air, or I feel that I can sleep late without paying the penalty. I quickly forget how much pain I was in the previous Saturday and justify sleeping in by thinking that since upon waking my head already hurts, there's no harm is staying asleep a few more hours.
My dreams of waking to a wonderful PHD (Post-Headache Day) today were dashed when my head still hurt this morning. I managed to drag myself out of bed (fool me twice in a weekend, shame on me), and I'm in the coffee shop typing away, having escaped the possible Sunday headache by the skin of my fingernails.
Not all is bad, of course. I'm still tweaking NAIS, but most of the big administrative functionality is done. I had hopes of using Javascript to make very user-friendly photo functions, but I decided to pare down my plans. I did manage to create a nifty Javascript box moving thing that allows me (and the Julies) to choose the square thumbnail from the slide. When I get a chance to clean up the code and get it to work in Firefox, I'll share the code.
Speaking of sharing, I have written the past two days pieces of something that resembles a story (sans plot or action or anything that would be of much interest to readers). I won't make any promises, but I do hope to continue to work on it and eventually post it.
For now, I'll suffice with a Horribles post and call it something new.
Seattle, WA | 2008.01.06 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Gray, Headache, Shades, Window
Lost in scribbles
If you look not so closely then you'll see a lot of cutting-and-pasting in the scribbles. Julie noticed and was dissappointed at my lack of effort. Scribbling is much harder than it looks. My hand cramped after the few five minutes. If I did it again, I would spend the time to scribble as it looks more authentic. Either that or get better at cutting-and-pasting.
Today's my last day in the office. We head to NYC tomorrow. I'll hopefully have time for some writing and doodling while flying. I'm always hopeful.
Mercer Island, WA | 2008.09.25 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Scribbles
I forgot what I was going to say
This happens too often. Luckily I was able to remember when it happened and jot it down in colorful black and white.
My mother is visiting on Thursday. We have a busy weekend planned. I can't believe it's Wednesday already. Such a fast week.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.03.04 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Suffering
I know all about me
. . . and it's not good. Not good at all.
It's New Year's Eve tonight. You all know what that means!
This vacation is getting a bit long in the tooth. We're ready to get back to our regularly scheduled routine. It feels like more than a month since we picked up our Naginatas or had a full day's worth of work to finish or played video games with Steven (not that I haven't been keeping myself occupied with Modern Warfare 2).
I suspect few of you are interested in knowing how my year went. I don't blame you. Instead I'll provide you statistics for my posting:
- 30 text posts (22 of which were for the Marathon)
- 25 photo albums
- 1,715 photos in the albums (okay, so we're not good at culling photos)
- 210 Horribles doodled this year
- 210 Horribles posted this year (not sure how that worked out so perfectly)
- 75 Horribles left unposted in my queue
- 1 story written (if we're generous and count my Marathon offering as a story)
What do we learn from these statistics? I spend lots of time doodling, and not enough time writing. But I already knew that.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.12.31 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Introspection, Suffering
I can't stand Three's Company's moments
I'm looking at you, Californication! We watched the first season of this show, but I vetoed watching more episodes because of the annoying situations the characters found themselves in. Yes, I know terrible things are going to happen when everyone finds out the truth. Just please, for the love of everything television worthy, don't stretch out the period between when the audience finds out and when the characters do.
This was a nice, fun-filled weekend. The clocks jumped forward, and Julie and I both passed our Naginata exams. It's almost sunny this morning, and I expect good things this week. Good things.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.03.15 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Television, Three's Company
Stop thinking you know what's inside me
Ah, a day off. It seems a long time coming. It's a warm and wet day here in Seattle. A perfect day to continue wall painting. It turns out it's much easier to paint a Horrible than a real wall (not that you can tell by this Horrible). Who knew?
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.05.31 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White
Sometimes there are no answers
Very busy week. Little time to think.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.08.05 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Lamp
I'm going somewhere
I certainly hope it's somewhere good. Another cool gloomy morning. This too shall pass. Or so they keep saying.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.08.12 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White
You wouldn't know it by looking at me but there are other people in the world.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.09.02 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Selfishness
Can you see me?
Long night last night. Must put head back on. It seems to be caught on something.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.09.15 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White
It can't go on forever
Happy (belated) Monday!
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.11.08 | Cast of Horribles | Black and White, Clouds, Puddles, Rain
Waiting to get there
Timely Horrible: I had to bring the car into the shop for engine troubles.