Recent Art and Vacation Wrap-Up

In July 2023 I did an outline of a razor blade on Kurtis’ ankle. As you can see, it's pretty rough, with some double lines, and some less-than-full lines. Kurtis was well warned what he was... L’s been on vacation for the past two weeks, so we took advantage and did some camping and touring. We went to Bon Echo Provincial Park, a place I’d only been with my family as a child, and was... All photos above by Laura.We also took a day trip to Prince Edward County, a small-town peninsula known for it’s many, many wineries and its peculiar, incredibly popular beach Sandbanks. L had... All photos above by Laura, except the ones of her, which were taken by me.We went for an easy hike around Pink Lake (which is actually a gorgeous emerald colour). I’m pretty sure I’ve done the hike... I finally downloaded Nomad Sculpt on my iPad Pro this weekend and played around with it. The first thing I did was sculpt the same weird demon face I always seem to sculpt when I’m trying out a 3D...
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A digital illustration of Laura in a warm gear for late fall or early winter

Eight Years

L and I celebrated our eighth anniversary today.I feel like L and I's anniversary is a more personally relevant measure of a new year. September 2nd is my new years day.We attempted to hunt...
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Lists a Plenty

I meant to post an entry just under a month ago about all the things that had happened in the very busy week and a half prior. It got long, and I took a break, and never got back to it. I'll...
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A World of Change, Part 1

So much has gone on since I've last written, but nothing so drastic as the past week and a half, during which I have been to Canada's top four most populated metropolitan areas (Toronto,...
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The Fuh-nee Pages

Laura got a job at Starbucks last week. She's had one shift so far, and her second is tomorrow. She's not getting many hours now, but people are leaving and going back to school, so she...
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My Ears are Warbling like Sirens!

So today was my cousin's wedding. Lots of drinking, lots of sitting and standing and clapping, lots of talking to people I rarely ever speak to or spoke to for the first time.The reception had...
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Sincerely Passionate about Beer and Burgers

Yesterday after work, 11pm, I hurried over to Brutopia where Laura, Carolina, and Jessie were, with a bruburger with my name on it. The kitchen closed at 11, but they got there earlier and ordered... My first efforts at animating in After Effects, and only my second time using it at all. After I was done I went and flopped onto the bed beside Laura, to slowly fall asleep in the 9am sun.The...
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Fitter, Happier, More Productive

Laura and I are becoming quickly and surprisingly proficient in ASL, which is fantastic. Pat Dumoulin, it turns out, can fingerspell incredibly quickly. Once I saw him do it on Friday, I realized I...
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A/S/L?

Today was my second day back at Bell, my first day actually working. Yesterday during the refresher training day I sketched up a logo for the Is A sites, as well as some motifs for Slutniks. When I...
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Obscene Amounts of Voyeurism

Tomorrow I start once again at Bell. Half the summer is gone. Ironically, I can often get more work done on other projects while I at work at Bell. I made a list on my phone of all the projects...
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Yippee-ki-yay, Maniac

Watched Live Free or Die Hard and Mad Max tonight. Mad Max was an overly simple plot wrapped in convoluted cinematography and poor audio level equalization. I can definitely see it being a great...
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The House of Calm and Wait

This morning Laura found out she got the job in Ottawa, and is currently at her mom's place. She starts tomorrow morning. She gets to work in the same office as Rhonda for two weeks!She also...
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News and Olds

In the early afternoon today Laura suggested I use Amazon's wishlist system to keep track of what I want to purchase, and allow others the chance to possibly get those items for me. So I...
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Snippets

The Montreal Indies Meetup, which Stephen and his friend organized, went quite well. I created a temporary blog for the project and hopefully soon there’ll be a name for it. After that a proper...
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Group Projects

This morning, while looking at the latest Threadless tees, I found one by Phil Jones. This is actually his second winning tee of late. He became a member of Threadless about a year later than I...
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