8r4d When that retirement #party you get invited to turns into a weird crossover event because the venue is also hosting a press conference for the local cfl #football team. So you drink beers and take pics with the team mascot.

pixelazy Between weather systems, the #sky gave up some blue.

8r4d I was drinking my Mackers #coffee this morning and realized that this little #face on the lid leaves the imagination with some wild connotations. I mean the beverage basically comes from the little mouth right where my lips meet it. [read more...]

pixelazy #rain on the window art

8r4d Occasionally all this not-working from home leaves me missing my #lunchbreak meandering through downtown, so I hit up the take out stir fry place in the suburban shopping area for some chow mein and my free fortune cookie reminded me to put down my fork get back at it…

gamerdad I’m only about a quarter of my way through Murakami’s ten year old novel #1Q84 a work of surrealist magical #scifi that I consumed as an audiobook shortly after it came out, and decided to read the old fashioned way this summer. The author #murakami has been on my shortlist of favoured novelists for a long while and I’ve read most of his library at this point, and in many ways he has served as something of a personal literary inspiration for the types of stories I try to write. The style may not jive with my own writing style but definitely the bigger ideas and plots are a fascination to me and I dig the word surrealism of the journeys they take the reader on. Being a mere 250 pages into 1Q84 it’s escaping my memory where this particular plot is leading, but that just makes the discovery that much more satisfying.

8r4d After the rain my little #walk took me into #coyote territory. #animal #suburbs #birdsong

8r4d The fern has definitely taken a turn for the better since I repotted it a few weeks ago. #houseplants Perhaps looking enviously out the front window at the fresh #rain we’re getting today?

8r4d Monday, and I spent some time with a cup of #coffee writing code this morning. [read more...]

squwetchy About six hours later I decided this #dandelion #watercolour was a little lacking in depth, so I spent another hour or so adding lots of shading, some subtle some not, and now I think it has a lot more oomph. What say you? [read more...]

squwetchy #dandelion #flower in #watercolour

gamerdad I crossed the ten hour mark in the game last night and I’m digging into the multiple side quests as an homage to my classic play style in the original: grind until your characters are overpowered enough to plow through the main plot. [read more...]