Category: life & stuff

Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.

  • facing the punching

    facing the punching

    One quote that sums up your 2025 is… Easy come, easy go. In many ways I signed up for a kind of trial of instability.  Not locking into regularly scheduled employment for a couple years, taking gigs, doing contracts, picking at projects, working part time, going back to school, et cetera, et cetera… it all

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  • lucid professionalism

    lucid professionalism

    What made your job interesting in 2025? Some people may incorrectly tell you that technically I don’t have a job. They are wrong. I am not traditionally employed these days, true, but I do in a very real sense work for myself… which is a huge job and a lot of work. Living the dream…

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  • cheap-ish therapy

    cheap-ish therapy

    Who or what are you leaving behind in 2025? I was reading over old posts. I mean, half the reason I write this damn blog is that, as they say, writing is cheaper than therapy. That is to say… these words are mostly for me. It is a public journal of a sort, after all,

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  • weekend wrap, twenty one

    weekend wrap, twenty one

    October turned to November and with just a couple months left in 2025 its tough not to get all waxy poetic here. We have a vacation incoming this month, I finished my summer work, I completed my October challenge of suburban sketching, and I don’t have much going on in the training department (at least

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  • weekend wrap, twenty

    weekend wrap, twenty

    I guess this was the final weekend in October, huh? I started this month with a personal art challenge, drawing every day, and so far I’ve kept up my end of the deal. But somehow whenever I immerse myself it the act of doing something daily over the span of a month it seems to

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