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2017 – Day 33
See More: 2017 – Day 33Thursday, February 2, 2017 Up again at 4:30 AM and two-hours at the gym. Slowly but surely I’m seeing results. I wouldn’t say I’m a patient person, but as I’ve gotten older I seem to be more willing to let things unfold gradually. I think this has been one of my biggest flaws all my life; the want of instant gratification. Going back to school has done a lot to re-train my impulsiveness…and knitting…and sewing…and weight-lifting. One of the things I’ve done is I no longer weigh myself. I know I’m firming up and losing weight, but I’m not starving […]
2017 – Day 31
See More: 2017 – Day 31Tuesday, January 31, 2017 I took a couple of days off from blogging, and I found that, as a result, I stopped studying my HTML course material. No bueno. Even if I just have to come on and jot one or two sentences down, I’m going to do that. 😉 Little Miss was my co-pilot last Sunday on the drive back down to Moses Lake. Buddy was riding in the back; he likes to perch himself on my laundered clothes and stare out the window. Little Miss, however, is content to just sit next to dad. She’ll be 12 this May; […]
2017 – Day 28
See More: 2017 – Day 28Saturday, January 28, 2017 Not munch to report about today. Slept in with Boo, washed and ironed my clothes for the week, chores around the house, took the recyclables to Twisp, shopped for groceries, back home and vegged the rest of the day. My kind of a Saturday. I have to drive back down to Moses Lake tomorrow so I can be up at 3:00 AM Monday morning and drive the roads. Ugh. How many more weeks of winter are there going to be where I’ll have to do this.
2017 – Day 27
See More: 2017 – Day 27Friday, January 27, 2017 Today is the International Halocaust Remembrance Day. Today is a good day to remember Sir Nicholas Winston, Gino Bartali, Irena Sendlerowa, Chiune Sugihara, Oskar Schindler, and the all the others whose names may be forgotten, but their acts of bravery and compassion will never be. Yesterday, while I was scrolling through Facebook, I felt very discouraged by all the divisiveness and vitriol contained in the posts and memes from both sides of the political divide. I myself am a bleeding-heart liberal and proud of that. As a Catholic and a believer in Christ’s message of […]
2017 – Day 26
See More: 2017 – Day 26Thursday, January 26, 2017 Not exactly sure why, but I’m being drawn to the writing of Dylan Thomas. I think, from time-to-time, I’ll post an excerpt or two. Everyone seems to be familiar with his poems “And death shall have no dominion” and “Do not go gentle into that good night“, so I thought I’d post something from his drama “Under Milk Wood“: “Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes […]
2017 – Day 25
See More: 2017 – Day 25Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Ugh! This week is going by so slowly. Up at 3 again, drove the roads, checked-in with my boss, spent a couple hours at the gym, followed by an hour at Starbucks studying. Yesterday I completed my application for Gonzaga’s MBA program; I hope to be accepted and enroll for this fall’s term. Fingers crossed. I still have 18 courses to complete in the next term at WGU, but I’m confident that I can get ‘er done. The Gonzaga MBA program takes two years for part-time students and I’d have to drive up to Spokane twice […]
2017 – Day 24
See More: 2017 – Day 24Tuesday, January 24, 2017 This is my first drawing from the photo of the “mammoth” water tender. Since the only picture I have to work off is at an angle, the proportions are skewed. I need to either take another photo straight on, or I need to sketch a new proportional mammoth (I think I’ll do the later). I have an idea to have this design silkscreened in white onto red t-shirts to raise money for the Okanogan County Fire District #6. I would like not get around a dozen shirts printed for the March 12th firefighter stairclimb in Seattle. Today […]
2017 – Day 23
See More: 2017 – Day 23Monday, January 23, 2017 And school’s closed…again. Today was an easy call, though; there was too much black ice on the road to safely transport students. Just tapping on my brakes caused me to lose control and almost go into a ditch, and that’s a good indicator we should either have a two-hour delay or forego school altogether. I’ve been told that this winter is so not typical for this region. As I’ve posted before, I’ll be so glad when spring arrives. On another note, my Probability and Statistics mentor has given me the green light to re-take my assessment, woo-hoo! I’m scheduling […]
2017 – Day 22
See More: 2017 – Day 22Sunday, January 22, 2017 It’s snowing again. https://flic.kr/p/Qe6S6c I went all last week without my toiletry bag because I tore my old one apart in order to draft a sewing pattern, and I went to work yesterday in sewing myself a new tote from ticking fabric (my new favorite) and canvas. The ticking fabric itself is not durable enough to make a tote, so I interfaced it with canvas to add structure. I’ve still got a long ways on this design. I want to find some means to “rubberize” the inside canvas to make the bag waterproof. I’ve been looking online […]
2017 – Day 21
See More: 2017 – Day 21Saturday, January 21, 2017 What a day! Yesterday I got off work at 6:00 PM and drove home to Winthrop and pulled in just a little before 9:00 PM. It was raining all the way from Leahy Junction outside of Bridgeport to Methow and then the rain turned to snow and driving was slow going the rest of the way home, but by the time I did get home Boo had bacon cheeseburgers from Arrowleaf Bistro waiting. That’s a good way to start off the weekend. We woke up to 4″ of fresh snow. https://flic.kr/p/QRFHV7 Today was the day of the […]