Graphic Book Update

Twelve pages (3-7 pictures per page) down and about that many more to go on the small graphic novel I'm creating for my Izzy's birthday.  Here is another sneak peek at the progress:

Downloader

When I started college, the Internet was just becoming a big thing. My university had just recently embraced it as a tool for disseminating information.  Over the years, my friends have had plenty of hearty laughs and gleefully reminded me of my predictions back then concerning the World Wide Web.  In my computer-illiterate ignorance, I said, "The internet?! Nobody is ever going to use the stupid internet!"  Needless to say, never take any investment advice from me.

Despite my early reservations regarding the use of the web, and even computers for that matter, I soon became pretty good with the whole thing.  I used to think I picked up the skills pretty quickly considering my backwoods public school lack of instruction, but then I had a three year old girl.  She will turn on the laptop, open the internet browser, click on her favorite link (starfall.com), and proceed to help her little brother learn letters, sounds, numbers, and colors.  Her computer use, while impressive, was somewhat overlooked until yesterday.  I sat down in front of the laptop screen following the little techy only to discover FIFTEEN songs downloading from the iTunes store!  She had somehow logged onto iTunes and started working the mess out of the "buy" button.  I suppose we lucked out with a load of Chris Tomlin songs rather than Nicki Minaj or Justin Bieber.

Super Walls

My son, like his old man and every clear-thinking red blooded American man, loves him some super heroes.  So, in the continued effort to carve out a uniquely boy space in the room he now shares with his big sister, we were able to find these super awesome retro metal signs (about 12" x 16") to hang in his corner of the room.  The boy was overjoyed...probably just because he has something other than princesses and butterflies to look at now.

Old Guys Know

Yes, they are grandpappy slippers, and yes, they are awesome.

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Sneak Peek of Mini Graphic Novel

Here is a sneak peek of the miniature graphic novel I'm making for my daughter's upcoming forth birthday party.  It is going to take forever to finish, but if all goes as planned it will be a party gift for her little friends. Sorry about the pitiful cell phone pic. I will try to post some quality peeks as things progress.

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Shovel It

The current state of my garden is a dandelion coup d'etat.  The garden has suffered complete and utter neglect in which my bitter yellow-flowered puff ball adversary has stepped full force into the void.  Something needed to be done.  Therefore yesterday I struck out on my latest gardening venture.

Around a year ago, I read a book about an MIT grad who became shamefully aware of how completely technology has somewhat enslaved us, its users, and in an attempt to prove his hypothesis that less technology would lead to more leisure time, he joined a semi-Amish community for a technology-free year.  During his year, he discovered the hardest labor was the wheat threshing, which was entirely for the survival of horses.  The primary function of the horses was plowing the fields prior to planting.  After a grueling season of threshing with men who were in far superior physical condition, the MIT grad came up with an interesting proposal.  He suggested getting rid of the horses and just turning the fields with nothing more than hands and shovels, which although the notion was rejected, the others did agree plowing the rows by hand would definitely be easier than threshing.

This gave me a wonderfully terrible idea.  Since a tiller cost around sixty bucks to rent, and since I have much more energy than I do funds, I have determined to hand till my garden this year with nothing more than these two mitts typing on this keyboard and my trusty Home Depot shovel.

I started shoveling yesterday....I might be done by April....maybe.

Oh Texas!

First week of February last year:

First week of February this year:

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