Looking to have a second straight banger of a month on the ole blog site here with having 60% of January’s numbers by day six of February is pretty nuts. Something went off yesterday because there was a significant jump of 300 or more views yesterday, and 200 more by the time I woke up this morning at 7:00 am. Once again the views come down squarely in the archives with no other descriptors available, so I don’t know what all of y’all are looking at. Never any comments about it, so I assume it’s not a bad thing, not a particularly good thing either. One way or the other I would expect somebody to comment at least once, even in a language other than English. I could figure out how to translate it if that were the case, but with no interaction whatsoever I have no clue what’s getting all the eyeballs, for better or for worse.
Maybe I’ll serve an additional ten cents worth of ads this year and earn an entire quarter! .25¢ worth of “passive income“, though it isn’t all that passive because I do actively write here every single day. I strive for quality but mainly serve up quantity. It’s a personal weakness of mine. I’m well acquainted with it. Ask for one thing, get seven options instead because the iterative process leads me astray, but can also discover some cool details I hadn’t thought of initially. So there’s that.
It’s Friday, with Valentine’s Day coming up next Saturday. So I should get that sorted out for my wife, and girls before the shelves are stripped bare, and I have to hand over all purpose flour, and windshield washer fluid to them all. Just to show I Care. I think if I get out this weekend I shouldn’t have any trouble finding a small suitable gift for them all. I like books because they get the kids off the tablets, and the VR headset, and actively using their brains, and working on their focus, and attention spans. I’m a delight!
Looks like snow is on the menu throughout the day, so we will either have 4 cm of flurries, or 25 cm of full on snow that will require two or three bouts of shoveling, scraping, and chucking to clear all the important surfaces. Oh my god, I’m so tired of the snow. So tired. So very, very tired.
I haven’t been bested by my new book – yet! I’m 1/8th of the way through it, so how long can I keep that up for? I don’t know.
I did spend some time yesterday applying gesso to some old canvases that I didn’t like, so that I can paint over them at my leisure. I have five or six suitable, but different sized canvases to use now. So that means I didn’t have to go buy any. Always a bonus! I went to Michael’s the other day for the gesso, and proper titanium white paint, and a block of super sculpey clay. I grabbed some higher quality pencil crayons, and tubes of acrylic paint whilst I was there. I opted not to try to delve into oil paints. I like the idea of oils, but needing new brushes, thinners, gloss, oil mediums, and not to mention a whole battery of paints looks too rich for my blood, at least right this second. Perhaps if I sell a guitar, or give up some other hobby by selling all the stuff I have for it, I could fund a new venture into oil painting. As it stands I have what I need for acrylics, so I’m going to stay put for a while longer. I’m not a good painter by any stretch of the imagination, but I do enjoy it. Much like sculpting, playing my various guitars, writing, singing, model building (both resin & plastic kits) drawing, assembling & painting miniatures, building war gaming terrain, video games and wood working or DIY repair. I have a lot of hobbies. I’m a mess essentially, is what I’m saying. I think a lot about narrowing down to any one of those, and I could not for the life of me decide which item I would like to devote myself to in its entirety, outside of my day job, and being a WFH parent. Probably trying to run from the fact I’m not really talented enough at any one thing to be devoted to it, and do only that one thing to an incredibly high standard. Right now as I flit between them all, I can just be happy I’m “doing” it, rather than have to show that I can do it well enough to be totally devoted to it. Catch my drift!?! I’m sure there is some underlying personal deficiency that makes me do this stuff this way. Of that I am certain.
We’ll that’s more than enough introspection for me, second day in a row of such thinking, I might add. I’ll catch you all tomorrow when I add indoor climbing to the list of hobby’s, because of course I forgot about another hobby I have. Fun times… Ciao Bella!
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