Halloween Day

I went to bed last night at a decent time (around midnight), and I began reading "The Warrior Lives" until I fell asleep awhile later. I slept very well (with a few wake-ups) until 10:30, still recovering from the obnoxious head cold (super-phlegmatious, with accompanying headache and warm temperature) I've been dealing with since Saturday afternoon.

"Good Morning Football" and Wikipedia passed my morning, along with cereal and coffee. I did some dishes and then went online.

It was a low key day otherwise. More tv, more reading. Cold pizza for lunch. Mac & cheese for supper. I poured a beer into a glass, but my cold made it taste wrong, so I poured it out.

I did manage one last Halloween drawing for this year:

Yep, that is a dime in the lower right corner of the image. I love my Pigma Micron art pens!

Finished

Everyone wants the good candy bars...


...even the monsters! 11" x 14" on 60 lb paper. Pigma Micron pens and Prismacolor pencils.

Post It Trio

I drew these three Jacks during my dinner break at work last night.

Fluorescent post-it notes with ball point pen and yellow hiliter (mouths and eyes):

4 Days Off: 4

I made a South Beach breakfast. I took out the air conditioner. I ran out to the ATM and Taco Bell ($12.36 for 6 soft tacos and a SMALL Pepsi???). I watched sports tv. And I did more inks and primary colors on the Jack O'Lantern monster I've been drawing this week (both 'indoor' filter and 'aquarium'):

4 Days Off: 3

Today has been a pretty good day. Among other things, I:

• Watched a doc (and spend time on Wikipedia reading about) Genghis Khan.
• Did laundry.
• Finished sorting books to donate.
• Worked out from 12:30 - 1:30 pm.
• Had rice & chicken for lunch (2:00 pm).
• Watched "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and bits of the Chiefs/Raiders game.
• Had night coffee & cinnamon toast.
• Did dishes.
• And drew (work in progress):

4 Days Off: 1

When I woke up today I made a 'to do' list. Completed items are in blue bold:

• Clean new footstool. I added an old Cisco Brewery sticker on the middle of the seat.
• Get PS3 up and running.
• Lift (work out).
• Clean off top of refrigerator.
• Hannaford/Starbucks run.
• Do the dishes.
• Make ground beef & pasta.
• Clean kitchen sink drain.
• Clean off top of dresser.
• Clean Chumble's litter box.
• Sort books for donation.

Extra things I did that were not on my list:

• Updated live music dates on Not Lame Minus.
• Threw away some clutter (old comics, old pots & pans, etc...).
• Watched the latest episodes of "The Blacklist" and "The Gifted".
• Watched an amazing NBA season opener: Celtics 99 - Cavaliers 102. Too bad we lost Gordon Hayward for the season...

Frank

Yet another lunch break scribble (ball point pen and yellow Hiliter):

Third Pumpkin

I have today off, and decided to draw something fancy:

Gold ink on heavy brown construction paper, freehand (no pencils).

Second Pumpkin

Another work day lunch break drawing (from yesterday's 7:30a - 5:00p shift):

Lakenbeer

I went to the lake from 4:00 - 7:00 today. I had a nice Doppelbock beer (from a can!) from the Fort Hill Brewery in Easthampton, MA. I'd buy it again. I did some reading (Joel Rosenberg's "Guardians of the Flame: The Warriors", 3 books under one cover). I did some wading, mostly when I was taking photos or rinsing out the beer bottle and can. A nice peaceful day, with few boats and many geese, under a sunny blue sky...

First Pumpkin

...of the season! I drew this with a ball point pen and a hilighter during my lunch break today at work.

Goals: October

This month's goals:

• Read 5 books - IIII I - goal achieved on the 27th
• Draw 5 things - IIII I - goal achieved on the 19th
• Work out 5 times - IIII - goal achieved on the 27th
• Go on 5 hikes - 
• Travel to 5 places - 
• Lose 5 pounds (Begin: 254, End: 245).
• Make real progress toward a real job.