Yeah, I'm thrilled.

I'm determined to feign enthusiasm for political purposes, but an hour into my fifth week here and I am bored and depressed. My grey cubicle surrounds me like an anaconda. My mind's eye is fixated on the unfinished painting on my easel and three countdown clocks are ticking in my head... 7 hours left to the day, 4 more days in the week, 5 more months in this contract.

I need a better camera

Well it's done. I finished the painting of Daevina. The photo of it looks like crap, as do most of the photos of my paintings in my portfolio because my digital camera is cheap like borscht. I know what I want to replace it but I'll have to endure a couple more months in the cubicle to get the camera I want. I should probably feel more accomplished, but I'm disappointed with the photograph. I'll have to take real pictures with my SLR and scan them.

I Found It!!

This is for Trish:

Madonna. The paper has yellowed a bit and it is a bit smudged, but what do you want? It was drawn in 1984

And I found a few other rock stars while I was looking:

Mick Jagger - Drawn in 1984

Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones - both drawn in 1988

And while I was spelunking...

Here are a couple for Lorra:

My old surf club's logo from 1988 (135 Kb)

One of my old surf drawings from the same year (200 Kb)

At Lorra's Request

Me surfing, early spring 1989.

This picture has been in my wallet forever, thus the discolouration. I'm the one riding the soup into the beach - that arm sticking up in the air was sort of a signature thing. I never realized I was doing it when I was out there, but I always did it. You can see how big the waves are further out if you look closely at the specs to the right of me. Those are my friends Jessica and Matt. The waves weren't huge that day, about a metre and a half - give or take, because it was nearly spring and the big winter waves had already gone away. In the winter, November through January, this spot would often get four metres or more.