A Person, Artist, Software Engineer, Geologist.

OK, I was told that my art style is "loose" which I've been told is something that artist strive for.  For me it's all "loose" as I don't think I could draw a straight line.  The good thing is, all of my non-straight lines together appear to result in something that people (and my self) likes. It happens almost everything I start on a drawing, I mess up.  this angle is wrong, these lines I missed, etc. but I keep going forward.  Art is not perfect but an interpretation and in my life I skip a lot of things (aka, details) to get to the larger concept which is what I end up with. If I was to try to draw perfectly then my style would ceased to exist.  Go figure. It's more of a reflection of my life where, yeah I miss details but the bigger picture is there. I feel for people that want, strive or need everything to be perfect.  I've read articles where that's a hard personality to have because of the stress on one's life.  From a software Eng...

 My trip out here is almost over.  When renting a house there is a certain amount of work that needs to occur to keep the house up.  If you don’t it could get ahead of you and then you have a bigger mess to clean up.   For this trip the focus was the yard.  Specifically it was to reduce the watering costs and upkeep costs by starting to remove a lot of grass from the front yard.  We put in a gravel path from the front to the back with a loop by the apple tree.  Added some native plants and a drip irrigation section for them.  We turned off 3 of the watering circuits so the front / side sections of grass will die.  We also capped a couple of sprinkler heads where we want the grass to die, to be replaced with mulch.   But that’s not all we did, we also weeded, trimmed, mowed and re-mulched the yard to again reduce water usage.  That is a lot of shoveling and wheelbarrowing stuff around. The inside was better but did not survive unscat...

Been vaccinated for a long time and it's hard to see how many people did not get the jab.  They are now reaping the results of their decision.  I could understand not wanting something put into your body.  I feel the same way, except the amount of research, testing and trials vaccines need to go through is extensive.  They go way over my "bar" of evidence.  And that is what I look for is evidence, not feeling or reading something somewhere. To this end I now am able to travel to Utah to fix up our rental house in utah (need to reduce water usage there a lot!) and then later for some other (local like) trips we have planned.  I still feel bad for the those getting COVID-19 but it's not like it snuck up on them or anything.   I do feel bad for those that are being impacted by the choice of others.  The medical field, kids, schools, service workers and the like that are being harmed in the lively hood if not even their lives. This is a quick trip to ...