Monday, January 22, 2024

Don't Let Me Do This Alone!


 I've never been one for New Year's resolutions. Well I can't say "never" because in my younger days I wanted to be on that band wagon but as I aged, I realized there wasn't much to it. It was simply a fun thing to do around the last day of the year and it amounts to not much more than a to-do list for the first couple of weeks of January. I find it amusing also how the so called pundits have a statistical day (January 15th) when most people give up on their New Year's resolutions. 
                  
How do they know?

Is there an office or phone bank where the workers are randomly calling people asking if they are giving up on their resolutions yet?

However in recent years I've set yearly goals and even that has changed with the passing of time as I've altered the terminology from goals to objectives. I might expand on the reasons for this verbiage some other time, but suffice it to say for now, I am presently engineering my objectives for  2024.

For all of my adult life I've not been a smashing success at fulfilling my yearly objectives. Why do I keep trying? Needless to say the alternative to trying is very grim, is it not? Over the past couple of years things have changed a great deal and these shifts I speak of are mainly regarding my professional career which this blog is limited to addressing. 

   I'm on a journey and for the readers of this blog, I welcome you to join me in it's progress, if any.

When I wrote Shut Up & Draw, I wrote in the introduction how Tracy hinted that if I didn't do something profitable with my drawing talents to earn income, she made a thinly veiled threat to have a nice weeny roast for the grandkids using all my drawing implements as fuel for the fire.


I took this threat seriously enough and wrote the a book albeit with modest sales.


                                                           

As the impetus from the energy of Shut Up & Draw has waned, she is revisiting her earlier threat. Therefore, in the spirit of marital harmony and overall good business, (that is earning a living) I renew my pledge to succeed. 

                Join me, if you will

Friday, January 5, 2024

Back Off. I Have a Bumper Sticker


I'm often amused at bumper and window stickers on cars. I believe they equate to t-shirts with catchy slogans and people want to appear unique or contrary to the norm. What I find interesting is how millions of people use these same bumper stickers, so I ask myself "how unique are they if so many others do the same thing?"

So often I feel the stickers on cars are meant to manipulate others into modifying their driving. I'm seeing more and more the bumper sticker that says 


In fact, I see it so often on cars from nice, expensive new ones to old jalopies. I suspect the drivers find the bumper sticker in a gag gift shop and display it on their bumper to excuse their poor driving skills. On one particular incident, I was driving behind a minivan with the proverbial

window sticker as if somehow it was going to change the way I drive. The funny thing is, the operator in question was not driving well: swerving, riding the brake, crossing lanes erratically and generally driving badly. Eventually I passed her and glanced over to notice she was on her phone. So, the lady who was demanding everyone take care not to put her child passenger in jeopardy was herself driving like an idiot.