One Day My Mind Opened Up

  3rd(4th) Time's a charm?
One advantage of working at jobs that don't require a lot of high-level thinking is that you can run ideas "in the background".

Well since one of that young artist's drawings managed to eventually lead to a weird little poem, somehow my mind wondered "Why not try to learn to draw again".

I still have a book I bought on an internship in Elmira, NY and the paper and some pencils.

It would be a fun "weekend warrior" type thing to do, and it would get me off the computer!

Hey--I never knew I could do web pages, or write poetry until I tried.  ¶ 8:05 AM

  Am I an ARTIST?
I apologize for the late post.

But I was surfing around and found a site by an EXCELLENT young Belgian artist. She does a LOT of Japanese Anime-inspired art and has a thing for Ariel (Little Mermaid).

I looked at them and said--"I wish I could draw?"

Or do I in a different way; I write poetry, I can take pictures, I hope to maybe buy a program that will let me do Flash files.

It is possible that I'm an artist and don't know it--or don't wanna admit it?  ¶ 11:20 PM

  "Gotta Go To Work--Again"
First some (reasonably) good news. The pics I took have been well-received and I may look at entering them into contests. I also had a job interview for a tech support job.

But I've also decided I need to find a 3rd job. Seems that my accident in March of this year cost me my car insurance. Basically my premium is gonna double, based on estimates--and I haven't even looked "off-market". There are a few smaller places I need to look at.

So personal time looks like it will be shorter than usual for a few months:(  ¶ 10:18 PM

  Another World
Everyone seems to have a thirst for adventure these days. But sometimes you have to go no father than outside your front door.



The gateway to this wonderful world isn't anything special:


But take a few steps further and:








But taking pictures wasn't enough:
  ¶ 7:35 PM 4 comments

  Screen To Screen
Well, just what I don't need--another sign I'm getting OLD!

The Dukes Of Hazzard movie is the first TV show from the 1980s to be made into a movie. Now I may see this when it comes to the local "2nd Run" theater, but it's the fact that TV shows I was watching are being made into movies that makes me wonder if a few other TV shows may be able to make the jump:

Knight Rider: This was one of those TV shows that embodied the 1980's (and I find amazing how much of KITT's technology became real). In my version a new Michael Knight(Vin Diesel perhaps) and a modern KITT are tackling the newest generation of "Criminals who operate above the law, a terrorist syndicate.

A-Team: Testosterone TV at it's best(or worst). But my version starts with the team escaping from that stockade and their beginnings as soldiers of fortune.

Magnum P.I: OK this one has a partial cast. Patrick Stewart as Higgins, Magnum's employer and "The Rock" as T.C., Magnum's pilot/friend. Now all we is to figure out what to do in Hawaii?

Miami Vice: I gotta give credit to a co-worker for this. Don Johnson reprises his character and either Will Smith or Bill Bellamy(who was in a short-lived "Vice"-esque program called Fastlane) replaces a dead or retired Philip Michael Thomas in a variation on the "Old Cop/Young Cop" story set to the beat of Miami.

Moonlighting: How about a romantic dramedy? This tale of mismatched detectives would likely be a good draw just as a "chick flick".  ¶ 7:51 PM