Daniel, so sorry to hear it.

Today involved a flu shot, fastest swim I've managed in mumble and possibly too much red wine with my friends a couple houses down. I went looking for the benadryl (my red wine reaction is back in my joints hurt form) and I seem to be out.

I think I might ache tomorrow.

Still worth it.

That works? I need to buy a couple of tennis balls.

Mine are "specific" thingummies, but the two different kinds I got average out to tennis balls. Before, two washer loads would be damp at the end of a dryer run. With two balls, crisp and dry. ROI in, what, four laundry days? Those are some metrics.

Unless you're unlucky enough to chip one out of pitchblende, anyway.

How would you know not to? You're stony!

The tennis ball thing in driers works? I guess I'll go buy tennis balls.

Ugh Daniel, I'm sorry.

(If you have drier noise concerns--be warned, they do bang to do their work, so)

Also that's about the fifth consecutive sentence I've ended with so.

I'm sorry, Daniel. That fucking sucks.

Daniel, can you take some time for yourself? Hide for a little, before looking for new horses?

Indeed, Daniel: that sucks. I'm sorry.

I have an art question, for people who're good at assessing images--composition, key, balance, contrast, and maybe even content. I'm finding some reference pictures lend themselves to a distinctly different drawing style (in my eyes). So if I use this [link] (shirtless boys kissing on the deck), I find it easy enough (aka not impossible, which it is 5/6 of the time) to get a result like this: [link] (boys, also kissing, also lounging)

Is it the lack of shadowing but still crisp contouring that least to me being able to do it? I'd like to recognise what pieces I need to put together when preparing one. Of course, consistency on my part is way non-negligible.

I'm toddling off to bed, but much appreciation in advance for advice from you artists, photographers, people with eyes, peoples with pencils, etc. I'm too close to the code to crack it.

Skipping yet again (though less than yesterday) because, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Hil R.'s birthday.

Happy birthday, Hil! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!