Role Playing (Not in that way)

     Heynow! It's Friday night, and I'm at home doing nothing. Sometimes it's nice to do nothing. Currently listening to Abbey Road by the Beatles (My favorite album of ALL time) on vinyl. I got the green posters and I posted them up on the long bare wall on the right when you enter my apartment. No one has really seen it yet but I'm guessing someone will soon. I'm not really expecting anything but a visit would be nice. It's a 3 x 4 posters (or 84" x 88"), with about 6" left on the bottom of the wall. I haven't filmed anything yet. I haven't had any good ideas. What's some good ideas? Leave a comment if you have an idea. I have made a joke if someone says something like "Why do you have a green screen?" I'll reply "I do the local weather". I thought that was a funny smart joke. Maybe I'll do a bit that has a weatherman kinda thing. I have done some painting tonight. I have done one color (yellow) of the Iron Man painting. I'll probably do the other color (red) tomorrow. Maybe I'll start on the John Lennon one tomorrow too. I'm thinking that one and adding in green instead of white because green is John's favorite color. I thought that would be cool to do that. Black and Green color. I'm still not finished with the candle wax sculpture. I might be close to finishing it though.
     Thanksgiving day, I went to my parent house for Thanksgiving lunch at around 1PM. I got there at noon and my brother Casey was late so I talked to Mom and Dad for a while. Then we had lunch and ,of course, it was delicious. I got a lot of leftovers which is good because I haven't been grocery shopping and I don't have that much food in the fridge. I'll probably go shopping tomorrow too. Turkey, ham, sweet potato casserole, corn, rolls, gravy, fruit salad, broccoli casserole (not for me thanks), dressing, pecan pie, pumpkin role, and butterfinger cake. My mom fixes too much but in this case it's good for me.
     I've had song ideas floating in my head all day today. I've written some down and some are not returning to my mind. I wish I had a piano in here. The landlady, Ruthie, has a piano in the office. I haven't seen anyone play it or anything. One day, I'll ask her if I can play around with it and maybe write a song. Probably the next time I pay rent. Ah...it's 11:28PM but it feels like 1:28AM. The day light situation is quite weird, getting dark at 5:15PM. Sometimes I'm not tired when I goto bed. Last night, I went to bed at 1:00AM not really feeling sleeping but knowing to go to bed. I fell asleep though. It's hard sometimes to go to sleep when your mind is flowing with ideas and conversations that you plan out that eventually never happen.
     I find myself stepping into other peoples shoes without wanting to. I don't like that sometimes. I've had the feeling of being paralyzed, been injured in different ways (no eyes, no ears, etc.), and have my mental state altered (example: My mother died when I was 14. My parents divorced when I was 5, things like that, that aren't true but I erase my memory and make new ones). Feeling the pain of no one caring about you when someone does and you don't know it. Having my mind altered in that way makes me feel sorry for those who has lost someone they love or has gone through that experience. In a weird way, it feels like I have gone through what they have but in a few seconds, a quick burst of emotions. Usually sadness, grief, sorrow, and then acceptance. But in a way, it has made me see both sides of the story and see what they are coming from and seeing the positives of both sides. I thought about it and I think I do it because my life is not exciting enough. It's true. I just sit in my apartment and do nothing. Painting, computer, video gaming, video editing, picture editing, and all the other activities. I just need to get the courage to go out and talk to someone new or at least someone old as often as possible. I like meeting new people but then the anxiety kicks in and I retreat. I don't really like taking pills but I'm thinking about somehow getting some anti-depressant / anti-anxiety medicine. It might intensify my good personally (hopefully). I would rather hurt myself than someone else. In a perfect world, the medicine will help me and I wouldn't be dependent on it. Now I have gone into a feeling of being an addict. I've been in those shoes before. I've been an addict of somethings. Mostly smoking but I overcame that. Please don't think I'm crazy, this is how I experience things sometimes. I may not like it but it somehow makes me see things in a different light. I guess that's all for tonight. I've exposed myself too much, that's not like me. Coming from a man that doesn't show emotion to anyone. My life is exciting, later.

Green Screen Magic Shirt!

     hEYNOW. Damn you work caps lock! Anyway, I'm at work and I have work to do but I am, yes you guessed it, procrastinating. I do want to get it done today so I don't have anything to worry about when on holiday. + (Every time I use this symbol, that means I went back to work and now I have something random to say. 

     + I think my boss thinks I'm a pervert, because I was watching a video and he caught me watching an innocent video. I tried to quickly switch it back to work related stuff but he still caught a video window. He asked "What was that a swivel dance?" (Meaning belly dance, i think) "No, a friend emailed this video of him going around his college campus" (which was true). When he went out, it made me realize how many times he has said something like that to me, being the only male in the work environment most of the time. One other time was when I was applying to a college and I was taking a break and sitting on the couch drawing a tree from outside. When he came in from lunch he looked at me and said something like "What are you drawing, a naked woman?" "No, it's that tree outside". The girl co-workers chuckled and he made me fell like a perv.

     + Woohoo, the last work day this week. Thank you for Pilgrims and Native Americans for eating together on one day in November and then making it a holiday America. I got paid today too! I usually get paid on Thursday but today I got the check in my pocket; at lunch I'm going to cash it. Then I'll have moola!

     + I finally edited that "Magic Shirt!" green screen video. CLICK HERE--->Magic Shirt!. It's short, simple but it took me a while to figure out how to edit and do green screen with two different programs but I know how to do it now! I just need to get a bunch more green posters and make a really good green screen on that wall you saw in the video. Right now I'm calculating how many pieces of green posters I need...3 x 5 posters equal 15 pieces and each piece costs 99 cents which comes to a total of $14.85. Then 6% sales tax which gives me a grand total of $15.74. Thanks math! I might get three more...

     + wOOHOO! Work caps again...my boss is leaving early today! But I'm not going to leave so early. I'm going to try and finish my drawings and then go home, hopefully earlier that regular. + Crap. He gave me something else to do but I'm not going that far today. That's a whole different monster, what he's talking about. It's a section view and I hate section views. Sooo many details and notes to make and repeat, repeat, repeat. Oh well, it's almost lunch time. I ordered me a pizza from Pizza Hut. It's actually been a while since I've eaten pizza. Maybe over three weeks. I'll take leftovers back home. + Okay, I'm back from lunch. I ate about half of my pizza and I'll probably have the other half for supper tonight. Back to work for awhile. + Dang, the computer is slow sometimes. I try to fill something in and it has to wrap around the other parts to fill in the space and it just takes a long time. I should have posted the time when I use the (+). So you can see the procrastination and then the work time. If I can get this "hatch" (filler) stuff done, I can get out of here, but the thing is slow! This hatch is taking forever. So dumb. Stupid thing. I could probably draw in the filler and it would be faster.

     + Yes! Finished with work. It's 2:50PM. I'll watch about two videos on YouTube, then I'll go home. I might go and get green posters :). My life is exciting, later.

Paintings, Music, Work

     Heynow. I'm at work this time. My boss is to my left checking my work. Whatever changes that has to be made, he marks it with a red pen. I'm typing to make myself look busy. I texted my mom, to see what the plans were for Thanksgiving. It's lunch at 12:00pm. Sean's not coming, he's having his own Thanksgiving at his house in Frankfort. Mom said that we're invited though. So I don't know if I can even goto both. It'll be a three hour drive from Frankfort to Tazewell for me, which will suck, unless I spend the night, which probably won't happen. I will probably take Friday off. Mom doesn't have that day off and I'm guessing that Dad doesn't either. Oh well, today had been not so productive at work. I've been mainly watching Seinfeld bloopers on YouTube. Yeah, there have been changes in the drawings and I have typed out specifications but that was easy stuff. I like my job, if something needs to be done, it is in about fifteen minutes and then I'm done for the day. I then have to wait on my boss or someone else to approve it. An unexperienced drafter would take longer to do what I do. I know the program, I know how it works, I can simplify it. Thank goodness I've been experienced in this from high school. My boss got up to goto the bathroom. He's been doing that a lot lately. I got my three paintings done yesterday (well, I painted two yesterday and one earlier) but these three are going to Allison McDaniel for her nephew for Christmas. Here they are:

Guns N Roses - Slash

AC/DC - Angus Young

Led Zeppelin - Angel Logo

     Thank you so much Allison, I had fun painting all of these. Speaking of art, I am still working on that candle wax sculpture. I like adding wax on it over and over. It just looks awesome. I'll try to post a picture when I think I'm done with it. With those paintings out of the way, all is left is my personal paintings that I'm going to hang up in my apartment. I can procrastinate on those since there's no pressure and deadline. 

     Crap, I think I have a lot of changes to make on those set of drawings. My boss has been there for quite a while and he has written down a few things. Hopefully it's not too much. Wow, I feel sleepy now. Crap! I was right. I've got a lot of work now. A lot of details that doesn't need to be explained but since everyone doesn't know how to read a map, I have to repeat, repeat, repeat.

     Anyway, before I was hit with work stuff, I was going to recommend an album to you. First off, I don't like country music but I have been a fan of this guys work for a few years, his name is Darrell Scott. His album this year "A Crooked Road" is a great album. To let you hear some of his stuff click below.

Darrell Scott - A Crooked Road

Darrell Scott - This Beggar's Heart

     If you can get any album of his, I highly recommend it. I may have told this story but I crashed his family reunion a few years ago and I got to meet him for a few minutes. His whole family can play an instrument and it's awesome to see live. He played a few songs more than twice and each time, he played it a different way. He is very gifted, and I wish I could play guitar / song write like him. Alrighty then, I guess I'll do some work now since it's 3:32PM and I leave at 5. My life is exciting, later.