Every day I make notes
Every day I make notes of things I can or want to write about on the bastishnet, unfortunately, when it comes to actually writing, I always wind up going with the most simple hapnens' of the day because I don't have time to write about the more interesting crap which would require actually tapping into my cognitive abilities. So today, I only write boring stuff.
Check out these photos of Guri Vs. Asupara. I was going to erase them after I first took them because she moved too much. I'm glad I didn't. The movement actually adds a lot to the photos if you know Guri.
A reader asked why I was so excited in an earlier post about discovering the color wheel. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I never knew what colors were complimentary, and surly never knew the relationship between them (opposites on the color wheel). Nor did I notice the different grays that exist depending on how much of the primary colors are present, and certainly not that mixing a color and it's compliment produced a more attractive gray than just mixing black and white.
Although attributed to the color wheel, my excitement was not limited to the color wheel. I also never knew about the difference between warm reds, blues, greens, etc.. and cold red, blues, greens, etc... I never knew about transparent colors vs. opaque colors. And, more related to watercolors, I never knew about staining reds, blues, greens etc... and their non-staining counterparts. Amazing stuff. I have to take the blame myself for not having learned it on my own after 5th grade, but I really think that at least the most basic of these concepts should have been taught to us before then.
I went back to the hash after a three month break yesterday. Photos here. It was weird that people somehow knew about my latest goings-on even though I had no contact with them since before I went to Tim's wedding. It was fun until I heard some horror stories about peoples Cockatiels getting eaten by crows. Japanese crows are the biggest I have ever seen. Their scary too. Once while I was living in Sakaide, I awoke one morning at 6am to a deafening scraping on the roof. I looked out the window to see hundreds of crows attacking the building, and hundreds more hanging out in the park across the street. I wanted to walk to the next door apartments to wake up Tom, Andre, and Troy (my neighbors) but was too afraid even though I had an umbrella to beat them off. Every time I opened the door, about fifty or so crows from the park across the street would be attracted and start flying in my direction.
In the end, no one else saw them, and they would never have believed the story if the ground was not totally painted with crow crap.
Jon has his very own blog now. Check it out here http://www.bastish.net/jonnyboy/
I had been pretty negative in the last month, I attribute it to the fact that I must have a little bi-polar blood in me. Now I am fine. Of course this may be due to the fact that I realized it is no use feeling like crap because I can't due everything I want to. One other thing may be that I quit work as a hobby, and started a new hobby that I used to feel bad about always putting off (painting or art or whatever). I used to think of work as a hobby as well as my job, which was great for being satisfied career-wise as long as I am constantly moving forward in leaps and bounds, but if things slow down (as they have at my work now) I feel like crap. As far as simple jobs go, my job now is awesome. As far as super satisfying career moves go it sucks. But I decided that I don't need a super-satisfying job right now in a field that I don't even care to make a career in. Just having a cool job is pretty good as long as I have another hobby to replace it. All is well, it just takes a different perspective I guess.