Monday morning art challenge courtesy of @fritzdoesart_ on instagram

Note for canners and jam-makers: According to a detailed Reddit post, Ball has reformulated their pectin, and it's now much less effective: jams aren't setting. It's been cut with sucrose, and switched from "fruit pectin" to just "pectin". www.reddit.com/r/Canning/co...

happy friday

pen surgery

keep finding larval mimics around

messy art day

finding out that the planescape: torment enhanced edition runs on mac and is currently in the steam summer sale has the potential to sidetrack all of my summer plans (i've played through the full game at least three times already, maybe four, but that shall not deter me)

they say never to discourage your kids on their dreams but he just said that he might to grow up to be taller than wemby

the kid is so good at making counterfeit Pokemon cards now

paying the blood price for opening the canning lid on a fresh jar of jam

on our way to see (smell) the corpse flower and having a debate about whether stinky feet are stinkier than stinky butts

"engineering leader suddenly updated their .tmux.conf after 9 years" is a single sentence horror story

fixed your headline

the categorical dual of "I finally did a task I put off for three months and it only took 10 mins and I will learn nothing from this" is the task that you did immediately because you thought it would take 10 minutes and it ruined your night, gave you anxiety and will put you off doing tasks forever

today's delivery of art supplies will be what finally fixes m̶e̶ my art

sharing custom .zshrc settings is one of my love languages

afternoon outing

dismayed to report yet again that obsessively researching and then buying the art supplies has not improved my art in any way

i recommend having a Miyazaki-esque creature that uproots itself at night and stomps around the place

on cloudy days you can just turn on the bubble machine in the shower and have the bubble party there instead

spend any amount of time sketching and you will realize that we were all collectively too hard on Rob Liefeld faces, hands, and feet are all so damned hard to draw compared to a nice little rock or a puff of smoke

a week and a half ago when my life was at max chaos, one of my toilets was acting up and refusing to fill up the tank unless you took off the lid and jiggled the hose. now that I finally have the capacity to deal with replacing some parts, it's been working fine? mfer just wanted some attention

this right here is the most dangerous time overflowed the first paint palette, got a new palette, and now there's so much empty space too much space taunting me

bug music is making me very productive at tappy tappy work

going in early so I can get some work done before my 6 hours of back to back meetings

"i have a very important message to show you"

"can you lock in memories?" "taps forehead* "I want to remember the memory of meeting you for the first time because it's my favorite memory so far in my life"

so. this has confused the kid about what have been historically joke foods (frog sandwiches, worm noodles) and real foods and he asked me to actually make him worm noodles for lunch one day

oh no it happened again

this extremely chinese coded of me but holy crap Daniel Smith's Jade Genuine is such a perfect color

it is the last day of school and i have also just unboxed the kiddo's next size up sneakers. the human body is simply not equipped to handle a dose of feelings this enormous.

when will my somnia return from the war

did someone call for a peony progress check?

ready for summer (and mosquito season) s/o to @hels.bsky.social and @timothyzillion.bsky.social for the assist

Some heroes don't wear capes

delighted at the size of my new mop brush (art supply spree. continued)

we made it to another peony season

insectpalooza is the greatest place on earth

We are accustomed to hauntings by what was, aka ghosts. We are not accustomed to hauntings by what is not yet, e.g. novels that want to be written, gardens that want to planted, games that want to be played.

apparently when things get bad I buy art supplies to self-soothe

forgot to specify when the kiddo asked if he could have some strawberries and now the 3 pints we bought this morning are down to a half a pint

the food truck at this event is taking AN HOUR to serve about 20 people and i'm about to explode from the sheer unprofessionalism of it all

using a deviled egg tray for paint mixing is creating some dreamy aesthetics

"how does pi never stop going if infinity is way, way, way, way bigger than it?" ok so

sky business

ainxiety

inventing the opposite of AI psychosis by asking Claude to critique my performance and tell me all the things i suck at

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