Sometimes the thing you’re failing to write is just the background mood to something else you’ll fail to write in a better way later on.
A petition for chimneyscream to become an ISO standard for wind strength.
Gauging early hours wind strength from how far away from driveways the bins have ended up.
Deep in that weird mental place while falling asleep last night, I happened to turn myself in bed exactly as the podcast I was no-longer-quite-listening-to played a ‘rolling’ sound. I thought I’d flicked my legs off into outer space.
Just the zenithal prime in place here before I intended to start a base coat of contrast red, but this looks so good I’m tempted to go for an old-school pre-‘bone shaded’ Deathwing experiment.
Die Hard the obvious Christmas Eve film, Die Hard 2 the obvious Christmas Day film. Such a shame they never made another film in the series.
Left it a good two hours after binging on turkey to start into turkey sandwiches. Basically dieting.
I stopped sharing ‘AI art’ a good while ago due to training data issues that that range all the way to outright and verifiable theft, but it’s hard to deny that it’s getting really properly good. The programmer and writer in me knows that it’s only a matter of time before my own work and hobby creativity are irreparably impacted or replaced. But the teenager that still lives deep in my brainbox knows that he would have papered every wall with drawings like this one… https://mastodon.ie/@dmcgk/111629898944622888
The festive season is officially well underway now, first box of Lindt Lindor truffles opened.
“Black blood of the earth!”
Big Trouble in Little China is on everyone’s Christmas season watch list, I assume?
New arrival. I may be developing a slight addiction to sci-fi movie art books.
Stressful dreams of a website with login requirements that involved solving a Rubik’s Cube and ‘performing feats of strength’.
Probably not a great sign that I could hear that wind gust through noise cancelling headphones.
Weird Dune == Best Dune
Seems to be headed north. Santa really pulling out the stops this year.
Uncanny orange light overhead. Partial-eclipse orange through the rains.
The blown-over-for-sale-sign man is doing his rounds.
Still nighttime at noon.
Early morning darkness into rainy winter’s day darkness. Veda bread and coffee.