I’m one of those people who has a lot of hobbies but still hasn’t figured out how to quit my day job. One of my longest running hobbies is painting. I started taking oil painting lessons when I was 10. As of this writing I’m 49, so I’ve been at it a while. I’m no Hunter Biden, but I can hold my own.
I started with classes at a local art shop and stayed there for 10 or 12 years. Then I took a few college courses in Chicago, and when that became too expensive, I switched to books and later YouTube. Today’s demo will be an oil painting, which in my opinion is superior to all other types of painting. I have almost as much experience in acrylic and watercolor, but nothing can beat the results of oil. It has rich colors, depth and realism that nothing else can match. I just like the look of it, especially when viewed in person.
Today I’m presenting a demonstration of my current painting technique. It was inspired by some of the techniques presented in How to Paint Like the Old Masters. This book introduced me to some radically different ways of painting from the ones I learned from my first teachers. It’s fun, it goes quickly, and I think the results are great. This isn’t going to be a step-by-step Bob Ross tutorial, just an overview of the painting process. What I’m doing is very similar to what was done as far back as the 1400’s. Once you are familiar with the steps, you’ll notice how they were used in some of the earlier paintings, such as this unfinished one by Leonardo da Vinci.
The source photo
Today we’ll paint this skull I found on Google. I picked it because it has a lot of detail and some dramatic light and dark areas. Because there aren’t any flesh tones, I’ll use just three colors: black, titanium white, and burnt umber. To make the paint flow, I use a homemade medium consisting of equal parts varnish, linseed oil, and paint thinner. The medium gives the paint a shiny, wet look even when it’s dry. Without medium, the paint will dry with a dull finish and the colors won’t be as intense until the painting is varnished. I use synthetic brushes, from 1″ wide down to, well, very tiny, and a palette knife to mix the paint.
I’ve organized this into “sittings”, which are 30 to 90 minutes long. I usually have a goal I want to meet with each sitting, but sometimes the length depends on how much time I have that day. I wait until the paint is completely dry between settings, about 3-4 days.
| (Not pictured): I start with a 9×12 canvas that is primed with gesso tinted with acrylic paint to have a warm beige color. I draw the skull directly on the canvas using charcoal. I come back to the drawing 3 or 4 times to make adjustments. I like to start with as accurate a drawing as possible. | |
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First Sitting: I paint the shadows using burnt umber and medium, thinning down the paint so it flows like watercolor. I use soft brushes to blend the shadows, and paint the dark areas using almost pure paint with only a little medium. This underpainting should be fairly detailed. At this point it’s easy to make corrections if my drawing is off. |
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Second Sitting: I mix white with a little burnt umber, and paint in the light areas. I mix a gray color using black, umber, and white, and paint in the shadow areas. For the middle tones, I leave the underpainting showing. This gives the painting a nice warm feel. To finish, I paint over the background using black. |
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Third Sitting: I add pure white to the light areas and use gray and black to strengthen the shadows. I start to add details in places like the teeth. |
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Fourth Sitting: I realize the painting is looking too smooth, so I add details such as cracks and areas of rough texture. I continue to work on the teeth. |
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Fifth Sitting: I use a glaze (medium with a small amount of paint) to tint the darker areas such as the right side and the back of the teeth. I continue to add texture and details. |
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Sixth Sitting: I make the final adjustments to the shadows using a glaze, specifically on the right side and in the eye sockets. I add a few more lights and any details I missed. Now it’s time to sign it. After this, I’d typically wait 3 to 6 months for the paint to completely cure before brushing on a coat of varnish. |
Here’s a bigger view of the finished product. This one will be framed and given to my father in law for Christmas. (Don’t worry, he’s still one of the few who aren’t on this site).
The finished painting
Next time I’ll show how to paint a figure, and then move on to a portrait.
good stuff
all my art is tied up in work; I don’t do anything on my own time just for fun much
Hey Don.
From your posts I gather that you do industrial engineering.
You are close enough that I would consider your firm for some projects I have going on at work. If you are interested, let me know.
We hired a company out of Memphis called LSI a few years back to do a 2 million dollar automation and motor upgrade on our product finishing line.
I’m assuming you are still in Tennessee and I’m open to all comers of competence on some of the upgrade projects I’m working on.
I know LSI the material handling folk.
I’m pretty solid at IE my self, yes, but I’m sizing equipment for an HVAC firm this past year and not available. I never worked for an IE firm: I was it, the guy, at the firms I worked for: just a mechanical engineer who’s good at chemistry and above average on a bunch of other things.
I wouldn’t even know who to refer you to. Honestly, the biggest things I touched were cars, so never any product over two tons. I worked for two conveyor firms on Toyota Georgetown and Honda Marysville amongst others.
Individually, I can’t practice in AR: no stamp. I’ve always worked under an industrial exemption, so I can’t come because I don’t have errors and omissions insurance and can’t get it.
I am thrilled to have your note, and don’t hesitate to write at Don_Escaped_Texas@outlook.com is you have more discreet details you wish to share.
Noted. In a totally informal manner, if I pinged some process engineering stuff of you, would you be interested?
of course
with all open posts, kicking your stuff around might be a fun night for Glibs
Glibs after dark is taking a strange turn, but I like it. Bring it on!
Rhywun is fingering himself if you want to lend him your hand.
When you say “process engineering” do you mean IE stuff or ChE stuff?
More IE stuff. If you are fluent, gimme some contact info and I’m open to all capable comers.
Holy shit. Impressed I am.
Impressive. Good article. Thanks for sharing the BTS details!
Very cool.
This one will be framed and given to my father in law for Christmas.
What will the card say? You will look like this someday? I am giving this gift in hopes you look like this soon? Saw this and thought of you so I painted it?
*I deleted the last one.
He’s a biker so it matches his tattoos.
Aaaaah. Got it.
father in law
FirstWife’s mom had a BFA from TCU; NewWife had her quarter of the hundred or so paintings, their being divvied up betwixt the girls in the decade before MIL assumed room temperature.
During the divorce inventory, FirstWife noticed they were not included in my first draft and tepidly asked if I were going to make any claim against them. What an insult. Just because someone is a treacherous cunte doesn’t mean they married one. No sweetheart: they were always yours; they always will be. You think you know someone after twenty-someodd years; what was she thinking all along?
Wow.
Thats a lot, coming from you.
https://images.app.goo.gl/1sat19VzGQD93isf7
Nsfw
That’s, uh, bad to the bone.
Srsly, that’s very cool. I used to paint Christmas windows for money when I was a kid. Way easier to do, but I got paid pretty good for 13 years old. I’d have to invest a huge amount of time to get even in the vicinity of what you do. Props!
Wow, thanks for this! I love seeing the process.
Gott damn! This is fascinating! Thank you!
I am constantly amazed at the talent and expertise exhibited by an assortment of random people whose most common denominator is the love of liberty. The skill and the knowledge
are amazing. My talents are limited to deep breathing and filleting fish, slowly.
Good work, TOK, I’m impressed, which doesn’t take too much but your work or hobby (which isn’t work) and that of so many other Glibs is truly outstanding. I am a lucky guy to know you all.
I’m pretty handy with a knife and some duct tape.
I am constantly amazed at the talent and expertise exhibited by an assortment of random people whose most common denominator is the love of liberty.
Amen. I refer to them as those people. I did laundry tonight and felt pretty pumped.
I can do a lot of stuff like machining, welding, engraving and fabricating stuff from scratch. Today, my big accomplishments are getting my Covid test and finally getting to order BBQ ribs from Uncle Andre’s. The BBQ place is almost always closed since the plague started, so getting some of that food is a big get.
The BBQ bit reminds me of an Italian restaurant in the SF Bay Area, decades back. Little place in a little town called Belmont – never seemed to have regular hours, but when you went past, if it was open, you stopped. And it was ALWAYS worth it.
You used to could go anywhere on Columbus street and get excellent Italian food. The worst of it was still damn good. Then, the next morning, you go get breakfast in the Haight. Hippies make good morning chow.
You are needed, Blackjack.
I interviewed a job applicant for a mechanical maintenance position today. The guy was the best my company’s recruiter could come up after a couple months of looking.
He could not weld. He could not understand a basic hydraulic diagram (a log splitter). He didn’t know anything about machine tolerances for bore sizes of couplings.
His claim to ability was that he had replaced belts on conveyors and had done lubrication PMs on bearings and ways.
You are worth a fortune in the manufacturing world.
replaced belts on conveyors
Hytrol are manufacturing in AR: good stuff.
Smart people love liberty.
Yeah?
I just had some honey that was pretty damn good.
Kevin, you prick.
I thought you were like me: a high functioning hockey player.
I had no idea you were a high functioning human being!
Seriously nice work, brother. I would hang that in my house if you decide it’s too controversial for your FIL!
You both need to swing by the happy hours more often.
Yes
when is the next scheduled one?
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
(I hope. I never assume to enact Nephilium’s labor)
*presume
though. I have some free time tomorrow during the day, and I have always wanted to join one of yall’s meetings.
I doubt it will be during the day thoigh.
When I joined, a drunk Swiss Servator went on a 5 minute rant on what an asshole he thinks I am.
That was funny.
Ooh! is there a replay?
Curious if anyone here has ever tried kratom? I just started drinking it a week ago, but I have to say…I’m preferring it to alcohol. You stay clear headed but it relaxes you/gives you a euphoric calm. The feeling lasts all day (if you drink too much like I did the first time, it may last all the next day, as well). It’s kind of expensive at the hippy kava bars I’ve been getting it at, but I’m thinking of just buying my own extract and making my own drinks. Just have to learn some more about it.
I’ve heard a couple similar rants, on different topics.
I record nothing!
In general, if I’m around Friday or Saturday, I’ll kick off the Zoom at 20:00 Eastern. Same link as I set it up as a recurring meeting.
My work holiday party was today and involved writing 2020 lyrics to popular secular Christmas songs. Then performing them. The organizers jokingly opened bidding to Not have it recorded.
In general, my division’s holiday parties are super corny , but fun.
It’s usually 8pm Eastern
Oh jeebus
EST.
Thats the devil’s time zone.
Straffin often joins us with his Saturday mid-morning beer
I have a Zoomin’ cooking party my boss sent me.
The only redeeming feature is that all the invitees are ex’es from the old company we all used to work for before it was swallowed by BigCorp and I’ve know some of these clowns for a couple decades or more.
My BIL’s holiday party was an Italian cooking class. They sent everyone an ingredient list and gift card that more than covered the ingredients. My sister was very excited to learn to make pasta Alfredo at home.
I just got the invite today – the party is tomorrow – so, huh, I don’t have any of the ingredients.
I think they forgot me. Well, when they canned me two years ago I kind of dropped off the map.
Good thing I checked, this article went up fast! Thanks for the compliments. I’m also impressed by the wide variety of skills I see here.
Yeah. You have talent, TOK. Great stuff!
Really excellent, other Kevin. That skull has major underbite. Have you thought about getting some IR heat lamps or something to cure the paint faster, or is that a bad idea?
It’s dry to the touch in a few days, so there’s no reason to rush it. You can frame it and hang it on the wall, and varnish it later. Sometimes I use retouch varnish, which is thinner and can be applied as soon as the paint feels dry.
To, thats cool as hell.
The only worthwhile art thing I have ever done is a colored pencil sketch of a blue sky background with fruit trees in the background. I made it in art class while incarcerated.
It actually looks pretty good because I had a shit ton of time to put into it while spending a couple years visiting Virginia’s department of juvenile corrections.
Without forced solitude, there is no way I could put in the time and effort to make something as beautiful as that picture or your skull.
Kudos.
I haven’t tried oil painting – I first started painting about three years ago using acrylics, and haven’t switched. Acrylic is much faster drying, so you have to work extremely fast. It lends itself to abstracts, though you can do photorealistic stuff using many layers. It is much less expensive, and way easier to clean up and less toxic. You don’t have to wait days or weeks for it to dry.
Downsides – the stuff noted above, plus the colors change as they dry, so you can’t WYSIWIG it, you gotta project ahead, and mixing colors is tricky. And fast drying can be a pain in the arse for detail work.
Ironically, for a paint type allegedly for beginners, it arguably a more challenging medium.
I agree. I sometimes paint in acrylic but I find the quick drying time to be frustrating. Oil you can work with all day. And it’s not too toxic, though I do prefer real cadmium colors.
I’d just end up with a brown mess. How do you plan for how the colors show through, and what to start with? Is it pure experience?
Part is from the book, part is from experience. but a big part of oil painting is knowing WHEN TO STOP.
Haha, that’s anathema to me. I have a really hard time not continously trying to tweak/improve things. Although over the last few years I have learned how to know when it’s time to move on. Building a kit airplane, it would be just too easy to obsess over tiny details. I’ve gotten better at knowing when to stop trying to get perfection.
I’ve learned to pick out which part of the painting is working, and then I don’t fuck with that. The rest gets another layer of paint, until the whole canvas is stuff I don’t want to mess with.
Or it just doesn’t work, and I gesso over the whole mess or paint over it, and start fresh.
But I’d wonder where to start.
That’s why I’m working on watercolor these days (nowhere near TOK’s league). I tend to keep going over something until.I ruin it and watercolor forces me to not do that. Taking my paints on vacation, I haven’t been able to concentrate during the work from home thing.
Amazing. Never been an artistic type, but am deeply appreciative of those who are. My sister got all the visual art talent in our family.
We used to have a local artist named David Mann. He did nothing but biker art and he was really good at it. I saw him around some, back in the day. I think he did a lot of oil painting. This reminds me of his stuff. He had the center fold of every Easyrider magazine for decades. Really cool scenes that ended up on garage walls all over the world.
Sie kommen zu euch in der Nach
Sie kommen zu euch in der Nacht
cool stuff
Nice. Wish I could paint. Sadly, my skills with the brush are, like my guitar skills, lacking.
I have some very lacking guitar skills too.
Nice.
I bought a really cool poster one time. That’s the extent of my artistic abilities.
Was it from Spencer’s Gifts?
+1 blacklight
Very impressive. We had painting/drawing classes at school when I was 10. Never really fell for it. Even though the teacher was good. An artist. I saw one or two his paintings at the local art museum.
Holy cow, Kevin. This is amazing.
I love the step by step photos and explanation!
Thanks so much for sharing your talent here. 🙂
Thank you. I have a few more started but it will be a few weeks before I can present them here. I am taking photos.
Damn! That is some fine work, TOK!
That guy has more teeth than I do ?
Good stuff ?
Wow. Beautiful. I am terrible at all visual arts, so this is impressive.
The teenaged boy in my house loves art, but has no interest in still life/living things/portraits. But if you want a detailed future cityscape, pencil sketch or painting, he’s got you covered. It’s niche, I guess, but he loves it.
Oh hell yeah.
One of my first teachers in that art shop used to put Rush Limbaugh on the radio during class. Then I found Ron Paul,then the rest happened and here I am.
When I was 16 years old and incarcerated, a jailer gave me a copy of Tom Delorenzo’s book “the real Lincoln”
Thas the first political book I ever read.
Weird where it came from.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_DiLorenzo
A mises institute scholar’s book given to an inmate from a jailer. Very strange.
I wish I could remember that guys name. I would like to ask him what the fuck he was thinking.
Those wikipedia editors don’t seem to care for him much.
Of course they don’t.
Curious if anyone here has ever tried kratom? I just started drinking it a week ago, but I have to say…I’m preferring it to alcohol. You stay clear headed but it relaxes you/gives you a euphoric calm. The feeling lasts all day (if you drink too much like I did the first time, it may last all the next day, as well). It’s kind of expensive at the hippy kava bars I’ve been getting it at, but I’m thinking of just buying my own extract and making my own drinks. Just have to learn some more about it.
*posted in wrong spot above.
I am listening to Part of the Problem and a kratom company is one of the sponsors. I don’t eve know what it is!
You should get some and do an article!
Part of the problem is my favorite podcast.
About two months ago I got my Iraq war veteran little brother to start listening to it and he is now coming around on the warfare state.
#success
Whycome Dave don’t accept left libertarians?!?!
Because they are retarded?
Memes violate the non aggression principle.
Wow. Very impressive.
I can’t paint or draw.
“I’m no Hunter Biden, but I can hold my own.”
Technically, smoking crack is a hobby.
He makes more money selling paintings than I ever did.
Well you should have tried a little harder being born into the aristocracy
So far that has been my life’s greatest failing.
I hate people with actual talent. 😀
Great work TOK
More of a Hitler fan, eh?
You know who else was a Hitler fan?
Blondi ?
From the PM lynx: “Man caught on video rollerblading naked on Ohio highway while wearing a panda head”
Kinda relevant.
I’m off to work, kids. No parties while I’m gone.
You’re not my supervisor.
Very cool. I’m wondering about the choice of using a source photo instead of an actual skull. (Lemme know if you need one).
A real skull would seem to me to be exponentially more difficult.
Yeah, you’d have make sure you had the exact same lighting every time.
That’s not too hard if you have a studio and a lamp.
Cast shadows wouldn’t be that different, but I assume occlusion shadows would be a lot more sensitive to slight variations in lighting.
Also, the angle you’re viewing from needs to be the same. Anyways, I loved the skull. Easy to forget we are bags of bones.
Yeah, I’m fingering myself right now.
Just didn’t have a life size skull handy. Well, at least one nobody is using.
I love skulls for drawing practice so I bought this:https://smile.amazon.com/Skulls-Exploration-Dudleys-Curious-Collection/dp/1579129129/
Finally talked to my GF, a big sigh and relief, the phones were fucked, now it’s better
Bobby has a Girlfriend, Bobby has a Girlfriend and I know who she i-iiis!
TOK, photoshop may be your friend, check it out,
Good pics!
So getting my test was a nightmare. My doc is out on quarantine for exposure. I called around and everyone was booked all week and wanted 150.00 bucks cash up front. The only one that didn’t want cash was the same city one we use at work, but I still had to wait 3 days, until today. It was a drive through. By tha0t, they meant a line of about a hundred cars snaking around a parking lot for about an hour before reaching a tent with the swabbing stuff. AND, it was about a twenty mile drive one way. Now, I just wait for the results ( up to 36 hours). I’m pretty sure I’ll get a positive, as I lost my senses of smell and taste Saturday and had a cold/flu over the weekend. Never lost my senses before. It’s weird.
You’re a goner. Dibs on your handle.
why test? if you have it, you aint dead, why bother?
/Hype
For work. If I have it, I have to stay home for two weeks. If I don’t, I have to use sick time for the time I’ve been out and go back right away.
sorry, but it sucks, not me, not yet
Aren’t you an LA resident? I had no problem signing up for a free test in August to fly back to MA. I was also monitoring the situation in late October and it seemed to be possible to get a test easily. That time it wasn’t necessary for me. Has the testing situation deteriorated that much?
America.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9QTwg8NZiM
Yesterday someone posted a link to a video of three veterans of the Battle of Mogadishu discussing the situation. Here’s another, with Mike Durant (pilot of the second crashed Blackhawk). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p30dV6IEMO8 I haven’t made it through the whole thing, but he early on stresses that problems were not a the tactical level but higher up. The prior video seemed to focus on tactical issues.
Wow, so the further you watch in to Durant’s video, the creepier it gets. He talks about the need to disarm the population as the first step toward establishing control. He also talks about the need to keep fighting and never leave until we win in Iraq and Afghanistan….back in 2010.
Overall, worth listening to his presentation. He talks a lot about how certain assets (AC130s primarily) were denied, and the administration-level mistakes that were made in the overall mission that contributed to setting up the October 3 battle and its outcome.
Thank you, TOK. It seems we Glibs have quite a few who practice the fine arts.
Excellent work, TOK. I agree with you about oils — worked with them a lot when I was younger, but haven’t touched ‘em in decades. The spousal unit’s trying to get into painting with acrylics, and I insisted that she at least buy some drying retarder for her paints, otherwise they’d skin so fast she’d find it frustrating. We’ll see how it goes.
Kudos!
That’s damn impressive TOK. I can barely draw stick figures.
I think it’s too late for sweet talk.
https://fee.org/articles/new-york-lawmaker-begs-goldman-sachs-not-to-go-to-florida-please-don-t-leave-us/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020_FEEDaily
Wonderful stuff, Other Kevin!
Thank you for sharing.
You’ve obviously gotten a lot of brush mileage. 🙂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRfAceTJt4
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5 pm today begins my vacation.
Excited gf is best gf. ?
w00t! Enjoy! Both the vacation and the excited gf, I mean.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/gracedale-staff-to-be-offered-750-to-get-covid-19-vaccine/article_30f97fa8-40bc-11eb-98ce-d740a5e5cd15.html
Bribing people to take the vax. Seems legit.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/12/17/Wisconsin-trooper-pulls-over-car-covered-with-Christmas-lights/3081608224919/
WI is stupid.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agVpq_XXRmU&list=LLagkICiMzZD9VRomlaJF2jQ&index=187
Have another ?
Yep, legal weed’s great but Joisey still sucks. I’m sure there are some decent places there though.
Ugh, misthread, I’m going back to bed.
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https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2020/12/nj-lawmakers-pass-legal-weed-bill-in-historic-vote.html
NJ is still a shithole and no one wants to live there.
Morning, glibs.
As I feared, there was nowhere to move my car to, and because the plows basically don’t visit my area, I got stuck more on the road and intersections than I did trying to leave/enter my parking spot. I ended up back where I started because there was literally nowhere to put my car on the side we were supposed to move to – because it had not even seen the shadow of a plow, let alone been cleared enough to park in.
My best guess is we might have navigable roadways next week, when a partial thaw is supposed to set in.
Alternatively, it could just turn to ice.
I’d suggest you call the local authority in charge of plowing, but they’re probably also in charge of ticketing, and if you draw attention to your plight and your location…
Oh – and I finished the story start last night. Really enjoy the banter in particular. Plan to go back and read again & make a few notes.
Looking forward to the feedback, and will have questions afterwards (you know I want an uninfluenced opinion first)
On the upside, I’m not alone, pretty much everyone has been stuck wherever their car was entombed with only a few people having reshuffled.
At least you did get your car cleared off and moving before the snow melted and refroze. I’ve had to chisel my car out of a block of ice. Doesn’t even register on the fun meter.
I’ve had that experience too. I’ve lived in upstate new york for my entire life.
I’m kinda miserable because I’m sore and agitated, and I am down to staple foods in the house. I have plenty to eat, but nothing particularly exciting. Because of the road conditions, going out or getting delivery is pretty much a non-option.
And I have work today.
We’re predicted to have “patchy freezing fog and freezing drizzle” this morning, but so far the radar looks clear.
Pretty much finished The Big Spreadsheet with each employee’s “total compensation” spelled out. Next: figure out how to turn the new & improved “Working Remotely” agreement into a template with fillable blocks for individual details and signatures, then send it out to each WFHer and his/her supervisor.
Glaze ice, so fun, much crash.
Hope I have enough crap in the back of my Subaru to serve as ballast, if needed. I wonder if that extra bag of birdseed would give me traction if I threw some under the tires should I get caught in a slick spot…
I’ve got a hundred pounds of salt in the back room. But I’d probably use it up trying to get it to you.
::accepts empty salt bag in spirit in which it was intended, invites UCS in for cocoa::
Jesus, Dude! I saw that image from before. What a nightmare! It seems the worst of it is where the hell do I chuck the snow?
We have wall-like snowbanks forming.
On-topic: Thanks for showing the stages of the painting process, TOK. My own art education never advanced to the point of learning all the technique involved in painting. Maybe when I retire…
Mornin’ Red! Mine never progressed much after high school. Never could get colors for some reason but I was pretty good with pencils and charcoal. Kind of gave it up later *looks morosely at beer can*
Mornin’, Fes. I, too, was all about the drawing. Started college with delusions of becoming an art teacher, but I was interested in too many other things. Still am.
They sent us on different tracks. I went for the academic side which kicked my ass because I was a teenaged dirt-bag at heart. Should have gone with the other option but I was 14 and listened to a bureaucrat that wanted to guide me into teaching, as she so successfully did to many of my cohort.
I mean, out of 63 in my Grad Class, more than a dozen went on to be teachers. The poison pill is that almost everyone cheated on their Finals. I didn’t. Those fine upstanders taught the next generation. I’m a little proud to have never graduated because I lacked one credit.
Funny – most of my favorite teachers told me, “Whatever you do, don’t go into teaching!” I didn’t listen, but narrowly escaped that fate anyway.
I thought teaching would be fun, until I did my student teaching and met the other teachers/administration. Changed my mind.
I was gonna major in Driver’s Ed, until I discovered I didn’t like kids and I couldn’t swear.
‘suh fam
Mornin’, homey. How are the roads?
Serious query – The Holiday Stats fall on weekends this year. Do I pad my pay by working Xmas and New Years Day? They already have me going seven days a week and I could choose to take Xmas and New Years day off by working the eves. I think I’m going to cornhole them. I don’t celebrate either of them, anyway. Violation of some secret napatarian belief system?
Oh my.
Thoughts become deeds. Yes, yes I am going to work on the most sacred days of the year. Double time and a half and Fuuuuuuck Yooooooo!
If you’ve no special want or need to have the holidays off then go for it.
” I think I’m going to cornhole them.”
STEVE WANTS TO KNOW IF JOB OPENINGS. AND BY OPENINGS MEAN…
“Fuck you, Pay me!”
Hello glibs. Please pray for my dear mother who lost a battle with gravity and equilibrium this morning. No ice involved, but apparently she’s had quite the tumble ?
Gah! Was it the hip?
Also, Sorry to hear.
Thanks, from what I’ve been told it’s maybe a foot/ankle thing, a something else leg-related, and a nasty cut on the bridge of her nose.
I hope she’s ok.
Thanks Sean. She’s a tough old bird.
“lost a battle with gravity and equilibrium”
So basically, most Glibs an hour or two into the Zoom call ?
Seriously- hope she mends quickly.
I almost never fall over at least 65% of the time!
I hope your mother is OK.
TOK, that painting is good. Excellent work!