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T-shirt design

T-shirt design

I realise that I have begun to isolate myself. I am grieving for this life. The friends I have only just begun to enjoy here will be left behind if I leave. It is very painful to laugh with people and know that I in a few months I will never see them again. It is painful to see myself alone and far from here without them.

The image to the right is something I have thought of making for a while. The spark-plug is something I did a few years ago using Copal markers on bleed-proof paper. I keep calling them Copic and should go back and fix it but I am sure nobody cares anyway. The use of the term Auto is a pun on the word. I am not happy with the text but now that the whole thing is saved in the software it is easy to change. When the text is right I will get one made for me and put them up for sale online.

It took all day to get through that bit of design and I am tired as hell. There is enough of a memory glitch in my head these days so I forget how to do things with software even if I use it a lot which I don’t. I have to fight to get through the blank spots and keep doing things again and again until I find some way to get the outcome I am looking for. It is not always the same process that got me there last time either. My skills are good enough to make this level of image in a program like Zoner Draw 5 if I work at it. Well, most of the time, there are times when I give up in disgust because the process is too tiring. It is also too tiring to do more than one of these a week if that. Still, I am satisfied with the design so today was a good day.

Yesterday was also a simple day. I have been putting off adding the clear finish to the last fishing rod I rebuilt. This was my old favourite and the first blank I worked on.The clear coat requires a rotisserie to keep it turning for up to an hour or more so it sits evenly on the rod over the thread instead of gravity pushing it into dripping lumps. Because I make the thread art by hand I have to turn it by hand. So I mixed up the compound, brushed it on and sat for an hour listening to the radio. It is a pretty awful job of thread art and the clear cote is no better. If you are struggling for energy things like pushing threads together and going that extra little bit for a good finish are impossible. You may think you can just push yourself harder but when the bucket has just so much energy pushing harder makes each stage harder and the mistakes multiply. Anyway, like the t-shirt I am happy with the finish on the rod. It is done. It is done by me and in the way I want and it looks handmade. I know the layout works well as I took time with all that. It is a really nice and original little estuary and boat rod.

I was too tired to even get a decent photo, Sorry, I will do another later

I was too tired to even get a decent photo, Sorry, I will do another later

In the morning I felt a need for some incense to make the house seem friendlier so I went up to the Budgewoi Market. It is a shop at the beginning of the Budgewoi strip on Scenic Drive near the Silver Moon. I have not been in there since he set up the incense and I was amazed to see a range of incense that is larger than the old Indian Shops that used to sell all the brass elephants and hemp sandals back in 1970’s. He has burners as well as candles and strange range of stuff that includes seasonal gear for football and car racing enthusiasts. I have brought socks and hats and belts and I know someone who bought a remote control helicopter. I like checking that place out. He is a good guy who has spent years in small markets and enjoys the things he sells.

Legal Stuff; The Tenancy Tribunal application to have Ray White real estate agent’s notice to terminate by 30 May deemed …..ahh…whatever, another memory glitch! That application continues. The CTTT have given me an extension until 12/6/2012 to supply my evidence.

The criminal court matter continues. There was to be a meeting with the legal team on the 18th to discuss the prosecution’s evidence but it has not turned up yet so we wait. I will have to phone about that tomorrow.

Medical appointments also continue with some more scans and tests including heart and spinal stuff. The frequency of chest pains has dropped during the day provided I rest a lot

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