2021 Diary: Dis May

5/22/2021: Up about 4:30 AM. Prayers and Bible. Dozed through part of the morning, then up again. Blood sugar at 7:30 AM, insulin at 8 AM. A spattering of rain outside that complicates my plan to catch up wash while the Shanafelts go to SA for the toy show and to visit Kaitlyn and Ryan.

As it turned out the toy show was scanty on the things we want, and they brought back nothing for me but the $100 I sent. Reports on the Tovars house are glowing. Did my wash in three big loads. Rainy all day.

 

5/23/2021: Read the Pentecost services for yesterday and today. Popcorn caught fire in the microwave. No harm done except a mess. About noon Andy took me to Chicken Express. Constant rain. Spent the rest of the day on DQ8 and trying to sleep, and some cleaning. Make order for HEB.

 

5/24/2021: Up at 4:45 AM. Prayers and Bible. Catch up diary. Shower. Going to make efforts to regularize my meal and medicine schedule today.

Went in at 9 AM, boiled eggs and made egg salad. Kept waiting for HEB order, then on a hunch checked the front porch, and there it was, in direct defiance of my request. Couldn’t bring the water in (too heavy) but Andy brought it to me at lunch. I almost wept in frustration. Also, at lunch they told me the sink was busted, and I’m sure Susan blames me, though I did nothing out of the usual operation and it looked fine when I was done.

Made cucumber salad and Kam came home. At 4 PM went in and fixed fish and couscous. Andy home a little late and at 8:30 PM I washed up. During the evening I watched most of “Chaplin” on TCM.

 

5/25-26/2021: Went through the days trying to keep on schedule. Had to admit that, as far as reading goes, my vision is far too blurry now. The kitchen sink in the big house is leaking, which complicates cooking.

 

5/27/2021: Up at six. BS, then breakfast, then shower. Cartoons. At 8 AM prayers and insulin. The struggle continues.

 

5/28/2021: Went back and collected all the images I had been letting go by and posted them. John called about 1 PM and firmed up our plans for lab (9 AM Monday) and doctor’s appointment (3:30 PM Tuesday). Lots of rain and thunder from 9 PM well into the morning hours (4 AM).

 

5/29/2021: Spent the morning point-farming and then beating Rhapthorne. On to the Dragon Dimension. Wrote some on AM (“Aftermath”).

 

5/30/2021: Woke up at 6 AM and knew I wasn’t going to make it to church. Read the Missalette for the day and prayed. Andy mowed today and it rained in the afternoon. Feeling woebegone and tense and lonely. Ate too much, of course. This month should have been called Dismay instead of May.

 

5/31/2021: Memorial Day and the last day of May. John picked me up at 9 AM, we went to the hospital, but I’d forgotten my form, so we came back, I got it, and had my blood drawn. We went by Whataburger and got three double meat double cheese burgers, then to Walmart. I bought some 3x cheater glasses, some size 14 slippers, and a new Gandalf articulated action figure. The rest of the day was kind of quiet and dull, with DQ8 and Gravity Falls. Didn’t have to do any cooking. Ordered groceries from HEB in the evening.

Notes

I don't think I've unboxed that figure yet.

 

And the Rest

The Challenge from A Grave on Deacon's Peak; Servants of The Light, a redo of an early animation of an early drawing; Thelva Prynne's House has some mighty tall corn; Thor; Tiktok surprises Dorothy and her hen; a Transformed grasshopper; Treevening has trees in the evening; an Unknown Girl from Mom's drawing; stairs lead Up and Out of the caverns; a Walking Moose out of Nanny's painting;  a creature asks a raven What News; a Wild Child confronts a dog on a citystreet; a farmer consults a Wise Man; and Youth Meets Age in a enhancement from a Leonardo da Vinci sketch.

Enhancements Of Mom's High School Sketches

Ogre Efforts Compilation

I thought it would be interesting to gather together all our scattered efforts of trying to picture Ogres, from the inspirational drawing first made in Mrs. Rector's class to a sort of apotheosis with John's production of Kwee. Ferus of course is a mutation, but there are various other efforts at Ogre posture. AI in particular didn't like their U-bend necks and high shoulders (almost humpbacks) or their prominent blue veins. But at least it was pretty good with their purple eyes. John has some pretty good transistional efforts, but I can't quite put my finger on them at the moment.

PRS

A fancy Palace. A forest Path. Frodo carries the Phial of Galadriel.  The Porch is a set design for a play I never wrote. Rat and Mole enjoy a cup of tea (the AI seems reluctant to make Mole black). There is a Rescue on Deacon's Peak (AI seems to insist that some subjects 'look at the camera'). Dragonflies flit around a Riverbank. The Tin Woodsman is Rusted and Busted. Salty tells his tale of a giant ape. The Six Signs gleam with power. Suwissie runs through the corridors of the ship on an errand. We seem to have failed to capture the numinous quality of Theodor Kittelson's Swamp Troll.

You can probably tell from the static nature of some of these scenes why I didn't animate them on the first pass. I had to add moving features (falling leaves, dragonflies, swinging doors) to jazz them up a little bit.

OOOOO!

Oaken Smials, a vision of my perfect house (there's a poem here on NOT about it); Old Castle, from a sketch of a painting I did in middle school art; an Old Grange; an Old Tree (both pretty old drawings in their own right); and an Orc Guard.

Short, and Not Just for the Numbers

A Morg Wanders, Morgon of Hed from The Riddlemaster Trilogy, a Mountain Castle, and Nimrod, the mighty hunter. This is the 2,800th post here on NOT; if I time it just right, the 3,000th should fall exatly on my birthday.