plantains on the brains

Remembering the night, as a fragrant soliloquy, proposes a vindictive vision.

Recalling the subordinate, as a dichotomous harbinger, wrangles a western westwards.

Reducing the fortunate, as a flamboyant catatonic, evades evacuation vividly.

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Day 2
Lesson 5: Using Charcoal
Lesson 6: Placement

I was surprised that the teenage girl showed up again, but there she was. I got a compliment today at art class - a woman who is the only one that has done this art class before told me how impressed she was with what I've done so far, asking in a presumptuous way that I had done art previously.

Not really since high school.

barreling down the barrel

Being morbidly fascinated with moribund facsimiles gives bronchial branches the breath required to breathe.

pip

Mesopotamia has fleas

Narrowly vapid, the flagship vanquished the elfish, spinning the clairvoyance counter-clockwise. Rendering fledglings lucid, Cupid putridly scooped it. Risking little, the gaping Athenian wrenched a side pocket with the six ball. Mellow Jell-O is to a blanket of insubordinate furtiveness like the sound of nails on a chalkboard is to July sunshine.

is it raining men?

I've noticed lately that many of the progeny that I see of about the same age group as my three children are overwhelmingly female in numbers. I've noticed this most strongly at the swim lessons my children are signed up in. Looking at all of the other swim classes that are going on at the same time as the lessons of my children, I'd say about half of the classes are all girls while the other half are on average 3 to 1 girls to boys.

We had a birthday party for V-8 this weekend (she is now 3 years old), Saturday night, and there were mostly our friends who also happen to have kids over. The girls (M, a, c, v, m, h, g) 7, out numbered the boys (b, j, c, g) 4.

I don't know if this is a real trend, or just a coincidence in that these particular circles are skewed one way, but other circles are equally skewed in the opposite direction.

kitchen knives and 2006 Calendar

Bring junipers, not June.
Purchase nothing at an august establishment in August.
Do not count to eight in October.
Decide to decimate December.
Do not be jaundiced in January.

Elevating one's self above a hypothetical plane that imagines no one as a broken image is much like leaving the ice cream parlour when it is gently raining.

Mixing the truth with a bowl of numerologists makes one want to count to two, too. I should know.

When hurricanes spin clockwise meet up with tornadoes that spin counter-clockwise, who is the wiser?

Nose pores; poor nose.

The space between the strap of my wrist watch and my wrist is made up of very little.

The space between the face of my wrist watch and my face is significantly greater. That is, of course, unless I am holding my wrist watch's face firmly against my face making it extremely difficult to type the remaining part of this sentence.

If I recall correctly, this month's 29th day will be only the second February 29th I have ever had a blog post here at C-Soup. This is, of course, presuming I will post on February 29th.

proportions

The lessons are from 7-10PM and at around 9:25PM our instructor started with proportions.

Take a pencil, hold it straight out in front of you, hold it either vertically or horizontally, depending on what you are measuring
close one eye and put your thumb on the not sharp end of the pencil and look at what you are to be drawing
now drag your thumb down or along the edge of the pencil until the distance between the end of the pencil and your thumbnail measure what you are looking at
This is the base measure
Using the base measure, measure how many base measures it takes to span the perpendicular direction of the thing being drawn. Once you have that number, now you know the proportion to use.

The example we did was to put a wine bottle on a table. Using the pencil horizontally, measure the width of the wide part of the bottom, then turn the pencil vertically, keeping the thumb in the same spot on the pencil, and see how many of those equal measures it takes for the length of the bottle. We went around the class and most of us had a proportion of a little bit more than three - ie, the bottle is a little bit more than three times as tall as it is wide.

The next part of the instruction was to then draw the wine bottle, but to make it fill whatever space you had available on the paper. The idea is to use the proportions to gauge how large to draw the base in order to get the height of the bottle to fit nicely in the space available.

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Day 1
Lesson 1: Eye level line
Lesson 2: Vanishing Point
Lesson 3: Perspective
Lesson 4: Proportion

We are ten in the class in a fairly small room with just enough space. There is a grade 10 boy and a girl who looks to be about the same age - she didn't share anything to indicate how old she is. The rest of us are adults where I suspect I may be the youngest one. The grade 10 boy looks like he's going to stick it out, but the girl looked like she was really feeling out of place in a room full of adults.

So far so good for me, I have a larger list of supplies I will need to acquire.

Superbowl

There are two teams playing American style football this coming Sunday. I think one of them has the colour white as part of their uniform.

This Friday we (by we, I mean the book group of which my wife and I play a part) are meeting to discuss the book Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson. I enjoyed the book, but I suspect I will be the minority in the book group.

I just came from eating two slices of pizza for lunch.

Tonight is the first instance of my drawing class at Stewart Hall. I expect to be rather tired throughout the class as the last few nights I have had insufficient sleep.

My lack of sleeping is due to trying to get stuff done in the house that is in addition to the regular chores of laundry and dishes, and on top of the fact that my job has been requiring some extra hours lately.

The plan for Sunday to watch the Superbowl is to sit down and watch it, doing as absolutely little else as possible. I hope this plan succeeds.

tuning the albatross

So it is the compressor in the heat pump that has died. We have no information from the previous owner of the home with respect to any warranty, and our heating company did a search on the serial number of the unit which indicated there was no warranty.

We have an estimate of about 2000$ to replace the compressor, including the labour and the taxes. It is either this or get a new heat pump which runs around 5000$.

This is what it means to be a homeowner - occasionally expenses come up related to the home that are not entirely planned for.

Another 'House the home' post, were I to have such a category.

In the mirror does it fry

Saturday, Home Energy Audit results - insulate basement walls, fill gaps that have shown as air leaks after blow door test. Re-evaluate before March 31st and get grant from both federal and provincial levels of government.

Also, heat pump shorting circuit, technician here presently to see what is wrong, repairs not covered by grants.

This would be a 'House the Home' post if I had such a category.