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Extra Credits + Talking of Coffee + Coffee = Perfection

 

Looking for a new cause to dedicate my life to, now that Britney is finally free.

 

Just returned home from giving blood at the blood donating bus over by Airport. It was a very neat experience; was just sitting there chatting away cracking jokes here and there. Told them that in another life, if I had the temperament and patience, I would've been a phlebotomist. Alas, I am not.



Feel a bit lightheaded and confused, but that's natural so I'm drinking plenty of water and will just relax and game for the rest of the day. No alcohol, no heavy lifting. My body needs time to replenish.


That was actually something I had wanted to do for decades. I can finally strike it off my bucket list. Now I can rest knowing that someone, somewhere will be saved.

 

Good for you. It's an easy and all-but-painless way to give back to the community and help someone in need.

 

Congratulations on your first donation. Don't stop now!

Donating blood was my strike against an unreasonable fear of needles. I donated three gallons before I had to quit, and I cherish that three gallon pin to this day. There was one fellow who'd donated almost 40 gallons over several decades. Imagine the people sustained by his generosity during that time.

 

Rough as a bear’s arse, but considering I’ve never sculpted a thing in my life I’m just happy it came out even resembling a skull! Let’s just pretend it’s the skull of a badly deformed Neanderthal.

 

Paint it when it’s hardened, to more resemble bone, then... uum, sit it somewhere.

 

you could have fooled me

 

Thanks... I think.

 

I know where you can get a real one, if you have the funding. Intact teeth will cost you extra.

 

I like them without the mandible. Gives them a better gothic aesthetic.

 

But if you're willing to take delivery in the next 24 hours or so and handle soft tissue removal yourself I can do you a real good deal.

 

No joke. There’s a web page for a store called The Bone Room. Their average human skull will run you about $2500, but the better the condition the higher the price tag. You can get an entire articulated human skeleton for about $6000.

https://www.boneroom.com/store/c44/Human_Bones.html

 

Oh, I'm familiar with it

 

Excellent skull. An accurate depiction of what mine felt like the day of my one and only hangover. It has been some forty-odd years ago, but I distinctly remember feeling the slight lumpiness to one side of the crown.

 

Now it’s set hard I’ve taken my rotary tool to it and sanded out most of the amateur finger work. I’ll post another pic once I’ve painted it.

 

BBC Four is just about the only channel worth watching on TV. Right now I’m watching a three-part series called Write Around the World with Richard E Grant, in which the actor travels in the footsteps of great writers and the countries that inspired them. In episode 1 he’s in southern Italy. Two is southern France and three is Andalusia. What makes it all the more enjoyable is that Richard E Grant is a real book fan (i.e. not e-readers), so there’s lots of him reading passages from paperbacks.

Here’s an episode where he stresses that he prefers real books in the intro.

 

Quite happy with this, now it’s been cleaned up and painted. Far more bone-like.

 

Extremely cool, Jud. Only 2o5 bones to go and you'll have your very own Piltdown Man.

 

That’s really good for your first sculpture

 

Research. So much God damn research.

This class is entirely about research. I don't want to read another article again. I hate research. It's so boring.

I've had enough of school. I finally get a break month after this one and I'm looking so much forward to it. I'm so tired.

 

Well, at least I full well know it's a hobby MA. My day job is more than great, but I'd like to have at least a successful book under my belt in the coming years. The degree helps me look a little deeper. But I would like it done and I still hate research.