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I saw this in the news this week and immediately thought of my parents. They have a desert buggy in Arizona that looks quite a bit like this… well, minus the parachute and propeller!
Here’s a picture of theirs…
Have a good flight home, Mom and Dad! (Be sure to wear your coats — it gets chilly at the higher altitudes!
It was cold, dark and rainy outside last night. Nothin’ decent on TV (a.k.a. no Blazer game)… need to do something besides Facebook… what to do? Deanne and I decided to draw our cat. Her sweet drawing is on the right.
Yes — she is a trained artist also!
This little-known fact got me thinking back to how she and I met. Back in 1981 Deanne decided to leave a very nice career in architectural drafting and pursue a degree in graphic design. Why? She says so she could meet me. Well anyway, that is where we met and how we got “drawn together”!
[Last night, Deanne even obeyed our drawing instructor's 25-year-old orders to "Use the whole sheet!" My first drawing of course had cartoon eyes even though I was trying not to. There's the reason my second cat had it's eyes closed.]
I came across this somewhat old (February 2004) article today, and it was fun to revisit some of the obsolete paste up methods that I used to spend a lot of my day using! I drew blood many times while wielding my X-acto knife, and spent many hours cleaning out my Rapidographs. (Wax and pens weren’t a good combination!) Border tape — ugh! I never liked that stuff!
In every profession people date themselves by the work practices or technology in place at the time they entered their chosen field. We say things like “but then, I was a surgeon before they invented anesthesia,” or “my first computer filled three rooms, and generated enough heat to power a small city.” In the rest of our lives we tend to want to minimize our age and experience, but in things work related, longevity is a badge of honor. That is until you become a cranky old whiner. Read more…
I think this may be the actual waxer that I used back in the 80’s!
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