the new jersey turnpike

A four hour flight. A 1 hour drive down the turnpike at 80 miles per hour in a rented Subaru outback. It's 10 pm and I am in my home for the next 4 days, the residence inn. Again, it's corporate housing. No semen stains this time as it is freshly remodeled. However, my wing is desolate. In less than seven minutes I have trashed the room in a fashion a rock star would envy.

I'm proud of myself.

Thats all. I'm sleepy.

fred stare

fred stare
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He just sits and stares at me it.

Sometimes it is creepy.

sketchdump 198

sketchdump 198
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three's company day 11

three's company day 11
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That's it. 1 week break coming up. It's a good thing. I'm out of supplies.

three's company day 10

three's company day 10
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I spent all night working on the red shirt. It was perfect, PERFECt i tell you. Then i stood and realized the proportions were wrong. Some major revision is required. Dangit. (I love that word)

I'm in recluse mode right now. I've been ancy every day to come home and work on this. Fred hangs out behind me. Tonight, I stepped backwards and stepped on him.

He didn't yelp, but he let an audible fart. I congratulated him and gave him a treat. I'm trying to train him to fart like a human, the louder the better. Once we get to that stage, my next goal is to train him to audibly fart on command.

Ultimately, I'd like to put him in a dog show, full of pretentious dog owners. WHen the judge bent down to inspect his hind quarters I would murmur "Fred Flintstone", which would be the key word for fred to let audible fart.

three's company day 9

three's company day 9
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Business travel next week :(

Gotta crank out as much of this as I can....

Picture 104

Picture 104
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I woke up this morning to this. I'm assuming Fred made a trash run. This is how Evan solves the problem. 1 tshirt strategically altered to fit around the trash can and hold the lid in place.

Genius.

three's company day 8

three's company day 8
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Still going. I'm loving it.

simply awesome

Got this in my email tonight. Looks profoundly awesome.

Laport Book

sketchdump 197

sketchdump 197
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three's company day 7

three's company day 7
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three's company day 6

three's company day 6
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The grass is approaching knee high. I attempted to mow grass, however, the mower that I bought last year and used once would not start. Using my best mechanical skills I disassembled it. After I put it back together it was still broken. I'll have to try again.

Anyway, I got out of the truck yesterday. I noticed the grass was still quite high, but you could make out a pepsi can and some tools laying in the front yard. Somehow, a box full hangars was in the bushes.

The door to the garage was hanging open. We have enough spare parts to build an entire jeep. As I was standing, surveying the situation, Evan walked out.

"Looks sort of white trash doesn't it?"

"Sort of? All we need is a major appliance on the porch to seal the deal"

three's company day 5

three's company day 5
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Next up, flesh for my ghouls.

three's company day 4

three's company day 4
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Now the geometry is correct. I've started blocking in the light lights and dark darks. The boy on the right is starting to emerge.

Evan walked by. "What do you think?", i asked. "Hmmm. Why would three zombies be sitting on a couch?", he replied.

I can't argue. It is rather zombiesh right now. That will change. Overall, I'm happy so far.

three's company day 3

three's company day 3
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Okay, Now you can at least get a glimpse of where people are going to be. The boy on the right, henry, was all jacked up. So i reworked his proportions a little, and now he somewhat resembles a human. The girl now has normal sized appendages. The boy on the left, charles, bores me at the moment, so I will worry about him later. The whole point of this one will be contrast in lighting. I want ethereal tones.

Alright, volleyball game now. Laterz.

three's company day 2

three's company day 2
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Day 2. I was excited all day, and just wanted to come home and work on this. First step is to start blocking in basic colors. As I put these in, I can correct the proportion/body issues. Boy on the left needs to be leaning to the left. The girls top leg needs to be bigger and moved more to the left.

I went over to campus to register for classes today. It's always fun meeting an advisor.

It went sort of like this (as she looked at my transcript).

A: Well, you have lots of engineering under you belt.

Me: Yup.

A: And now you want to study art?

Me: Yup.

A: That's quite the departure.

Me: Yup.

A: Have you ever thought about C.A.D?

Me: (Laughing in my head) Nope.

A: Any interest there?

Me: Nope.

A: Hmmm. Okay. Well let's see if we can use one of your existing math credits to count for credit. Hmm. Doesn't look like anything matches up.

Me: (Knowing I have no intention of ever taking another math class, ) Um. Look. I've got 24 credits in math. 4 of which were multivariate calculus which nearly gave me an ulcer. One of these has to transfer.

A: Oh, i didn't see your college algebra credit. That transfers.

Me: Shew-wee.

You know, I really love random pieces of conversation. Evan is a goldmine for this.

When I got home he was laying in his underware on the chair. Next to him was a big pile of fred poop. It stank, but he was obviously to lazy to remedy the situation (actually fred dumped it this morning while i was in the shower, but I left it as a treat for evan).

Me: Did you work today?

Evan: Well.....I went there.

"Well....I went there." What a great line. How many Who's in whoville have had the experience before? It was the perfect summation.

Picture 077

Picture 077
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New painting started tonight. 3 punkers on a leather couch. I don't know how to paint leather yet, but I am using a linen canvas which was expensive, so I can't fuck it up.

We now have hot water again. I cooked, showered, did laundry, walked fred (he pooped 4 times, he is a poop factory) and shampooed my carpet. Then I laid on the floor and smelled it (carpet not poop).

Yum!

That's all.

hurt my face

4 screwdrivers plus staying out late dancing = a really, really long Sunday.

Now that I have been here for a couple of years, I run into people I know wherever I go. I went to an art opening Friday night and saw a few people there I knew, (the opening was awesome btw). Then today, I went to life drawing and ran into a guy who taught a class I had taken. He teaches at ACC and I was telling him I was about to start classes. He rained some praise on me (which I naturally love) and gave me his office hours. I'm going to meet him later this week, he's going to hook me up with a list of which classes are good and which suck. Good stuff.

So today should hopefully be the last day of the hot water outage. I hope it is, Evan stinks. I sprayed some Febreeze on him this morning. He was skunking out the living room (he hasn't showered for a week).

Overheard at my house:

TB: "I had the brilliant idea tonight that I was going to fill the bathtub up 1/2 way with water, and then heat up water in the microwave and dump it in so I could take a bath. I had filled up every pitcher in the house and even had the crock pot full water. I spent like an hour heating up water. I dumped it all in and then got ready to jump in. I got nuts deep.......that shit was freezing. I wasted my whole night doing that. Fuck. I need shower. I'm calling in sick tomorrow. Once the gas man comes, I'm gonna fill the tub up with scalding water and soak. Then I'm gonna drain it and do it again."

Asleep on the chair.

Picture 071
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I love nutty scenes. Tonight, I came home to this. The brother passed out on the chair, laying on top of the remote controls and .45.

The great gas escapade day 1

I awoke at 7:30 am knowing that a brutal enemy was lurking in the shadows. I turned the shower on hot, hoped, prayed and wished. After a few minutes I stuck in my hand.
No heat there, just the icy coldness. I couldn't do it, I couldn't jump in there. I stuck my head in for a brief moment and yanked it back out.

It's funny how one simple thing like not having a hot shower can throw your whole day off kilter.

I can't make it 5 days without a shower. I can't even make 24 hours. Despite the public nudity aspect which I despise, I was forced to gym it up. TB was sitting on the couch when I got home. He saw the wet hair......

"Where have you been??", he asked.

"The gym. I showered there.", was the reply.

"Bitch! I'm dying. I feel greasy. I tried to take one, but it was too cold. I filled up the bathtub and put some heaters in the bathroom. I'm gonna let that sumbitch heat up to 100. That way I can at least wash my ass. It feels juicy."

I'm going to try and get the emergency gas reconnect option for 70 bucks. I'm not telling him though. He has earned the suffering.

At least the weather turned warm

If it hadn't, I'd be fucked. Here is an exerpt from a phone call i received.

"Hey! I, uh, got home today and there was a notice on the door. Our gas got turned off."

ME: "I paid my half, when did you pay yours?"

"Um, well, we're caught up now. They're going to send somebody out to reconnect it, but it won't be until next Monday."

ME: "Your shitting me. Please tell me your shitting me."

"It's no big deal, we'll just eat out for a few days."

ME: "COCK FACE, the hot water heater runs off of gas!"

"Oh fuck.....well, for now on if you see a disconnection notice, tell me to pay it asap."

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Couple the non-bill-paying brother with the trash-getting-into-shit-on-floor-when-you-won't-take-me-for-a-run-dog with the can-i-borrow-your-cherished-carpet-shampooer-oops-i-broke-it-friend and you can see things are a little intense.

On the plus side, there is a cool art opening on friday. I'm excited about this.

Lombardi gallery