Chore Day, November 30, 2019 -- Cooking and Krita

It was another chore day around here, with lots of important tasks on the agenda. Since the refrigerator was looking abandoned, I restocked with a week’s worth of meals — yellow rice with lentils and broccoli, muffins, some baked sweet potatoes, and lots of v-dog burgers for my furry friends. I usually spend about six hours cooking. By the end of the day I was ready to swear off of cooking forever.

Here’s something I made with Krita. When I look at that guy’s foot, I have to laugh. Drawing from the imagination — my imagination, at least — can lead to some very crazy poses.

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Krita has so many features and options that I feel lost. There are menus and sub-menus, with a brush engine that has dozens of options, with more menus and sub-menus. I feel like I’m in a hall of mirrors. But I feel the same way when I open Affinity Photo. The truth is, whenever I learn a new program, my first impression is that I’m going to be creating works of art in minutes, and then I have to face the facts — it will take me just as much time to learn the new program as it took me to learn my way around Photoshop.

Chore Day, Oct 12, 2019 -- Lots of Cooking, Frustration, and Other Fun

Chore day comes around again. I was in the kitchen cooking from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM. I have lots of good stuff to eat next week, all no-fat vegan stuff: curried cauliflower soup, Bolognese lentil spaghetti sauce with lentil and brown rice pasta, lentil and black bean rice with brocolli, vegetable stock, and a batch of no-fat humus for snacking.

After lunch I spent the rest of the day working with Linux video software. I’m planning on making some courses on Skillshare. They’ll be based on some courses I’m teaching at the local college. Since the courses are going to be dropped from the curriculum, I’ll preserve them for posterity — however long that is — by putting them on the Web.

And now, at day’s end, I’m going to chill with the family. This was a good week.