This week, my grandmother on my mother’s side (we all call her Granny) had heart surgery. Fortunately, everything seems to have gone very well. She’s recovering nicely, and has physically improved quite a bit even after only five days. She’s my only grandparent, and my two little ones’ only great-grandparent. Granny is a really kind person, and much loved by
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This is just a bit of an update to an article from a few days ago. I wrote about my interest in drawing something for the 2nd Annual 5x5x5 Show Miniature Works at the River Oaks Square Arts Center (original article: Contest Drawing – Tiny Art). I finished a 5″ x 5″ drawing of my little ones, which turned out decently; as I wrote
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A co-worker told me recently about an interesting art show coming up; it’s called the 2nd Annual 5x5x5 Show Miniature Works at the River Oaks Square Arts Center in Alexandria, Louisiana. This guy makes custom fishing lures, and entered some in last year’s show. Even though I’ve never in my life entered anything into an art show, I suddenly had
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Now that I’ve got my mind on drawing again (here’s my first drawing in years), I realized there is something that I haven’t uploaded to this site anywhere. It’s from way back in 2011, but it’s a meaningful one to me. This is sort of corny, but I’ll tell the story anyway. When I proposed to my wife, I used
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Yesterday, I wrote about salary data across the four major U.S. sports; NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL. In that first article, I explored the player salary totals, salary averages, per games averages, and per minute averages for each league and teams. I also discussed a bit on the methodology I used to calculate these amounts. In this article, we’re going
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A co-worker and I were talking about salaries in the various U.S. sports leagues not too long ago. The conversation started by discussing which sports had the highest paid players, probably triggered by some recent signing or related news. Then, we started speculating about which sports or athletes would pay the most adjusted for number of games, since it varies
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Even though I have always enjoyed it, it’s been years since I’ve actually sat down, got focused, and drawn anything. I’ve sketched friends, family, self-portraits, and my wife, but never my two little ones. Is it a coincidence that I have a toddler and infant and somehow haven’t been able to dedicate a few hours to drawing? Yes, I’m sure
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