I have a problem. I recently discovered BrickLink Studio, for Lego, and it's been eating the time I should be using for sleep. It's 8 hours of sleep per week, right?

Holiday travel plans fell through—super sad about it—so I'm making an extra fancy New Year's Eve dinner for three. I should have invited more people.

All that's left is roasting the chicken and asparagus, reheating and seasoning the potatoes, and toast the baguette.

I'll post photos next year. ;P

I'm still working on it, but this is from last night's HeavyMetal magazine's Thursday night Drink & Draw, on Discord. It's oil pastel on canvas. I just added the blue, but I need to tighten up everything and add details. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with the background. :)

Oil pastel on 8" by 10" canvas

Some of my scribbles from last night's Heavy Metal Magazine's Thursday-night Drink & Draw, on Discord.

I haven't been doing a good job of posting my Heavy Metal LOCTOBER drawings. Today was "Haunted Astronaut" #HMLOCTOBER #HMLOCTOBER2025

This Thursday's #HeavyMetal magazine Discord drink & draw theme was pumpkins. Here's my scribble 🎃

There's a scientist/inventor out of the UK. He makes videos for educational purposes, & freely teaches anyone who has the curiosity to learn. I have tremendous respect for what he does, so I thought I'll paint a portrait of him. It's in progress—red underpaint, b&w structure, & color glaze to come🎨🖌️

Stress can cause the Sansevieria Cylindrica (aka African Spear plant) to flower. So when you're stressed, think about it as an opportunity to blossom🌸🌸🌸

I forgot to open the shutters of his favorite window yesterday morning. Poor pup kept trying to use his X-ray vision to no avail. He was up there a good half hour, too.

I really like going to the Heavy Metal discord chat drawing group, Thursdays, at 10 PM ET. Tonight, I couldn't think of something original to draw so I drew a horse – kind of overdone, I know. It would probably benefit from a blending stick and a softer graphite pencil but not if it's just a sketch.

I had a day-long conversation with ChatGPT this week. In short, I asked what would happen if everyone has free access to nutritious food (grown autonomously) and free energy. Either corporations or the super-rich power hungry people would try to take it away, OR we'd develop into a Star Trek utopia.

Baby apple pies 🍏 #StressBaking

Does anyone else have a problem with starting a book only to put it down in the middle and start another one? This past year and a half has been particularly bad. 📚

This week's at-home menu 🌼
(lots of turkey leftovers)