Minor Madness - or a goal, maybe (Painting challenge- day 90 un-port, pg 6)

[FifteensAway]

Thanks for the kind and encouraging words.  And, no worries on beating myself up.  Except on this point - and only mildly so - the eighth was the actual day100 and it is now the ninth.  Oh, well.  As you say, the production is itself the victory.  And I will cross 1,000 figures before I am finished, have that I have no doubt.  I think my mental error stemmed from being so tired from that flare up of the back injury causing some serious sleep loss and still catching up; it not only caused sleep loss but some real and genuine anguish at the possible long term consequences if it had stayed like that - it was on the wrong edge of debilitating.  Thankfully, it has subsided and I'm back to more normal - and I will be following up with my doctor for certain. 

I'd rather miss that 1,000 mark on day 100 than go with the compromise it would have taken to get there.  Even with my acceptance of 'adequate' paint jobs, the only way I was going to finish was with a less than adequate paint job, probably why I didn't return to the paint job. I do have some standards!   

[FifteensAway]

Almost 7:00 PM, haven't gotten to the painting desk so my total will be Zero for this ten days (+1).  Lots close, even more got started, but none finished. 

A big part of the challenge is it was a beautiful day and wife and I were out cleaning the yard getting ready for spring - which is threatening to arrive much too early this year - and guests coming over this weekend.  And perhaps too much time checking in on the disaster down in LA well south of us (a few hundred miles south). 

Not to worry, I will persevere with progress - but maybe settle for just over 1,000 to end the challenge.  Getting pulled in various non-hobby directions of late.  Though one distraction is a game tomorrow with some friends. 

[syrinx0]

A game with friends is always worth it.  I never count those against my schedule. 

[LordBrentlake]

Regardless of the exact numbers, you have achieved a moral victory. Hearty congratulations.

[mikedemana]

it was a beautiful day and wife and I were out cleaning the yard getting ready for spring - which is threatening to arrive much too early this year

Good God, it's snowing here! And supposed to get really cold over the next several days. Where do you live that you have such positive signs to your weather...? 

Mike Demana

[FifteensAway]

Mike,

I have the good sense to live in California far from the snows of Ohio! 

Seeing flowers blooming that shouldn't for a couple of months.  Hope we are having a bit of 'false spring' and the weather will turn back to intermittent rainy.  I can wait for spring - though a bit of nice weather is welcome.

But such an early spring, if it comes to pass, is not a good thing.  Probably mean a very long, hot summer.  A couple of years ago we had a string of too many days at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit.  Even with our lower relative humidity, that is unbearable.  One day is bad but a week or more is dangerous.

What is really needed is a good deal of slow, steady rain on Southern California devastated by those wild fires.  Even if the homes lost belong to rich people - some are, most unlikely are not - the emotional impact is hard on anyone.  Sadly, too many people still building too many homes in places that it is just ridiculous to build - and where a disastrous fire is guaranteed at some point, whether in a year or two or a decade or two.

Thankfully, we live near Sacramento so not in the worst danger zone but what the last many years have shown is that nowhere is safe from devastating weather impacts - and that is worldwide.

So, bundle up, stay warm, and plan a visit to sunnier climes to make you feel better - if only in your dreams!   

[syrinx0]

Hope CA gets some serious steady rain soon. My son lives in the Burbank area and has been watching several major fires move away from him.  Wish we could send him the snow falling outside right now.