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29Oct
Halloween

My wife insists that this is the last year for me to do Halloween decorations. I can understand where she is coming from – she had a friend who lost her husband because he fell off a ladder. Because this is likely my last year, I went big – I combined two different house decors: my standard set, and my covid decor – which is essentially a big house jack-o-lantern face. Here is the result.

It’s interesting because many of the decorations were made 10, 15, even 20 years ago – so half of my effort is deploying them, and half of my effort is repairing them so that they’re usable.
18Mar
No Name

I have a beer brewing kit, which allows me to make a case or two of beer at home. I haven’t done it in a while, but years ago – I made a few batches, including one where I was challenged to come up with a name for the beer. So I leveraged a Clint Eastwood character from the movie The Good, The Bad and the Ugly where he played an outlaw who had no name (never told anyone what it was). I took an image of Eastwood from that movie, made it look more like me, then built a label around it.
17Mar
Swirl

From almost 20 years ago. I’m curious what tools I used to create this. Likely CAD software on a desktop computer.

17Mar
More Metal Figures

These are two other figures that I designed for my metal figurine collection. (The first one was here.) I had intended to print them out, glue them to flat metal, and cut the metal – to end up with a physical ‘metal sculpture’ collection.
4Mar
Boy and Dog

I can’t remember the name of this comic. I’ve tried searching online – using descriptions of these characters. Plus, I’ve even done reverse google image search to see if this image exists online – but that process is hampered by the grid lines in my drawing…

WAIT! I just found it!! (months later) It’s called Kelly & Duke. Not a very memorable name, which was part of the problem.
27Feb
Beetle Bailey

This is from a comic strip when I was young. Beetle Bailey is a soldier in the US Army. Looks like I submitted it for school (and got an A+).
28Dec
Menagerie

Not sure what the point of this is — looks like it covers all animal types, though. Two of each — if the one behind the penguin is a salamander.