No.

You can check in here, though.  I would recommend doing that occasionally, as it would be the responsible thing to do.

If you don't know what I'm talking about google it.

And if you're wondering how to spend what could be your last time on earth I would suggest having a handy flash app analyze your mp3s and add cowbell plus Christopher Walken to them.  Someone already made the app for you, you have only to apply it.  Once again, responsibility should be a priority.  You may not have much time left for procrastination.

I've missed two instructables contests that I could have rocked.  There's one going now that I could come up with something good for except that things are so busy in my life right now and the prizes are bike-related (and I really hate bike riding.  A LOT.)  You should go enter, though, because instructables rules.

I have, however, been working on some actual paintings.  It had been much too long, and I love it so much.  I'll be hunting down a few very specific supplies tomorrow but after that I might have finished work in a matter of days.  I'll post here as soon as I have something I feel okay about the world seeing.

Other than that I'm restocking the jewelry and rebuilding it's website, working on a new fashion type product, reinventing lampshades and drawing up plans for flatpack/near flatpack lighting.  I'm feeling pretty good about life right now, and I really look forward to what I'm working on when I get up in the morning.

I've been using twitter because it's fun and takes less effort to update than this.  You can find me here.

I could post something here about the stuff I've been doing, the victories and frustrations, etc.  But really, isn't it more fun to watch this?

Watch all three in order.  Do it because you love math.

No really, a lot.  Since I was around 15 years old I've been pretty sure that I was going to end up in visual art somehow.  And I've always loved collage, which has a special sort of obsessive collection related to it.

Over the last few weeks I've been going through all of it.  The massive accumulation of carefully selected objects is overwhelming, and even more overwhelming was the lack of useful categorization.  But I'm changing that.  Hundreds of thousands of small objects are now grouped with like objects, but not without a massive amount of time and effort.  And I don't exaggerate when it comes to numbers, I buy thousands of beads and LEDs at a time.  The same goes with buttons.  Yards of fabric, dozens of colors of ribbon, little toys, pieces of glass and plastic, mechanical parts, yarns, paints, brushes, papers, and countless other objects have all taken their toll.  Everything that could ever make the perfect piece of jewelry or be the ideal cornerstone for a collage is now finding a place.  Without constant vigilance these objects take over my space and my life, and wear on my time when I have to hunt for or replace what I need. 

Now it's all being sorted into stacks of standard office paper boxes, each carefully labeled with it's contents like police evidence.  If I can fight my instinct for chaos and keep a sense of order in my world it should work, but I know how difficult it will be to maintain.  At least now when I need something I can look over my boxes, searching for the label I need and hoping that I still use the same words to describe it as I always have.  At least I tried, if nothing else.

I'm nearly done with this mind numbing task which will hopefully clear the way for a lot of new work.  For starters, all of the projects I've accumulated parts for in the past.  And all of the things I've come up with as I sort.  I'm pretty sure I'll never run out of things to make....