health

Visual Digital Communication

I have been running a lot of little side business to keep myself out of the bars and awake late into the night. I closed one of them last year as I always seem to have too many irons in the fire. That was my TEDatum Publishing where I was making restored photo albums from old picture collections. It was very labor intensive editing hundreds of customer low quality photos into presentable coffee table style...

Continue reading...

Sweet Success

I have been spending time working in my garage workshop. What I was doing there was solving some problems with my home built CNC router machine I call the HB2. I estimate I have run it for close to 80 hours which means many dozens of carving projects have already been produced. After all this operation, tiny flaws reveal they can cause serious problems. The machine began breaking down! I have always enjoyed working on...

Continue reading...

Weather or Not

Forget what I said on the 10th! The weather in Dallas Texas hasn’t been very nice this winter. We just set an all-time winter snowfall record of 12 inches (and more) in the area. Temperatures have been cold and the fuel bills high. Houses here are optimized for air conditioning (cooling) with return and supply air grills and registers located high. Heat rises and cold falls, making floors cold in winter. My garage workshop is...

Continue reading...

Thank You

It’s been a good day. Thank’s Shel for sharing the vigil. It helped me a lot and Mom especially knowing you and I were there. And thanks for all the blessing and prayers from those who have been watching FB. I told mom when the day started this was her first day towards being a cancer survivor rather than a cancer victim. Y’all know this first step has been a good one. Everything went as...

Continue reading...