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Last weekend, I found myself procrastinating the completion of my second round of edits on my master's applied project (like a thesis, only better!), and drew a bunch of pictures instead. Go figure. Some of them are mangas to be used in a YouTube book advertisement for Master of Emotion by D. Ogden Huff. I have completed 6 of the 10 planned scenes from the book so far. Note: It takes me 4 to 6 hours per drawing, so this is a decent accomplishment over the last 3 weekends. The last 4 scenes are roughly penciled out, but need to be finalized, inked, and then colored. I will post when the book advertisement is up on YouTube. BUT...I was still feeling weirdly unsatisfied (from an artistic frenzy standpoint) when I finished the Master of Emotion mangas. So I drew my favorite character from Carol Berg's Lighthouse Duet ( Flesh and Spirit + Breath and Bone ). Meet Valen (as I imagine him): a.k.a Magnus Valentia de Cartamandua-Celestine I will have the opportunity...

Okay, I lied, I miss them all the time. I keep looking at the cage and it takes me a second to realize I am down to 2 rabbits from the 5 I used to have. So in loving memory... ? Pebblesaurus Rex, a Mini Rex (softest fur in the world) - died 2/2011 at 8 years old Cocoa Rex, the sister to Pebbles Rex - died 1/2010 at 7 years old Miss Peanut, a rescue from California - died 11/2011 at unknown age, but estimated to be 8 years Miss Precious (gray) and Mr. Scrap (black, and the sister to Precious), Dutch rabbits - still alive and well at 6.5 years! Cocoa and Pebbles both died around Martin Luther King Jr Day, hence the timing for the post. And no, Shadow did not eat any of the bunnies - they all died of natural causes/old age. Rabbits are the greatest pets!

The Industrious Hygienist's brother-in-law built this out of dominoes after we gave up trying to play a game. Pretty spiffy!

This is what used to be the Freeport McMoran main office at 1 North Central in Phoenix, Arizona. Looking down from the 20th Floor. Looking up from the 13th Floor. This neato staircase stretched all the way up from the 13th Floor to the 20th Floor, and I had fun going up and down the stairs to perform an inspection of the building materials present. They've since gutted the entire space and are rebuilding it to suit the new tenant. So this staircase exists only in memory and pictures now.

Recently I did some industrial hygiene work at a facility that practices the 5S Standards . For those of you not familiar with the 5S standards, they are a workplace organization system that is focused on efficiency (time, space, personnel, etc.) and have gained a strong following in the United States. The 5S Standards according to Wikipedia are: Sorting Straightening Systematic Cleaning Standardizing Sustaining The client had sheets posted on every workstation and surface imaginable, making sure employees knew what to expect and how to achieve it. Each workstation had a picture showing the ideal configuration and cleanliness of the individual desk area. I was a little weirded out at first. I went to go fill up my water bottle and saw that EVERYTHING was labeled and had a designated spot. Even trash cans and a water cooler had a label identifying it and a designated/taped off spot. The trash can did not have a labeled/taped-off area, so I moved it to the side (next to the water coo...