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This looks like a painting. But it is just a drawing coloured with pencils and a bit of ink on the edges. This is one of the ones that I like on the more side of things, than on the less. And I feel the same about the flipside drawing, even though it lacks that looks like a painting. Am I wrong for liking my drawings? Futt no! I'm good and only getting better with each passing year. Well, it's more months, sometimes weeks, but give me thirty years and I'll be some kind of awesome. Give me thirty years and I hope that I will be thirty years into a career. Twenty-eight? Less? Le Sigh. Well, we agree to disagree. Tomorrow's my last day blogging here. I am going to set up my own easily put up website at squarespace and have at it with the plan to post a lot of writing, drawings and poll questions there. At least it's certainly possible for me to have more of a following there since I only h...

I did some writing tonight that has vaulted me into to the goodly heights up the mountain to reach the first good peak. And the drawing that I drew for the final Sunday Spleck is one of my best Splecks of the year.  Though that's not saying much is it? Not if I want to monetize this thing that I do each and every single day, which I do. An elephant, a bird and a turtle walk up a road that has been paved over an otherwise lovely hill that ends at a tree that shouldn't be there. Well, neither should be there, the road or the tree. But both are and the animals are going to play a part of what happens because they have walked up this road on this day. Or would if it was a story that was ever going to get written. Hmm. Okay, that's it, I'm out. I don't have anything more to say about the drawing than I liked it lots. Be well won't you? Charles Petrie Date 12-29-19 Time 23:27-23:46=19 Minutes Word Count ...

I've drawn more cigarettes than I have smoked. And this is the first cigarette that I have drawn. So clearly this is not a pro-smoking drawing because he's telling the smoker that he's done with them because they won't quit him. Save for the ones who do. This is for those who have decided to quit, are quitting or have quit and like me see smoking for what it is. I'll say it gently here because I know past smokers in my life. A bad habit. So why draw a cigarette, let alone one that is clearly sentient that has a low opinion of its kind?  I have a friend who has been obliged to stop smoking for health reasons. I know, smoking is so healthy otherwise. But she has to quit and I remember telling her that our little chat has brought him to life. And I think he's actually a cool little character that I can do things with. Maybe. Yes, I just referred to a sentient cigarette as cool character. Ugh...

Thankfully this is not something we have to worry about happening because them's some dangerous crabs. This was drawn this morning at An Undisclosed Location Yo, which is where I had another Christmas at. But now I'm back, closer to home with the plan to return there tomorrow. I could stay, but family taxi is in effect and I am returning home with more than I came with so taking the usual mode is not recommended. And Saturday was the initial day I had in mind for returning home as my last full day at at hom was the second day of the 12 Days Of Christmas. So yes, the 12 Days of Christmas were won at AULY. I am of course very much okay with that because I achieved the Millioncy in Canada, without a single  word of that first million written anywhere but in the country of my birth. That was important to me because I didn't have to worry about how much I wrote outside of the sought after 1250 words. I didn't do as well on that front, b...

Yes, I missed my first day, but it was Christmas and I just came upstairs at the end of the day and went to bed, not intending to not write, but I know, even if I don't want to say it in the moment, that lying down is a readiness to sleep. I woke at the 37 minute mark of the day, as memory serves and I didn't even bother to be upset. I wanted to go a whole six months without missing a day and I surely would have if not for that decision, but who am I disappointing? I'm not even disappointed and I'm the one posting the blogs. And while I didn't write much of the desired 15,000 words of the Inaugural 12 Days Of Christmas, which yes, goes past Christmas, while the giving of the gifts, in the main, ends on the 25th, there are the days that come after where the season continues. So is it with my 12 Days that continue past it by two. Also, I won't be continuing to blog here in the coming decade. And who's going to miss me anyway when my steady number i...

Spleck was unexpectedly pre-empted last night because, quite simply, I forgot. I did Spleck, just Creyonah, which is what I'm doing now. I'll just have accept that I forgot to original Spleck last night. Ugh. What else am I going to have to accept? And suddenly, I am so not feeling the want to write that I cpould very easily stop writing right now and be happy with what I with what I've written for the day. Even if it wasn't cold. Though that is certainly a motivating factor. The Habs won tonight and are back into a tenuous playoff position. And with 4:12 left, the Green Bay Packers are up on the Minnesota Vikings 23-10. So the Vikings need two touchdowns in 4:07, which seems unlikely. It's been a good day. But what else can I expect when it's Christmas in a year where I've written a million words and counting? And drawn who knows how many drawings. Though I could do without thirty ...

I just can't watch It's A Wonderful Life before mid-December. For me it's the second to last Christmas movie I want to see and the ideal time to watch it is between the 19th and 23rd. So needless to say I haven't watched it this year or the last three. I can't remember when I last saw it in fact. Now that's just me. Others seem to think it should be played in November. Seriously CTV? November 30th for what is no doubt one of the classic Christmas movies of all? Admittedly it took decades for it to become that classic because it wasn't well received at first. But it is now. If you're old enough I suppose. And I am. Others will no doubt say Elf, which I like lots but it's no It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol or Miracle on 34th Street. Fred Claus is sweeter, even with bad casting in light of a certain actor. Le Sigh. Seriously CTV? Though that's not as...

I am glad that I wrote as hard as I did between April and the first 15 days of December so that I could afford to take it easy for the rest of the year. Though I still managed to first good peak it two days ago so that I could have a 10,000 word week. Assuming I can write enough words tonight, when the week ends. But surely I have enough time and can write what I need to write so that the extra effort a couple days ago wasn't in vain. Aside from having another first good peak day of course. That's always worth it. But I did it so that I could have myself another 10,000 word week so to fail at that would be annoying. Only I have enough time to do what needs to be done so I am not worried that I will fall short of the 10,000 word week. I will however fall short of 1250 words for the day. Ugh. I made the choice though to draw when I could have been writing as it is not essential that my posting to the blog includes any drawing. I...

I could scream. I lost words to the delete beast. Ugh. Well, if I was truly ready to scream I would be thinking in harsher terms than ugh. I won't be writing 3000+ words today, though that was only a thing so that I could have a fighting chance at writing more than 10,000 words this week. I don't do vacation. I'm just away from home. Because I write and draw each day, no matter what's going on. How do you think I wrote a million words this year? I wrote each and every single day. The same as the drawing, though one was more of an accomplishment than the other, And yes, writing a million words is an accomplishment. In fact, it's an accomplishment that few writers could achieve. Especially when I've written well over 900,000 words since April. I am not going to write 3000+ words today and at the rate at which I am currently writing I won't even write a thousand, which is a move that  I shouldn't succumb ...

Hello from somewhere in the same timezone as I have always reported from. It is Day 4 of The 12 Days of Christmas and I have arrived at the destination where I will be for the fullness of a week. But there is wifi so I will be able to continue posting both drawings and writing to go along with said drawings so that the whole of the 6 months will pass with an entry for each day. Not that it matters on a practical level, as in, getting paid for nothing is what I am doing this. And two readers for the many is ho hum, It was however a small part of the first Millioncy so it will always matter on that front. No, not to anyone reading this I reckon, but to me, yes. Owing to the day's best of 519 words in the 2nd quarter and the day's least of 315 words, I am left with the need for 416 words to satisfy the want of 1250 words. So that's a done deal, as I am well on my way to that goodly goal of words. And I dare say that I will do this good...

  Here I am, for Ho Ho Ho Day Three, of the 12 Days of Christmas and I am writing these words from elsewhere the night before I go to other elsewhere until after Christmas. And I have some writing to do, which is not what I did at all in the 2nd and 3rd quarters which means some writing is 1026 words to get back to 1250 each day during these 12 Days. Yes, I came in under that tally yesterday, but I was over on the first day and am ahead of the pace overall with a little cushion. But I'd rather make it a bigger cushion than slink through this stretch of days, even though I've earned the easy output with 16 days left to write following my first achievement of the Millioncy. Yes, it is just the first and not the last! 13 straight is a good number as I would be 60 in the final Millioncy and a lot can happen between now and then for my situation to change for the better. But I'm a long way from then and I should just celebrate the first Millioncy ...

I am full on two poached egg sammies, Pringles Ketchup Chips, Cheese and a little hollow Chocolate Snowman with Milk that seemed on the edge of being off in spite of having a date of December 23. What's up with that? And yes, I had resisted the call to cheese last night, as I need to put some distance between us, like three months. At least. But I ate a little more than half of the 270 gram brick of cheddar, which is far and away my favourite type of cheese. I keep bringing an early end to my breaks from cheese and I'm really going to have to put a stop to that because I have almost no willpower against it and it sure doesn't help me with the weight. So I'm goin to have to make my stand in 2020 and not eat any, by itself for at least three months. Maybe more. So, I'm very full, not to the point of pain or anything, but full enough to not eat through the next morning, though I'm going to eat a smoothie for brea...