A boat at sea

Just another quick painting that I did. I was testing out how well the paper would handle darker paint, and I’m still going to say with the pencil board behind the page, it is hardly relevant and doesn’t really impact my ability or distract me from writing on the next page. I’ve come to the

Mixed Media on Hobonichi Tomo River Paper

Since I have my travel water color kit sitting on my desk, and I ended up doodling a bit during some meetings, I figured I’d do a little mixed media and see how well the paper would handle it. To start, I just did a pretty simple design sketch with a mechanical pencil (a Kuru

Watercolor on Hobonichi Tomo River Paper

While I have been waiting on 2021 to roll around, I’ve been taking notes and doodling in my Hobonichi Notebook. Today I figured I’d give a try to see how the paper would react to water color. Anybody who’s tried to do water color on non watercolor paper (or even with water color paper) knows

Hobonichi 2021 Haul

My Hobonichi order finally showed up! The packaging from Hobonichi has always been fun, and the quotes are interesting. … and as always, everything is well organized inside of the box. This year I figured I would pick up a couple of the Drawer Pouches that match as close as I could with my Porter

The Case For a Clean Inbox

Folks, I’ve seen many of your counts of unread emails, messages, and other backlogs. I’m not sure how you keep the mental space to keep track of all of this information coming at you. Maybe I’m getting too old, but I just find it to be a sign of a cluttered mind. For me, I

2019 Every Day Carry

Below is what I had for my “every day carry” back in 2019.  This is the last iteration where I have dropped a thicker wallet and gone from 8-12 cards and cash, down to 4 cards.  The notebook and pen are new, but being about the same size as my phone I hardly notice it

Ooooooof

So reality is starting to set in as I try and consider all of the content I have ever created, and where the heck it is. Servers are gone, my network addressable storage (NAS) won’t mount on my computer. I have a bit of a road in front of me to recover my digital life