What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[gennepher]

Same as ever. We just have access to so much more information - or invented stories - than ever before. Instead of relying on the bloke down the pub, village gossip or water cooler equivalent we have every loon with internet access - some with positions of immense power.

Agree @ianpspurs
We have no idea what is a spoof/fake news etc etc
I mean we can have a pretty good guess, our common sense tells us a wee bit.
But this amount of info on the internet is impossible to sieve through.
Mostly I keep away from it. But then I follow a link, and then incredulity sucks me in on a roller coaster ride of what???

 

[dunelm]

This was a 4 hour job...
I had allowed myself 2 hours, but time crept away with me.

I was studying Hokusai, First Manga Master, a book J gave me about 13 years ago one Valentines Day (his home made valentine card is still inside )

I decided to use the first image in the book as source material and to learn from.
This was in the section, 'Landscapes, Mountains and Water, The image of Permanence'.

Here is my painting of it in ZenBrush2
Cat was pestiferous in the last hour, and I am hanging on to cat, my cuppa, the iPad, holding open the book, and trying to draw/paint...and then the initially fully charged iPad died on me, it never gave me a warning, or I was too engrossed I never saw it. Resurrected iPad, and opened it up and my painting is still sitting on the screen...phew...
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Wonderful memories with the valentines day gift. I do like the way you have the clouds boiling over the landscape. It gives a sense of early morning to me.

 

[jjraak]

i think the days of one source of information being practical has long gone.

every thing has it's bias,
from the mild to the rabid.

i always like to have a look at those i really find counter to what i know
and i'll delve in a little until i feel pretty sure it's not for me or it has merit i hadn't considered.

I think Obama said it best about looking to viewpoints that are against yours.
that way we MIGHT see they have a point OR they might see we have a point
and that way we can come together, with sensible arguments and discussions.

i mentally see that like fish.
swimming happily alone, then coming together in small of larger shoals for a common purpose for a while,
then back to just swimming alone..until next time

Chopping and changing your opinion..no
letting your opinion evolve as new subject / topics / ideas come to light, yes

oh and do SO agree in the interweb..
go on for a few mins to check something out..
many hours later.....

 

[UserABC2021]

Thank you for the info @Alien Aspie
I tried Procreate yesterday and this morning but failed to get what I wanted, much more practice needed in that app.

I need so much practise I could cry

I tried to do a quick watercolour in Procreate this morning. Simple robin on a branch, splish splash bosh... nah!, realised I'd spent two hours doing the black and white shading in an eye. Gave up

Wish I had the memory of this lad though

 

[SlimLizzy]

MrSlim is being the new broom.
He has mended the mower, fixed the tractor, (which broke down again after three hours cutting the really long grass, well over a metre high, in the orchard.
Strimmed everywhere.
Started demolishing the large falling down Ciderpress shed at the back of the house and demolished entirely the smaller shed in the front, making way for the planned drainage ditches/pipes.
The Ciderpress demolition work has has a knock on effect, in that creatures living there relocated - to my vegetable bed!
Not best pleased to have rat sized burrows under wilting bean plants. Still it does sort out the glut of beans

 

[gennepher]

I need so much practise I could cry

I tried to do a quick watercolour in Procreate this morning. Simple robin on a branch, splish splash bosh... nah!, realised I'd spent two hours doing the black and white shading in an eye. Gave up

Wish I had the memory of this lad though

I am sorry, but I had to laugh at ‘I need so much practice I could cry’ I fully understand that feeling

That is me on new stuff

Yes Stephen is amazing.

It is not quite ‘splash splash bosh’ on any digital app
It takes longer than a real painting...until you know the app inside out.

I would love to see your robin and eye, even though you stopped it when you realise it was taking too long. I learn from seeing what other people do.

I learn from @Muddy Cyclist when he posts his sketch, or half finished painting that he is going to finish the next day. I do not proceed with a painting in the way he does, but I still learn from every painting he does. My brain remembers, and when I am asleep my brain creates paintings from what my eyes have seen others do. Also if I look at some paintings etc, or done some digitally on the iPad/phone etc before sleep, my brain, as I am asleep, shows me all kinds of paintings created step by step. It has done this on ZenBrush2 in my brain’s ZenBrush2 virtual app as I am asleep. ....

 

[lindisfel]

I need so much practise I could cry

I tried to do a quick watercolour in Procreate this morning. Simple robin on a branch, splish splash bosh... nah!, realised I'd spent two hours doing the black and white shading in an eye. Gave up

Wish I had the memory of this lad though

He is a Savant, is he not, Aspie?
Your like me Aspie, I find a multitude of subjects and work interesting and fulfilling.
Best wishes
Derek

 

[lindisfel]

i think the days of one source of information being practical has long gone.

every thing has it's bias,
from the mild to the rabid.

i always like to have a look at those i really find counter to what i know
and i'll delve in a little until i feel pretty sure it's not for me or it has merit i hadn't considered.

I think Obama said it best about looking to viewpoints that are against yours.
that way we MIGHT see they have a point OR they might see we have a point
and that way we can come together, with sensible arguments and discussions.

i mentally see that like fish.
swimming happily alone, then coming together in small of larger shoals for a common purpose for a while,
then back to just swimming alone..until next time

Chopping and changing your opinion..no
letting your opinion evolve as new subject / topics / ideas come to light, yes

oh and do SO agree in the interweb..
go on for a few mins to check something out..
many hours later.....

Often best not to get entrenched in one view, unless its life or death.
It takes more evidence to remove an entrenched wrong view than establish a correct one in an open mind.
And just be careful jjraak, when a fish is not in its shoal, then it is vulnerable to predation.
Atb
Derek

 

[jjraak]

4.8 this morning. Relaxing with a coffee before the dog walk in the sunshine. Had a lovely day yesterday. Did lots of lesson planning and practising new exercises. Still haven't got the ok to start back in September from any of the halls I teach in - but it will be nice to be fully prepared for when they say ok.

Lost another quarter pound so am now 9st 13 3/4 lbs. So lovely to be in the 9s even if it is only just in the 9s.

Nice work on the weight

Just a side note, @Krystyna23040
Missus starts back to yoga next week.
Classes bookable now at the local gym
But she wanted to wait a week.

Not sure if that gives kudos to get your local area moving with some sort of a plan and timetable.?

I'm going with the idea,
right now is about as Los as it's going to get.

I pray I am wrong, but as I look around at Europe etc, think my prays won't be heeded

So I expect a 2nd wave of more local lockdowns, here in London, and I guess elsewhere in the coming months.

Be good to get as much in for your groups as possible, I'd say.

 

[geefull]

good afternoon all

was 3.8 this morning
seems unlikely but so it says had some cheese and a couple of grapes just in case

it's been shopping day today, out fairly early as usual and everyone wearing masks except one. That was most of the morning by the time we got everything sorted, wiped down and stashed away.
Groceries delivered to mum and we're back home again now

Much better weather here today, not much rain, just the occasional sprinkle and the wind has 'bated' a bit so perhaps a walk later

Hope your day is treating you kindly

@ianpspurs - definitely reason to be thankful that our medical guidance doesn't rest with Mr Trump's recommendations, if you didn't laugh you'd cry

@lindisfel - count me into the variety of eclectic interests too

@Alien Aspie - sure we'd find your part finished art interesting if you felt comfortable to post it, I'm like @gennepher I find the process people work through very interesting.

@gennepher - thanks gennepher nice landscape of yours with interesting effects in the background hills and the flowing clouds

@dunelm - lovely tree that, procreate looks like a very capable app., not available for android though so I'm going to try out a couple of others, see how I get on.

@Muddy Cyclist - your morning light sounds lovely it was a vista of distant patches of sunlight here I look forward to your watercolour layering experiments

art bit -
back to the trad stuff today -
no 1 - how not to add red to a sky, the red I chose ended up drying very pink so it's not so much a stormy sky as a slightly fluorescent one

plus no 2 - a quick sketch, I found the minimal pen strokes of some of the Japanese art interesting so here is a very quick sky experiment

 

[lindisfel]

I cheat, Dunhelm. I make Marjorie's bread in a Panasonic bread maker.
I don't eat bread.
D.

Thank you @Alien Aspie - I will give that a go while my bread is proving later this morning. Thanks also for the video link.

 

[lindisfel]

There needs to be a decisive defeat in November to oust him. When America sneezes we catch a cold - or worse.

By some ironic twist, if we get rid of trump we get rid of a greenhouse gas.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Just a side note, @Krystyna23040
Missus starts back to yoga next week.
Classes bookable now at the local gym
But she wanted to wait a week.

Great that she is back to yoga next week. All the gyms have started back here but no sign of the church and village halls I teach in starting back unfortunately.

 

[UserABC2021]

sure we'd find your part finished art interesting if you felt comfortable to post it, I'm like @gennepher I find the process people work through very interesting.

I have a very bad habit that gets me in trouble, it's called the delete button. If I get frustrated I hit it then purge it. An hour later I am "why did I do that?"

A drawing isn't too much bother but I have done it with computer coding I actually needed and I purged a novel I was writing last year because one of the characters (I created) was driving me nuts, 75k words gone.

This is why I have no friends and I can't have nice things

He is a Savant, is he not, Aspie?

Yes, Stephen is recognised as a savant.

 

[gennepher]

good afternoon all

was 3.8 this morning
seems unlikely but so it says had some cheese and a couple of grapes just in case

it's been shopping day today, out fairly early as usual and everyone wearing masks except one. That was most of the morning by the time we got everything sorted, wiped down and stashed away.
Groceries delivered to mum and we're back home again now

Much better weather here today, not much rain, just the occasional sprinkle and the wind has 'bated' a bit so perhaps a walk later

Hope your day is treating you kindly

@ianpspurs - definitely reason to be thankful that our medical guidance doesn't rest with Mr Trump's recommendations, if you didn't laugh you'd cry

@lindisfel - count me into the variety of eclectic interests too

@Alien Aspie - sure we'd find your part finished art interesting if you felt comfortable to post it, I'm like @gennepher I find the process people work through very interesting.

@gennepher - thanks gennepher nice landscape of yours with interesting effects in the background hills and the flowing clouds

@dunelm - lovely tree that, procreate looks like a very capable app., not available for android though so I'm going to try out a couple of others, see how I get on.

@Muddy Cyclist - your morning light sounds lovely it was a vista of distant patches of sunlight here I look forward to your watercolour layering experiments

art bit -
back to the trad stuff today -
no 1 - how not to add red to a sky, the red I chose ended up drying very pink so it's not so much a stormy sky as a slightly fluorescent one
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plus no 2 - a quick sketch, I found the minimal pen strokes of some of the Japanese art interesting so here is a very quick sky experiment

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Thank you for the painting compliment @geefull

Your top painting is good with the sun peeking out of the stormy sky and reflecting in the water.. The hills and foreground are great with the special kind of detail you're very adept at doing. Red and pink have a habit of misbehaving....

I like your bottom quick sketch very much. And the sky experiment.

By the way I had a look at the Android apps for painting. I did find ibis Paint X in my Android. I had downloaded it last year and never looked at it. But it does seem to be primarily a Manga app. However, I have been playing with it the last 1 and 3/4 hours. I did do an interesting zen painting, but lost it when I was figuring out how to save it....

 

[jjraak]

I have a very bad habit that gets me in trouble, it's called the delete button. If I get frustrated I hit it then purge it. An hour later I am "why did I do that?"

A drawing isn't too much bother but I have done it with computer coding I actually needed and I purged a novel I was writing last year because one of the characters (I created) was driving me nuts, 75k words gone.

This is why I have no friends and I can't have nice things



Yes, Stephen is recognised as a savant.

have a man hug for the wastage & annoyance

But got a funny for the very philosophical take on it..

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Whilst I've been sorting and clearing MILs the forum went mad, so many posts.

@gennepher Art gives so much, all those memories and a great piece of art from them.

I am humbled by my art technique inspiring you, your art work does the same for me. How art gets to each of us is wonderful, some it inspires, some it brings back memories, some I'm sure it confounds.

@geefull really like that first watercolour, brilliant, not sure about the second but admire any attempt at something new so brilliant.

@Alien Aspie I am opposite to you I can't hit that DELETE button and so I have lots of unfinished art, poems, music, photographs and as such life becomes very cluttered. On the bright side my kids are going to have a whale of a time sorting through my thoughts, ideas and observations when I eventually pop my clogs. Or perhaps they will just hit that delete button.

So after a crazy busy day and late finish I had quickly layered some colours down this morning before going to MILS then tonight quickly splashed some more colours on top, spraying the original with water first to let the darker colours of the second layer run with some control by tilting the paper. I have no idea where this is going other than it is based on yesterday's heathland sketch and as mentioned to @dunelm this Morning.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Morning Tour de Angleterre riders.

Passed through our town today, didn't wave at them but did get detoured.

what we CAN'T do is waste this moment and just go back to "Eat til you get sick, THEM Medicate until you die".

You have more faith than I. I do agree with you and admire the initiative of government BUT I saw the attitude of the people and young people in the Welsh Valleys when cycling and healthier life style was being pushed. Short of becoming a police state and banning poor diets, making people exercise I think those that need to take up the initiative will not. I hope your positive outlook proves me wrong, THOMAS is my middle name and I have a reputation of living up to it.

 

[gennepher]

Whilst I've been sorting and clearing MILs the forum went mad, so many posts.

@gennepher Art gives so much, all those memories and a great piece of art from them.

I am humbled by my art technique inspiring you, your art work does the same for me. How art gets to each of us is wonderful, some it inspires, some it brings back memories, some I'm sure it confounds.

@geefull really like that first watercolour, brilliant, not sure about the second but admire any attempt at something new so brilliant.

@Alien Aspie I am opposite to you I can't hit that DELETE button and so I have lots of unfinished art, poems, music, photographs and as such life becomes very cluttered. On the bright side my kids are going to have a whale of a time sorting through my thoughts, ideas and observations when I eventually pop my clogs. Or perhaps they will just hit that delete button.

So after a crazy busy day and late finish I had quickly layered some colours down this morning before going to MILS then tonight quickly splashed some more colours on top, spraying the original with water first to let the darker colours of the second layer run with some control by tilting the paper. I have no idea where this is going other than it is based on yesterday's heathland sketch and as mentioned to @dunelm this Morning.
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Thanks @Muddy Cyclist

Actually I like your layers of colours as they stand! To me it is the finished painting...

 

[UserABC2021]

I am opposite to you I can't hit that DELETE button and so I have lots of unfinished art, poems, music, photographs and as such life becomes very cluttered. On the bright side my kids are going to have a whale of a time sorting through my thoughts, ideas and observations when I eventually pop my clogs. Or perhaps they will just hit that delete button.

I think that because I moved around so much in life, country to country etc. that I never learnt to accrue 'things' and I must have that same external discipline as an internal dialogue. Even I think I am odd sometimes

It's good that you have left stuff for your kids, hopefully, they will appreciate it.