The other day i sat down to do some sketching. And instead of grabbing a pencil and eraser i grabbed my laptop. I've been using google sketch up. I'm in the process of taking an existing detached garage and transforming it into a studio apartment. or at least thats the plan. sketch up is this amazing (and amazingly free) tool that allows you to draw and render in 3D. its really user friendly and the renderings are nice. Though I've been feeling this weird tension lately. a push and pull between wanting to hand draw something or do it up on the computer. using the computer seems to be the way things are going. but i think people will always appreciate a nice hand drawn sketch.

I recently chatted with an older couple at the coffee shop about their recent trip to Port Angeles, Washington. I've only passed through there once on my way to Victoria, British Columbia via a ferry but what little I did see looked nice. The coupled mentioned that tourism has increased a lot recently thanks to the Twilight series. So much so that people are heading up into the nearby Olympia National Park to hunt vampires.

So my question is:

Do you need a license to hunt vampires?

the big chill...

a while back i met someone who when i asked how they where said they had been suffering from a chill for the last several years. thats right, they said years. at the time i didn't quite understand what they meant. i thought a chill typically lasted only minutes to maybe a couple hours. but over several years? not likely.

but the last day of august turned out to be a cold and wet bike ride home from downtown. much like the cold and wet bike rides i braved during the winter months. it was then that i began to understand what that guy was suffering from. with the extra long winter this year, plus fishing in alaska, i just can't seem to thaw out. we've had a few warm days but i could really use a few more. i need to shake this chill.