Like my wallet had a drain

Man, can I spend money! Took $60 out of my account this morning, and by the evening it was almost all gone and I had to take out more for grocery shopping. Let’s see:

• Chinese food (for breakfast, while doing laundry)
• A tube of indigo watercolor (Winsor & Newton, since M. Graham doesn’t make an indigo; Winsor & Newton is fucking expensive, so I got a teeny 5ml tube)
• A couple of books at The Strand: Techniques of the World’s Great Painters, which has me thinking a lot about glazes, and John McPhee’s Irons in the Fire, because it’s a John McPhee book and it was just five bucks
• A venti steamed cider at Starbucks
• Some comics at Forbidden Planet: Fight for Tomorrow #1 and Happy Endings, an anthology paperback from Dark Horse
• Twenty dollars worth of groceries (chicken fillets, turkey patties, grapes, other stuff)

So now I’m experimenting with glazes and skin tones in acrylic. I’m starting with a brown underpainting, ’cause DaVinci used to. I’ve discovered that burnt sienna with some titanium white in it is a good part of the way to a tanned fleshtone, so I’m using that for a ground.

Destroy the Software!

It turns out that I must immediately destroy the Software, for is removed from here because it contains a virus. Or so some New Zealander named Heather is telling my via email. Who knew? I’m reminded of that guy from the “High Society” story arc of Cerebus who kept trying to sell the idea of indoor plumbing in broken language to people who thought he was nuts. “Away the sewage! Fifty percent guaranteed smell!”

This has something to do with the Klez worm, one of those things I haven’t been paying attention to because I’m a Mac user who doesn’t use a Microsoft email client. I used to use Eudora, but switched over to SweetMail last year when Eudora kept crashing. Away the software!

Tonight's Buffy

Well, that answers that question!

Another gorgeous neighborhood

Went out browsing for apartment listings today. I remembered that I saw a lot of great places on that open studios day, so I wandered up Underhill Avenue, past where it merges with Washington, eventually winding up near Pratt and Washington Park. Beautiful neighborhood, almost as nice as Park Slope. Probably priced way out of our league, but I did see an intriguing ad for a place with two “huge” bedrooms and two “huge” living rooms, no price given, but I’ll try calling tomorrow.

CORRECTION: Now that I’ve dug the various scraps of paper out of my pocket (there was another possible apartment, and a possible illustration job lead), I see that there was indeed a price given for the apartment, and it’s within our range. Now I just have to find out if the place is still available, and make an appointment to see it.

UPDATE: Taken already. Damn.