Kehzafox @jeffnik@squid.cafe

I used to not tell anyone the stories behind my narrative art. Mostly I enjoyed other peoples' interpretations and I never told anyone they were "wrong". Most other folks' stories were better than my own.
As a conceptual leap from that, since I don't do a lot of non-biz work now, perhaps I'll just describe art that I'd make, and people can now imagine the whole thing for themselves.
I'll bet the theme and execution would be may better than what I can pull off!

Years ago I painted a life-size self-portrait wearing a suit and holding a duck. In the background are ancient Greek ruins. Oil stretched canvas.
My main motivation for painting this was "it was funny". Over the years, I think it has gotten funnier, though others may only grudgingly admit it.
It's part of why it survived the move, and except for the fact that it was only 10 cm too tall, it would have found pride of place at our new house.
For now, it'll keep me company in the basement office.

Do you ever feel that you've learned plenty of skills, but don't have a good way to tie them all together.
Or perhaps more to the point, you can't find other employment that is actually looking for that specific skill-set? Maybe it's an unrealistic expectation to find something like that.
If I had my druthers (and a clue) I'd try and figure out how to offer that myself, but that seems to be out of my wheelhouse, too.
I think I'd work best as a sponsored mad scientist.

The things I'll never understand.
Working on some code to wrangle L*a*b colour where the Luminance value should be between 0 (black) to 100 (white). The "a" and "b" are a range of 255 values.
My "a" and "b" values come out correct, but my "L" always returns the wrong number. Why?
Because the API returns the L range also as an amount between 0 and 255. But, but, but... it's only supposed to be 0 and 100.
But there it is. So I gotta perform math on each returned value. Bleah.
But WHHHHHYYY?

I have now invested so much forced time in determining if #Coreldraw is the correct tool to use for our work, it drives me to my wit's end.
Interestingly the study has forced me to look into new parts of the software, which actually shows Coreldraw is far more appropriate for our work than even I thought.
Plus, I can automate the heck out of it.
Folks championing the other software have now asked me to "neutralize" my report so at the very least we can use their preference as well.

"Dad, I saw a sunrise this morning!"
"You're pretty lucky."
The child pauses and looks disappointed.
"I still haven't seen a real unicorn, though."

After two years of being careful, the government with lack of any transparency removed all mask mandates. One week later my child has COVID. One more day after that, so do I.
I can't even begin to words.