Bow Tie Tuesday

[fflo]

We haven't seen this one in a while.  (I haven't seen that denim shirt in a while, either.  Hmmm.)

Dunno what to say, on this neck-tying in-checking day.   It's not that far from tomorrow; I just now remembered I hadn't posted my tie yet.

I was talking earlier today about being back in a puzzlement, and wanting and not wanting simultaneously.  But then I got back to work and buried myself in that, and then tonight I did another color on my giant German paint-by-numbers canvas, started last night on a whim.  It has 36 colors.  I know, I know, paint-by-numbers, SO not real art.  But that's not (a) the point or (b) all there is to it.  Sometimes a paint-by-numbers in a thrift store is a wonder.  Once I did one of the space shuttle and painting advertising logos on it, thinking that was funny cuz that's a place advertising didn't go, hahaha look advertising everywhere.  Kitsch, Americana, or Deutschiana in this case?, ephemera, something that's not the computer, physically smooshing goop onto little coded bits on a piece of cardboard, knowing it will be sort of a picture but not quite like what's on the box, ...  I dunno.  Surely there's an internet appreciation for paint-by-numbers.  But I'm not going to look for it until at least after I have my pure experience of this one.

I'm still taking mega-antibiotics.  Maybe halfway through the course.  Wonder whether it really did save my life.

Do you think of a fever as calling for contacting a medical professional?  I didn't.  Now I'm told that's a reason to get in touch.  I'm surprised that that would be enough to prompt at least some ask-a-nurse call.  But I don't particularly trust my instincts on this sort of thing, despite having paid attention fairly well, when my wits are about me, to what I have come across medically as a person and an acquaintance of other people.

Maybe I'll hit the hay early.  I kinda feel like it.  Goodnight.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The guy who invented paint by numbers died just the other day. The critics were saying what an important cultural force he was and how he anticipated Warhol and all sorts. Apparently his first kit was a cubist still life and the money men told him that would never do and what the public wanted was country cottages and appaloosa stallions...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks. I looked him up.

Too bad he didn't stick to his guns on the more outré stuff.

[pane-carasau079.livejournal.com]

The tie has a Big Bang Theory feel - which is perfect as they are on their last season.

[maju01.livejournal.com]

I had a fever of about 101ºF for 4 days in January this year and I didn't bother to get medical help, although I might have if I hadn't started feeling marginally better by day 5.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I think maybe after several days like that, I might be thinking of intervention. This whole idea that having a fever probably means some infection a body might need help with--- it's news to me.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Atomic tie!

It's good to know you are cool enough to do things as uncool as paint by numbers. Considering how much of my life I've devoted to it's-not-art hobbies. Sometimes a body's gotta make stuff, and what amuses a body ain't alwasy what supposedly is supposed to amuse a body.

Hi, my name is Peter, and I make little toy rocketships, and draw little pictures of rocketships.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

[all]: Hello, Peter.