 hold on. It is Sunday morning. It's like 8.32 a.m. or something. Lighting is weird even with my lights on. It's a overcast day. Kind of looks like it's going to rain but you know I do live in Oregon so land of much water. Many bridges and no direct route to anywhere. Anyway and if you don't think that's true or I'm making fun. I am making fun but it is true. Just be the cat. I just heard the ring. So interesting. My computer appears as slowly but surely coming back into itself. I'm down from 144 files of information to two which I didn't want to delete. There were three. I didn't want to delete them. I'm getting error messages but I deleted what it will and then I'm going back and trying again and it deleted one. Cross your fingers. Yesterday for no apparent reason my car's alarm went off. It didn't appear anybody tried to break into the car. I didn't hit the alarm button. The keys were in the house in a drawer. It was going off for like five minutes or so. I heard it over the TV set and I was like what is that and then we figured out it was my car alarm. It doesn't want to delete one of them so I'm going to read that in a minute. But anyway yeah I so that was interesting but today we're letting all that go. Bob's cabinet so I think we're finally going to get installed today. At least the ones we have feet for because hello new age. He called you and said you didn't send me the feet for one of the cabinets. Can you please send me the feet? You said sure we'll send you the feet. You send him a box of screws. All right I'll be back. Unlock some things in the files to allow them to be deleted. Cross your fingers. We're down to the last two files. Then I need to do a bunch of updates because during the process we had to update all the way to Catalina which is the current operating system and for those of you that are not Apple users that's like one two three four operating systems in advance of the one I was using. So yeah it's a bit different so and apps and programs are going to have to be updated. I'll have to go through and see which ones will open and which ones won't but I don't have to do all of that today. So yeah anyway I kind of can't wait to turn my computer off which I might do this afternoon despite the fact that I need to format hard drives and like move things around and you know because things that you do sometimes with a new operating system are not the main hard drive external hard drives. I need to like move files around and arrange things so this doesn't happen again. I'm not going to necessarily do it today. I might just let it go and do it tomorrow and turn the computer off or at least turn it off for this afternoon and then turn it back on later today. I don't know but I think it needs to go off for a little while. All right oh my god my trash can's empty in the computer. Yay I'm so happy. Hold on I gotta tell them this. This time in like four days my computer is turning off and it's going to stay that way. I do need to reset the screensaver which I haven't done yet and I forgot to do before I got all excited and I'm turning the computer off but I made myself notes. I need to reset the screensaver and restore the defaults. I need to I need to take the two external drives I use for YouTube and move files around because the way they're formatted for the old operating system doesn't work with Catalina but my really big external hard drive has plenty of room on it so I'm going to move all of the YouTube files to the big hard drive that it's fine with. I'm going to format the two small ones. I'm going to set up the teeny tiny one for Time Machine so that we don't have this issue again and the other one will just be YouTube and it's off and it's going to stay that way probably for the day. I'm so happy yay now I can focus on other things. I'm definitely the obsessive type and I really have trouble getting past something that's bothering me until it's resolved and moving on to the next thing I can't just like let it go I just can't do I have I don't like go well so especially when not with computer things I mean you know so anyway yes I'm so happy I'm Bobby. Something else went right this week we got Fred's garage the cabinets are empty but just give us a week or so we'll fill them up we'll fill them up but don't sound like pretty it's got this cabinet it's nice right everything's bolted everything's bolted we have to do some work to the electrical outlets my dad's going to come back for that thankfully he's an electrician so you know that comes in handy that's because we have to drill holes we have to carve out where the electrical outlet is yeah so we need a deeper outlet so it will the plate will fit in front of the slat wall right here right here yeah so but we'll get that done but what we have done looks really good yeah yeah so we're happy plus my computer is fixed so you know it's all it's a good Sunday yeah so I think we're gonna take a break now I think for Fred it might be drink time yeah so we'll be hey guys good morning it is 8 34 am Monday August 31st don't get excited I looked it up um yeah I'm in the car I am needing to I don't think you can see it this time no I don't think you can but the back of my car is full of cardboard again not quite as high as the ceiling this time but it's pretty full so we're gonna go take the cardboard over to the disposal and if Dollar Tree is open I'm gonna stop at Dollar Tree on the way home I discovered this weekend when we were putting the cabinets together and um Bob got cut my dad got cut I got my finger pinched between a couple of cabinet pieces I have a blood big blood blister on the end of my finger that then popped last night so we have band-aids obviously um they're not all rainbow but I mean hello I'm gonna wear a band-aid um but we don't have lots of other first aid supplies in the kit we have like band-aids and anti-itch cream like cortisone cream not that not that kind of itching hello clean up your mind a little bit like cortisone like uh poison oak itchy cream but we don't have like first aid ointment we don't have alcohol wipes like so we need to get some of that and so I might um if Dollar Tree is open I'll stop over there and pick up some things for the first aid kit so those are my two things today and while that's working I'm working on the second to last chunk of things I need to do to fix my computer so when I upgraded the operating system then it didn't like the way two of the three external hard drives are formatted so I am in the process of copying files and then formatting the drive and then putting stuff back and like I'm going to do one of the drives then I'm going to do this week's writing and edit the vlog and get that loaded hopefully all of that goes smoothly and I can get it all done today and then tomorrow I'll work on the other drive I may not be doing a live this week and I may need to put out a little video or a notice saying that we're not doing a live this week because of my computer issues although it's being fixed I'm still not quite there yet so and when I do do a live um it it's probably not going to be tomorrow and it might just be a little test live so we'll see what happens anyway I'm going to get myself on the road and get this cardboard dropped off and I'll be back guys it's definitely been one of those weeks where my brain is overtaxed with computer issues and I just can't think straight to be honest with you but so so my point to that is that I don't remember what I've said not said but I do know I've told you about the computer issues because I just watched last week's vlog which is rendering um because I think we got all the computer issues fixed we were also able to confirm with Apple because they have a cool little feature I didn't know about that will scan your system for potential hardware issues it's not a hardware issue I was right they were right it's a software issue and other than showing you making mine which I don't have my coffee that way every day at FYI and if I um do have that cotton coffee I just have one cup um because of the extra syrup and things in it anyway um but yeah uh homemade white chocolate lavender mocha yummy um and anyway other than showing you how I make my coffee I don't think I've logged in today I'm still working on the rock in the blood blister this is today's band-aid yesterday I didn't take a picture of the band-aid but I had um a rainbow band-aid day before that was rainbow unicorn today's yellow balloons yellow with balloons um anyway you're gonna have to wear a band-aid you might as well wear a fun one right I um got so fun fact I don't know I know I've shared this before but I don't know if y'all have seen it recently this is my work notebook so it has business goals notes for different classes product development um vendor notes all kinds of stuff computer notes so um once I've gotten my computer fixed I made some notes about what I did and why I did it and some stuff that they sent me I printed and taped into here and I also um made a section for an upcoming class I'm not going to mention but it comes up next month um on the 8th there's a video on my youtube channel so watch for that um anyway I sat down and finally did the notes for it and put it in here and I got that all done this morning and then I'm going to work on black paper doodles this is what's already on the opposite page um and I'm doing all of that while I'm sitting in front of the computer moving files back around because now that everything's fixed I need to spread the files out a little bit because they're clogging up one of the external hard drives and um yeah I need it I need to spread it out so I have room on the drives and things make more sense so anyway what are you gonna do right all right that's it for the moment I am going to keep moving files around and listening to some music I've got Pandora playing and um make doing some drawings and get finally getting some art done it's been like a week that I've done anything more than daily drawing so I'm gonna work in my black paper doodle book and I'm going to also work in this I have a Strathmore toned tan sketchbook that I've been working in this one you've seen those pictures on social media so I'm going to be working in both of those today and yeah what are you up to I'd love to know put something in the comments below all right I'll be back it's Wednesday morning September 2nd I don't know what time it is um 9 39 am I've been up for a bit of course I've been on the computer put a mask on my face and took my time taking a shower it's going to be hot today so I've got the little fan up here blowing some cool in from the cool air in from the woods and and contemplating some things up here in the art room so when I first um realized I was moving from California um to Oregon and um setting up a new art space I really thought that I wanted to take four of these little mini clipboards and set up a sort of a easily changeable mood board somewhere in the art space the idea being that each one of these clipboards would hold sort of a picture or series of pictures um colors other things that are inspirational for me um up here somewhere in the art room and I could periodically change them when I'm no longer being inspired by them I'm kind of really I never put them up um but I'm kind of really wanting to do that now ideally I would do it here except that I really like the way this looks and turned out I did try like moving things and maybe putting them in the middle here I'm not like keen on that I love the way it looks so I'm just looking around the art room thinking what else do I have hanging up that could maybe be moved where I can do it I am thinking maybe some of this artwork here could be moved and they four clipboards could be right here that is a possibility so I think I'll be working on that today I'll probably film some of it for you all but we'll see um I also was inspired by one of the members over in the slow stitch Facebook group who made a little slow stitched bird's nest it's so cute um it's just adorable so now I'm thinking what about a slow stitched bull that would kind of looks like a bird nest so yeah I'm kind of obsessed with that now so that's where my brains out today at today what about you all right I'm gonna get to it I'll be back that was on the wall I didn't want to take any of it down permanently I just rearranged it a little bit next thing we need to do is pull a couple of new positive affirmation cards I haven't replaced this one in a while and I found the little holder for a card on my computer desk in the in the midst of all the computer chaos that I was having I found the little holder that had been missing for a little bit so I'm going to pull two cards today's cards are miraculous and peaceful two very good cards so I'm going to put those out and onto the knife now I need to clean this um it smells really gross I'm not sure how long these brushes have been sitting in the water at least two weeks but I bet you it's been longer than that yeah so I think I'll do this before I eat lunch yeah instead of after just in case all right I'll be back we're gonna go for another lunch time walk it's supposed to be in the low 90s today usually here where we live we get to peak temperature at around four o'clock or so so I've got a little bit yet it's only about 82 outside right now so I've got a mask just in case I'm gonna turn on some music I'll take some pictures where I can and we'll go get some steps in Bob is working what's Thursday I'm out for an early morning walk it's supposed to be really hot for the next week or so Friday September 4th don't get excited you should know my response to that already I'm looking at the computer hello I'm just catching up on social media and the Facebook art groups and all of that jazz stuff that happened overnight welcoming new members and all of all of that stuff the things for the things I have of course projects on the table I need to work on but Bob is off starting today through all through next week he's taken some time off he's got lots of pto of course because of the pandemic we can't go anywhere we were planning on doing some traveling but you know that's not happening anyway we're gonna use um sorry that's a funny social media name anyway um we are going to use the time to put his garage I almost said art room um his garage back together and um all of that stuff some projects around the house probably a couple of day trips you know car rides um where we don't really get out of the car much um and we just do sort of a safe day trip avoid crowds but yeah um first we're going to go to the grocery store and we need to mail something at the post office so we're going to do that today I'm getting this nice really big wrinkle right across the center of my forehead anyway we're going to do all that today first and um it's going to be really hot for the next week so we will probably be spending a lot of time in air conditioning whether in the car or in the house uh yeah and we if we get in walks and it'll probably be early morning walks when it before gets really blasting outside so anyway we're gonna go get all that done I'll bring you with us where I can and I will be back morning everybody it's Saturday morning September 5th I think I think it's the 5th um oh and I don't think it's morning I think it's just afternoon I take that back I think it's like 12 20 or something anyway we're going to head out for a minute I'm just checking out my computer really quick okay it took three apple technicians and a couple of hours but we figured out what the problem was with my mail app again just a software issue it's not a hardware issue but it's all fixed and we gotta went to the hardware store and I picked up a pot for my new plants that Sarah gave me Sarah Ruffner our favorite realtor thank you Sarah and um got that repotted water the house plants we got sandwiches from Jersey Mike's while we were out chicken bacon ranch love it holy cow I'm full now I am not gonna want dinner boy got some stuff from I think teespring some samples so we're gonna take those back in the house and open them up and see what's up okay so I was right samples from teespring so we got some masks so this is one and then we have this one this is gonna be fun one-handed there is a little like paper tag I would cut that off read it and see what's on it and then cut it off but here's the other one here's the last one these are all available in my teespring shop and that's in the video description and if you can't find it in every video description is my link tree list of links click on the link tree link with my name on it and you'll find a list of links where I'm at including teespring but anyway yeah three new masks designs available right now and these are made really nicely I only did the three because they were the three designs I have currently in the shop that I thought suited the mask best without distorting the artwork so as my daughter would say anyway it's all good I'll take you guys up in the art room checking to see if I remember to turn that off looks like I did and do you see that yeah is anybody else having issues uh what I'm affectionately calling corona brain I mean I'm not the most I don't know how to word it see I am I'm generally speaking a bit forgetful I mean you know I'm not young anymore and I'm usually distracted if you read um conversations with my muse over in a life of art and self-expression you understand that conversation um but with corona and stress that surrounds that and the current life in a world situation I'm extra forgetful um during the process with my computer which seems to be all fixed now every now and then I run into an app that's like a problem today it was the mail app and the messaging app got it did get unfixed but updating to Catalina operating system I was running El Capitan and for those who are windows computer users it's got like going from windows 7 to windows 10 and you know most of the apps are okay but some of them don't work well and so I have to call and get help to fix it every time I find one a new one that's broken so anyway in that process I had to switch to the smaller keyboard which comes with the apple because they use a non-apple keyboard generally but it doesn't when you're having issues at the computer you don't need to mess with the keyboard so you know it did garner me more space on the keyboard stand to hold my notes and reminders and glasses and I'm actually kind of liking that so I might leave it that way for a while I usually use a keyboard with a 10 key um we'll see how it goes I might I might stick with this one for a bit anyway um it's been an interesting week right holy moly all the weeks have been interesting since COVID started um but I'm working on a lot of projects I have a lot of different projects going of course at the same time I'm going to be filming a few commitment videos for September that I need to do and I'm working on one two three four five six slow stitch projects projects like at the same time there's a sneak peek um I also have some watercoloring I want to do and I found my old graphite pencil drawing kit from when I used to work at Michael's and the other day when I was going through some stuff and I'm toying with the idea of pulling that out and every day for like a month using it in a sketchbook and filling up the sketchbook and at the end of the month deciding if there's any of it all of it part of it I want to keep and if any of it all of it part of it needs to go away I haven't literally haven't opened it years I haven't taught Michael's in three years four years I've lost track now but yeah so anyway it's been interesting but I hope that um it's been a good one it's been interesting but it hasn't been horrible and um you know this is kind of maybe the best we can hope for at the moment but I'm good with it I hope you're having a good safe fun creative time if you have any questions comments or concerns leave them down below if there's any specific content you'd like to see let me know I do create a lot of stuff I don't film at all for YouTube but if you'd like me to do something particular on camera I can do that and um yeah have a stay safe stay creative stay healthy check out the video description for ways to support the free content here and over in the Facebook art groups there's lots of different ways and there's a bunch of links in the video description always one of them says link tree and then my name if you click on that you're going to find all the places I am on the internet now I'm in the process of rebranding so there's fewer places than I used to be but those places that we do have are better than ever I think so watch out for a few changes if you have any questions about something you can't find let me know and yeah it's going to be fun if you have a favorite creative here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups they probably have a way that you can support them too so I'd recommend checking it out and if you can't figure out what that way is ask them and uh yeah let's spread the love and show our support remember to smile at those essential workers they're getting a hard time and um let's thank them for their service because you know without them where would we all be all right all right that's it for today go out and have a great day everybody do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you next week bye guys