Day #311 - Washed up

After playing basketball tonight (for the last time on thursdays) I came home, had a shower, ate dinner, played a little PS3 and then decided what to draw.

Vic was watching American Idol and Hulk Hogan was on it, so I thought I'd draw a washed up wrestler, it started as Hulk then got Rick Flair in it and eventually went with a little Randy Macho Man Savage, now it looks like none of them.

Oh well, I think I made him look a little like a bulldog too?

Tired now, going to bed.

Day #310 - interrupted

Tonight I was drawing a sort of mecha power suit but about half way through Mika woke up and refused to go back to bed, she was having bad dreams so the only place that she'd settle was on the lounge watching Under Siege, so when I turned the TV off she threw a tanty again, eventually she went to sleep and my drawing was left incomplete.

Day #309 - Judge Death

I have been battling some nasty headaches lately and today was no exception, I could barely keep my eyes open and the throb throb throb seems to never leave me.

Unfortunately I think the only permanent fix for headaches is death and I'm not quite ready for that yet, well hopefully I'll be able to see my kids into their mid to late 20s at the least.

It got me thinking about 3 things to draw, either a gargoyle, Skeletor or Judge Death.

I settled on Judge Death, I think I'll probably draw the other two sometime in these last 56.

Day #308 - no longer the Mermaids!

tonight was the semi final for basketball and although we lost we played hard and gave it our best shot.

I was proud to call myself a Marauder and am extremely thankful for being asked to be part of this team.

First season together and we finished 3rd! what an amazing result, considering we have never played together before our second season will only get better!

Thanks guys, hold your heads high!

For we are the Marauders!!!

Day #307 - a lazy entry

Today whilst watching the formula 1 with the kids we had a little drawing time to keep them from going mental, Hawk picked the picture we'd draw and all three of us would draw it.

So I doodled this out whilst watching about 15 laps, mostly during ad breaks.

Mika scribbled through about 4 pages and Hawk decided to draw his car with 6 wheels then filled the rest of the page with shapes, he blew me away with one of the shapes though, a 5 pointed star in proportion! I know a lot of adults that couldn't draw one of those, hell I struggle and have to visualise the lines crossing over, I imagine a star fleet insignia with an upside down obtuse triangle through the middle.

Oh, i just figured it out, my thinking isn't exactly normal so his brain is like mine concentrated.

He also drew a cool little face with "Psycho Stick" eyes.

Anyway, after dragging my arse around the zoo yesterday and then around Woolies today I think I'll just count this one as today's doodle even though it's crap.

Day #306 - Giraffe

today we went to the Zoo, it wasn't as sad as the last two times, in fact the animals didn't look upset at all oh, except for the Snow Leopard.

I asked Mika what she wanted to see when we got there and the first thing that she said that she wanted to see was the Giraffe, it was raining and the Giraffes were hiding away from the rain but still in plain view. Mix thought the funniest thing was that one of the Giraffes was licking the wall with his big blue tongue.

Later in the arvo she tripped over and grazed her chin which made her sad and sore all night so I thought I'd draw a picture of the Giraffe with his big tongue out to try to get that wicked little laugh out of her in the morning and return some happiness to beautiful little angel.

I hope she likes it.

Day #305 - Keenlyside you lose!

Today Fluey and I went for our morning coffee (cheeky fookas coffee break minus Martin) to the home of the "velvety goodness".

You see we love our coffee but not that tasteless cheap crap so it's nigh impossible to find a good coffee place in decent proximity to where you work, well, when I work in Parramatta it is actually impossible as the Campos coffee place closed. And when you do find a good place then you become as loyal as crack addict to a crack dealer.

after some years I eventually (thanks to Gino) stumbled upon the Lobby, which is in the lobby of the Telstra building, they don't make the world's greatest coffee but we found that the consistency is always good, i.e. you never walk away disappointed and the taste is better than most other places around.

Then one day an article in SMH was asking people where the best coffee in Sydney was, we knew it wasn't around us as we'd already found the best place. A large percentage of the votes went to a place called Mecca.

Intrigued as much as Charlie Sheen at a porn star convention (or a mirror shop) I decided to look up where the "Mecca" existed.

To our amazement it was 1 block away on King st!

So that Friday we decided to go.

After waiting in line for about 10 minutes and then another 15 for the coffee we were getting the feeling that this coffee was something special. Not to mention "Dr Cameron" taking the orders making the whole wait not so bad.

Once we had the coffee in our mitts we decided to give it a try.....

It was like drinking velvet! I'd never experienced a coffee this good, we were feeling as Lindsay Lohan would having discovered Pablo Escobar's personal stash.

As it takes so long to get a coffee from there we decided that it is only warranted on special occasions unfortunately and unfortunately for Martin today was one of those special occasions.

I'd love to tell him that it tasted terrible but that would just be a lie and I hate liars.