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Chill
Temp drop here in A Town. It may even become fall weather.

Wispy high cirrus clouds above as I back stroked this morning.

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Current Music: WFMU - Music to Spazz By with Dave the Spazz

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Fall arrives
Cold front came through yesterday morning bringing a strong thunderstorm with pouring rain. Roof over utility room leaked once again. Seems like wind from the north east blows water up under an eve. Roofer twice before tried to patch it in past years. Left phone message on both of his numbers I have. Hope he is still in town to honor ten year warranty on labor.

Temperature dropped too. House feels a bit chilly at 80ºF. And outside temperature of 72º feels downright cold. Outdoor pool at school also felt colder last night.

Barton also flooded and closed once again. Glad I got to swim there on Monday. Water was finally clearing. Heavy rains bring silt into the pool. Anyway wasn't going to able to swim there this weekend because ACL will be taking all of the parking for miles around. Won't be attending that either. It is usually to hot to sit in the open sun all day. This year it will be the coolest it's been for the festival in years. No Bob Dylan live for me.

Will have a four day weekend for studio work coming up.

For now it is up to school for a morning swim, some office work and a weekly meeting with new grad RC.

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Current Music: WFMU - ESG - Erase You (Puppy To Your Side)

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Squalls
I had to look up the word. Looks like heavy rain and 20+ mph winds forecast for the first afternoon and evening of Nohegan as a result of the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin streaks across Central Texas. Yikes!

Well I now have good rain gutters and this will surely raise Onion creek at McKinney Falls State Park and really getting the falls to flow. Not sure what this will mean for swimming.

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Current Music: WFMU - "Small Assassin" by Bob Jacobs

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Dog Daze
It finally stopped raining daily and got hot. Yes.

Working at school yesterday and today.

Syllabus, schedule, foundation faculty and TAs, ordering things, talking.

Then swimming at the aquatic lap pool. I hear Barton is open. Will be heading there this weekend.

Back to Studio Thursday and Friday and weekend.

That's it short and quick.

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Current Music: WFMU - "Khor Tan Gor Mee Hua Jai (The Night Chicago Died)" by Painoj

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sog
I'm way tired of the "summer" weather here in Austin this year. It's been raining once or twice a day for the last couple of weeks. Barton was open for 3 hours on Thursday before it flooded again. Aquatic pool gets closed in bad weather.

Getting cabin fever. Lack of exercise after walkathon in Italy. So today after the morning rain and breakfast I took a walk in the steamy neighborhood with one eye on the thunderheads and dark clouds in the distance. Then off to CM for food supplies. Starts raining as I drive. Get soaked running in. Buy stuff. Still raining. Buy coffee and sit in a shaded area. Pouring rain, two or three inches for almost an hour in that part of town.

Get home. Standing water out back. I hear a motor running. I think my neighbor behind me has a pump going.

Enough already.

Rain is... )

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Current Music: WFMU - "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong" by Rainy Day

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Rain, rain, more than an half an inch the last half hour. Temp dropped from 8fºƒ to 70 in that same half hour.

And I need to get on the road soon. Yuck

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Current Music: WFMU - "Numinosity" by Eyes Like Saucers

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hot again
Hanging out alone after so much Italian community.

Weather in Austin changed from rainy to normal summer hot. Deep watered young trees.

Finished reading assigned half of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Applied oil ground to three stretched linen pre paintings. Moved painting "finished" before summer onto the wall and moved a vertical on onto the easel.

Continued drawing on front deck in the shade.

Started doing some school business.

To Jerry's in the morning and then a swim.

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Current Music: WFMU - "Aint it Strange" by Dr Dog

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Orvieto
Off to Orvieto this morning to visit some of my favorite paintings by Luca Signorelli and the duomo they are in.

Steve and Sharon Daly dropped by CF for a visit this week and we are expecting the Hale's this weekend.

We had our mid term crit of drawing students first project. Hope JBJ can get photos so I can put some images up. There was was a lot of very good work. Now off to final project and Rome all next week. Time flies.

More rain daily here with more forecast for Orvieto today.

Back to ping pong last night. Ankle is healing slowly but surely. Still using an ankle brace but colorful bruising has faded.

No swimming yet. Pool not open. The weather is too cool and damp.

Along with sketching architecture on our outings I've started a small book of imaginary towers in planning to make some paintings of the same. So yesterday when searching for images leading to abstraction I ran into this painting by Mondrian. Yes! Coincidenza bella!

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Current Music: WFMU - Cavemen Theory On The Road

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Still winter
Cold and overcast. But high 80s coming right back. Plants are confused about the record cold here over the weekend.

Working in studio, finally getting back to a painting started awhile ago. Without a digital camera now I can't show you the image.

Almost had new microwave installed, must wait another week when I can be home for the day. Home warranty is paying for it but it's no fun not having one for two months.

Easter brunch at Rachel and Chirs's house, then tried with Dan to deliver 7x7s to Okay Mountain. So everything else was closed, why would we think they'd be open.

It's been nice having these last days free of school work. Back to it tomorrow.

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Current Music: WFMU - "Silently" by Blonde Redhead

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Just when you thought
Have been busy, what else, but have four free days over this easter weekend.

and what happens, it's almost freezing here today. Temp inching up from 35ºF this afternoon. Rain too. I thought the furnace was not going to fire up until next winter. I'd already had the AC kick in once or twice because of high temps and humidity lately.

Working in my chilly studio trying to finish a 5x7" painting for ArtHouse benefit.

Allergies hit me hard this past week. Haven't been swimming all week and now the rain and cold. Maybe tomorrow after a brunch and getting completed 7X7's to Okay Mountain.

Watched Castaway last night on satellite. Haven't rented a movie lately with daylight savings added hour for reading outside on front porch.

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Current Music: WFMU - Fool's Paradise with Rex

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***Tumblin’ Dice***

Women think I’m tasty, but they’re always tryin’ to waste me
And make me burn the candle right down,
But baby, baby, I don’t need no jewels in my crown.

’cause all you women is low down gamblers,
Cheatin’ like I don’t know how,
But baby, baby, there’s fever in the funk house now.
This low down bitchin’ got my poor feet a itchin’,
You know you know the duece is still wild.

Baby, I can’t stay, you got to roll me
And call me the tumblin’ dice.

Always in a hurry, I never stop to worry,
Don’t you see the time flashin’ by.
Honey, got no money,
I’m all sixes and sevens and nines.
Say now, baby, I’m the rank outsider,
You can be my partner in crime.

But baby, I can’t stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin’,
Roll me and call me the tumblin’ dice.

Oh, my, my, my, I’m the lone crap shooter,
Playin’ the field ev’ry night.

Baby, can’t stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin’ dice, (call me the tumblin’)
Got to roll me, got to roll me, got to roll me (oh yeah)
Got to roll me. got to roll me, got to roll me ( keep on rolling, keep on rolling)
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