"Rattle bag" of thoughts:

1) A. In the United States, standard building codes demand that studs in walls are 16 inches on center.

B. When installing safety grab bars, in the bathroom (or anywhere else) it is recommended that both ends of the bar be screwed into a stud.

C. So why are grab bars that are multiples of 16 inches so rare? A quick Google search brought up a list of bars for sale... a couple were either 16 or 32 inches long... most were multiples of 9 or 12 inches.

2) You know you've become a grown-up when you wish someone would send you to the corner for a "time out."

3) LOL! B.S paragraph of the week (from the manual that came with my new refrigerator, yesterday)

(quote)
"Refrigerator noise has been reduced over the years. Due to this reduction, you may hear intermittent noises from your refrigerator that you did not notice from your old model."
(unquote)

Okay, I guess that makes some sense (if the fridge is no longer making a constant drone of white noise, I'm more likely to notice the bursts of mechanical sounds it makes as it works). But the expansion/contraction "popping" from inside the walls of my new cold box, that the manual hereby assures me is perfectly normal, sounds to me like a car backfiring, and I can hear it clear across the house (there it goes again)... Maybe when I get the thing filled up, tomorrow, that will a) help keep the temperature inside stable, and b) muffle the noise, a bit... right now, it's a big hollow, drum.

4) I have a migraine right now, and I can't actually remember if I remembered to swallow "Tylenol" with my coffee, a little over an hour ago... :-/

5) I have a fifth thing on my mind... But I don't think it'll really do much good to say it out loud, in this context, time or place..

today's na'art

My annual self-assessment (fuzzily... never exactly the same day each year, but always in August, since this began); drawing your portrait by hand captures your mood as well as your likeness (again, on the latter, fuzzily).

But one of these days, I'll go for the middle ground, and draw from a photo -- that way, I can experiment with different lighting and angle than the same pose in the same bathroom mirror, every year (and can go away to sharpen my pencil without having to wonder if I've changed my pose mid drawing -- epic Pencil! fail this year...)

Anyway:

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One interesting thing about the process of drawing this (interesting to me, anyway): my mind registered the shadows (and focused/bent light) cast by my glasses long before I "saw" the glasses themselves...

You know, I think I've hit almost all my arty goals, this month -- except I haven't written a geek pride song, yet, and I haven't done three-d art yet...