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Monday 11/09/09

This is a daily journal, so every day despite how mundane, I will sit down and write about what happened.

The biggest thing would be that I had drawn my first guest comic for another artist. It was fun I must say to draw his characters as I draw my own.

I had to help the technician install a new color machine on five at work to replace a consistently jamming one.

On the way home I went to pick up a jar of pasta sauce at the King of Prussia Genuardi’s. The place was packed and the express lane was closed. All the other shoppers had full carts, I just had one jar. Then I noticed that the service desk was clear. I moved in that direction, but someone beat me there and proceeded to get a money order. There were two people at the service desk, one in an apron trying to figure out how to ring up a money order and another sans apron just standing there. After ten minutes (and now a long line behind me), the girl without the apron rolled her eyes, threw on her apron and asked if I needed help. She checked me out and I was on my merry way past the crowded checkouts.

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Journal Post 11/7-11/8

Well, here it goes, my first journal post on this journal. I would like to tell you about my weekend. I had a particularly fun and disappointing weekend. I was disappointed by the fact that a model I was supposed to photograph this weekend bailed on me for the second time. Not sure if I should schedule a third time with her or not. I also got a pretty nasty migraine on Saturday night.

As for the fun part. I watched some movies on Friday night while slowly sipping some rather tasty Irish Whiskey. The movies were Ghostbusters and M*A*S*H. On Saturday I went out to Phoenixville and started the day by taking pictures of the signaling and switching mechanisms along the railroad there. And then I began to walk. Before I knew it I had walked all the way to the railroad tunnel. The tunnel, Black Rock Tunnel is the oldest of its kind still in use in the US. I took some photos of it which I hope to add to Flickr sometime soon. After all of that I went into town for a late lunch back in town.

I went to the Steel City Coffee House and had a nice tasty Cafe Mocha and a roast beef wrap with pasta salad to eat. After eating I met the owner of Franco’s Italian Restaurant and chatted with him and another gentleman for a bit before searching the town for it’s Barber Shops. I also was sure to check out the brand new Gay Street Bridge and did some streaking light photography all along Bridge Street.

The next day (Sunday) was spent finishing the install of my model railroad signaling system. Also my wife (Lorin) and her mother returned home from DC. They brought Larry’s Cookies. Yum!

So that was my weekend.

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Hello world!

Recently I discovered an awesome website called The Art of Manliness. It has a bunch of great articles about things I have great interest in, such as bow ties, fedoras and my recent obsession with wanting to get a straight razor shave from a barber. Well they also have a great series of articles called Thirty days to a better man which I found fascinating. While this series of articles came out months ago, I decided to follow them this month in November. While today is technically day six, I looked ahead to see what was in store for me this weekend. And that was when I saw day eight, start a journal. In that article it suggested using a website to write your journal entries. I had been thinking of starting up a personal blog and a site to collect my random thoughts and hobbies on. I already have an art blog and two webcomics, but I wanted to do something a bit more personal as I consider those to be more professional. So today I join the masses in the world of blogging, except in the spirit of the article I read, I will call it Vinnie’s Journal.

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