PMD Arcade Cabinet: A Peak into the PMD Monkeyverse
Now that it's been a month or so since I finally finished and delivered this project to my brother, I figure it's time to take a closer look at it for those that wish to indulge my obsessive tendency for details. To recap, sometime around Thanksgiving 2024, my younger brother told me he, as part of his renewed interest in retro games, purchased a table top arcade cabinet kit that he planned to install the buttons and an old laptop and monitor or something to make an all in one old school gaming machine. He asked if I wanted
Happy Mother’s Day 2025!
Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mothers out there, especially my own mother and my wife! The dragon kids are another year older for my annual Mother's Day card for my wife. Over the last few years I've been forced to start thinking about what I'm going to do for these as the kids get even older (how dare they) and eventually "leave the nest". So far, I've tried to make the theme for each card a reference either to a specific thing we did as a family (a place we went, an adventure we went on) or
It’s About Flippin’ Time
Well, only four and a half months late, but I'm finally done with Inktober 52 2024. It's been a long slog. I was actually staying current with the prompts up until October, when the "regular" Inktober took over. Right after that I had to launch into the standard end of the year/holiday projects and obligations. I tried to catch up despite that, but failed. Then I took on that arcade cabinet project for my brother (if you follow me on social media you've seen the progress of that), which I really got carried away with (big surprise), starting in
INKTOBER 2024 WRAP UP
Only a full month (plus) late and down a few dozen pens (not really, but I killed quite a few this year), I'm finally done with Inktober 2024. I'm always behind schedule, because that's how life is and I have this habit of noodling and obsessing over details. In general, though, I do kind of feel like I work faster, but because of that, I think I plan more complicated pieces. This year felt like I had a lot more interruptions in the studio, which I think predominantly came from my recovery process from thumb surgery (I won't completely
LEE’S DRAGONS: SNAIL DRAGON
It's September, so you know what that means! Well, okay, maybe you're new here (and if you are, welcome and thank you! I hope you stick around). My super awesome, supportive (and patient) wife loves dragons. She works in IT, and thus spends a great deal of time stuck in front of a computer monitor. Years ago I had the brilliant idea to start drawing dragons for her birthday that she can use as her wallpaper on her monitor, and an annual tradition was born. The general idea that has developed over the years I will eventually (I hope)
American Ninja Warrior 2025: Change on the Horizon
I haven't given up yet. With just a few days to spare, I continued my streak of entering the American Ninja Warrior contest, but I did it with mixed feelings. Change is an inevitable fact of life, a contest like American Ninja Warrior (ANW) is not immune. Fellow long-time fans of the show have seen the American version of the contest evolve over the last 17 seasons. Initially, a single competitor won a chance to compete on the original Japanese show, Sasuke. As the popularity of Sasuke and the ANW contest grew, NBC eventually launched their own
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