The 11th One 4/23/24

If you read these please start from the first day or not whatever-it's your life.

I'm a day late on this blog because yesterday I was extremely sick. It must have been a 24 hour stomach bug or something. I hate being sick, who doesn't though? But as I get older when I get sick it's a lot different than when I was a young whippersnapper. When I was younger and got sick I was just sick, I recovered and that was it. Now the main difference is if I get sick I'm thinking “is this it? Is this how I meet my demise?” Yesterday morning Im rolling around in bed thinking I was going to die. And then I think of all the stories I've heard on television of how someone has died as the result of some stupid little thing they should have gone to the hospital for and all the while life on the outside with my family and work are going on without me but then I put on Netflix and try to distract myself. That's it for today. Sorry so short, I have a lot of work to catch up on. Im going to label this post "My first sick Day' then I can keep track this entire year how many sick days Ill have to take. Last year I think it was one.

The Artwork-This is one of the few human forms I attempted to draw. I think she came out ok. Its the Avenger-The Scarlet Witch! My son really liked her so I drew this for him. I really like the TV series Wand Vision she was in. There's some good and ok parts of this drawing. I like the gloves with the fingers, her mask and her hair. I'm not thrilled with the proportions of her face to the size of her body. I think the head should have been a little smaller. My favorite feature of this is the way her right foot is cocked back a little bit to give the illusion she is floating. I wish she had more colors but her name is literally the “scarlet” witch so at l;eat it stays true to the name.

Day seven of the treadmill-I'm up to 12 minutes. I was so proud that I was up to 12 minutes (it's beginning to get a little more challenging) but then my wife-who has not stepped on this thinking since I started a week ago-gets on and does 25 minutes like its nothing. Then to add insult to injury my 10 year old son hopped on and did 19 minutes straight without breaking a sweat. I'm happy for them but I'm concentrating on getting to where I can do 60 minutes a night.