I decided to keep posting until they actually pull the plug on this ftp account.

Here's a detail of another background for the iPhone app.

Okay, last post. Here's an image of the iPhone/iPad children's book I'm currently illustrating/animating:

Just got a notice from Google that their eBlogger service will discontinue ftp service. What that means is that I will no longer be able to redirect my blog onto my website here. I suspect that means that when others click on my homepage link to the blog, they will receive a blank page, or just the frame of the page. In any case, I may as well close this blog and figure a way to get a blog set up on my site. In the mean time, adios to the three people who even bothered checking in with any frequency. In the meantime, I'll still post nonsense on my Facebook page if you want to keep up with the life-and-times of yours truly. God bless y'all.

 Often, while I'm working at the drawing-board, my 8 year-old is on my computer writing stories (I can't type. She can type 30 wpm or so). Since I eventually require use of my computer, I have to cut her time short, which naturally frustrates her. So my wife picked up a used typewriter for four-bucks at a thrift-store, and my daughter's been on it at every opportunity. It's electric, and not the kind of type-writer on which I grew up -- the one with the carriage that moves to the left, dings, and has to be shifted back to the right. Nevertheless, it's giving her an experience that most kids her age will never have, i.e., typing on a real typewriter and not having a backspace, and undo button, or a spell-check function to get things right. This will definitely force her to pay attention to getting things right the first time. Although it may seem a bit archaic, there's something to be said for low-tech.