An hermetic switch is a switch sealed in an airtight container. Hermetic Switch is a very successful company in Oklahoma. They make switches small enough for a pacemaker and advanced enough for top tier military aircraft. But we are talking about an “Hermitic” switch.

I spend most of my day going around trying to smile and fit in with people that I really have nothing in common with other than our work. Don’t get me wrong. Many of the people I work with have become dear friends during my tenure. But when I get home, I begin to shut down. I have a little office that used to be a laundry room where I go and play on my computer or draw or whatever. It’s cramped and cluttered and desperately needs cleaning. Maybe I’ll do that someday, but not today. This is where I go and hide away from the rest of the world. My friends and family continuously want to “do” something when I really just want to escape everything. I think I could do very well under some forgotten bridge, charging toll to whomever happens to wander over it. I wonder if that’s how Ted Kaczinski felt.

Maybe I should get out more…

Have you ever noticed how much of our lives are on lists? Grocery lists, to-do lists (honey-do lists), wish lists, things to do before I die lists…

I have always told my children that sometimes you can’t do the things you want to do because you’re busy doing the things you have to do.

My list of want-to’s is much shorter than my list of have-to’s. Shouldn’t I do that list first and get it out of the way?

So today at (snicker) “work” (/snicker) I decided I would play around with a little figure drawing. It’s not exactly what you think. The nude above was an intro piece I did for an online figure drawing class I signed up for over at Drawspace. It was supposed to demonstrate my beginning skill level for a comparison at the end of the class. This was supposed to be a six week class. At the start of the third week, the instructor took ill and wasn’t able to complete a lesson for us. Today, at the start of the fourth week, the lesson came with the message that this would be the last in the series. The drawing I did today demonstrates that I have not learned what I needed to consider myself skilled at figure drawing.