Melbourne

Bloody PH bus timetables! Not going to make it into work before the heat. Razzum Frazzum.

I had to go back to a previous mass effect save game. Didn't gather enough resources. Bugger.

Just started watching Yellowstone. Not usually into this genre but it's intriguing so far.

Watched half of Poor Things. The camera work is stunning, the production design amazing. The story is trite. I quit half way through.

Then I watched American Fiction. I lolled when Thelonious observed that many stories are " they discovered masturbation"

I need to sand the nib of my charcoal pencil to get the angle more gradual, because as it is the tip narrows to a point a bit steeply and creates a slight curve. That's why marks were ending up lower than I wanted, because when I tried to hold the pencil vertically the curved side was easier to brush on the paper than the flatter side of the tip.

This happened because I didn't have a sandpaper block and used an emery board. The smaller size encourages me to use smaller movements and just quickly get the tip sharp rather than sweep it in larger arcs at a flatter angle for a gradual sharpening to a point. I can possibly fix it with the emery board but will have to be conscious of what I'm doing