I keep checking in every couple of weeks and seeing I have people following me and I get overwhelmed with that but also laziness but I will DEFINITELY come back here properly next week to tidy up a bit and get presentable.

whenever I see something mentioning Gen Z or Millennials - I have to check which one I am.
Which definitely makes me Gen X.

finally got some "insights" on Threads and I have 80% Taiwanese followers which is GOOD because there's just no point in spouting non-work nonsense there now.
So I'll do that here.

I just spilled water all over my keyboard, my phone, my imac, my mouse, my lightbox and my drawing tablet.
And all of it still works fine.
dried everything with tissues and a towel and turned 2 fans on.
All clean now.. Imagine if ALL THOSE THINGS broke... I'd give up and become an English teacher.

今天是國際貓日 !
Today is International Cat Day!

外面實在是太熱了，好想跳到海裡游泳啊啊啊啊
It's so hot outside I just want to float in the sea

今天的重要進度—安平古堡！
Small but important bit of Tainan Map, Fort Zeelandia/Anping Old Fort.

Finally deleting that rancid pit of the worst people in the world - Twitter/X (in a couple of days. For dramatic effect. And to give any actual work followers a chance to find out).

I was supposed to start colouring Tainan Map 3 days ago but I've been gradually adding about 300 scooters and 200 cars/trucks just because i don't want "empty streets".... Why do I do this to myself.
and yes I am adding some not-very-Taiwanese things just because i want to and I can. Spot the refs.

YEAR OF THE DRAGON SHALL SOON BE UPON US. Like a T-Rex on a scooter. Obvs.
I am a rabbit, and I survived my year.
This year we move into our own place and I finish a whole bunch of BIGJOBS that I didn't finish last year because I am a lazy potato.

Happy New Year! Taiwan 2024

We went to an exhibition in Yilan and there's an interactive sensor to show you your SOUL FISH. Wife's vs mine. I think mine looks sleek, cool and professional. She thinks mine looks like I can't even be bothered to be a fish.

我們明年很有可能會搬到林口，實際上應該是龜山，所以算是從新北搬到桃園。龜山這個地名實在是太棒了！我以後會很驕傲地跟別人說我住在Turtle Mountain龜山！

I've been slow to get this done (need to do other projects for income) but I worked out I need to do 1 A4 size bit of map a day to complete the line work before I go to the UK in Oct.
Some days I get 3 A4 done. Others I spend 9hrs trying to find photos of the top of a building...

me in my new hat

Our hotel has themed rooms and for some reason they gave me this one

I came all the way to kaohsiung this morning and my favourite event so far is eating lunch and watching this person's precariously hung washing get blown down onto the lower roof then slide onto the road.
I refuse to leave until its all gone.

Every new social media app I join (and there have been a few) is like turning up at a party alone.
I just stay really quiet for ages and work out how I am supposed to behave. Then I get drunk and whip my tits out anyway.