Gary S. Kearney

My Friend Casey makes some really interesting jewelry. Go on over to her website and take a look. Casey Sheppard Designs They would make some great gifts for that special person in your life.

Many years ago when I was a younger and better man I used to occupy a certain amount of my time doodling pen and ink drawings on bar napkins at Barrymore's a local drinking establishment here in Lincoln. I never thought much of it, but certain other people seemed to like them, so I just gave them away to anyone who expressed an interest. Eventually someone went to the trouble of getting one professionally framed, and I was amazed at how good it actually looked. I even recieved a compliment from one of the art instructors an the University of Nebraska.

One year for Christmas I even found a bunch of four inch square frames of the perfect size, so I made and framed drawings for all my friends and family.

Friends and relatives who got one of the drawings have now dispersed to all corners of the globe, so perhaps the drawings have as well. As long as people enjoy them I'm happy.

The drawings usually take about fifteen to twenty minutes to complete drawing the inevitable comparisons the PBS artist Bob Ross. I wish I actually had his talent if not his hairdo. It's not something that I try to point out to people.

If you want to take a closer look, I've posted some of the pictures up here on the site. My Napkin Art Album

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

I'll be home with friends and family as usual, so don't expect too much activity here.

See you in 2007!

Well, it finally looks like spring is here to stay, and it looks like I've been suffering from a lot of spring fever or something. I haven't updated much here execept the crosswords for awhile.

I'll try to a little better in the future. I should have more pictures, since I've just ordered a new digital camera and a lot of accessories.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

It's freezing here in Lincoln, so I need a little love to warm me up. I hope every one of you spends some quality time with the love of your life and has a happy holiday. --gk

Yay! I won NaNoWriMo. I put together more than the required number of words. I had to scrimp a little on plot development though, so some of my characters ran away with the plot and wouldn't give it back. (You know who you are, so don't try to hide.) I did like some of the stuff, and I really liked the little Flash display on the site that lets you see your powerful prose more or less the way it would look in an actual book. My writing seemed to look a lot better that way than it does on the computer screen, so maybe I'm not so far distant from being an accomplished author as I had assumed. I'm certainly good at stringing together sequences of words starting with similar sounds.

This month, November, I'm working on NaNoWriMo, (National Novel Writing Month) and that doesn't leave a whole lot of time for anything else. The idea is to write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days. I'm doing pretty well so far.

I also chomped down on a piece of popcorn the other day and cracked a crown on one of my teeth. I've been getting to know Cori, my favorite dentist rather well since. We thought at first we could just replace the existing crown, but that didn't work, so she's putting in a new one. What fun he said sarcastically.

I guess I've been lazy. I haven't updated anything except the crosswords here for the last couple of months. I've been working on some computer stuff and trying to get up the energy to write seriously, but I haven't really managed to do much. I've had some kind of virus for the last couple of weeks, and I knocked a crown off one of my teeth, so it hasn't all been roses and daisies.

My old desktop has finally managed to get Windows screwed up enough that it won't work at all, so I've been trying to decide whether to reinstall windows or just get a new computer. I've never been too happy with that computer, but I'm not sure that I want to wait or even put up with the new version of Windows, so the decision gets even more complicated. I wish Microsoft would stop trying to make the OS so user friendly. About all they've ever managed to accomplish is to make it a little more accessible to idiots while making it impossible to maintain and understand for more experienced users with all the features that don't do anything WE want.

I've been pretty busy the last couple of weeks trying to get all my computer stuff transferred over to the new laptop, so I can carry my work around with me. It seems to be mostly working out OK, but now I need to get a new printer, so I can print using a wireless connection and don't have to turn on my desktop and transfer the files over there. I can make that printer accessible over the network but only when the computer is actually on, so it doesn't help much unless I want to leave it on all the time. Don't think I want to do that.

This is a picture of the old LT&T building in downtown Lincoln. With the lilacs and cherries blooming it looks like Spring is really here, but you can never trust the weather in here in the midwest. They got two to four inches of snow yesterday in the western part of Nebraska. We've been know to get snow up to the middle of May. My brother has a nice picture of some roses poking their heads up through the snow. Any moisture is good, but it's really hard on a lot of the plants if it gets too cold, so we'll pass on the frost please.

My old high school and college buddy sent me an interesting E-mail from these folks: Whimsical Wits They have a bunch of funny stuff, but a lot of it is X-Rated, so be warned.

One of my sisters mentioned to me how she'd thrown away some pictures of herself and her husband from their last trip. I suspect it had something to do with age related appearance degradation. I'll let you make some decisions of your own about that. You can compare this little collage of some of my pictures at younger ages with the current picture above.

Well, heck, I've been accused of being older than dirt, and I do have some dirt under my fingernails that's been there since I built that dugout house back in 53, in 1853 that was. At first I just left that dirt there because I didn't have time to clean it out, but then it got to be antique, so it didn't seem like I ought to mess with it ... historical values and all that you know.

I finally managed to get around to posting some of my photos and artistic creations in the pictures section. Look at My Images Album. It's full of all kinds of images from simple photos and drawings to highly modified or composite photos. These are not necessarily my favorites, but they do show the kinds of stuff I get up to with my camera and computer.

Biography

I have a Blog
now, so you can check to see what I'm up to on a daily basis, although I probably won't post EVERY day.

Check the Biography section to discover how I lost most of my hair. Most of the people who know me say I'm either weirdly brilliant or brilliantly weird. Perhaps all that brilliance burned my hair off, or perhaps it just migrated to my chin.

Writing

The Writing area contains samples of my poetry, fiction and non-fiction writing. Some selections are humorous, and some of those were even intended to be that way. There are also links to items published online. Here is a link to the PC Basics Article that I wrote for Long Ridge Writers Group.

Pictures

I have various kinds of graphical work in the Pictures section including photos, digital art, copies of drawings and other foolishness. My latest work is a little cartoon inspired by someone who calls himself Quacker.

Crosswords

Links

I'll be happy to give you permission to use it provided that you E-Mail me to let me know. It would also be nice if you included a link to my page on yours. I will reciprocate. I do have other graphic material available, and I can create specialty graphics or crosswords containing special themes based on wordlists that you send me. I am also available for writing assignments.

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