Victory! šŸŒ·šŸ’„šŸŽ†šŸŽ‰šŸ˜Ž I'm a Rockstar!

Selling another coaching package tomorrow!!!

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Well, not a rock star - but a model!

Iā€™ll be modeling for people at a place called Scribblz Art in Utica, MI. Itā€™s an artistsā€™ bar. Anyhow, tomorrow night for three hours give-or-take, people will be drawing me!

Which is fine, because I wonā€™t be wearing my glasses. It seems that if I canā€™t see people, I donā€™t give a good goddamn if they can see me or not, lol.

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NOT a barā€¦very wrong about that. But definitely an artistsā€™ SPACE! I had a wonderful time! They loved my poses, and I hope to go back and do it again. When pics come up - if they do - Iā€™ll share them here.

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Iā€™m practically gobsmacked.

As mentioned in Becoming Unlimited I had finally opted to jump to a new carrier after forever with ATT.

Step 1 had been to port my wifeā€™s old number to her Google Voice number. That took about a day to fully work through the system, but call her old number and her new phone rings.

Step 2 came today when New Phone arrived. First new ā€œFlagshipā€ phone Iā€™ve bought since an iPhone 5. Conversion was quick and number was ported over in under 15 minutes.

Then came the Victory part. I assumed I was going to have to go through a bunch of crap to close out the ATT account and so I log into the account (in the vain hope of doing so on line) to

ā€œYour Account Has Been Closed at your Request.ā€

Still not sure I trust 'em though

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They have to be more trust-worthy than FBook.

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I can make calls on my smartphone now!

After long phone time the other day, and messing with it on and off yesterday. I have no idea what finally worked, but it did.

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Have you ever seen this?

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I could probably do that on mine, but it never seems to come up.

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Top: Me drawn in ten minutesā€™ time.
Bottom: Me painted in 20 minutesā€™ time. Both by the same artist.

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Iā€™m always unusually impressed by watercolors because any time I tried to use them I just ended up with the paper being a wrinkly and soggy brown mess, even when I was experimenting will all kinds of combinations of paints, water levels, and papers. Even though itā€™s not my thing, itā€™s an emotive aesthetic that canā€™t really be matched by other media, and I can respect that.

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Iā€™m going to get back into itā€¦waitā€¦would someone who hides their fondness for ā€œwater sportsā€ be considered to be in the ā€œwater closetā€?

(I was going to type ā€œWCsā€ for ā€œwatercolorsā€, but I realized that it could be taken to stand for ā€œwater closetā€. Thatā€™s how my mind works. Now, back to the regular post!)

Anyhow, when I get tired of painting with acrylics/run out of what Iā€™m using now, Iā€™ll probably go back to watercolors.

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By a different artist, same session.

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I MADE IT TO SPRING BREAK :tada::fireworks::sparkler::rice_scene::tada:

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Made it through open heart surgery and the first critical week of recovery. I will probably be released from the hospital tomorrow. Thanks goes mostly to a whole slew of medical professionals and Libbey.

Iā€™m walking around without direct assistance, slowly, most of the tubes and wires have been removed, and have no serious issues. Iā€™m over the hump, with much less uncertainty and breathing more easily (literally).

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YAY!!!
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Iā€™m glad surgery and recovery went well, and I hope you keep getting better. All the best things in the world for you, your medical pros, and for Libbey.

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Thank goodness your post was not in the Piercing the Veil thread. Glad that you are still with us and hopefully heart on its way to full health.

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Awarded first grant to my lab. Excited to hire on some students in much better roles than most of the jobs available to them around here.

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Got my phone back from the fixit shop today. It works! Though at first it was reluctant to work off a chargerā€¦ while the charging port replacement is a success, the battery is starting to fail. But I can coax the phone along by keeping it charged until the replacement battery (plus external battery charger) comes in the mail, so thatā€™s okay. And it only cost me $35 for the repair, which is so much cheaper than buying another phone. Thanks to Planet Mobile of Dearborn, Iā€™m back in business! Yay!

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Wow! A very late congratulations and I hope your health is continuing to improve!

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