It's 10, 25 a.m. Bob and I are going to head out obviously because we're in the car and we're on some always in the car. We're going to run some pre-4th of July errands. We've got a few more food things to buy. All the kids are coming over and we're barbecuing. So we're going to go do that and barbecue the burgers. Barbecuing burgers yeah burgers and potato salad and we're going to go for a little bit of a drive to do that. We don't have to like drive down to Newburg but we're going to anyway and see what we get up to. I don't know. We have nowhere else to be until dinner tonight so it's all good. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is 10 24 a.m. Monday July 3rd. Bob is here at the house. He's going to do some chores. He's off this week so he's going to do some chores. I'm going to run over to Value Village really quick. The daughter sent me a coupon. There is one piece for a project I want to kind of try to find and if I can use a coupon to get it all the better but anyway. I wasn't going to go except she sent me a coupon so anyway. Hey guys happy 4th of July. It is Tuesday morning sometime till I 4th. I'm seeing 11.53 a.m. just about lunchtime. I've been up for a bit here in the art room editing the vlog for tomorrow because I hadn't done it yet and the rest of the day will be spent getting ready for family gathering here at the house barbecue and all that traditional stuff. I doubt I'm going to get any work done on this but you never know but I doubt it. I also have that. Now I have noticed in my algorithms on YouTube the upcycling videos are getting a lot of views. Oh my god you guys so we're going to keep going with those I think. I may film the dad the last pair of dad pants if you all want to see it. I might film that and then I'm probably going to film the jacket and then if you want to see how I made the make the dad pants bags I have two more pants bottoms so let me know in the comments below. All right that's it for the minute.  I would say good morning but yep it's almost dinner time. It is the Wednesday not Thursday. Wednesday July 5th. We had a great time yesterday celebrating the 4th of July with the kids and doing fireworks.  I don't know but it was a lot of fun. Didn't think I was very into fireworks but fun fact.  Those are fun especially if you mix the colors up. Anyway I've been getting my next pair and for the moment last pair of dad pants ready to sew sometime in the next couple of days hopefully when I have time. I am planning on filming some more upcycling clothing videos for you all. I don't know if you want me to show you how to make a pair of dad pants. You can let me know but there are lots of tutorials on there on doing these sort of fabric collage on pants and I want to remind you all to keep in the back of your mind. I know I'm not doing a lot of painting or art journaling at the moment on camera. I am doing some it's just on camera. But the fabric collage type things and the upcycling things I'm doing you could very easily use these techniques to make a journal cover or an art supply bag to go or urban sketching bag like you could use this for a lot of other things other than garments and for me this is a piece of like wearable art fabric collage. So I think why I'm liking doing it. One of the projects I think I want to film is this jacket I just thrifted which is a Liz Claybourne jacket. I paid like five bucks for it. I have pieces and parts I'm pulling as you can see thinking about what I want to do before I actually cut into anything and I think I'm going to do some more dad pants bags because I have two more pant leg bottoms. I do think I'll film that too and I have an idea for some belts. So yeah always busy except for this morning we spent a lot of time just being lazy because we retired from last night I think. Anyway all right that's it for the minute obviously. So we've had an interesting start some morning. It is Thursday July 6th. I'm expecting a couple of deliveries today. Bob is off getting some blood work done for some annual checkups. He's got coming up one of which is tomorrow and the other one is in like I don't know we can have for something anyway. We had a power surge of some kind this morning that threw off some of the breakers here in the house so suddenly half the house wasn't working. I don't know and as he was leaving for one of his appointments he said that the TV and cable trucks are around the corner down the street so I don't know if they did something or I'm going to assume that they did anyway. I am going to be working on finishing my last pair for the moment of dad pants and trying to film some of it for another upcycling video here on the YouTube channel. We also are babysitting today but Bob is off of work so when he gets home from his appointment this morning he can help me with the grandson while I maybe finish the dad pants so that's the plan anyway. I'll be back okay with a little mini grandson neighbor kid furnace maintenance guy break because you know everything happens at once right? Got those on my head just you know it's a thing. All right we're going to finish the pants it's probably good to not poke yourself and get blood on the pants although you are about to wash them so to probably come out just saying. All right okay you guys the pants are done and frayed and dry would you like to see? Can you see? Let's see hang on so these are the pants what do you think?  Life's way too short. TV appears we have some dear little friends at the bird feeder and it's not a school. There are some not that late big black rats that we occasionally get. They look like large field mice I think interesting they must be hungry they're coming this close to the house bobbinous creatures as long as they stay outside I'm good with it they come in the house it's a different story they're sharing nice I'm like the squirrels squirrels don't know how to share I'm gonna have a guard mice now along with the guard squirrels. All right we'll be back. Good morning guys it is just before lunch on Friday. Red line to camera. July 7th I think I don't know it's Friday it's the Friday after 4th of July I think it's the 7th anyway Bob is off having his colonoscopy screening I just dropped him off I'm gonna go run a couple errands while he's having that done and then pick him up they'll call me in about an hour and a half or so and yeah anyway you know colonoscopy screenings as we get to be a certain age those are one of the things that you have to do on a routine basis if you're like Bob every 10 years if you're like me every five years if you're like a friend of mine one to year um but you gotta have it done colon colon cancer is one of those silent killers my grandfather my dad's dad died of metastasized colon cancer and he died in 1969 there was little or no screening then I don't believe and he ended up getting it in his bones liver and brain and he died from it now today we have colon cancer screenings and it's one of those things that they can catch early most of the time and so you know yeah it's not a fun procedure the procedure itself's not a big deal it's the prep the prep sucks but do it anyway suck it up and do it anyway anyway uh so he did he's doing that and uh I'm gonna go run a couple errands while he's doing that and then later on I think two of the four kids are gonna come over for dinner but we're just keeping it low key easy we're gonna do some Trader Joe's broccoli beef and I'll steam up a pot of rice and I don't even think we're gonna go grocery shopping this weekend our fridge is really full right now I am gonna go grab a couple of things that we're out of we're running out of and um other than that I think we're gonna let it go and if I have to go during the week next week I'll do that so anyway we're babysitting all day tomorrow I should say that's why we're not like doing errands or grocery shopping or anything tomorrow which Saturday is our usual day but we're babysitting junior so you know I'd rather babysit the grocery shop any day of the week all right I'll be back okay it's Saturday morning July 8th I think oh yeah and it's just before 11 o'clock we have junior you can see that there you go they handle um we're starting out with well I'm not allowed to show his face I know um we're starting out the morning with a walk and I guess junior is off his schedule he woke up late ate breakfast late it's okay pops and oh my don't really believe in baby schedules so there's Saturday everybody gets up late on Saturday I mean yeah everybody sleeps in exactly so we're babysitting today we're staying home we're still adjusting to being grandparents and like merging my creative schedule with OMA schedule and you know I'm a little less creatively productive but that's okay because my time is well spent with junior so you know you got to sacrifice some stuff sometimes and it's all good anyway it's cloudy and overcast it's not super warm yet today although it's supposed to be in the 80s junior is very well bundled up we're going to go for a walk get some steps in see what we can see and I'll be back yeah junior's gone home and we're going to go out for another walk get a few more steps before dinner because we sat on the couch all afternoon just whereas neither is munching because you know yeah but all we did was eat all afternoon I need to get some steps in I probably had 400 calories and nuts so anyway we're going to go get some steps in I'm an alarm for closing the vlog every week and I still almost forget nearly every week I know I have no idea I got quite a bit done on my sweater that I'm working on out of just random yarn and I am to the point where I started the shoulders so yay so pretty soon we'll be working on the back and then we'll do the sleeves and I said earlier I think I don't know but my intention is to just keep not knitting sorry crochet oh yeah yeah I see it's late it's 10 15 or something um my intention is to keep crocheting on the front do the shoulders and then when I get the shoulders done I'm gonna just keep going and do the back and so the front and back with the neck hole will be all one piece and then when I start the sleeves I will start them by starting the crocheting on the body piece so that when I'm done I only have an underarm and side seam that's what I'm hoping in the meantime I'm using so many different kinds of yarn there's a lot of threads to hide when I'm done but yeah we're adjusting to being grandparents having junior here all the time and I'm adjusting to a new creative schedule I much rather cut back on creativity to spend time with the grandson there is nothing wrong with that sometimes life just happens and you have to go with the flow with things and that's all cool so anyway I have to do today's drawings I haven't done that yet but anyway if you want to see what I do on the daily I try to do something a little bit creative every single day follow me on social media my link tree links list of links is down below along with my patreon I do have a private conversation 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This video today is just going to be really casual and laid back kind of like the ones I did for my horror comic project, project, project and I'm just going to be doodling in this sketchbook. Before we start I just wanted to take you through this sketchbook and obviously you've seen the title, I nearly finished it but I just thought I'd just do a tour for it now because I think I'm going to you know retire this one. The main flaw that I had with this sketchbook is actually the shape. I know some people you know probably like this rectangular shape that's fine for them. I didn't pick this, Chris bought this for me so sorry about this Chris which is fine you know like it's a nice thing to buy someone a sketchbook but it's just not the shape that I like. I didn't know that at the time I just started doing stuff in it and I feel like it's very like you have to do it something long this way or something long that way I mean you could do little things but it's just an awkward shape for me. I mean if it was bigger than maybe but I don't know I just I don't like the shape and that is that okay I will hear no more of it. These are some Posca pens obviously that I bought Chris when we went to Singapore I bought him a huge batch of them and I'm using them and he doesn't mind we kind of share art supplies because we both do art so why wouldn't we share art supplies I guess. I've been using them in the later pages I'm just going to run through quickly this sketchbook up to now so it's been pretty long going for the sketchbook because they started it in October 2018 for Inktober I think I managed to complete about two sketchbooks last year but they were maybe bigger than this so this has been under six months so maybe it's not that bad but yeah just because I've started this new well it's not new anymore I started this job last year where anyway little less moaning is going to be ahead I promise. These are what I did for Inktober I go into it a little bit more in my Inktober drawing that is probably I put up the end of October so if you are interested then you can go check that out but yeah I did a lot of ink drawings about my book that I wrote Princess Cursed and they just drew like took the really cold prompts that's it good artist I took the prompts and then I just drew like images in my head from this from the story wow I can speak this morning and I like this doodle although it's like what these are all the characters as you can tell it's a very heavily females based story sorry about that my camera decided not to work that crunching sound is best to eat in her breakfast so I apologize the cat's got to eat okay I'm not sure what I showed you already so if you've seen any of this some apologies but just gonna go over it quickly again this is a watercolor thing I was doing that a watercolor thing watercolor painting an experiment thing yeah you start the lightest wash first and then you go darker and darker and then you steadily pick out the leaves and things something like that I can't remember it's been ages some doodles of some creepy women some more doodles of ladies with probably using these Faber Castell pencils that I really like drawing with right now that are great oh this was an inktober this was a final one of the scenes in the book that I know I don't know if I showed anyone and I think this was like the final inktober that I did because I kind of gave up after that because I started my job and everything was new and you know I was getting into the rhythm of stuff I've probably said this a thousand times on my channel just letting you guys know this was for a 300 page book channel challenge where I turn to the 300 page of a book and I get a prompt from that page I read the story and I decide what to draw based on what it says and this was the Arabian Nights I'm not sure what this is just a spooky girl you can see here that I have actually written what I should be doing next for the prompts and I never finished them and it is my shame and it shall follow me to my death oh we did this thing called horror fest and I was just people watching drawing or trying to anyway I think I was very stiff because you know when people are watching you and you're like even though I do YouTube but don't let people watch me on this it's a little bit different when you have a live audience we were watching Sabrina and I really wanted to draw her and I think I was using this yellow Copic marker and I yeah I like that Sabrina I think I might have copied that from the actual logo though so no kudos for me not allowed and I was trying to draw her in like a very stylistic kind of is it the 1960s style where they had like really geometric shapes and triangular I don't I don't know I don't remember and hmm oh this was planning for my video that I did with the YouTube artists collective and I was trying to plan different things and I think I went with this one which was the house which was like a 3d kind of house we opened the doors and you saw inside which was quite fun to do these are the pumpkin kids from that show over the garden wall and I just felt like drawing them I think this was for that Huy Vemba which you know even though I failed Inktober horribly I was like yeah you know what let's do Huy Vemba that work that will work and I did like two of them and I did Sabrina because that's why I was drawing Sabrina because she's yellow she's not yellow her not even her hair is yellow but you know it was a good chance to use yellow and I really like this drawing actually it was really fun and I think this was something I was proud of after probably a month of not being proud of anything which is kind of sad yeah and then I drew the the pumpkin guys from over the garden wall this was fun to draw as well I like this image too even though is just a straight-up copy of something because well it's not a copy but you know when you're copying characters it's not really your art I guess it's just copying so this one is not really very special to me this was a drawing that I was intending to do a big drawing of a larger scale and I think I just didn't finish it or continue I quite like her I like the way that I use the Posca with the pencil that might be something to explore now I think because I was having a lot of art block I was taking a lot of inspiration from shows that we were watching and we were watching maniac and this is one of the characters in that so I think I was just doodling her and trying to do the Huy Wemble thing so this was like this was kind of the red color for that and then I drew some awful houses I actually remember this day it was a Saturday and I sat down and I wanted to film a video so I drew these houses on camera and I was like what is happening I have lost all skill to draw because I haven't drawn every day for a while because for two years I was drawing every day and then I just went from that to not doing it and it really shows it really really shows I quite like this doodle I think I did this on camera as well but I never showed it and I do like it I don't have any idea what's going on in it or where it came from why is she naked why she floating through the air slash into the ocean or why there's a flame going behind her I don't know but it works I'm sorry that this is a funny angle but this wretched sketchbook is too long to fit properly yeah can you tell that I did not like the shape of the sketchbook here's another image that I did not like but I think I just you know when you have art block and just trying to get something out on paper then you just like what is this okay I was about to rip it to shreds but let's just refrain from doing that shall we because that doesn't get anyone anywhere ah another art blocky page and I think I even bent this one up to like hide it and I was trying to do some word typography type things but the typography is awful it's from that song that I very much like so whatever again a little bit of art blockiness I think I was using the tiger pens tiger markers and copics here and I like this doodle it's quite cool and I don't mind her so this page is all right but it's just not it's just not fabulous you know it's just not amazing and here you can see that I'm still struggling with art block and I was just the frustration you can tell like how much I just went through to just get this done not get this done but just get something out that I can draw I like this page though um this is Gigi if you don't know Gigi he's my black cat and he was just sleeping next to me so I decided to do some inks I have this ink brush pen I was using that and then just using a bit of water to kind of add a wash to that and I really like this one because I think it really captures Gigi which is nice because you know he's my cat and I love him so here is a fail presenting to you my fail that's what I'm saying that is what I'm deciding to say here oh yeah has arrived her majesty and what a coincidence I think this is supposed to be Pesto and I'm drawing a little crown on her because she does think she's the queen Pesto do you mind we're trying to film we're trying to film okay well that's happening guys I'm sorry I don't even know what this was for actually now I think I was just just wanted to make a cartoony image of Pesto get will you desist woman okay please please please then I drew um this poster for my local theatre group for Simba does a video of that breaking into Christmas time because it says mum at Christmas this is the back of my mother in one of her one of her rooms what is that at her house in her living room she's on the computer right now and they had this little um wooden village piece on their mantle I think and I got a bit inspired to draw like a little weird village and on hills and I quite like this image I think we were playing board games at the time and I was just doodling in my sketch so good memories from these drawings actually and that's something I like is when you have a sort of diary um not a diary but when you can look back on drawings in your sketchbook and be like oh yeah I was at this place in my life at this point and oh gosh guys we got heavily into the crystal gems around Christmas time and we watched like all of them over Christmas and I really like the character design in that I really really like that show it's so fun if you guys haven't seen it even the story is really good as well which surprised me and I think I drew myself as a crystal gem trying to use limited colours and yes it's okay again it's all right but I think I smudged I think the pen I was using cockpit markers and it doesn't really go with the pen and then it was like what the heck is this face is a bit bizarre but it was fun I think I was trying to do draw this in your um draw this in your style challenge to break out of that art block which is a constant theme through this there I like that style a lot more I think I was trying to draw the crystal gem style a bit better and I think I did a better job here you know when sometimes you just do a relaxed doodle and it turns out better than something you're trying to be rigid about this is pro crasta art style I did draw this in your style challenge I did this one first and I didn't like it and then I did this one and I liked it and again it's kind of mixed media style which I think is something that I kind of do a lot maybe do I I guess I just like to have fun with the art supplies I drew another creepy girl because I think that's something that I really liked doing this was another draw this in your style and I wanted to post this to Instagram but then I just never did I honestly don't remember who this is but you've probably seen this image a lot because I think it was quite a popular one on Instagram I'm sorry I can't remember um I don't think I posted it but yeah I used watercolor here as you can see like her face I really like that style and then I used the pencil over the top to kind of give a little pink pink tint and I like that I do like that this was for my collaboration with scribble arts and I sort of did a weird mad hatter's tea party interpretation and I really like the perspective on everything where it's just flat and weird and it doesn't make much sense and I really like the black darkness around it it's very atmospheric but also interesting and bright and colorful and I I really like this style and I really want to look into drawing more things like this in the future this was testing out when you art supplies that I got in Singapore I finally got some shminkei watercolors and I I fell in love with this deep blue this dark blue I think it's my favorite watercolor ever and um I'm trying not to overuse it in things but I did some fish and use some gold because I got these um the gansi tambi watercolors starry colors that I have been looking at people on youtube use forever and been like I want to use it so I finally got them I think here I was just testing out the watercolors doing some swatches but then seeing how they layered and things like that I don't really know what I was trying here I can't even remember what this is but like what I've used here but it looks quite cool actually so I might have to use that in something but if I can remember how I did it oh yes welcome back to the art block everybody this is where I draw another weird girl with weird looking hands and short arms there's no saving this one and there's no coming back from it here is some rough sketches of the slime girls that I did I did a video of the slime girls again if you don't know what that is it's on my channel it's just these characters I created uh I was inspired by slime to draw last year and yeah they're just they're just fun fun little story and I was just doodling in here to rough out some sketches and then I did some water colors again you can see this dark blue that I am in love with just using it whatever here you will see another weird girl trying to flush out that art block it's rough times guys I told you this sketchbook wasn't going to be smooth sailing didn't I um hmm what else have I drawn okay it's one I don't mind so much it's just a pencil drawing I think the proportions are quite cool her left eyes looking a bit you know but I like it I quite like this and I like when when people use the side of the pencil just drawing some more girls because I like drawing girls and again a weird girl with weird arms I honestly don't know what's going on with the arm situation in this book oh I quite like this one this was fun to do um I got like a mood board on Pinterest and I put them together and I came up with this from all the sort of images that I saw and I really like it because it's probably the the biggest piece that I have done in a while as in completed you know an actual scene a room I was thinking that I need to draw more environments and this probably proves why because that window is getting a little bit wonk over there and certain things about this drawing are a little bit off it's nice it's atmospheric I like the colors I used and I like the lighting and stuff I just think it's nice and I wish I was her sitting there in a rainy room with a nice drink and books and in that light perfect perfect the drawing isn't perfect my image of the drawing is perfect and I was like I need to draw interiors so I tried this and I made a wonky window and some wonky hands and that leads us to the final pages I say final pages but there is like what seems to me an infinite amount of pages left so I don't want to use the sketchbook anymore because I'm tired of it and I don't like the shape and I think I've gotten to a stage where I'm just trudging through to finish it saying that let's use it now oh wait I've got two more drawings um this is when I started using the poscas and I do like these styles these styles the styles of this one I really like this I really like how this came out I like the hands even though they are still a little bit weird everyone I'm still going through my weird hand phase I like the way that they look like they're gently holding that broomstick I think I was trying to draw Sabrina again and then it just turned into whoever and yeah I like that I'm going to use the poscas today because we're on a posca roll also guys also also I have to show you this amazing sharpener that I can't find here is this amazing sharpener it's called I think I'm just gonna spell it out to you then say it's kum automatic long point black wing basically it has two components one and it kind of shapes it I think and then two gets it really really pointy so it's really nice to use um I know that sounds really really lame but hey if you use art supplies a lot you probably probably know about stuff oh here's another drawing that I never finished why do I keep doing this and forgetting that I have other drawings yeah using the poscas here I did not like how this was going I think at the time like why her eye is ridiculous don't know um so I stopped doing that okay what I'm gonna do is just do a Pinterest interest board and I'm gonna go from there because I think I just need inspiration okay guys I'll see you in a minute okay we're back and I've got a few inspiration for drawings um not many but enough to kind of get me going I think what I want to do is a girl looking into a mirror and I found this kind of bathroom as well that I really like the stars in and the blue guess what guys she's going to be using blue um so I'm going to use that and I was thinking maybe I could have lots of potions and stuff behind her but I'm just gonna oh so anyway yeah I just want to do something I saw this quirky outfit I like I know lots of people are like oh people's noses would never be red you can't draw what you want but I like it when people have like rosy cheeks and rosy noses you know what I mean it's like screw you if we want to draw that we can draw that um yeah that's my round over with I think I want to draw something like that so this is going to be the mirror and then around her is going to be that sort of bathroom that we saw and she's going to be bigger I think it's going to be like quite a small mirror and I think what I'm going to do is like a creepy person on this side as you can see I'm drawing with a faber castell pencil it's magenta I really like drawing with this one and I think it gives it gives like if I paint over the top of it or do anything like that it gives it like a nice warm under hue I'm in the mood for a little bit of creep guys I'm going to do like a gold mirror so I can finally use properly my my starry colors apologies for that round about burst I kind of want to take inspiration from that drawing I did ages ago you can see that it's her maybe just looks long doesn't it that just looks funny just looks like a pacman ghost at the moment I said I was going to use poscas didn't I so let's try and use that shall we I say we I'm going to make it look more ghoulish than that hopefully it's going to be quite difficult with the the poscas but giant posca no I will not calm down everyone I just remember that this paper doesn't really like posca paints very much and it kind of um shreds a little bit so there's going to be some of that happening but oh well what are you going to do can't win them all I'm going to do like a sort of outline around her I think I'm going to do mixed media but try and use the poscas as much as possible because I only have these thick boys so if I try to do details it's not going to work out for me very much wait a second wait a second we've got an uneven wall here okay there we go maybe I should use black because I like the way the black looked before I'm going to use the screen because I'm a crazy person and I'm going to use I'm going to leave it like a white white border I think what I'm going to do is do like shadows over the top if I can I don't know how well poscas work with trying to layer on top of it so I think this video is going to be massively long and I apologize for that but okay okay we we're getting there guys we are getting there what I wanted to do before I was saying is try and make a tile pattern but using the posca so I don't know whether to use a light blue actually let's just test it over here shall we my original thought was to use that cream color oh and also the paper does not like me using double posca that's kind of cool that light blue because it's subtle I think we'll use the blue I know that this paper is going to hate me doing this so I have to be reasonably careful just a hint of tile you know I don't know how well you can see it on camera because it is very light what I want to do is use the gold here and then around the mirror and I think I'll do watercolor for her this brush isn't a hundred percent clean because it's me I'm also um for this story of this image I'm kind of assuming that this isn't her bathroom like she's visiting some kind of witch shop or something give this being maybe it's not her but it'll be creepy and I'm not sure how I'm going to make it look creepy but we're gonna try okay everyone I think I'll go over the the whole mirror with a sort of light wash of blue or something to indicate that it's a mirror and not like yeah the paper is not like in this stupid sketchbook you've been doubt just blame the sketchbook guys that's my new lesson for you I totally messed that up but it's fine I don't like this I think I might make this black as well I think you just it would oh I went for it without even thinking about it properly I was going to explain why I'm going to do that and then I just went for it um I think sometimes for me if I'm like thinking something's not going right just add more mixed media in there and then it kind of turns around let's keep adding stuff this doesn't work as well not a very good composition really should have done that lower because now it's intersecting into her face and it doesn't really doesn't really work I don't know about this guys yeah this is just a massive um globs over here of paint so let's hope that that turns out it kind of it has a nice effect kind of nice texture had a bit of a short break because I had to upload some stuff but now we're back I've pinned this down because it was buckling slightly so everything should be dry for me to continue working on it I'm just going to do some more stars in this uh scene okay I'm just going to leave that for now I was thinking I had this idea to just use um tracing paper over the top of this mirror so I think I'm going to highlight some more of her features and maybe like the the head dress and then just put this over the top and I think that will look good so I'm going to try it I think it looks kind of cool gives the impression of a mirror definitely like a bit more um I'm going to do something with the stuff in the in this bathroom because it can't just be plain I think I'm going to make more gold stuff again I'm not really sure what's in these jars and things but I think they must be something a little bit creepy okay that's it guys that's the final image of this sketchbook that I'm going to do because I am retiring this sketchbook now I'm not going to use it again I think as well you can probably see maybe if it'd been if I'd done it this way maybe it'd been better but it's just an awkward shape for me and that's basically the only reason why um the paper's not so great as well so I'm just gonna try and find these sketchbooks that I found in Liddles all those years ago and try and get them again yeah here's the image as you can see the paper didn't really work out that well because I shouldn't have used super glue because I didn't that didn't help but it kind of works I kind of like it and I hope you guys like that that's the end of this video please like and subscribe for more 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So what do we do to keep calm inside, Guruji? See, there is no clamour inside, it's calm. It is just that you do not know what is inside, what is outside. Whatever happens outside, in compulsive reaction, inside also it happens. What is happening inside is only a reflection, right? Whatever is happening outside, the reflection is happening inside.   What to do? That's how it is. But your face will not stick to the mirror, isn't it? So now I want to look beautiful, so I will show the mirror to you first and then keep the mirror in my home. I am not going to look beautiful, yes? So nothing stuck to the mirror. What is the importance and significance of the mirror? It is supposed to show you things just the way it is. When you ask a painter to paint your picture, you ask him to do a little this and this and make yourself a little more beautiful, everything. That's okay because after we are gone, they see us really beautiful. But in the mirror, you stand in front of the mirror because you want to see it the way it is, yes or no? That's the idea of standing in front of the mirror. I know we have heard stories of who is the prettiest of all in front of the mirror, all that stuff, but the essence of standing in front of the mirror is to see reality as it is, not to see a pretty picture. That is the nature of your mind too. This is not about painting a pretty picture. This is about simply seeing things the way they are. If you learn to see things just the way they are, you will know how to navigate. If you see things the way you want it, then you will not be able to navigate because you are not in reality, first of all. Participant – Guruji, it is exceptionally difficult to see things as they are because I will tell you why it's difficult. No, no, no. Where is your ego? You show me, you show me where is your ego, I'll fix it right away. Where is it? Participant – In the mind? Where in the mind tell me? Participant – Not in the brain but in the mind, in the idea of ego. No, you are saying something like this, where is it? So the thing is just this, sometimes Manisha is very beautiful, a wonderful person, then you say I am a wonderful person, sometimes she is nasty, then you turn back and say, oh, that was my ego, okay. So Miss Ego is a fall guy. Whenever you are nasty, Miss Ego will come. Whenever you are wonderful, only you are there. So we are not owning our back, we must settle this, or is there only one person in this body or two? Participant – Multiple persons. This is schizophrenia. If there is more than one here within you, either you are schizophrenic or you are possessed. That means either a psychiatrist or an exorcist. What it means is when you say I am an individual, we must understand the root word for individual is indivisible. Participant – Indivisible. Yes, that means this cannot be further divided. Only if you come to this, that this is an individual, then you will understand the fundamental. If I am wonderful, it's me. If I am nasty, it's me. If I am beautiful, it's me. If I am ugly, it's me. If you come to terms with this, your life will be a constant step forward to become better and better. Whether I am wonderful, it's me, when I am nasty, it's you, well it'll stay that way forever and it'll grow. Participant – So Guruji, would… I'll just take this little more. Does it… that means that when we see in a mirror an ugly sigh which I was saying as an ego, we should be able to accept that? Is that what you're saying? No, I am saying what you call as a human being is not an established thing. It is a becoming. It's not really… We must call this human becoming. You have to become one because in the evolutionary scale of things, you know Charles Darwin, he told you, at one time you were a monkey, him not me, okay?  So he goes about saying a goat became a giraffe and it took so many million years, could have become or a pig could have become an elephant, it took so many more million years. But between a monkey and a human being, it happened rather quickly. It didn't take enough time, I'm saying. To such a point that anthropologists today believe that there is a missing link. They believe there's a missing link because it happened so quickly. See between the DNA of a chimpanzee and the human beings that we are, the DNA difference is only 1.23 percent. Not much of a difference, isn't it? So physiologically, physiologically we are not very far away from a chimpanzee but intellectually cerebral capabilities and in terms of our awareness and consciousness, we are worlds apart or in other words, you have an intelligence for which you don't have a stable enough foundation. So the entire yogic system is just to create a stable foundation. A stable foundation means any foundation or any building, if it has to stand for a long time and in a stable manner, it must be geometrically correct. So entire yogic system is about aligning your physical geometry to the cosmic geometry so that you have a stable enough platform upon which this intelligence can blossom. When I say stable enough platform, today people wherever you go, people talk about tension, anxiety, rage on the road, all kinds of nonsense, you can call it by many names.  That's all that's happened. Why is your intelligence turning against you? Because you don't have a stable enough platform to handle it. See if somebody comes and tries to hurt you physically, you have some defense.  How to stop this? Only somebody else has to stop it. Isn't it?  But look at most human beings, when they're alone, they can suffer. If you're suffering when you're alone, obviously you're in bad company, isn't it?   What have you done about that? If you don't do anything about it, your own hands will start punching you. There's no solution for this from outside, unless we either handcuff you or amputate you. That's what they're trying to do today. In some ways, what do you think all these drugs are? They're trying to amputate you in some way, mentally, put you down.


Where are you going? I just want to talk. I just want to talk. I just want to be friends guys. I Just want to be friends. Don't walk away. Come on Well, I just want to be your friend. Oh the date is correct. It is March 30th 2021 today We had a snowstorm overnight It wasn't too bad They said it would be much worse here. We are I think the worst part of it is that it's super windy today We're sort of sheltered in town here right now, but I know the wind is gusting up all probably close to at least 60 kilometer an hour 60 clicks or like 40 miles an hour at least that's just my guess I know out in Western Manitoba I saw the forecast yesterday for there saying that wind was supposed to gust up to 90 kilometers an hour or 50 miles an hour So it's gonna be a Interesting day Okay, it's gonna be it's going to be a good day. We're gonna find something good about it Even if it takes us all day to find it And it's gonna be good Right, it's cold Just washed the truck yesterday too Manitoba just wants to remind us one more time.  I'm pretty sure next weekend supposed to go up plat plus 20 or past plus 20 Which is you know upwards of 70 Fahrenheit. I think somewhere up there She's slippery It's slippery. Oh, we're gonna have fun, right? We're gonna have fun. I got my winter jacket with me Got my winter gloves with me. We're gonna go do some some winter trucking in March almost April every year and we act like we're surprised every year Look at this mess Look at this mess here. The guy in front of me. He's got a burnt-out tail light, too It's harder to see him when the snow blows heavier. We're a little bit sheltered now, but Check your lights. Oh, here we go. We're gonna break in the wind I'm hoping all this snow will be melted by tonight. Oh, and we're on sheer ice Wonderful. Wonderful. It's gonna be a good day. Oh, it's slippery. Oh, do you see that? All right, don't touch the accelerator on the ice. Don't touch the accelerator on the ice Oh, man, there's gonna be some bad accidents today I hope you guys all made it to where you were going safely if you're in the area Or across the prairies all the payday prairies got this same weather I think Saskatchewan got it worse than us Very windy the winds coming from my left out of the west there We're headed north and it wants to push me off the road It makes me a little nervous when we go over these icy patches Because it's very Very easy to start fishtailing if you don't know what you're doing I really hope that there's not going to be any bad accidents on here on this road today I really hope everyone's gonna be safe For once, I'm not being tailgated. Well, actually for the weather I am being tailgated But uh, usually on the way to work, there's usually a big lifted truck or something That's just right up my tailgate See this is all sheer ice right here Sheer ice I found the tractor Apparently they just unloaded it for now. I guess they needed the trailer for something else And this probably doesn't need to be delivered for a while. Sometimes we do this Sometimes we pick up freight that doesn't Actually, they don't want it delivered for a while So we just got to hold on to it until uh the delivery date sometimes not often but I've noticed it in the past I keep wanting to say that today is going to be a miserable day I wish I could uh, what's this guy doing now? How far back are you backing up? I wish I could share with you guys how windy it is. It's really windy and cold What is this interesting way of backing into that spot? No idea what he was doing Okay, let's go start up the old girls get her warmed up. We got some trucking to do today It's going to be windy. It's going to be cold It's going to be snowy. It's going to be icy But it's going to be a good day Right Keep saying it keep saying it's going to be a good day It looks like The good lord has smiled on us just a little bit this morning Usually first thing in the mornings. I come into work and get the truck warmed up and I check in with our deck division and See what they have for us in the morning It's usually my routine and then in the afternoon Maybe I switch over onto vans and I help them out towards the end of the day At least that's what I was told my routine is supposed to be and that's that's pretty much what it's been Uh this morning The van division has snagged me And I got to go hook up to a van trailer And uh go get the paperwork as soon as the truck is warmed up here Thank you god I was really not looking forward to strapping and tying down loads in this weather Say it's going to be a good day. I told you it's going to be a good day I'm not sure if you can see the wind right now blowing past our trailers over there It's hard to pick it up on the camera But the wind is gusting between 16 80 kilometers an hour, which is about what what is that? 40 to 50 miles an hour somewhere and it's It's pretty windy and it's it's a biting cold too So uh not that I don't like being on deck division great people to work for great people all around here I like everybody here.  I guess to uh not have to stand out in the cold So I don't mind the deck work at all Uh, I sort of like the freight that we haul in the in the vans better though Just for me my own personal, uh, I guess likes and stuff because in the enclosed van trailers That's where we haul, you know the atvs the the cool cars and stuff like that and I like seeing that every day. I like I like hauling that kind of stuff But uh, yeah, I like the challenge of being on open decks too, and I like the roll types I like working with those that make it really easy though on a day like today. It wouldn't be very fun So i'm very thankful that i'll be on uh That van division snagged me up this morning thankful for that, but you know on a normal day Uh, even if it's cold, but as long as it's not windy, I don't mind doing the decks really It's uh I like doing both as long as it's like a mixture of both I like to do something different every day. That's one great thing I like about this job is that every day it's something different, you know, it's not the same thing over and over and over That would drive me nuts. I don't know if I could do that. I mean, I would make myself if I had to But I don't know if I'd be as happy I love what I do now. I'm very happy Very happy. It doesn't feel like I'm going to work They say if you love your job, you don't work a day in your life, right? And that's sort of how I feel I really love my job and I love the fact that I'm able to Share it with you as well and that I've uh Got in an agreement with them to be able to share My life here as well sort of show what we do here Maybe attract a bunch of you to come and work here with us That's that's what we would love to see we're hurting for drivers. Of course. We need drivers You're gonna hear me talking about that in videos come out I'm gonna try not to swamp you with it owner operators. We're always looking for owner operators if you have your own truck You have a good attitude. You have a good driving abstract. You got two years experience if you have your own truck I'm assuming you have two years experience already Uh, you're able to legally work in canada able to cross into the u.s all that stuff There's probably a position for you here. I don't know I could We could find out for you, but there's a A recruiter here is called max you can go to the website Uh, he's from western.com and get a hold of him. He's the guy with all the knowledge He knows what we need right now and he knows all the numbers Okay, enough chitchat It's time to go. It's a beautiful day. Love carts off in a hurry. That was quick Two levels worth I think there's what 26 in here probably more than that Maybe more than that So now I got to put these floors up I have more freight to go pick up with the same trailer, but We need the whole trailer. We can't have this second level in here Time to get to work That's what I meant the other time when I was Telling you guys that some trailers out there They actually do make trailers where the second floor is powered and it automatically like you can just push a button And it goes up and down But those trailers are very very heavy and you can't use them for anything but that These trailers all of this extra equipment adds about 1500 pounds to the trailer depending on whether it has the belly box or not that adds a little bit in there too, but Yeah, all those floors All put away and you can still haul pretty much Anything you want in here that would that you usually would but we we put up to 42,000 pounds in here and double check that because I think usually you'd be able to put 44,000 pounds into a trailer like this But because of the that way at the front there, I think we max out or stop at 42,000 I'm pretty sure or is it more around there anyways 2,000 pounds less than you would normally haul because the 1500 pounds there just gives an extra a little bit of 500 pound wiggle room Because everybody always tries to load more than they say they will right so we say A certain number they'll usually go at least 500 pounds over sometimes They'll try to put on 2,000 pounds extra on top of that all you drivers know what I'm talking about You go there and they tell you okay. It's going to be this way.  Hmm. Look at that. They put 41,000 pounds on you You got in sneaky shippers out there So you got to be careful with that because you got a little bit of extra weight, but Yeah, it works great and it's super quick. I mean I can put this whole floor down Or put it away in 20 minutes Maybe less. I never timed myself before maybe next time I'll time myself All right, picking up a roll tight rental 128 So we just have the blue ones Those are ours. I think here's some geese I'm gonna have to get in a fist fight with a goose for my trailer. I need the trailers there on the left Look at them. I'm gonna fight you right now. I got stuff to do Geese are violent. This is 70127 What did I say I was looking for? 67128 Crazy geese Yeah, I'm talking to you What what's you gonna do? What's you going to?  So that's a husband and wife That's why it's always sad to see one get that got run over on the highway Hey, they're just gonna sit there and taunt me They're not attack me when I get out of the truck. All right. This is my trailer right here too right beside them Oh boy walk the other way I will mess you up All of you I'll take you all on one hand tied behind my back. This is our trailer and I've got to do the walk around on it There's two geese right there. Look at me Come at me, bro What you gonna do? You know, I am yeah. Yeah How's it going?  You walk away tough guy Where are you going? Hurry up. I just want to talk. I just want to talk. I'm just trying to make friends all right, so lights are Lights are working back here. I know I can hear them telling all those friends over there by me There's a crazy guy with a camera over there. Watch out. Hey Let's get him. I just want to be friends guys I just want to be friends. Don't walk away. Come on I just want to be your friend Story of my life fan Okay, okay, so I'm being a little bit overdramatic. What trying to sell you a vlog here The geese aren't that violent. They're very libertarian They just do their own thing and they want you to do your own thing if you don't bother them They won't bother you. However, if they feel Uh the need to just walk across the highway.  What was this? Well, I thought this was my new directions. I just hooked up to this trailer now Yeah But uh, if you do mess with them though, this is this is where it comes in They won't mess with you unless you mess with them if you chase them or like, uh Make them feel threatened In any way, they'll turn around and they'll jump at you and they'll start swatting you with their wings and biting you with their With their beak and they will attack you and they've been known to attack small children that aren't Really aware of the fact That that could happen because they're just birds, right? You just want to just like this now Like I wasn't threatening them at all. I was just sort of uh following them Right, they don't they're not going to bug me for that. But if I were to start running at them Like a kid might like a child might run after them, right? Because it's fun They're having fun. They're playing games chasing a bird. They'll see it as a threat They'll turn around they'll actually start attacking the kid and it'll probably traumatize the kid Like they're not lethal.  I don't know what would happen. I don't know I've never gotten a fight with one once but go on youtube.  There's a lot of uh good footage of that they it happens A lot of them around here at this time Uh, they're all looks like they're all just hanging out here Just trying to keep warm Because uh this unseasonably cold day But like I said before a fun fact about canada geese is they mate for life with their monogamous They mate for life with one mate. So you always see them in pairs. You see there's a pair over there Here's a pair over there Over there they're sort of sitting in an all all in a big group over there Maybe those maybe that's the singles club over there. I don't know Could always be the singles club. Here's a pair over here walking over here Another pair over there That are the pairs there. It's like a husband and a wife and it's it's very sad when uh one gets run over Because then the other one's all alone So it is actually I think it's illegal just to obviously just to run them over on purpose So if you see them on the roadway Be careful or near the roadway because they don't fly over the road like a normal bird like these guys over here That just flew over my truck. No, they don't care that they got wings No, they're just gonna walk straight across using their feet Right across the highway in single file not like all rushing across the road. No leisurely in single file Don't mean to interrupt the singles party here, but uh, I've got to roll through Walk to the side of the driveway.  See your wings do work. How about that? Excuse me you guys you guys Get out of the way Okay, so Uh last part of the day there went pretty quick We picked up that rental And uh, I went and loaded it up with about 10 feet of freight and stone wall brought it back here And uh, we're moving it on to a different trailer So i'm taking that same roll tight rental that we had yesterday And I got two pickups tomorrow One in Toulon one in arberg up north of winnipeg And uh, we'll see what happens with that That's my assignment for first thing tomorrow morning though 7 a.m. I'll be here hook up and we can Start moving that way but for today All the trucking is done Look at this yard Look at this yard What a difference one day makes Diesel it's winter again What happened What happened? Fina Fina this is not how I left things What did you do?


Diolch. A distracted. The question is the amendment 12389.2 in the name of Jenny Gilruth, which seeks to amend motion 12389, in the name of Liam Kerr, on ending violence in Scottish schools, be agreed. A member should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. The result of the vote on amendment number 12389.2 in the name of Jenny Gilruth is yes, 92, no 20, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is the amendment 12389.1, in the name of Pam Duncan Glancy, which seeks to amend motion 12389, in the name of Liam Kerr on ending violence in Scottish schools, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. Point of order, Keith Brown. If I might just ask you to repeat that. I was unable to connect and would have voted no. Thank you, we'll ensure that's recorded. The result of the vote on amendment 12389.1, in the name of Pam Duncan Glancy, is yes, 53, no 61, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 12389, in the name of Liam Kerr, as amended, on ending violence in Scottish schools, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we'll move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. Point of order, George Adam. I'm really quite disappointed in the system as it bumped me out when I was already in it. I would have voted yes. Thank you Mr Adam, we'll ensure that's recorded. I likewise was bumped out of the system, I also would have voted yes. Thank you Mr McKee, we'll ensure that's recorded. The result of the vote on motion 12389, in the name of Liam Kerr, as amended, is yes, 94, no 20, there were no abstentions, the motion as amended is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 12388.3, in the name of Mary McCallan, which seeks to amend motion 12388, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, on backing Scotland's oil and gas sector, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we'll move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. The result of the vote on amendment 12388.3, in the name of Mary McCallan, is yes, 61, no 52, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 12388.1, in the name of Daniel Johnson, which seeks to amend motion 12388, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, on backing Scotland's oil and gas sector, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we'll move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. The result of the vote on amendment 12388.1, in the name of Daniel Johnson, is yes, 19, no 95, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 12388, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, as amended, on backing Scotland's oil and gas sector, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we'll move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. I call Christine McKelvie for a point of order. But is out the system. I would have voted yes. Thank you, Ms McKelvie will ensure that it's recorded. The result of the vote on motion 12388, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, as amended, is yes, 62, no 51, there was one abstention, the motion as amended, is therefore agreed. I propose to ask a single question on five parliamentary bureau motions, does any member object? Therefore, the final question is that motions 12400 and 12401 on approval of SSIs, 12402 on committee membership, 12403 on committee substitutes, and 12404 on designation of lead committees, in the name of George Adam, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motions are therefore agreed and that concludes decision time and we will shortly move on to members' business in the name of Keith Brown.