August 31 - Cargo Unit 14

PERSONAL LOG 84621.5
It's been 327 years since the last human left the ship.

Which means it's also been 327 years since I've had an intelligent conversation.

My only companion is Cargo Unit 14. It has three directives: carry boxes, return boxes, and avoid walls. It has never once contributed a useful thought.

He's terrible company.

I don't know what I'd do without him.

This is a color day BONUS balloon!
Kalisan Dark Blue

August 30 - Kalisan Dark Blue

Go spread your blue wings
Go light your blue sky
And I'll shed my blue tears

~ Dolly Parton - My Blue Tears

Kalisan Dark Blue is just on the darker side of royal blue.

I feel Kalisan balloons tend to run a little thicker than most, but these inflated surprisingly well and had a great texture to them.  They weren't particularly tight, nor did they have problems with distorting when re-inflating.  It's making me question my previous assumptions about the brand.

Honestly, based on my previous Kalisan experiences, I'm really pleased.  Texture-wise these are very good.

Color-wise.

It's blue.

A perfectly respectable, yet deeply uninteresting - blue.

 

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Other color day balloons:

August 28 - Hammerhead Shark

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

— Confucius (attributed)

This weeks practice is from the Isopresso balloon channel.

A hammerhead shark has a head shaped like a hammer.

A sawfish has a nose shaped like a saw.

A narwahl has a wahl shaped nar.

(view other sharks)

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Other balloons by or inspired by Isopresso Balloon:

August 27 - Tim

'Cause I've seen, oh, blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realize
I'm going home

~ Tim Curry I'm Going Home

When making a D&D character, you roll three dice and add them together to determine each of your statistics.

The scale runs from 3 to 18 - applied to Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dexterity, Constitution and Charisma.  An 18 is extraordinary - think Herculean for strength, or Einsteinian for intelligence.

We just lost two people who had rolled natural 18s in Charisma.

This Frank-N-Furter was originally made as decoration for a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Thinkback: October 31, 2017.

August 26 - Rainbow Lorikeet

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

~ Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

I was trying to unravel the color puzzle of a rainbow lorikeet. 

I got some of the pieces in roughly the right neighborhood.

Looking at it now, I know what I'd want to change: more green in places, and maybe forest green would work better than lime...

That's the annoying thing about hindsight.  

It never seems interested in helping out on the first one...

(view other birds)

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Other balloons inspired by Isopresso Balloon:

August 25 - Pink Blush Dawg

"These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb."

~ Najwa Zebian

I love this quote.

It's strange how easily old experiences become things we carry around.

Not because we need them, necessarily.  They just became baggage somewhere along the way.

But there is a difference between remembering what happened and continuing to carry it.

You don't have to forget something to put it down.

This is a color day BONUS balloon!
Kalisan Pink Blush

August 24 - Fear of Snakes

Fears you develop as a child are often rooted in tolerable insanity.  

Thirty seconds earlier I had been crashing through the woods with the complete confidence of an eight year old idiot.

I was halfway over a fallen log when I caught sight of a coiled snake on the other side.

My body convulsed backwards like it had been yanked back with a cord, and I reversed direction to sprint towards safety.

... because NOW there were snakes everywhere.

I couldn't see any of them, obviously. That's how they work.

This is a color day BONUS balloon!
Kalisan Pink Blush