Everyone Talks About How Millennials Already Have Picked Up Grandparent Hobbies. We Knit, Garden, Whittle,

My friend Alex asked me to draw out his next tattoo, of Boba Fett. I was pretty excited when he asked me to and even more excited after finding out Chicago was going to be getting the George Lucas Museum :)

Campsite breakfast.

Every day there are several things that happen which moves me that much closer to selling all my things for a hill somewhere I can into a hobbit hole to spend my days reading, ignoring people and the government. Yeah, that'd be nice.

He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground.

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

I'm very excited. Just reached the highest page count for anything I've ever written!

127 pages to be exact :)

The right path

It's hard to know the right thing to do these days. Allison grew up on a farm several miles from town and even farther from the nearest city, I grew up in the suburbs with the skyline of Chicago visible out my bedroom window.

Now with us both grown up and contemplating the future, it's hard to know what to do. I'm fascinated with the idea of adventure in the country, making my own way and discovering new things all around the world. Allison on the other hand has always been happy to have escaped her boring life in the country by moving to Chicago. How with the prospect of becoming adults and starting a family do we fulfill the desires that we each have in where we want to be?

I just watched a documentary on the "tiny house" movement. It's always been an idea that has fascinated me, discarding everything that can't fit inside a less and 300 sq ft space is something that I believe this society greatly needs. The importance placed on material possessions is something that would have seemed insane 100 years ago.

Of course there are millions of things that have changed in the last 100 years but that makes the tiny house movement no less appealing. Allison and I moved from a one bedroom to a two bedroom apartment about three months ago. It's been nice to have a nicer and more comfortable space but it's amazing how much junk two people can accumulate. Several pieces of furniture, tv's, boxes full of clothes and too many useless trinkets to count.

Why is it so hard to get rid of things I haven't used in years?