Fighting Software - Arrgh sometimes they don't mix

There are times when software makes you want to pull your hair out!  I installed some software the other day that promptly made another program cease to work properly!

Here is my little sketch of how I was feeling at the end of the night.

To add insult to injury, my main software came up with an error message and it took a 40 minute phone call to a helpdesk to fix that problem!  (My computer was given over to the hands of the "help techo" and I watched him fix the problem... a rather strange feeling to watch someone remotely move about inside of your computer!)

Fat Santa - a tired Santa with his heavy load

 

Santa is a little tired, he carries a heavy load, making all the children of the world happy.

Cool Bird - the start of the Christmas Season

 

 

I thought I should get into the "snow" of the Christmas Season.  In Australia, where Christmas is a season of blazing hot summer, we send each other cards and pictures of "Northern Hemisphere" Santa and snow. 

In Australia, we stick fake snow on the windows and in shop displays and then head for the beach!

The Need - a poem about the earth

The Need      by Paul Howlett

 

The rap song in my head

Lots of words

Lots of dread

Banging on the drum

Banging at the door

Lots of ideas

Making me roar

Speaking out about the evil

Speaking out about the things

Making us all aware

Of inequalities of life

Looking at the love life

Of all the earth

Are we here for good?

Will we make the grade?

Never looking back

Will humanity totally fade?

Finding the balance

Between life and death

Need to balance need

Without recourse to greed!

Waterfalls - a lovely place to be...

When I see water, when I am near water, when I am in water, when I am underwater, were ever I go in, out or about water I am happy.

Blue Face - A Gothic Look?

Then there was a blue face in my drawing.  I started out just putting my pastel crayon to the paper and making a blue background. 

Who's face do you think it is?  It could be a history figure that has foreseen the future.  The face could be a long lost relative.

Who do you think this face resembles?

The Business Plan - a poem of wealth

The Business Plan by Paul Howlett
　
The business plan
The way to make money
The way to success
The way to succeed
In business, or not
Depending on luck
Depending on what
We ask ourselves
As we start anew
A venture to win
Without too much sin
Can we really make money
Inside of the rules
What about the billionaires
Are they all ok
Have they been lucky
Born into the home
Of rich parents and such
Or just struck it rich
On hardwork and grit
This thing I know
You can only succeed
Without thought for greed
To make heaps of money
Ok, but just not worry
Spread it around
Fertilize the ground
Then we will see
That both you and me
Can have all the wealth
And give the next guy
A go, mentor is the way
And at the end of the day
Everyone will have pay!

The Picket Fence - a poem about unfinished business

The Picket Fence       By Paul Howlett


I am a picket fence
Long neglected that’s a fact
I am snaggled toothed
And bent
Lots of missing palings
Lots of holes to fill
Then one day
Oh Joy
Oh Boy
The workmen came
And fixed me up
Replaced the holes
Replaced the parts
But wait, what happened here
They left me unpainted
Multicoloured and queer
They painted two panels
And left me alone
I am not complete
Multi shaded and all
I must call the owner
I must raise a stink
I look like a fence
That was never complete.
　
　
　
This poem reflects my view of a fence of a corner house that I pass everyday on the way to the shops. There are a set of traffic lights at this intersection, and if you have to stop for a red light, you get to look at this poor old fence. The house and fence were in a sad state for years, as the owners of the house, an old Queensland, were gradually renovating the building.
Then one day they replaced all the missing palings in the picket fence, and I thought “Yeah“, they are going to finally fix the fence. Then they painted two and a half panels of the fence with nice white paint. Then nothing…The fence looks ok, except that all the replacement palings were a lot of different shades of colour. I guess that the renovators used second hand palings. The whole place has never really been finished, there are people living in the house, whom I assume are renters, (otherwise they would paint the fence)!
I just wishfully hope that one day, they will fix the fence!

Fighting Xmas Trees

The Xmas Trees are fighting...which one is the best?  Which one is the biggest?...we all need to focus on the real meaning of Christmas and not focus on all the glitter and lights!

Wet NY

After watching all the troubles that the storm has caused to New York... I drew this little dark sketch, reflecting my mood and I pray that the people of New York and the whole of the Eastern Seaboard of the USA recover from this terrible storm.