Walk 1.1.24

It was REALLY cold today so we decided to just walk down past the Local Ugliest Building that's being built near here. I was thinking we'd take some more pictures, but actually it was SO cold that I didn't want to take off my fur mittens the whole time, or really to stop walking for very long. Here's a couple of pictures from yesterday instead: I noticed Wax had gotten a picture where you can see my ugly snowboots. And my long down coat is actually quite funny. (I had the hood up most of the time today, unlike yesterday.)



I do have some pictures of today's route and the Ugliest Building from when I walked the same way last Wednesday, when it was much warmer. The first one is the gate and wellhouse of the local history museum; the second is the Ugliest Building (in progress).

2023 Quotes [of the Day] of the Month, in calligraphy

Wax and I have been collecting a quote of the month each month since 2011 I think. Usually these were things we laughed about or said repeatedly to each other while browsing the internet side by side; they arose verbally, is the key. Well, for almost all of 2023 we have been cat divorced: that is, hanging out in two separate rooms to babysit two separate cats who can't be together but get lonely if they don't have people with them. This has altered a lot of our habits and prevented us from remembering to pick quotes of the month.

But another thing that happened this year was that I bought a Hobonichi Techo planner, a Japanese planner brand that seems to have a cult following around the world. I needed a calendar for work, and I bought this brand because it's printed on Tomoe River Paper, one of the best papers for fountain pen writing in the world. The Techo planners have a quote of the day in them, but they're not at all like what a western person would expect from quotes of the day - sometimes they actually are quite wise, other times interesting, but in general they're often hilariously weird choices. perhael and I have had a regular bonding ritual laughing about these quotations together, so much so that this year I bought the same planner to make sure I'd still have them.

So when I realized on the 31st that I didn't have quotes of the month to post, waxjism and I went through my planner and picked a Weirdest Quote of the Day of the Month for each month. They were too long to letter like I've done the past few years, so they're in calligraphy instead. (Lettering is where you draw the letters. Calligraphy is more like writing, but just fancy, with stroke order and letterform rules to follow, although I find it more fun to bend the rules and combine styles.)

2022 Quotes of the Month, as well as all previous years

( 'Quotes of the Day' of the Month from the Hobonichi Techo 2023 )

Sample calligraphy:



( The Rest )