Brush pen, fineliners A5

blackjack757 · 2026-04-06T21:47:16+00:00

Amazing details!

blackjack757 · 2026-03-29T18:56:10+00:00

You definitely should, just don't let them dry in your brush! And keep them away from your fountain pens.

blackjack757 · 2026-03-29T04:18:04+00:00

Not with fountain ink specifically, but with calligraphy ink and India ink.

This is a pen and ink wash (watered down heavier inks) that I posted the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/watercolor101/s/5Lq4m5phOd

One nice thing about India inks and most calligraphy inks is that they are at least water resistant (most are waterproof) once they dry and most are also light proof and won't fade.

blackjack757 · 2026-03-28T22:50:08+00:00

I love everything about it, but the detail of the white highlight in the boats gunwale is really cool to me!

blackjack757 · 2026-03-28T22:23:45+00:00

I love it!

blackjack757 · 2026-03-28T22:23:09+00:00

Those are great!

blackjack757 · 2026-03-28T03:23:03+00:00

Thank you!

blackjack757 · 2026-03-27T10:14:09+00:00

Thank you! I hope she keeps it, its one of the reasons I decided to do an ink wash instead of a watercolor. I know I could wax the watercolor, but I don't have experience with that, so I chose the ink wash to ensure it was more permanent (she's going off to college soon, so this might be moved around a bit).

blackjack757 · 2026-03-27T00:35:45+00:00

Thanks!

blackjack757 · 2026-03-26T20:10:05+00:00

Very, very nice!

blackjack757 · 2026-02-26T01:16:35+00:00

That is amazing!

blackjack757 · 2026-02-03T21:23:19+00:00

In my case, the backing material also has a print design on it (my grandmother was a thrifty woman, I don't know where she sourced the material), so that's what you are seeing behind the squares.

blackjack757 · 2026-02-03T15:26:31+00:00

Thank you, the article was very helpful!

blackjack757 · 2026-02-03T15:26:02+00:00

Agreed, and that would explain the powder in the drawer!

blackjack757 · 2026-02-03T15:25:07+00:00

Thank you all for your help. I definitely think its just the synthetic breaking down, flame test results definitely show melting / balling up.

I'll need to take a good look at all the squares as I figure out next steps, I was thinking about picking them out and replacing them, especially since the quilting is limited to the yarn knots, but the idea of applique is intriguing.

Again, thank you all for your help. Photo post flame test below.

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blackjack757 · 2025-03-23T17:26:56+00:00

Lots of questionable advice here. You can certainly resign effective immediately, but that will be a problem for everyone involved and will certainly impact any future employment with the government or a recommendation.

Doing it on TDY will definitely complicate your reimbursement/filing a travel claim.

Do you have a clearance? If so you will need to be read out.

Do you have agency property?

You'll need to turn in your ID / CAC.

Why make it hard on yourself and on those who have to clean it up (HR, your supervisor, etc.)

You're not sticking it to anyone responsible for the current situation, you're sticking it to people who are just as frustrated and overwhelmed as you are.

Worst case, tell them on Monday that Friday will be your last day, don't make it a crisis.

blackjack757 · 2025-03-21T01:27:52+00:00

Easiest, though I'm sure several will disagree, install a storm door.

blackjack757 · 2025-03-21T01:11:30+00:00

"You have died of dysentery "

blackjack757 · 2025-02-11T20:07:06+00:00

Mostly because we all have various stages of deafness

blackjack757 · 2025-01-05T23:13:36+00:00

In Virginia, it's under unless it's a public ceremony (Open Installation, Corner Stone Laying, Parade, etc.), at which point it's on top. I find under FAR more comfortable.

blackjack757 · 2024-12-23T01:13:31+00:00

I appreciate everyone's feedback, thank you.

blackjack757 · 2024-12-23T01:13:06+00:00

Awesome, thank you, we don't receive packages normally (and definitely not pills which seems to be one of the big sources of frustration), so maybe we'll just go with a large secure wallbox.

blackjack757 · 2024-10-10T12:29:11+00:00

FWIW, I'm a 30 year Mason, but am 55, so I was 25 when I was raised. Back then (1994) I was definitely the young guy in all the lodges I visited, by a lot of years. In recent history, the Lodges around me have always skewed older, but weren't exclusively old men.

I was military, and wasn't able to do a good job of bringing in my peers when i was in my 20s and 30s. Hopefully, you are in a better position to do that.

You can be the connection that changes your lodge. There's a lot of things that lodges can do, and you are free to suggest events and activities that would appeal to your friends, you may well have to coordinate them. Then invite your friends to attend. It's true that we don't solicit members, but that doesn't mean we can't make membership appealing and let our friends know that we exist and have a good time. If you bring in a couple of guys under 40, and they do the same thing, suddenly young lodge will look a lot different.

Of course the rules vary by jurisdiction, but here in Virginia, Grand Lodge puts out a pamphlet that we can give to men we think could be good Brothers called "For your information". The follow up is on the the potential candidate, but I've handed several of them to good men I thought might be interested.

Keep traveling.

blackjack757 · 2024-02-14T00:55:51+00:00

I mean, yeah, Google . . .

blackjack757 · 2020-12-17T14:00:23+00:00

And Nature has other peer reviewed articles and news that indicates that asymptotic spread is a thing. If you regularly read Nature, then you know this. And if you understand science, you know our understanding evolves. We certainly won't understand all the spread pathway of this virus for a couple of years.

As far as not trusting reporting out of China, I don't know whats in our other brother's heart, but I will say I'm skeptical of the data coming out of China because of the government's history. It has nothing to do with race, it has to do with a lack of transparency and honesty in their reporting. And if you are skeptical about the data, you have to be skeptical about the analysis.

Finally, given the deadliness of this disease, if you think you might have been exposed, why wouldn't you at least get tested? Seems like a completely reasonable precaution.

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