I've completed seventeen of fifty-two pages of this latest book.  I hope to finish twenty-two pages by the end of April.  The way things are trending, I could finish illustrating this book by the end of May. That would be awesome!

I'm still sorting out what all happened and what all was going on and where the woman I reached out to socially last week was coming from in general.  That kind of stuff takes me a while to sift through.  It might be some time before I decide if I want to be around her again.

Here's page 2 of my latest issue of "...Songbook."  I find that I really have to have my "A" game when I work with these old school pens, brushes, and inkwell.  That means: lots of rest and a large block of time ahead of me to work for a session.  That's why it's going to take so long to complete the illustrations for this book.  I'm thinking July at the earliest.

I'm trying to relate to someone in my world in a way that I find sustainable, obtainable, and accessible.  For this  particular person, I've decided to disengage with contact with them for a period of time.  I think it will be a factor of at least weeks, if not months.  I've decided to stop bitching about not having conventional romantic access to this person, and just go a way in relation to them that has worked quite well for me in the past.  I'm not going to be able to keep a mad on the whole time in my decision, and I'm not even particularly angry about the lack of access to this person as a companion at this moment.  

​The course of action I'm undertaking really works for me, particularly when I want to set a limit to how much I will do to get with someone such as her.  After a while, I've found, decisions I make to disengage with such a person may be ones I make out of anger at first, but the anger fades, and I do well to come up with reasons to keep up the disengagement that don't involve anger or resentment  towards such a person.

It's looking like July before I finish illustrating this book. I'm enjoying down time.

I finished outlining the forty-eight pages that make up the body of issue number 2 of "Richy Vegas Songbook." Yay!