drinks diary, 18 january 2014

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Ballpoint pen (black, blue, red, green) and markers.

Working midnight shift at the bingo hall on a day when I had foolishly thought would be my first day of giving up coffee and I lasted about five minutes in the dismal bingo hall lighting where you can’t tell if it’s day or night. Giving up coffee was a bad idea anyway, I’m never going to do it.

One woman got bingo four times in a row that night.

drinks diary 16 & 17 january 2014

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Ballpoint pen in every colour my beloved Zebra F-301 comes in: black, blue, red, and green. Plus a few markers and yellow highlighter.

The Money Train was a special feature that came around occasionally back when I was working all-night volunteer shifts at the bingo hall on behalf of Artcite, our local artist run centre (link: Artcite Inc). I don’t know if I was ever actually present when the Money Train arrived (if I was, it will turn up in this book eventually) but it features heavily in this sketchbook and the big blue one, both of which I used to bring to the bingo and draw in during our significant chunks of downtime.

This was also a period in our lives when we used to put my partner’s daughter on the Greyhound bus every other Friday to go stay with her mom in another city, and after the bus we’d eat pizza at Terra Cotta (link: Terra Cotta Pizzeria) and share a half litre of red wine. Back then I only had about a 50% chance of getting a migraine from drinking red wine; now it’s more like 100%. And yes, that song lyric is misquoted, whoopsie!

drinks diary, 11 january 2014

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A dragon tree in a commode and coffee at the Maple Leaf Diner, the one and only time I’ve ever been there (for a meeting with the roller derby league board of directors). I feel like I may have actually drawn that plant in my partner’s office in the library, though, because he used to have a dragon tree in a commode that died when the first covid lockdown happened.

Drawn with all the Zebra F-301 colours: blue, black, red, green.

drinks diary, 4 january 2014

This 4×6″ black hardcover sketchbook was filled between 4 January 2014 and 4 January 2015 and contains a drawing of everything I drank outside my own home that year.

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I started drawing in a fresh sketchbook while sitting in the Exeter Lions Youth Centre after my cousin Jon’s funeral, watching beads of coffee leak through the side of a styrofoam cup on the table in front of me.

Drawn with blue and red ballpoint pen (0.7mm Zebra F-301, for the pen nerds).