Family Time
The ‘ol site’s a little empty at the moment. I recently moved to a WordPress cms to take the maintenance bits off so I can add content without worrying about breaking the site. More recently, I’ve been busy with my family as my father is fighting a losing battle with colon cancer. Due to this tragic turn of events coupled with working full-time I haven’t exactly had the extra time to devote to finishing the migration to a new site. Added to the fact that I’m scrapping my portfolio and starting a new one. It’s taking a little longer to fill the site again since the diagnosis and recent decline in his health.
However, I did start a project initially intended for my dad and his scale model ship building hobby.
He has been working on a 1:300? scale (5′ long) replica of the U.S.S. Missouri he served on during his stint in the Navy. He needed scale replicas of the maritime flags used on all ships, more affectionately known as the International Code of Symbols flags. Well, I collected them, drew them up and started laying them out with cut marks for easy trimming. The way things are going, he won’t be able to use these.
I’ve decided to finish them anyway, divide them into sets and post them for sale since, while searching for sheets to buy I couldn’t find any. I will be donating 50% of the total sales per month to cancer research. Every form of cancer is awful and should be eradicated. This can’t be done without more research and research costs money. I want to help that search and this is one of the ways I plan on doing so. In the future, it may help others who are stricken with this terrible disease of the cells. This will be one of the ways I will tell my father I love him as I live on without his advice, sense of humor, good ethics and friendship.