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Strategic heat-related outdoor work batching continues. Chair surgery with angle-grinder scalpel / welding this morning, inside-Shed stuff form postprandial XTREME HEATDOMEery. Did a background coat on a new canvas to paint this afternoon as well.

I enjoy painting while I’m painting but I hate the drying part, the waiting, blah blah blah: I’m impatient, always will be. Both of my main media, metal and words, are pretty frictionless - weld / write / done / the thing you put down is the thing that goes out. Add too many steps of a production process and my interest wanes. Still, painting remains a useful unsticking practice and a lesson in acquired patience – even if it doesn’t take as much as I’d like.

(I also only have one cheap paintbrush left because I’m terrible about cleaning brushes.)

XTREME heat warning through tomorrow, 2000, though I’ve been thinking it was tomorrow since this morning or maybe since last night hence today’s mislabeled Informality (though my writing is such that I doubt you could tell). Note: need to find more Flairs; dislike drawing Informalities with Sharpie.

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Domed, day two, day infinity. New vacuum cleaner arrived and is fully assembled. House vacuumed. Derbz helped, with both assembly and with vacuuming though spent most of the time barking at it.

I’m staring at a thing I want to turn into something but heat-brain precludes me from figuring out where to start / etc etc (begin from the beginning and go on through to the yeah fuck you rabbit or hatter or whichever one you were I’m under the dome here).

Three dead in a fire at a local Econo Lodge, cause still under investigation. Local newspaper so pathetic the story wasn’t written by a local reporter but one for a Columbus paper (90 minutes south) and any and all news I’m getting on it is coming from Cleveland news stations (45-60min north).

Under the dome, indeed.