That surely adds but I think it’s more the fact that I read those books as a form of hobby, spare time, relaxation thing. And my body seems to think “Oh, we got some us time? SHUTDOWN -hP NOW”

But then again, when I read stories to my daughter when she was 3 or 4 I also fell asleep reading XD

Is it because reading in a second language is more “work”?
When we lived in France, I used to love completing french Logic Puzzles books (les énigmes logiques).
But I found having to check and double-check my understanding meant I often read things four or five times.
A few times I completely messed up a puzzle because I’d read a clue as…[Read more]

You’re joining in this month, though aren’t you @brennon ?

[PaintComp] September 2025

Sorry folks – hobby mojo went out of the window this month. Congratulations @blinky465

Monday morning. Nice book recommendations.

One thing I noticed and I have zero explanation for:

Me, reading any kind of book in German is fine.

Me, reading books in English: my brain goes into sleepy mode almost instantly. I read the last pages of “Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” by Paul Kidby and the first paragraphs of “Talking…[Read more]

Pledge: keep painting and trying to upload pics of completed stuff from the past few weeks.

My favorite book has been the Figure Painting Techniques FAQ by Kiril Kanaev from AK. I will stand by how good it is and say the price is worth the product.  My other favorites are “The Art of …” series from Dave Taylor. Its a  Kickstarter series I c…[Read more]

Wow! This is a tough theme to model for and might need a purchase of a model. Time to go into deep thinking

@blinky465

Help ? That means I have to do stuff with that idea that just popped into my head.
Things like watching that unboxing video that FLP put on their Alien Kickstarter and count the number of leds (two grids of 6 wide by 5 high and a monitor in between). It also made me wonder if they had any actual patterns in the movie version of that…[Read more]