I’ve decided to try to get my Canon ImagePrograf IPF750 up and running so I can start making prints of my photography and art work, which I will be selling online in The Grey Rabbit site store [Under Construction right now]! Good news is it was free! Bad news is it needs a PF-04 Printhead and ink… the ink isn’t too costly but the Printhead is a good +$350.. With everything going on, I don’t quite know how to justify spending that kind of money on it right now. Maybe I could get some pre-orders going for a limited run of prints? Would anyone be interested in that? Or maybe some one-off commission work? Comment below if you’d be interested in helping support my work and getting the shop up and running!
Of my big time projects, this is definitely one that would help me gain a little more financial freedom and show my kids that dreams are attainable, even if it takes time. My other big project is my Azure Blue 1990 Nissan 300zx, it hold a very special place in my heart, use to go for drives with my mom when my depression would get bad. It’s been ravaged by time for about 12 years now, and until last year, sat in my brother’s backyard, the constant eyesore for everyone. I need to move it again, Jill is being kind enough to let me keep it at her house as my little townhouse has rules against non-running vehicles. Honestly, Jill has been the biggest push to do these things; go forward with my art and photography, and even to not give up on my car. It sat for nearly 10 years in my parent’s backyard but she got me to get it moved, a lot of my growth is due to her, she’ll never know how much I appreciate all she’s done for me, really opened my eyes up to want to do and be better. I want to sell prints of my artwork and photography to push myself to improve, and I want to have some extra income to start working on the Z32, I want my kids to see me take it from this hollowed out, rusting piece of metal to something they can go for rides in.
I have a very bad habit of looking at the past far too often, I should probably make it a plan to stop doing that this year. I have caused a lot of hurt in my life, I’ve felt a lot of pain, and there are many people that felt pain because of actions I took when I was going through pain. All I can do is keep moving forward and paying more attention to the steps I take, pushing myself to grow in a better way, towards a future I want. Nobody else can do it for me, and I can’t take away the pain I’ve caused, I can only keep trying to do better.
“The glove compartment is inaccurately named
And everybody knows it
So I’m proposing a swift orderly change
’Cause behind its door, there’s nothing to keep my fingers warm
And all I find are souvenirs from better times
Before the gleam of your taillights fading east
To find yourself a better life
I was searching for some legal document
As the rain beat down on the hood
When I stumbled upon pictures I tried to forget
And that’s how this idea was drilled into my head”