The Noisy Alchemist

The Noisy Alchemist

Tetris Inc.

Permission to be done with artwork, learning to not drown, and finally falling for the effect.

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Jan 24, 2026
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The lower lumbar is grumbling once again but I somehow slept through the better part of eleven hours last night. My muscles atrophied.

I spend most of the morning going over yesterday’s column and worrying over cursed admin pertaining to the unique psyche of my spawn. It’s bracing stuff. This charger situation, particularly where it involves the charger for my Sony A Series is of concern. Admittedly it is a third party charger and they are third party batteries but this does not preclude concern. I left them on overnight, with one on said third party charger and another on a rather useful multi charger I found through work. The multi charger did the job, the third party did not and may well be consigned to that great big camera shop in the sky. This is far from being an ideal situation but I am ever more firmly of the opinion that it is better to know where one stands, even if that ground is not ideal, rather than be in the murk. Of course, this is a universal truth…


The Heat Inc. - Shot by Adrian Hextall

Artwork and minor legal hoops regarding Album II with The Heat Inc. are currently on a death march through what might be (but almost certainly is not) the final quagmire before I can say I am “done” with my part and can finally, in good faith, sign off. In retrospect, I have said this and I have been “done” with it many times over the past year and a half and each time I have been proven wrong in almost every way possible. At this point it’s mostly about having the necessary blessings of everyone involved, up to and including those circling the perimeter. If I have any really late-to-the-party advice I might proffer to y’all on this, it’s this:

You can fall out with anyone, even those you might never have imagined falling out with in a million years and it won’t be over anything you could have rightly seen coming because it’ll be something stupid. And it will bite you somewhere in the posterior every single damn time. Get an agreement on paper or in an email so as everyone involved knows exactly where they stand. Be “done”.

yes there is an instructor and yes she’s very nice and seems eminently capable but this is my one and only charge

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