I am surviving the Myrtle Beach Family Reunion and gratefully the Hotel Room has free wireless. Happy Daze. The login and password is the same as the room. Happiness.
Christopher is sleeping and our hotel room smells like many cleaning chemicals. I had my first vodka mixed drink ever today ( I actually had 3 of them in very big cups) and I am sure that they made me a) much more social than I would have otherwise been, and B) kept me at the family reunion longer than I had expected. Overall I had a very good time.
Christopher’s family seems to be very nice and they actually seem to genuinely like each other. Bizarre and very very cool all at the same time. They spent most of the night play music and singing. Also fun and wonderful.
The bizarre part of the evening was when I met Jerry Oplinger. He is: a) the spitting image of Rex Wells, whom I am basing the Rex Spangler Super Hero drawing on, B) his name is Jerry, C) He knows Chinese/Mandarin, D) He is about the same age as Rex.
It is difficult after 3 large mixed drinks, 4 hours of driving, and 2 weeks of institution to explain exactly how strange this is but it is and I am very happy to get a picture of Jerry to use for the super hero drawing as I have been having a lot of difficulty getting Rex’s face on the drawing from memory. It is much easier when you can see your friends.
It is very late (almost 4 am) and we have to get up for brunch and be there by 10 am so I must sign off. I was unable to read X-men in the car ( I started getting car sick) our work on the Rex Spangler drawing ( I started getting car sick) so sadness I did not work on any art Saturday. Sunday is likewise not very likely since the car sick stuff and pure exhaustion seem to be in the cards.
Here is a picture of Jerry. Signing off.
Jerry Oplinger
