January was a busy month. Just after my last entry my client from Texas came up to talk about his fishing lure and to share some Japanese food. I spent a lot of time working on finishing up the Artist’s Guide, which I sent off to the Canadian Printers this week. I think it looks pretty good and we even squeezed one more artist in at the last minute. Last week Jennie and I went to Chicago for 5 days. I knew it was going to be cold, but it was worse than I had anticipated. The average temp was 2 and lots of wind of course. We still managed to enjoy ourselves. We shopped and looked at art and I had my show, which took up more of my time than I would have liked. The gallery is fairly new and the person running it seemed to rely on the artist’s to do most of the work. Lots of people showed up to the opening and I received some compliments, but no buyers for my overpriced art. In general the focus of our trip was food, and we had plenty of good meals. While we were in Chicago my brit friend Rich and his friend Fos were crashing at our place. They had an art show here in Brooklyn that seemed to be a success. Luckily there was some overlap and we were able to hang out for a couple days. We watched the Superbowl over at Brooke’s. There was a lot of beer and food and nobody really paid attention to the game. At the end everyone was like “oh, it’s over?” Now that my month of personal projects are nearly wrapped up I suppose it is time to look for some new work. Hopefully the kind that pays a lot for little effort.