I received my first layoff due to low volume sales company-wide in November 2007. To try and make ends meet, I've worked two jobs since then to almost match that year's income. My night job is now experiencing the same thing and has laid the night crew off. I've been attempting to get my artwork going the last year, but it has been decidedly difficult working 60-70 hours a week, being active in my church, as well as being active in the diesel crew out here.

However, I'm seeing this...

So one of my friends sent me a package. Before it arrived, he tried to get guesses out of me about what it could possibly be. I'm not accustomed to people buying things for me that I actually want - it's usually gag gifts or something completely different (like coasters...or a purse...former went to my sister who had a place of her own, latter went to Goodwill). Anyroad, I never would have guessed! When I opened the package, it had an Amsoil air filter in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If he didn't...

My life as an artist started in first grade. A fourth grader was showing off her latest piece of art, a horse jumping from cliff to cliff at night with the moon, and I somehow got it in my head that if she could draw that, so could I. So I started drawing horses. Lots of them. I had horses coming out of my ears, my parents ears, my extended family's ears...you get the idea! I also drew people and Star Wars vehicles (my favorite movies and books!).

I fell in love with Yoshitaka Amano's...

Not how I ended up on DB, but how did a little thing like me end up with a big diesel. I used to think diesels were an elite group that I could never belong to. I had the elite part right

I've been a big fan of trucks since I was a kid. My parents said that when I was 8 or 9, I informed them that my first truck was going to be a Ranger XLT, although I know I had no idea what the XLT was for, but it probably sounded good at the time. Sure enough, when it came time to ditch the...