Custodial Staffs' HR Complaint and a Bathroom Vanity Picture
A watercolor of a bathroom vanity with a blue/white marble counter and fancy wooden cabinet. I struggled with both of those surfaces in this watercolor.

Id and Ego Babble

Right when I added that first touch of blue to the wall came that sunken feeling. It's that introductory feeling before the frustration creeps up and tries to convince me to abandon what I was doing. I persisted with the background. Then more bad feelings came when I tried to paint the cabinet – so many different brown shades and grain. I stuck with it and tried the lipstick on a pig. And how do I paint the chrome of the faucets? Or capture the marble patterns? Food goes in the food hole. Paint goes on the brush, then to paper. It's all practice. I didn't give up. And it was slightly easier to keep the bad vibes in check and try to enjoy the process. There's thousands more pictures to paint. Lots of big and small feelings to deal with. Deal.

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I Didn't Want to Paint a Toilet, So I Did a Vanity Instead

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How much remorse would you have for the person who came up with adding commercials for paying streaming subscribers if they were found drowned in a toilet? Also, I didn't want to draw or paint a toilet, so I found, what looked like, a nice vanity to paint. I learned again that color is difficult. And how much detail am I willing to implement is limited only by my patience, which is limited. So there. Sometimes my patience lasts and I can work through mistakes, or I give up. This one is about 70/30: stick with it/then give up.

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600x size: A watercolor of a bathroom vanity with a blue/white marble counter and fancy wooden cabinet. I struggled with both of those surfaces in this watercolor.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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Dead Body Prompts Custodial Staff to File HR Complaint

ABF Newswire: February 11, 2026

LOS ANGELES, February 11, 2026 (ABF Newswire) The drowned body of an executive from a popular streaming service was found earlier today by custodial services in the executive's washroom. When the company's office manager persisted that custodial services clean up and around the body, the cleaning service filed an HR complaint.

"While we strive to keep everything clean, cleaning up dead bodies is not in our contract, " Carla Cruz, the custodial services manager told us over the phone.

The executive was last seen by a group of underlings when he pitched them the desire to inject more ads for paying customers on the company's popular streaming service.

Even though paying subscribers had already watched their monthly rate triple over four years while the service quietly removed thousands of titles they'd been promised, the deceased had championed a new internal pricing model that used your watch history to determine how many ads you'd sit through before canceling. People who watched a lot were shown more ads, because the data said they'd stay anyway. People who watched less were shown aggressive win-back promotions the moment they tried to cancel. The quarterly numbers were great.

At time of publication, the unclaimed body and uncleaned toilet were still outstanding. The death was ruled and accidental drowning.

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