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 I felt the anxiety and frustration creep up and try 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. 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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  • Title: Custodial Staffs' HR Complaint and a Bathroom Vanity Picture
  • Meta Title: I Didn't Want to Paint a Toilet, So I Did a Vanity Instead
  • Meta Description: 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.
  • Meta Image: /assets/images/bathroom-vanity-not-a-toilet-20260211-600x.jpg
  • Meta Image Alt: 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.
  • Layout: art.njk
  • Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026
  • Modified: n/a

Inspiration

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. 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 recent quality of service issues have plagued the streaming service, and the initial addition of ads for paying subscribers led to a brief uptick in attrition, the company's quarterly revenue numbers buoyed the leadership team's resolve to add more ads across all service levels.

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

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