LG420G Moble Phone

Recently I purchased an LG420G TracFone.  Little did I know that this phone has been out-of-production by LG Electronics for at least 5 years!  Now I know why TracFone sells phones so cheap!  Now the only "manual" that TracFone gives a buyer is a "Start-Up" manual.  Big deal!  Garbage!  The phone has so many features that a users manual is needed to navigate through them!  But alas and anon, I discovered that no one, not even LG has a copy of the users manual that once must have existed for this phone.


There exists at least 2 different models of this phone, an earlier model that was nor Bluetooth enabled and used a data cable to connect to a computer, and a Bluetooth enabled medel.  Mine is the latter.  I desperately need a manual for this phone!  If you have a Bluetooth enabled LG420g cell phone and you have a Users Manual for the phone, or if you just have the manual, then PLEASE contact me at hartzog2000@hotmail.com!  I'm sure that we can work out some kind of arrangement as to how I can get a copy of the Users Manual even if I have to pay for reproduction costs!

Thank you,

John

Star Quality

This is the 12th computer generated star that I've done. Hope that you like it. (Click to enlarge).

Another Revision

This is a wild revision of my second computer drawing. I cleaned up the small spikes near the center and I added a few long spikes. I especially like the light blue 45 degree corner spikes. (Click on the image to enlarge it).

A Sign Of Four

There are 4 different, yet similar revisions of my first computer drawings. The drawings became more and more complex as I went along The technique of painting all 4 alike (as far as they went) was a matter of doing a lot of cut and pasting within MS Paint. I colored the first one, them began overlaying the completed colored drawing onto the blank of the next. That way I only to color the additions not the entire drawing over again. I think that they turned out nicely. They give you a glimpse inside my mind. The further I go the more complex I become. (Click on any image to enlarge it).

Alien Spawn

As Barbwire formed a circle Alien Spawn forms a square. I nearly filled the entire space with shapes. Every major shape is filled with another shape. I don't know where this trend is heading and I won't know until the next drawing. (Click on the spawn to make it bigger).

Alien Life Form

This one was sort of out there. I wanted a different way of filling in the space that the 22.5 angle took up. I ended up filling it with rounded shapes. The long outer legs of the trident shape at the 45 degree angle was a happy accident. Here I didn't like the way some of the long ends of the shapes protruded into the shape ahead of it so I rounded things off. Fewer spikes this time as well. (Click on the life form in order to enlarge it).

A Spider's Domain

I originally entitled this one "The Web" but I've changed my mind. I started to use more curved shapes in place of more linear ones. I think that they look better against the spikes. Again, here, Ive used the central design and placed it st the 4 corners of the 45 degree angle spikes. I also tried but failed to not use so much blue this time. (Click in the image in order to see it bigger).

A Baker's Dozen.

I had, with Barbwire, figured out a way around the 22.5 degree problem but it was a little time consuming. With this drawing I left it out and opted for a long spike at the 45 degree angle. But in order to keep it "clean" I had to leave some empty space around it or it would have gotten lost in the clutter. I replicated the central design at the four ends of the spikes. (Click on the image in order to see it bigger).

Barbwire On Steroids.

My lovely wife named this one. It sort of does look like barbwire. All those spikes! I tried to fill every void with something. It seems that I just don't like to see an empty space. I know that empty spaces have value but I just can't seem to bring myself to leave big empty spaces. Notice the black and gray shapes above the pink and yellow ones. The look like alien faces. (Click on the alien in order to see a bigger image).

The Eleventh Hour.

By now I was getting the hang of things. I wanted to fill every shape with some other shape. I was getting bored with the MS Paint standard color pallet. But defining custom colors left me without the original colors and that wasn't good. (Click on the image to see a larger one).

The Tenth Level

This one is a departure from the others in that I did drop the 22.5 degree angle in favor of some windmill like structures. My art was not only growing but changing as well. It seemed that I was incorporating more spikes and fewer curved elements into the drawings. I was beginning to fill the drawings more and more to the edges of the limits I'd set for the size of the drawings. Things were getting bigger all the time. I also felt that they were getting more sophisticated. By now I had gotten so bored with the standard color pallet that I made my own. I collected colors from various pics on my computer and made up a color pallet that is a bitmap. I paste it to the bottom of each drawing so I'll have some color variation to choose from. (Click on the image in order to get to a larger one).

Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine...

Any Beatles fan will recognize the title of this post. This the ninth drawing in this series but the fourth computer aided drawing. It's a little smaller that number 8 below but still incorporates both curved and straight elements. I was still struggling with the 22.5 degree angle. Thought a slight problem I didn't want to not use it because it adds more depth to the finished drawings. Somehow though I feel that this drawing lacks something. I just can't put my finger on it. (Click on the image in order to see a larger one).

Eight Is Not Enough.

With my third computer aided drawing spikes were definitely going to be a major part of each "Stars" design. It was the first time that I had incorporated the 22.5 degree angle into the drawing. This has proven to be problematic. 90 degree angles are the easiest to clone. Just flip a section left or right or up or down. Easy for the computer program MS Paint. 45 degree angles require a little more manipulation in order to clone. However 22.5 degree angles can not be cloned. The limits of the program won't allow for it. I have been able to cut and paste and with the use of another program flip a piece of the drawing then cut and paste it back into the drawing but it is a lot of effort for so little return. I'm learning to live within the limits of MS Paint. (Click on the image in order to see a lager image).

It's Getting Better All the Time.

My second effort at drawing using the computer was a much more satisfying effort. Not only was it fuller and more sophisticated, it was the first time on the computer that I had used black, white and the 2 grays from the color pallet as more than accent colors. Their inclusion seemed to open up the drawing giving it more depth. It also incorporated some of the shapes from my paper and ink drawings. Mainly the pink and blue shapes near the center of the drawing. Spikes were emerging as one of the main features in my drawings as well. It was also the first time that I had connected shapes by removing the lines that separated them where they came into contact with each other. (Click on the image in order to view a larger image).

An Idea Is Born.

This was the first of my computer generated images. I got the idea to use the computer from drawing number 2 and the spikes from from drawing number 4. I used the lay out that I had used for drawing number 2 as a guide. Again I did only 1/8th of the drawing before cloning that one part in order to make the whole. A little added detail that couldn't be done until the drawing was assembled and all that was left was the coloring. I used the MS Paint color pallet without alteration. Compared to my later drawings this one is very crude and unsophisticated. At a later time I plan on reworking the original line drawing and recoloring it. (Click on the image in order to view a larger image).

Drawing Number 5.

This was the last of my ink and paper drawings and in my mind the worst. It was an experiment that I considered a failure though I did learn what not to do from the results. It's too dark, due to the use of markers instead of colored pencils, and some of the detail is obscured because of it. I don't like this one and would have just as soon omitted it from the line up but it was ,after all, part of my learning curve. (click on the image in order to see a larger image, if you must).

And Now For Something Completely Different.

Effort number four was reminiscent of drawings that I used to do which I called "Squares" for lack of a better term. It really looks nothing like my "Squares" only some of the shapes used here reminded me of them. This was a departure from the earlier attempts and something wholly my own. Very crude compared to my later computer rendered drawings but it was the fertilizer that helped the earlier planted seed grow. It was also my first time using colored markers instead of colored pencils. I wasn't quite pleased with the effect. (Click on the image in order to view a larger image).

Third Time Not Quite The Charm.

This was my second attempt at such a drawing. It was an experiment. I laid out on plain paper what would later become my working grid, a set of perpendicular lines meeting at the apex. From the apex a 45 degree line was drawn (I didn't add the 22.5 degree line until later). I then drew only 1/8 of the drawing, the lower half of the upper left quadrant. I drew in pencil, as before, and inked in the drawing. I then erased the pencil and scanned the drawing into the computer. Using MS Paint I then manipulated the drawing into a whole. My work on the pencil and ink drawing had not been perfect so the manipulation did not yield a perfect result either (examine the tips of the four blue and yellow shapes). What this drawing did do was plant a seed of an idea that took a couple of more drawings before it began to grow. (Click on the image in order to see a larger one).

Is It Art?

This was my next attempt at doing something on paper. It was inspired by some drawings that I saw on the JetPens Flickr page. Mine is crude when compared to hers but at least I was trying. Like the first it was colored in with colored pencils. I like colored pencils as they not only give things a translucent look but you can vary the intencity of the color by the amount of pressure you apply. This gives me a bit of leaway in coloring.

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Good Morning Mr. Sunshine.

This was the first drawing that I had done in years. Crude, yes, but for me it was a lot of work as while I may have an artistic eye I'm not much of a sketch artist. I used a quad pad as it is one of my favorite writing/drawing papers due to all the lines. Unfortunately the lines scan (but they don't seem to photocopy) so there is no way to get rid of them. The lyrics were added in MS Paint and are from the Bee Gee's song "Lonely Days" which was the inspiration for the drawing. I posted it on the JetPens forum under "Artwork And Photos" and on their Flickr page. So far I am the only one to publish art on the forum. Why? I haven't a clue. One of my earilier entries, a computer generated collage of penscils taken from photos from the JetPens on-line store, won a $5.00 gift certificate from JetPens! So I'm trying to win another one! Thus was the beginning of my current streak of drawings. They get better, I promise. (Click on the image to see a larger image).

Logitech Mouse Wheel

Whatever you do, never, never and I mean NEVER take the rubber off of a Logitech mouse wheel! Why? Because you will never, never and I mean NEVER get it to go back on correctly. They are never made to come off, they are molded on! How do I know this? Have I been talking to a Logitech technician? No, but I wish that had! No, I, innocently enough, removed the rubber from the wheel of my Logitech optical mouse in order to clean it. And to my utter surprise and astonishment the rubber part was full of tabs and inserts and the plastic part was full of a jigsaw puzzle full of receptacles! Some of these tabs/receptacles were on the sides of the rubber jacket and plastic wheel. Others were along the inner/outer rims! I knew once I had the rubber jacket off the plastic wheel that I was never going to get the two back together, though I tried and tried and TRIED! I even cut the tabs an inserts off the rubber jacket in desperation but it was a lost cause. The rubber had stretched beyond it's capacity to expand and it tore! One dead mouse wheel. Now what was I going to do?

Well, I have a small collection of computer junk so I sifted through it trying to find a spare wheel, but alas, no spare wheel. So I ended up stealing the wheel from a ball type Logitech mouse that I had laying around. The entire wheel mechanism was the same so all the new wheel needed was a bit of cleaning up as the mouse had been sitting ground for a while unused. The color of the rubber is a bit lighter shade of gray but other than that it is the same. A little silicone grease in the right places and the job was complete. The mouse works as well as before.

Bottom line, never, never and I mean NEVER take anything apart that you want to keep unless you know how it comes apart and that you are assured that you can get it back together again. You may not have a spare laying around to fix it with.

Miss Priss

Water, water everywhere,
But nary a drop to drink.
That’s not what my cat says
When she hops upon the sink.

“Meow! Meow!”,
“Please turn the water on!”,
That’s what my cat will howl
Before the morning’s dawn.

So I get up in the darkness
And stumble to the sink.
Just to give Miss Priss
Some water for a drink.

I stand there in the night
As my cat drinks her fill,
I dare not turn on a light
For to wake my wife it will.

Miss Priss is in no hurry,
So on her butt she’ll sit.
It’s really rather furry
And stinky, well just a bit.

“Just one more drink or two”,
Is what she finally said.
Now that she’s finally through
I can get me back to bed.

As I try and get more rest,
Miss Priss gives me a wink.
As she dries her face upon my chest
She purrs, “Thank you for the drink”.

Miss Priss is a lovely cat,
She has a lot of soul.
But she can be quite the brat
When she won’t drink from a bowl.

Every night to the sink,
That’s how our routine goes.
But next time she wants a drink,
I think I’ll use a hose.

Can You Fly?

Can you fly?
Can your feet leave the ground?
Can you reach the sky?
Are you forever earth bound?

Can you touch a star?
Can you reach outer space?
Can your wings take you far?
Are you bound to this place?

Can you swim an ocean?
Can you cross the sea?
Do you have the notion
That it’s time to flee?

Can you climb a mountain steep?
Can you bridge a valley low?
Have you fallen asleep?
Or is it time to go?

Can you say a prayer?
Can you talk to God?
Did they spoil the heir?
Did they spare the rod?

Can you sleep at night?
Can you take any rest?
Is it time for flight?
Is it time to nest?

Can you hug the world?
Can you embrace the wind?
Has your life unfurled?
Do you need a friend?

Is life too fast?
Is there no time left?
Is it all in the past?
Have you reached the crest?

If you’ve done it once,
Can you do it twice?
Is it just a hunch?
Do you need advice?

Can you turn back time?
Can you stop the clock?
Is there reason to your rhyme?
Is it time to take stock?

Has your life overflowed?
Are you in distress?
Ahead’s a long road.
Can you stand the test?

Can you free the ties
That have you boun’?
Can you resist the lies?
Do they hold you down?

Do you wander alone?
Is He at your side?
Do you have a home?
Are you along for the ride?

Do you long to be free?
Do you want to soar high?
Are you just like me?
Can you fly?

Toothaches, Part 2

MY TEETH HURT! Now I have 2 teeth that hurt ALL THE TIME and I can't do anything about it. Unfortunately for me they are on opposite sides of my mouth. I am consuming acetaminophen by the bottle full but it sometimes only dulls the pain. And when I do get the pain stopped it is only briefly because as soon as I eat the pain begins all over again and so I spend another night in agony, swallowing copious amounts of acetaminophen and rubbing generic oral gel onto my gums all in an attempt to ease the pain. If I only had about $4,000.00 then I could go and get root channels and crowns for these offensive bicuspids and then be pain free once again. Yes, I WANT to have root channels! I've had many in the past and once the open nerve is shot full of Novocaine I'm pain free from then on!

The bad things about these toothaches is there position in my mouth. They are along the nerve line that feeds to my ears so when they hurt so do my ears! Yes, I get a toothache and I get an earache as well. But now as well as a toothache and an earache on my right side I'm also experiencing pain in my temple! For the love of humanity will the pain never end? I can't go to the dentist because I don't have insurance and I don't have enough money to even pay for an office visit to examine my teeth to pinpoint the offending bicuspids.

My condition should lead to weight loss. My mouth hurts so bad when I eat eating is not the pleasure that it once was. Both teeth are pressure sensitive and the one on the right is sensitive to cold as well. So eating ice cream is especially torturous. But so is drinking anything cold, unless I use a straw. And eating even soft bread and tender deli meats is a new experience in pain. Why this had to happen at this time in my life I'll never know. I can't even afford to have them pulled, a course of last resort, for pulling them without having partials put in their place will just cause my other teeth to wander and that, my friends, will cause all sorts of problems.

I'll tell you what I want you, yes, YOU to do. I want you to send me an email asking for my name and malling addy so you can do us both a favor. You can write me a big fat check covering all or part of my dental expenses so I can get the much needed dental work done and you can feel good that you helped a fellow human being out, big time! It will also be a nice tax right-off for you. And you would have my undying gratitude, for whatever that's worth to you. So get out that checkbook, send me an email and help me become pain free once again, PLEASE!