I just inadvertently removed this from my beard, chin area. I thought it was a zit or an ingrown hair but upon closer inspection, I'm freaking out.
I was at a park on Saturday for 4th of July celebrations but didn't lay on the grass or anything like that.
If it is what I think it is, what are the odds I caught something from it being so small (nymph)?
This was in Miami, FL.
One day my skull will be a collection of bone cells tightly packed together depicting the humanity of a specimen, telling no part of the story of a man. Stories will be lost in ivory shapes; learnings will be forgotten in blemishes and archeological insights. All that I’ve known and concluded will be erased by the implacable flow of time, all that I’ve loved and yearned for will be deleted by entropy and waste.
All my dreams are truly vapor. Things I considered to be the most important will fade away the minute I’m gone and will become irrelevant. No research will be able to find my most essential drives; no knowledge will guide anyone to find my earnest endeavors. Nothing of me will permeate time other than my dead biology.
There will be no grooves for heartache. There will be no notches for disappointment or grief. Suffering has no osteology, pain has no evidence.
This is why what is left of my cranium once I’m gone is merely a casket for my hopes. Merely a container for my heart’s desires. I was nothing but a man, otherwise a cacophony of potential. A rainbow of targets, and a horizon of goals.
I learn this while my skull is still entombed by me. I learn this while I can still bring a storyline to these cells. I learn this while the universe still gives me a chance to make a difference, to drive my existence into bone. and I am not one to waste that opportunity.
I saw this little guy in the backyard and noticed his right leg looks off. Looks like an infected leg maybe? But then, with such a massive infection, wouldn't he had gone into sepsis already?
I'm feeling super distressed for this little guy, with nothing I can do about it, and can only imagine the amount of pain it is in.
Any vet out there, is it really an infection or is this some normal thing that is not causing it pain??
I had been thinking about trying stamping, and started testing with a simple resin 3D printed stamp plate and a nail stamping silicone stamper.
I tested three different depths: 0.03mm, 0.06mm, and 0.09mm, and seem to have the least horrible results with 0.06mm.
My problem doesn't seem to be the plate or the plastic card drag, but the paint itself instead. Maybe it's just I'm not being gentle enough with the stamper on pickup?
I'm attaching a picture of how the paint looks after pickup, which I think is where the problem is. I'm using regular acrylic paints, non thinned, straight off the bottle, but you'll note the paint looks streaky after pickup.
What do you think the problem is? May it be you can't use regular acrylic paint and need to use nail polish?