After a long week, some office humor can boost morale. My boss (Adirondack Tire DM/ Corporate Ops. Manager), Eric S., asked me to reach out to my old friends at Warren Tire and see who might want a job as a mechanic with our company. I worked at the Latham and the Schenectady stores, so I have quite a long list of friends at both locations. I even filled in at East Greenbush at the request of the District Manager of Warren Tire, who is also named Eric – Eric Filimon. I asked him to stop by and drop off his resume as a Friday prank to embarrass my friend at work. I thought this would be a good time to discuss why I left Warren Tire and how insulting the manager of the Schenectady store was to my ex-girlfriend, Stephanie. She visited me on my lunch break, and a customer saw me talking to her. He made an insulting remark about her, not realizing who she was, and I told him that was my girlfriend. I could not work for the company anymore after how insulted I felt even though the district manager wanted me to consider another store. Luckily, I was able to use the two months between Warren Tire and Adirondack Tire to grow Magick Mechanic and complete my deck of cards, which I redesigned without the text this month. Magick Mechanic shut down for the winter since it is too cold to operate in Upstate New York from December to March. The company has an offer to be bought by Adirondack Tire. I told Larry I did not want to sell my small business, yet he is a very hard person to refuse if he wants something a certain way. I always make sure to go the extra mile with vehicles for his friends (and he has a lot of important friends who are always visiting our corporate headquarters).
my toolbox with my new stickers and Hebrew calligraphy @ Adirondack Tire HQ
In honor of my presidential portrait series, I have decided to make the secret page of designs I created for President Biden – public!
I will not say if I liked him or Trump better, you will have to wait and see how I paint them at the end of the series. Also, check out my political designs on my portfolio here. I will post some process shots of my Washington portrait soon.
These are some animated .gifs that I created with Sequana and Ace Malagurio, my representative character in The Flying Dutchess.
I have also completed some new animated backdrops, which will also be in my updated portfolio. I have been working on several new logo ideas with mountains at work, inspiring my latest animated background creations. It has been stressful at work with our lead mechanic out with a hand injury, yet I have a newfound respect for him since I have been filling in for him with some of the advanced mechanic jobs. All the hardest jobs from other stores get sent to corporate. I enjoy the challenge, yet it can be very taxing. I have also ordered a new batch of redesigned decks with no text and changed several cards. I am not sure if it will still be called The American Game either, yet when the cards arrive I will blog about the new information.
Mount Strimba – UkraineEmerald Chasm – inspired by my new job at Adirondack Tire’s Corporate Headquarters
I was so happy during the week of Christmas last month when I thought my father, Timothy Szal, had finally gone to the police about how he had to lie under duress because of threats by the Bufano gang. I called my Schenectady County probation officer, Katie Soule and left her several emails. I naturally think the case has finally been declared a mistrial, or I have turned over a new leaf with my father due to the suspicious and unsolved murder of my Aunt Nancy (his younger sister). I emailed the court coordinator for the 485th District Court, the court for both cases I caught on Nov. 7th, 2023. I asked for a status update on my case since I emailed several requests regarding the court proceedings at different times in the last few months with my civil case versus Tim. I stated I had not been able to contact my probation officer. I still have not heard back from either of them, and I am very worried a plot has been worked out to pay members of the court/probation departments of Tarrant & Schenectady Counties to disenfranchise me by nefarious means. I decided to change my plea from no contest probation to not guilty and request a new court-appointed attorney since my previous one is no longer available. This change in plea assumes that the reconciliation that I discussed with Officer Adams of the Southlake Police Department would no longer be honored. I moved to New York to be closer to my mother and help her with things around her place. She is getting more advanced in years, and my parents are divorced, so Tim is not there to help her. Tim pretends I have a terrible memory, I do not know what is going on, and I am lying about my diverse mix of creative plus mechanic skill trees that could make a renaissance orchard Titian or Galileo would adore. These factors make a pretty rare bird when put together and it is easy to make them seem fake or contrived, which Tim plays on. I literally had a co-worker tell me that Tim called and said I stole The American Game deck I gave them for Christmas, and I was lying about my mechanic skills on my resume. Tim also pretended I was a delusional person with a mental illness who is a felon. Thankfully, I have been able to validate my mechanic and graphic design skills to everyone’s satisfaction at my job at Adirondack Tire Corporate. Additionally, I am not a convicted felon. I have my passport and I can obviously leave the State of Texas since I am in New York. I offered to start a weekly Zelle or Cash App transfer to Cheyenne (Roman’s Mother) since I am making a good salary now. I wanted to use this as a way to cement our out-of-court agreement for the next five years until Roman is 18, thus securing more extended summer visits plus additional holiday slots. I was very good friends with Scott (Roman’s Stepdad) and Cheyenne until last year. They mysteriously stopped letting me stay at their house when I visited Tennessee. We no longer coordinated Roman’s birthday gifts or socialized, which is not uncommon for co-parents, yet it just seemed so strange with our previous modus operandi. I knew Cheyenne disapproved of my long absence in Europe during 2022, which she did not think I would return. I thought I would be treated very well by my friends and family if I did return to the United States, yet this has not been my experience. I have done all I can to negotiate without going to family court over Roman. I want to use my time to make more money for Roman’s college fund. It is unfair to me to fight a proxy war with Tim Szal and Frank Bufano in Family Court with Cheyenne, yet here we are. Another reason Tim pretends I have a mental illness, aside from the part that he does not want people to look into what happened in Europe (May 2022), is that it is much easier to brainwash people into helping with a flagrant crime if they think the victim is “easy prey.” Unfortunately, Tim was very likely involved in the death of Nancy, one of my dearest relatives who did not want to pretend I was mentally ill. I pray every night now for her soul to go to heaven since taking your own life is a mortal sin. She was one of the most positive and fun-loving people you ever would have had the pleasure to meet, like many people whose profession involves music, especially dance. I do not believe she would have wanted to hurt herself, and I do not think her getting run over by an unidentified driver was an accident. I was so happy thinking I could talk to Tim after so many years, and perhaps we could put our adverse history behind us. Yet his silence speaks volumes, especially after blocking my company number for Magick Mechanic when I tried to offer a “Merry Christmas” text message during the holiday. I have my spiritual Father in Heaven, whom I can always pray to in my hour of peril or distress. I suppose I was not good enough to receive the present of talking with my earthly father on Christmas this year. I yearn to hear my dad’s voice again someday, as I am sure there is some explanation as to why it looks like he stole from me and did all these bad things. I try to tell myself that he will call and explain how he still loves me and why someone framed him for these occurrences. I have waited for years, and I assume I may have to wait many more…. I have also decided to do a redesign of The American Game. The cards will no longer feature text and will be emblems with small symbols for the zodiac signs, plus some completely new redesigns of the additional royal cards. Some cards will retain their color schemes, which might evoke an indirect connection with certain national teams. I am not a big sports fan, and I have found the cards to resonate more with the spiritually developing crowd than the sports arena crowd. Yet, many will not, and I shall elaborate more in the book I am writing on the deck. The old-style cards will no longer be available for sale on my website. The cards will now be sold for $49.99 with upgraded material quality and packaging.
My zodiac sign that I share with Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. – we may seem different, yet we are all very perseverant to a fault
The message that appeared on my computer two weeks before the appeal deadline for a court case with Timothy – My pet rabbit, Mugs Bunny, has not been returned and is believed to be held still as a pawn in Southlake.
I was very distraught to hear the news that my aunt Nancy had been hit by a car while crossing the street. My father emailed me about this tragedy this morning.
Sad news, a car struck Nancy as she crossed a four-lane street (Governor Printz Blvd) in Willington, DE, around 5:30 PM on Thursday. I am writing this late Thursday night. She was transported via an ambulance and pronounced dead at Christiana Hospital on December 5, 2024.
email from Timothy Szal 12/06/2024
Two weeks before, my old roommate Timaris Weaver was also killed mysteriously at night while trying to cross the street in Austin. I do not want to connect the dots incorrectly, yet it would appear that these two individuals being killed similarly is an extraordinary coincidence. I lived with my younger brother Alex and Timaris at Alex’s house in Austin for several years. We all had some good times together and Timaris is someone I should have mentioned in my Veteran’s Day post because of his military service.
I hope everyone will keep these two in their prayers. Please hug your loved ones a little closer this Christmas and be thankful they are still with you. I pray I can reconcile this situation somehow before anyone else gets hurt.
I was teaching several subjects online for Varsity Tutors, including AP Art History, Java Script, Geography, Animation, Drawing/Painting and even Minecraft Coding Camps. My father, Timothy Szal, wanted to go on an extended trip to Europe for more than two months. So, I took a brief sabbatical from teaching, and we planned to go to Paris for three to four weeks and then walk across Spain on the famous “Camino Trail.”
My father had recently employed me to redesign and renovate a second building on the 1342 Meadow Glen property in Southlake. We had discussed my being able to rent out the place for two years in exchange for payment (I also spent a good deal of my own money on extra design elements like the turtle knobs on the bathroom cabinets).
My father “accidentally” pushed me down a steep cliff while we were passing from the border of France into Spain near the Pyrenees Mountains. The fall hurt my leg, and about halfway through the “Camino Trail”, I was forced to stay back and rest in Burgos while my father continued without me. He returned after several days with 5 Spanish thugs who tried to subdue me. I was able to run off, and they followed me on the trail for a day until I doubled back. I told my father I was going to the American Embassy, and we flew back to Dallas from Madrid.
I had several strange signs that my father did not plan on me returning. The most significant sign was that my Capital One bank account was closed because I had not had any activity in 60 days – yet my Adobe account for Photoshop, After Effects, and other Adobe products had a payment from that account on May 8th. I also had over $600 in Federal Savings Bonds that I mailed to the bank to turn into money, which got returned as a check (possibly so that anyone could cash them).
I can’t help feeling that after some of the events that took place last year, some of Timothy Szal’s behavior seems quite a bit more suspicious. I just pray that someone on the State or Federal level looks into what has happened. I have a small claims court case in the works now, so hopefully, this will all be resolved from these proceedings.
My company, Magick Mechanic, submitted a lawsuit against Frank Bufano for tortious interference. I consulted Maureen Flint, who is a tenured professor at the University of Alabama, about the lawsuit. She asked Frank about the case and he sold his house in Texas to move to California to avoid the lawsuit. I can only assume that Maureen was offered quite a large amount of cash to betray me and block my profile on Facebook.
I attended Pratt, the art school in New York City, in 2010-2011 with Maureen. She was in charge of the dorm’s floor monitors, which I stayed in during my first year. When my son Roman was born, I had to transfer to TCU to be closer to family even though I was on the Dean’s List at Pratt and enjoyed it very much. I learned many graphic design and animation skills during my foundation year, which all became quite important later in my artistic career.
I would never have been able to design the American Game Deck or animate The Flying Dutchess without my time at Pratt. I am so tired of having to sue people; I just wish that I was receiving better treatment from specific individuals. By doing well in my business and continuing my creative projects, I will seek the best revenge, which is living well. Thank you to everyone who has ordered a deck from my website; I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. I was delighted to see my cousin Ryan and aunts for our Thanksgiving in Upstate New York this year.
This is how I remember Maureen, with her signature platinum blonde hair, as a fashion major at Pratt
I was blessed to start a new job at the corporate headquarters of Adirondack Tire a few weeks ago. I am so happy to get to work on cars and do graphic design, combining two of my unique skill sets. I worked at Warren Tire for almost a year and never met the owner. I worked at Adirondack Tire for one day and met the owner plus his son.
I only have my son Roman visit during the summers, so seeing Sean and Larry together makes working for them a pleasure. It is so nice to see the owner preparing his son for his future role in a direct fashion. I gave everyone at corporate unique decks of the American Game for Christmas.
Roman and I (Summer 2024) at the MOMA in NYC
However, I have gazed at the cards on the wall for a few weeks now and have decided to make some minor changes. The Los Angeles card that might evoke a connection with the Los Angeles Chargers is changing completely. A few other cards will have minor edits, and I will update the master portfolio page. If you would like to exchange your deck for the updated version, please email me at mattszal@gmail.com, and I will gladly send you an additional deck for no extra charge. Thanks to everyone who has supported my work and family by purchasing a deck. God Bless you. I used the cards to do a reading for my cousin Ryan on Christmas Eve. We discussed the upcoming book that I am writing to accompany the deck.
My cousin Ryan (the famous architect) and I
This book shall be in the fashion of The Pictorial Keyto the Tarot by Waite.
This is one of the tentative new versions of the LA card #2
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