Weekend wrap-up

Well, the bedroom trim is painted, the house is clean(er), and I got to hang out with my sister for a while…. got a massage, that’s always good, and found the diningroom under a mound of stuff. Nighthawk appears to be feeling better. Jessdog got in some serious sun-time, which makes her a happy puppy. And despite how horrible the art looks in both the Saturday (past) and Monday (upcoming) comics, I feel pretty good about them – they’re awful, but a darned sight better than I did a year and a half ago when this ship launched.

Work this week promises to be as hectic as last, but with things a little less crazy at home and closer to conquering the new schedule. See you on the forum.

Cole Returns

Cole returns to the restaurant in tact, well, for now anyway.


There are so many things wrong with the art for this comic I can’t even list ’em. I will say that it’s not late because of panel 3, but rather because of panel 1, which I must’ve drawn eight times over 2 days and still hate. Cole looks like a toddler who just figured out he can run if he sticks his arms out at the same time. But, better a badly-drawn comic than no comic… if y’all waited for me to learn to draw before you read these, there’d be nothing to read.

Side Trip: Bimbo Bread Trucks?

freakin' weird.


So my new work schedule is kicking my tail. Plus tomorrow’s food day and I have to make spinach dip before I fall asleep from the new work schedule kicking my tail. So rather than skip a comic today or make up some kind of crap, here’s a spare I made a few weeks ago after passing one of these trucks on 422. Back to the regularly scheduled plot Saturday, I hope.

Pointless technological annoyances

I work in the website support department of a big huge company who I’m not going to name here, and I’ve got a degree in software engineering, so I’m well-versed in the financial expenses inherent in software testing and development.

Still, it does nothing but piss me off when a cool marketing gimmick like the Target Red Hot Summer Sweepstakes looks like it’s going to be all-browser friendly (flash interface, cool effects) until you try to do something useful like take advantage of the “free music” offer and then find out that hey, since I’m not running Internet Explorer on Windows, I’m not invited to play.

I know there are some folks who hate the little “Best Viewed With” messages that adorn many websites, but frankly, I’d rather be told at the beginning that “hey, this cool thing? NOT YOURS.” than get halfway in and find out. (I’d also rather have a “feedback” link right under it.) I mean, dammit, if a company’s going to be lazy-ass and not write code that everyone can use, they should at least be courteous enough to tell us.

Fun fact of the day:
Based on my web stats for July, around 80% of the humans who hit my site are on Internet Explorer on Windows. (18% of you brave souls are on the IE 7 beta!), around 7% are on Firefox on Windows, around 7% are on Firefox on Mac, and 6% are on Safari on Mac. My mystery Netscape 3 user has finally given up the ghost.