Spent the weekend programming, drawing comics, and taking apart a laptop to see if it could be repaired. Tuesday’s comic is between 1/3 and 1/2 complete, with all the requisite bits accounted for, just not assembled. I got five hours of sleep last night. I have to work tomorrow. The dog’s sleeping with her head stuffed under the blankets and the rest of her out. We’re supposed to get more thunderstorms. I think we’re out of soap. This is getting a bit too random, even for me – going to bed now.
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Home again, home again, jiggidy jog
I have to say goodbye to the ocean today. We’re going home in just an hour or so — right after we eat breakfast. I’m tan and burnt and still occasionally coughing. I’ve had such a fill of seafood that I can’t stand the thought of it. (The only night we didn’t partake was the night we had pizza and Hershey’s ice cream. No, I didn’t know Hershey made ice cream either.)
Unless dire catastrophe, the next post will be from Pennsylvania.
Oh, and, comic later today, maybe.
Let’s play "good news – bad news"!
Good news: Yesterday, my new scanner came!
Bad news: Yesterday evening, this cold/flu/ugly thing I’ve been fighting got the best of me. I was running a fever (99.7), had a horrible sore throat, and was totally exhausted and didn’t get my scanner set up!
Good news: This morning, my fever’s (almost) broken! (98.8)
Bad news: I slept until 9:15 and don’t have time to set up my scanner. Oh, and I’ve lost my voice. (Okay, some of you might count that in the good news).
Good news: I’m feeling better, so I’ll still be able to go to the beach tomorrow!
Bad news: I have to get all the stuff together for tomorrow to go, so I probably won’t have time to get a comic together tonight.
Good news: The Mariott has high speed internet access.
Bad news: I’m not dragging my scanner down there.
In other, shorter, words, comic schedule still iffy, but I’ll have *something* up even if it’s lame.
Dark!
I saw today’s comic on a PC today, and wow, is it dark. Sorry ’bout that, I’ll try to color test on the PC before publication next time…and if you have access to a Mac you really should check it out there. Much more blue.
Speaking of dark, I’ve got a script for saturday’s comic – sort of – and a start on the storyboard, but one of my models is busy sleeping on the sofa and refuses to go pretend to eat so I can take pictures of her. Mangy mutt ;) Maybe tomorrow. Tonight my throat hurts, so I’m going to bed. But be forewarned that Saturday’s comic is currently behind schedule.
Quick notes
A few quick notes before I crash:
- I have a sinus headache migraine that would kill small animals. It’s been going on for about 4 hours now. Sleep will most likely elude me. Yay.
- I was able to find two swimsuits in size 16 that I’m relatively sure will keep people from mistaking me for a beached whale and trying to push me back into the water.
- I have both a new scanner and more RAM on order, whoo!
- We bought new wireless phones for the livingroom.
- The battery in the Neon is dead, carpooling continues.
- I’ve started repairing some of the comics in the archvie, making sure they have their copyright notices and that they’re optimized for web viewing. I’ve already trimmed around 300-400k from the file sizes and I’ve only gotten like the first 10 comics cleaned up. Those who are on dial-up should find the place is a little less painful in the near future.
- I think my teeth are trying to burrow through my gums to strangle my sinuses. They don’t appear to appreciate the headache either.
Hey, by the time you read this it’ll be August. (In fact, it’s August now!) Please vote on Top Web Comics! Oh, and happy August!
Two steps forward…
So, Tuesday’s comic (a semi-serious one, for a change) is in the queue. That’s 36 hours before it needs to be there. That’s progress.
I have three half-sketched comics in my sketchbook now, which is also progress, except that my ages-old scanner is not Mac OS X Tiger compatible, so I’ve kinda stalled.
Today I’m going swimsuit shopping, and maybe to go get a new scanner. Otherwise a new scanner’s going on order tonight.
I’ve decided not to work on the website redesign until the queue is a bit more robust. It’ll give me a chance to mull over the CSS issues, too.
The problem is, I hate rewriting anything.
I’ve got two comics half-done, but I haven’t finished them, because they’re on paper.
Paper. That white tree pulp stuff. That stuff that doesn’t respond to my Wacom pen
I have to go clear my desk off and find my scanner and set it up and scan the paper comics. Then, I have to finish the paper comics.
Well, it means that for the first time, I have “originals”.