Just got the first Yahoo! score alert of the year. The Phillies beat the Yankees in the first spring training game of the year – 6-3. Sure, there’s an ice storm outside that’s got me wondering how many limbs I’ll lose braving my way back home tonight, but baseball is back, and all is right with the world.
Category Archives: Ideas (blog)
Falling into place
So I finally threw out the script that wasn’t working for me in the strip that was supposed to be Tuesday’s, and wrote a new script and started over. I’m currently making good progress on that one, but I’ve also got to put together my comics for the hobby expo on Thursday for work. Anyway, there’s already a slightly-off-topic comic in the queue for Saturday if I don’t get this other one done, and if I do, well, Saturday’s current comic will become a Friday bonus comic and today’s will become Saturday’s and I’ll start panicking for Tuesday all over again. Ah, to rebuild the buffer.
At least I’m getting ideas again.
Tonight, I worked on the comic while listening to the Blank Label Comic Podcast which you’ve probably heard of if you’re a webcomic geek like I am, but for the rest of you, it’s a podcast hosted by two members of Blank Label Comics and features interviews with other webcomic authors and artists once a week. I’m currently way behind – just finished Podcast #8 from October (now I get what all the freakin’ drama was about) but drama flare-ups or no, I think it’s really valuable to get an insight into comic creators and their similarities and differences. So if you too are a webcomic geek you might like it.
Meanwhile, I was in Photoshop training for the past two days and have picked up many a tip plus a big nifty book. I promised myself I’d go to bed by 12:30 this morning because I’m giving blood at work today and I think it’s important not to go to work exhausted when you know you’re going to be literally drained by the end of the day but if I get a second I’ll upload one of the really nifty things I did.
Otherwise, all else is good. Hope you’re the same.
The Spoon Theory
The Spoon Theory is a story about what it’s like to live with a disability or illness, and you should read it.
Arthur, King of Time and Space
Big wind go whoooOOOoooOoooo
Okay, I realize it’s midnight and I only got a little over four hours of sleep last night, so I’m a little more imagination-prone than I might be otherwise, but I was just outside with supermutt, and, well, you know that big wind in My Neighbor Totoro, when Satsuki is out gathering firewood and (though she can’t see him) Totoro goes flying by?
The exact same thing happened while I was outside. Except all my firewood didn’t go flying up a huge mountain by itself.
(By the way, the one I linked to up there I suspect is the dorky new version that Disney redubbed recently. The original is this one, but it’s no longer available.)
Anyway, I’m still up working and my husband’s asleep and my dog is grumbling her way back to sleep, but I think I’ve only got about an hour to go writing this training and then I get to sleep. Yay for progress!
The Official Ramen Homepage
I’ve never been a fan, but some of these recipes for Ramen sound good even to me, so if you happen to be a fan (or a starving college student) you may enjoy!
Tired of phone trees?
Tired of pressing buttons a dozen times to get a live human on the phone, but also tired of Citibank’s ads for the credit card that guarantees you a human? Why not just try gethuman.com to find out how to shortcut to a person wherever you’re calling?