New Job

I started my new job this week, which has been rather rigorous. Been at work by 7:30 and worked till 5pm, but the 2 minute commute is amazing.

Lots more AutoCAD work and surveying and who knows what else is to come.

The comic today pulls a good deal of influence from Three Panel Soul, the new comic offshoot from MacHall comics. I thought about making this comic simply black and white as TSP is, but then I started coloring it, which I'm fairly certain destroyed the artistic aura of it.

Here's the black and white copy of the comic in case you are interested.

Cheers!

Wow, so here I am in London! I don't have much time to talk, but I will update soon! Whew! London! The Unreal City! Time to go chase down some fish and chips!

So much exclamation!


-Arrivederci! (or Cheerio!)

Back to Houston

I have to go back to Houston for a couple days, to get some more things and meet with a couple of people, which is why Friday's comic looks somewhat half-finished. I had to draw it Thursday morning and be on the road by 2pm, so this is all I had time to do.

Enjoy.

My own (sort of) apartment for the summer

I am now officially moved into my apartment in College Station. I haven't unpacked everything yet, but was able to set up my desk and computer. I would have posted some kind of sketch, but it's been an exhausting day and I'm playing in a church band tomorrow as a fill-in for Mark Burgess and I'm a little nervous about playing a number of songs tomorrow that I've never heard before. I received the sheet music from a guy named Ray, whom I suppose is in the band (?), yet I have no idea how some of them sound. Wish me luck.

I'll draw something for tomorrow, and we will have a comic for Monday.

I swear.

This week has been crazy/exhausting, and I apologize for the severe lack up updates around here. Moving is never quick and easy.

-Adios

Spiderman

and robots.

Enjoy.

Up and away!

Kathy and I are packing in preparation for the move up to College Station, and we are rather excited to say the least. Thanks to everyone who's keeping up with the comic, we appreciate your support! I'm rather sorry we haven't produced a new comic for today or Friday, things have just been insanely crazy and bizarre, and at the moment packing and getting everything figured out trumps getting the comic done.

Expect a new comic this Friday, and things should continue as normal.

Everyone chill out.

I went swimming today.

Spiderman 3, Sonic Rush

Kathy and I saw Spiderman 3 last Saturday, but I'm not going to go into it much until after Shawn has seen it. We both thought it was okay, or good, but not great.
What did you guys think of it? You can easily say so in our shoutbox on the right side of the website.

We're picking up Sonic Rush for the DS today, too. We both loved the old Sonic games on Sega Genesis and Sonic Rush has gotten really good reviews, has crisp looking graphics and the ability to race against other people via DS download will make it well the $20. Also, zillions of games are going on sale at Gamestop on May 27th, check out this list to see if anything interests you.

Our last final is today, and then off to gamestop at the Woodlands mall, woohoo!

Safe driving/flying for everyone coming back "into town," wherever that may be.

Adios

Politically Correct, Sir

There were some news items today on AOL's homepage that really made me nervous.

A music teacher was fired because she told a kid to hit himself on the head with a drum mallet to show him not to hit the drums too hard. Where's the harm in that? Oh that's right, there's NONE. It's not like she whacked the kid on the head with a bat or anything that could cause any damage. Everyone, take pencil or pen and hit the top of your head with it as hard as you can. Did that hurt? No! Should a teacher lose her job because of such traumatic undertakings? Absolutely not. Fairly soon elementary and junior high school teachers will be replaced with robots that will just sit there and read out of the textbook, making sure that every child is "learning" the correct material. Heaven forbid we should learn life lessons in school.

Didn't anyone see Mr. Holland's Opus? He was hammering that football player on the head with a mallet so he could feel the beat. Sometimes teachers use alternate teaching methods. We won't have any of those when the robots are teaching our kids.

You know what? In real life, that kid will grow up and joke about how a teacher made him hit himself on the head, if he can even remember the incident, and it will just be something funny that happened to him as a child. In crazy life, that kid will grow up and look back and think, "Gee, that poor woman lost her job because I was a total pansy."

Another man is getting jail time because he was making out with his girlfriend on an airplane. Huge threat to society. What's that? Other passengers weren't comfortable around them? You KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT COMFORTABLE SITTING ON AN AIRPLANE NEXT TO A FAT MAN THAT SMELLS BAD! Put him in jail, too. And that little girl that's screaming? Jail. How about that guy on his cell phone that's talking too loud? Kill him. And that guy taking a nap with one of those little blue plane pillows? Yeah, he's making me uncomfortable because I don't have one of those and this is a seven hour flight and I can't get to sleep and he can! JAIL.

Look out for that man kissing that woman. He's definitely a terrorist. Oh yeah, and the steward told them "to stop," and he made "threats." I'm sure they were casual sarcastic remarks, or something like, "Hey leave me alone I don't tell you what to do!" Which would have been totally in bounds.

This is insanity.

Late comic, finals, Save netradio

The comic won't be up till some time tonight due to finals and that whole bit. Kathy and I both found out this morning that we got accepted to Texas A&M so we're excited. We'll be up there for some transfer conference thing May 21-22, and then we'll come back, and then move up to College Station on the 26th.

Also, the internet radio industry is under threat of extinction due to the Copyright Royalty Board that will hike up performance copyright fees some 400%. This goes into effect May 15, and we need to do everything that we can to stop this. This new item will bankrupt most every internet radio broadcasting station, and I listen to internet radio at least 2 hours every day. This even includes the iTunes radio stations.

Internet radio is also a primary means by which up-and-coming musicians can distribute their music. Without internet radio, a vast number of bands will never be heard, and disappear before they even get a chance. Click on either of the banners on our homepage and contact our representatives; we can't let this happen. Just recently the Internet Radio Equality Act was introduced by Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Donald Manzulla (R-IL) that will combat the new outrageous fees, and it needs your help. Please keep internet radio alive!

AOL MUST DIE I AM SO MAD AT THEM

AOL hasn't let me log in to my AOL email account for the past few days, nor into instant messenger, entirely inexplicably and without reason. There is no help file on their website for this sort of problem, I've tried logging on with multiple computers and web browsers, and it just won't let me in. I called their tech support number, which led me through a series of voice activated questions with a robot operator that was of no help. In the end the voice advised me to visit the website for help. The same website where I got the number I was calling from.

Apparently the only way to receive any kind of human tech support for strange errors is to pay a subscription fee to AOL.

For some reason this morning I was able to log in to AIM, but then not my AOL email. I created another AOL account and switched all of my important services to respond to my Gmail account.

In that short time I was logged in to AIM it told me I had received 24 new emails. In two days. This really makes me nervous, because that's roughly twice what I normally get, so there's undoubtedly multiple emails of some importance that I can't access at all. Thanks AOL for not offering free tech support. You're a bunch of liars that drive people in need of help in circles on your help site. They lead you to believe that if you click on a link that says "Contact Us" you'll actually get to do that, but when you do, it takes you to another site, which then has a button you're instructed to click that's supposed to start the process, and then you are returned to the original page. It's highly frustrating and I recommend not relying on an AOL email account for important matters.