raindrops keep fallin' on ma head
what a day.
first the rain and lots of it. not to mention lighting.
the power went out here at work and the net was down for awhile, too. (before the lights, folks.)

yesterday i got a little postcard from ups. they had a package for me that they couldn't deliver (someone added an extra number to the street address.) it was the fabled keenspace spotlight book!
the keenspacers have pulled together their art and resources to create a little ( 0.o 80 pages!) book to hand out free at the san diego comic-con which starts this thursday.
wwaaahhh!!! i wanna go, wanna go!!! waaahh!
oh, well maybe next year.

there's some good stuff in here and some ok stuff, i.e. needs work, but if they keep drawing, then they'll be working on it. 8^)
i mean even my stuff needs work. some places in the drawings look blurry and there is a typo! opps!
there were also printing errors. poor mark of zortic. his pages were mixed up with that from another book. and then on page 68...poor bry. the ad for lcd was crooked, resulting in some of the text getting cropped of the page. otherwise, it's not bad. i hope it does well at the con. 8^)
if you go to the con, go by booth 1450, the keenspot booth, and pick up a copy! even with the errors and stuff, it's still cool.

the rain has calmed down and i've eaten way too much junk food. i gotta have real food tonight, so i can think straight.
i have to finish scripting out thursdays comic so i can draw it tomorrow.

all this and i'm wearing no pants today.
o.0
ok, it's a skirt, but still...

i've had too much sugar and i'm being way to silly. definately too much junk food. oy.

glych liked the little comic i did. her's is here in my forum. 8^)

scary!
i don't normally get political, but...
well, after listening about the tips program ashcroft wants and then reading the blog of cartoonist tom tomorrow, who draws the politcal strip, this modern world, i now consider the election of george w. bush one of the worst mistakes ever.
i've never been a fan of him to start with.
first, he wants to attack iraq. i'm not happy with ole saddam, but doesn't that make us look bad by just attacking them while telling the rest of the arab community in the middle east that we're all for peace? no wonder they see us as the great evil.
then, the would buearu of homeland sercurity...yeah, our current stuff needs work, but all you're doing it creating more red tape and paperwork.
and don't get me started on ashcroft. mr. ashcroft, go away, please! you're not helping anyone.
ya know i used to be a little apathetic about all this, but after hearing about that inane tips program...
if we want to let citizens spy on fellow citizens, thens let's just quit captalism altogether, put the berlin wall back up and go commie or fascist.
let's just take everybody's civil and other liberties away!
this'll be worse than mccarthy looking for commie's everywhere in the 1950s.

i really dread what will happen before mr. low i.q. bush gets out of office.
ugh! >8^(

i am seriously considering of writing to my senator about all this.
don't know if i will, but i'm thinking about it.
and i was in a good mood until i starting thinking about this! bah!

annoying
i just found the worst pop up ad ever!
it just showed up as a square in the middle of the page, no minimize or close buttons, no way to get rid of it.
it just sat there and eventually faded as it moved to the upper left side of the page.
yuck. that type of ad should be illegal. *ggrrrr*


just as annoying was my isp last night when i tried to load today's blue canary comic.
granted it was 1 am, but still...
first try, it said the computer i was dialing was not responding and every try after that resulted in a busy signal. 8^P
so i had to load it this morning when i got up. 9_9
i just wish it was friday...

ladies and gentlemen,
pending their approval of course, i declare the ads for the first half of august complete.

ya want fries with that, your majesty?
i got an e-mail from dee, who's in our local sca group.
we're hosting crown list in october and she asked if jo and i would be kind enough to serve the high table where the king and queen will sit during the feast.
*squeal!* jo and i are so excited about this. it'll be the first time i've met anyone holding a post that high.
we'll be wearing identical period gard in the colors of meridies, black and white.
half the fun will be planning these two outifts....8^)
can't wait 'til october.

in the meantime, i will be working on my comic today after helping jo move my othr mattress upstair to emily's room. then when emily returns for the fall semester at asu, she will have her pick of mattress instead of dealing with that ancient and uncomfortable twin one in her room currently.

yesterday after work was depressing.
i stressed as i went to dad's to get my mail. i wasn't for sure wheat mood he'd be in. turns out he was in an ok mood. my mail turned out to be the first payment thingie for my student loans, which while it wasn't good, i don't owe that much* so that's not bad.
on the way there, i get pulled over by a state trooper. the same one who pulled me over in may for speeding. yes, i was speeding.
when he asked where i was going to so fast, i explained it was to dad's, that i wanted to get my mail and get outta there and little bit about the divorce. i got off with a warning *whew!*
but it left a damper on my mood.
golive on my computer is acting up, the inspector box will not show an option for tiling images as a background. i don't know how to fix this. i may get ken to do that soon.
and i got the catalog i was waiting for from the SCAD.
tution was high. higher than i thought. i would need lots of finacial help, especially if i wasn't able to obtain a fellowship.
that and it sounds like ken doesn't really want to go to savannah, but would for me. that means that i cannot risk failing if i do go.
i developed a very defeatist attitude, wondering if i could go at all...*sigh*
perhaps i can still go but it may be awhile. i will have to change some personal habits like doing things at the last minute, arriving to places late and some major adjustments in attitude (i.e. getting rid of the defeatist one for example.)
God grant me the grace to do this and the strength to continue. it seems i've got a lot of self-imporvement work to do...

but like scarlett, i'll deal with it tomorrow.
i have a comic to do tonight and i will not miss my deadline.
i think i'll go see eric convey some emotions so i can smile.

*i have 2 student loans, both about $2,000 and something a piece and this is after 5 years of school. not bad.

this is cute, funny, werid and a little stupid. but it'll make you laugh.
eric conveys an emotion

2 mosquito creeks?
hmmm. not good.
i got an e-mail from a nice lady named kim. she wanted to print one of my cartoons. unfortunately, it wasn't my cartoons. it was the work of james robbins, who happens to draw mosquio creek.

what? you say i draw that comic? well, it looks like there are two mosquito creeks. here's the comic kim wanted to print.
you can see my old comic here.

well, this won't do.
my comic is copyright '98, his '99. but i've been toying with changing the name ever since i saw this. i dunno if i want to create battle of anything over this. i have an idea, see.
when i go to visit ken in osceola i see a little liquor store called spirit world. this creates the image of a haunted liquor store in my mind. cute visual pun, huh? i may have it that natalie and her mother, mary an, come back home to a family owned liquor store as well as the house. hmmm. it would give it a centering point i think, better than the family house or the high school. i could focus on both natalie's life in the school and mary an's as she works in the store when not investigating paranormal activity.

well, i tried to e-mail james about this, but the e-mail i got from his page bounced back. i bet it did to poor kim, too. rats.
i was wanted his feedback on this.

waiting
almost time to go and i still haven't heard from terry or tom on that ad. i need their approval on it or i can't send it tomorrow.
hurry up you two!

well, it's official. ken's new computer is cool. 8^) hopefully it will be thing he needs to start on monday the 13th.

he was going to come over on friday evening and we were going to see a movie, but well, plans got sidetracked.
on his way home from osecola, he saw something on the side of the road, two sad little eyes.
they belonged to a puppy, purebred golden retreiver about 6-8 weeks old from the looks of it. who knows how long he was out there.
he had a sister with him who unfortunatley got hit and killed by a car. he was staying near her. there were no houses near by. this was the proverbial "middle of nowhere."
ken said the puppy was estatic to see him, crawling up his shoulder and licking his face and hands. he couldn't just leave him there.
so with the puppy in his lap, he drove out to his parents' place. i met him there.

he's so cute! they've named him "lucky" and he's gotten a clean bill of health from the vet. he's such a sweet dog. he's a buff golden, meaning he's a lighter shade than normal, but still a golden retriever.

i don't see how someone could disregard life so much to put to puppies out in the middle of nowhere. *ggrrrrr*
while, lucky was indeed lucky, i feel bad about his sister who never had a chance. who knows how many people went down that road...not many but enough to hit the poor thing and then to drive by not caring. plus, it had been raining alot the previous days. and it was a purebred to boot!
poor things...i know more people would have picked up the puppy but driven on by if it was a kitten. that also makes me mad! >8^(

but i'm glad things turned out happy for lucky. he's gonna be a good dog.

mom went back to texas yesterday. it'll be awhile before i see her again. it was good to see her even the short time she was here, though.

i talked with jonathan stanley finally. unless we can convince ms. thrasher, the faculty herald advisor, to accept submissions from an alumni or i take a class this fall, there won't be much of a way for me to help jonathan with the cartoons. maybe i could do 2 or 3, but beyond that if ms. thraxher puts her foot down, i won't be able to submitt more than that. we'll see how it goes. maybe there's an art student who oughta join the staff. i vaguely recall talking with grover about that, but who was it that i recommended? *think, kit, think!*

tonight, jo and i go to a pampered chef party. food should be good and maybe i can get ken a new pizza stone since jo kinda permently borrowed his. after that, i'll be working on my comic's new site design. *crosses fingers* hope it works out ok. 8^)

our local, itty bitty sca group just found out it's hosting the kingdom crown list in october. o.0
that means the tournament battle to decide who will be the next heirs to the throne of meridies. and it's a big kingdom. i know foss is excited. 8^)P

ok, back to the ads! i have a deadline here.

well, i was so pooped when i got home. all i did was change into my jammies, ate a banana and started to read my new book, tomb, temples and heiroglyphs by barbara mertz. good stuff. 8^)
i tried to call my love often last night but keeping getting a busy signal. his friend, jt, was over and they had left the internet on. 9.9
while trying to call him, i got a call from jonathan stanely. i meet him at 4:30pm at the edge coffeehouse to discuss whether i can draw cartoons for the herald in the fall. 8^)

after that, ken finally calls. 8^D
he was in a cheerful mood since he had someone over and wasn't bored. plus he was drawing! yea!

working on the ads some more. that is all.