"It's my birthday, Precious."

Hey, another year older. Once more 'round the burning orb. Another orbit of the big blue marble. I guess you get the idea.

You can now lavish me with attention and extravagant gifts.

A Plea for Sanity

Dude, Monkey, I know you're all conservative and stuff over there in Arkansas, but please tell me you aren't going to support Ron Paul. Dude's insane.

Auld Lang Syne

The year's about over. We spent all of last week in Oklahoma (or on the road to and from Oklahoma, mostly), and tonight we're going to a New Year's Party at Lauren's.

It's been a rough year for Dim Bulb, one with fewer comics that I'd have liked. I've got plans in motion for the coming year, and hopefully I'll be able to get more comics done for the coming year.

Anyway, Happy New Year! May Aught Eight be even better than Aught Seven!

"There's no place like home for the holidays"

So Michelle and I are going to Oklahoma for Christmas.

We're driving, 'cause plane tickets were remarkably absurd. $700 for one ticket? That's beyond ridiculous (beyond Thunderdome, even!). So we're making it a roadtrip. A stopover in St. Louis to see some relatives of hers, a quick jaunt over to Norman to see some friends of mine, and even a stop in Clarksville to see the Monkey and his folks (that's gonna be Wednesday, by the by, Monkey).

Sadly, the trip is going to be pretty quick. We've got to come back and rest up for the return to school the following week (cursed short breaks!). I think this is a good sign that I'm really meant to be a college professor: a whole month off would be a glorious thing.

Back from the dead?!

Sorry I've been out of contact, folks. We got kittens over the weekend, and they're a real handful. I'll post some pictures later.

Oh, and I named one of them Ninja Steve.

No, this doesn't explain my absence prior to the acquisition of kittens. Shut up.

Pumpkin of Chaos!

The above is a pumpkin some of my students carved on Halloween.

It's me.

In hindsight, I shoulda scaled the photo rather than leaving it so big, but I was unaware it was gonna be that big. Oh well.

Here's the Plan

Okay, so I finally sketched a couple of comics this morning, which I'm rather happy about. I'm going to try to get at least one of them drawn tonight, and maybe switch to a Tuesday/Thursday schedule for awhile? I feel the MWF thing is definitely not working (and hasn't for quite awhile), but maybe a more relaxed schedule will feel less overwhelming and will give me more incentive to get stuff drawn.

Also, I got caught up on Heroes over the weekend. Very groovy.

Blunder!

So I made a comic for today. It can be found here, in the past. Apparently I am completely not aware of what date it is.

Shame!

I accidentally fell asleep last night and missed the season premiere of Heroes.

Were I Hiro, I would now have to fall on my sword in shame...or travel back in time and fix it.

"Save the teacher, save the world."

Yeah.

Race Car Ya-Yas

There is a comic. For you.

Enjoy. More to follow, finally.

This time, it's not my fault

It appears the domain name expired on us, so the fact that the site is down is totally not my fault this time.

"We Can Be Heroes"

Sorry about the lack of updates. I'm in the middle of watching Season 1 of Heroes.

Comics next week, God willing.

"My Oklahoma Home Was Blown Away"

Michelle and I have returned from Oklahoma bearing the bounty of that windswept, vacant place. We visited the whole family (an action made easier by the fact that Dad's side of the family was all gathered together to celebrate his recent nuptials), ate way more red meat than is really healthy for anyone (steaks the size of the plate and an inch thick? Day-um), and spent a lot of time driving a rental car back and forth across northern Oklahoma (I estimate we drove about 600 miles over the course of the five day visit).

The positives: Michelle finally got to meet my family, no one said "I-talian" (emphasis on the long "I"), we didn't miss any flights (though getting to Tulsa International Airport this morning was a near thing), we got fed fantastic food (I'm not sure Michelle agrees on this point; but then, she was horrified to discover how white gravy is made), and I got to play guitar with Dad, Uncle Gert, and Clyde. We also got to meet Clif's girlfriend and Scott's girlfriend, both of whom seemed quite nice.

All in all, it was a pretty good trip. Of course, vacations always seem to almost be more trouble than they're worth; the traveling and various frustrations along the way (I had a panic attack at 4:30 this morning because I got lost going back to the airport from Dad's house (Mom got a fun little call then; thank God she wakes up at the ass-crack of dawn). But all in all, good times.

Also, about the site breakage: my bad. I really blame Adam, though, since he's the one who told me to use the particular FTP program that seems to be lousing up the site. Yes, it's all Adam's fault.

Comics Ahoy!

Alright, so tomorrow afternoon I'm heading to Oklahoma for a few days. I already got one comic done, but I want to get a couple more done before I go. I'll keep you posted on that.

My wife is terrified of Oklahoma. I don't think she's ever been further west than the Appalachian Mountains.

Actually...

...if you click on the "Back" button, you'll see the filler art I worked so tirelessly to get posted. S'truth.

Everything is Broken

Dunno what's going on with the site now. The archives are busted, the comic won't update, and I'm getting rather fed up with the whole thing. The archives are still available through the alternate site, but it's frustrating that this is happening. Monkey, weren't there talks of maybe switching hosts? Perhaps we should do that.

Burning Rage

The site won't freakin' update. I uploaded the file, I went into quickadmin, I told it to update the site, and the site won't update. Monkey, maybe you can get something done here, 'cause Lord knows it's not working for me.

"A Man With Three Buttocks"

Okay, I got an FTP thing up and running, I've uploaded a little filler art for you that should update at midnight, and all is groovy in the world.

In large part because we're watching Monty Python's Flying Circus. Our friend Lauren got Michelle the complete series for her birthday, which makes Lauren one of the coolest people in TEH WERLD.

Yes, all is right in the world.

The Can't Update Blues

Still can't get access to the Site Admin to update. This is becoming frustrating, even if all I was going to post was some filler.

Wonder if I can get an FTP client running again like I used to use...hmm...

How we suffer for our art

So I actually drew some stuff today, but I can't get into Site Admin, so I can't post it to the site.

Hopefully this little problem will correct itself in the next couple of days, as I feel rather creative and might actually be able to get some comics done while I'm on my little mini-vacation.