Confused Plants

Seeing a lot of plants with buds after that week of 60+ weather

November's halfway gone.

What has happened. Well, the mini-con went fine. I would have liked more people. I'm set up to go to a Con in March. MomoCon- it's at GA Tech- of all places. I think Tech has become more like the place I would have liked it to been when I went there. Geez- they even have the tech buses stop off at the midtown marta station! In my days, Tech ignored Marta. You would've gotten sticks and stones, if you had suggested that the tech buses should stop by a marta train station- ah well, things change. Anyway, I'm looking forwad to the Con. Though, I've got lots of work to do before then. All the print files and the craft stuff I need to do. Well, that just means I'll be ready for AWA next year.

Working On The Side Again

First off- it looks like the rss feed for hazy daisy jam is down. I'll get that fixed.
Second off- we decided to stop waiting and get on with things. this being one.

On October 17th, 2010 (Sunday), we’ll be holding a mini-con at Oxford Comics 2855 Piedmont RD, Atlanta Ga 30305. We’ll be holding it outside underneath the enclosed parking of Oxford Comics.

At this moment, we have the following people listed.

Bobby Nash- bobby-nash-news.blogspot.com

Greg Carter- Perfect Agent & Love Is In The Blood

Meg- meghasissues

Angela and Nick Mizgala- Think Weasel

J.P. Keslensky – Bug Pudding

Rachel Keselensky- Last Res0rt

Terry- artist rep from Al Rio Art

Tom Heijentes- Hogan’s Alley

Rich Tommaso – www.richtommaso.com

James Burns -http://jamesburnsdesign.com/comics/

Bryan Mon - http://monotonae.blogspot.com/

Josh Greathouse – www.boneyardfranky.com/

Jennie Breeden – The Devils Panties

Gina Biggs – Red String

Hopefully, it'll all work out. It's been a good 10 years since I had to do something like this. It's been a long time since I've had that nervous gnawing in my stomach as opposed to gaseous grumbling that arrives from dealing with work.

this and that

Took down the Xmas tree. While the cat ignored me putting it up. She sure enjoyed me taking it down. had to rescue several garlands and geegaws from the cat. worked on the hartscomics website. I've decided i want to keep my friends stuff separate from my comic stuff. also i have all these different stories i'm doing. it'll be a whole lot easier to just give someone a card that says harts comics, instead of 3 or 4 addies. Also i found this incredible rate for dreamhost (less than $10- expired today unfortunately) so i can test them.

tripped a bit last week..

well, let's see the working straight thru two weeks at work work hit me on wednesday finally. i got DAT done for wednesday, but missed HDJ. got thursday's HDJ done and totally crashed on friday. so what needs to be done is i need a weeks worth of stand alone comic strips for HDJ if i have to work straight thru again. so that's on schedule for next sunday. This Sunday i cleaned some more and put up my xmas tree. I've got to switch website companies for HDJ before jan 15th- that's on the agenda- luckily that'll be around 50 or so strips. and we'll see how easy it'll be to migrate a wordpress site. ow i coughed and scared the cat in my lap. why do cats like traction when they move quickly. little holes in my legs. I also need to start thinking of house of other worlds. sigh- maybe i'll win the lottery or at least the runnerup prize.

updates

Okay, i posted a new page on DAT as i was working on it, i realized i was out of a lot of my basic tones. i still lay my tones by hand. however sometimes i'll print them out on adhesive film. I have a few pattern tones i created for myself. and actually i do have a couple of tone programs. it just still quicker for me to do by hand, but my "new" tablet pc is much quicker than the old one. i should try doing the basic dot ones and see how it works. HDJ keeps chugging along. I can feel the momentum behind me. i"ve gotten used to getting up at 4 am. I really am a morning person- i get my best work done in the first four hours. before getting up at 6, i'd be just getting into the steam of it and have to quit to get ready for work. Well, let me go finish up the character page for HDJ - that still needs to be done before i can start advertising it.

Hazy Daisy Jam

Okay, a bit more fine tuning and hazy daisy jam will be finally up and running. You can check it out there. I've placed it on comicssherpa too. It's a bit moe mainstream then most of my other stuff and it's a strip too. so I'll see how it does there. Switching DAT to wordpress will probably get pushed back to next year but the comic will be updating again starting december 2009. The House of Other Worlds will start up again jan 2010. We're working on more print files. So it's all looking good. And my apt is starting to look inhabitable again. I work on the art, then i work on the apt,- the apt feels more friendlier so i feel like working on the art again. the cat is happy, i'm happy. work sux but we're building a wall so we can block it out. not easy. but it's going again. once i get the momentum going, everything will be fine- the problem is the getting the momentum going.

cleaning up stuff

well, things are actually going fine. i'm going to relaunch everything dec 2009(my 50th bday). i'm working in the background of my websites. everything will be on one site under wordpress/comicpress. i'm really impressed with comicpress 2.8 its very user friendly . one of the things I want to do next year is set up a comic ring site and this is very beginner friendly- no code needed- well i'll have to do some cpanel stuff. but not like the old days of handcoding every single page. but that's next year. this year, i'm building up my backlog of comics, rebuilding websites, putting comics into print. DAT 1 is done. I'm really excited with everything.

fieldtrip

realized the utrecht art shop is right by the station- actually just a 6 minute walk away. so I went to look around. its okay- the people are nice. but selection wise is it's very classical. but its a handy place to pick up my basic supplies that michaels by work doesn't carry. as I was walking back I realized I really don't like its neighborhood- its all these condo skyscrapers with the shops on the bottom. the area had such a cold feel to it. eh, maybe its just me.

keep on drawing

When i have something that makes me mad. I write it down- get ready to post it. And I realize I'm no longer angry. So i delete it. Of course, sometimes i write things down and i find I'm even angrier- those I delete also- because when i'm angry like that, I always say the wrong thing. So, is that why I havent posted anything lately. Nope. Just been doing too much thinking. Sometimes i get caught up in the reflections of my thoughts- unable to move. I've decided now just to "do things". So this week - 3 updates of DAT. I have decided when the economy gets better(in a year I hope), I will look for another job- I am very tired of being the "straight person for the joke" in my job. Meanwhile, I'm saving money. And drawing comics. I dont care how tired I get. I'm drawing my comics! I'm going to spend the next year getting rid of things, learning how to drive, and drawing my comics. And play the lottery- maybe I'll be lucky. Ha! But most importantly, I need to keep drawing my comics.

haiku_20090206
in the chill and bite
of a wearying evening
spring returns once more

well my one day off after three weeks is an oasis. I have two more weeks to go before the next one. I'm trying to keep the creative synapses going. since i'm always snapping pictures with my cell. i figured i'd write haiku's to go with the pictures. yeah, i know - cheesy- but one little scratch against the machine called stifling modern life.

ugh- work is making me down!

we're down to a skeleton staff because of the economy, very busy and the boss keeps heaping more work on us. I'm so fed up, I think I'll start playing the lottery. And my next day off is far far away. If I win the lottery, i think i'll just quit - no two weeks, nope- just bye! That's how mad I am right now! I'm not getting depressed. Modern Management wants you depressed so you'll stay in a rut. I'm getting angry. I got energy. I got work- my work- to do- BYE!

URGH- need more time to myself-really

got thru week one of working three weeks straight. Sigh, I'm really tired of being a manager sort. I really would like to find another type of work, but i wouldnt want to try and find it in this economy. so here i stay. The cat is really being needy, since a few of those days were 10 and 11 hour days. while he insisted on crawling into my lap, i've noticed he's gone from being a tiny stray who would tug at my skirt as i walked down the street to a decent sized housecat. little monster. i managed to catch some more sleep so hopefully i'll be able to draw another page of DAT.

playing with vue

It's a cold dreary sunday- just staying inside and being lazy which means playing on the computer. Discovered that i had bought vue 5 long time ago( it was a package deal with poser 6- (what i really wanted and it was cheaper in the package-go figure!)) so i put it on computer. it's fun with outside views, i think. lots of fun actually just to play and make scenes i might use one day- like this one.

an odd cartoon

well, i did secret santa at drunk duck this year! I got a nice piece of fan art that I'll post at The House of Other Worlds. Meanwhile I drew for someone their request of a wii falling in love with a ps3. as most of you know i'm not a gamer, so i stretched things- here' the cartoon.

New Medicine

Well, i went to the doctor about my coughing as it was starting to get really bad and i was having chest pain. And it looks like its reflux. I'm taking heavy dosage zantac. And wow that mean pain i had underneath my left ribcage is gone. Unfortunately, I have to wait for 3 hours after dinner before i can lie down at night. Which is an annoyance cause my excuse for not doing any work is i'm tired, let me lie down and read a book. And since I'm not a tv watcher, i've just been sitting at my desk, surfing a bit and starting to draw again(that's good). And another thing too is I'm finding that I have to eat really light at night also. So it's turning into cereal and toast. Also No Soda, No Caffeine and NO CHOCOLATE. Well, there will be chocolate- just not late at night and if we're going to suffer, it better be the good stuff, not the crappy junk we've been stuffing our face with daily. Same with the coffee and the tea. Though, that's already the case with coffee and tea.
Also, I'm off Zrytec and on Singulair, which seems to work. Very little coughing. Well, I still cough a bit around roxanne-but she's a lifetime smoker-it's in her pores. But It's only been 3 days- and its working pretty good. So I'm happy. It may give me headaches, but my sinuses are very congested(but producing less gunk) right now. We're off of the decongestants too(so the congestion could be the boomerang effect), to see how much the singulair can do- it's supposed to work on both asthma and allergies. It has one very spooky side effect- apparently some people get very depressed and suicidal. Looking at what people were writing- it seems to hit mostly children and young adults. Well, I'm not in that class anymore. But, Still I'll have to watch out for that- if it's gonna happen it'll show up in 3-14 days, and i have a follow-up visit next month with the doc. Ah, but right now, it's nice to breathe and not have any chest pains.

Stupid Silly Dream

I dreamed I was caught up on a cliff which was next to a tree. I couldnt get down. All of sudden i had a flashback of a problem in my life before that i had got around it. I said to myself, when life is difficult, it's time to do things differently. So I hopped into the tree and climbed down. I dont know about you, but i hate it when my subconscious preaches to me. hmph! But it is a valid point

wheezing

Well, I overdid it. I ploughed thru cleaning my bedroom- did much needed rearranging. Stirred up dust. The closet is stuffed to its gills with things i need to go thru. My gills are clogged with dust. I must have used my inhaler more today than i have in a week. Next up is the kitchen and bathroom. Then the pile in the living room of things to go thru,the stash in the closet, etc. Basically I'm breaking things down in smaller piles to deal with. I've had 4 years of death and trauma to distract me from the housecleaning. Let's see - father dies on election day 2004, brothers starts major freakout, brothers say paramedics killed him. -he had an aneurysm- he was to sick for the docs to operate- it burst- he was dead before he hit the floor. mother contracts lung cancer, brothers freakout and dont want us helping mom, brothers announce mother cured of cancer, mother has stroke, mother is not cured of cancer and needs to go to hospice. brothers freakout and says all doctors are quacks and mother is not dying. get mother into nursing home and with a dnr order. brothers freakout and threaten arrest for trespassing because i am visiting my mother in nursing home. i freakout inside because i'm keeping this cheerful face on so i can give my mother a peaceful death. I let my brothers focus on me so i only visit once a week with a brother attendee, so my sister can visit freely. mother dies peacefully. brothers freakout and say nursing home killed her. Brother follows me around my mothers house with a gun as we get things together for her funeral(they locked us out- as they lived with her because they couldnt afford to live on their own at 30+) The county falls apart and so does their probate system, along with their slow-paced country lawyers- 2.5 years and counting, waiting for the estate to be settled. Meanwhile, nephew contracts cancer, caught early-prognosis is very good- just that chemo takes forever and he keeps getting sick from it. eventually, he's given all clean. One brother settles down and with a wife too. Missy Cat dies of cancer. I break down at vet. It's the c word. Luckily, i felt bad about this cute little stray around christmas time and let her into the house so i dont have a empty but cluttered, messy apt to go home to. New election time, and everybody gets on the edge. Everyone is mean to each other. And afterwards, it's a relief. I guess that's what the last 9 months have been - very stressful, but things get turned around. I feel like, I can throw double sixes now instead of snake eyes. And if not, well, with a bit(okay -lots)of hard work, i can muddle thru the situation pretty good. So, I'm getting there and hopefully I'll be able to look at the new year with a clean house. Actually, that's the schedule. Unless work screws me up. And if it does, I'll get thru it.

lazy sunday for me and the cat -- dont ask me what this is. I'm just playing around with photos and making them into manga style backgrounds.

i've had a bad cold, i've mostly been sleeping the past week or so. but i feel stronger today- so i may have passed thru the worst. I've decide to once again to try nanowrimo again. hence the logo to the side- i may post my pages as i finish them- not too sure yet. when it comes to writing, i'm not as stream of thought as i am when i'm doing my webcomics. of course, thats the idea behind nanowrimo- just crank it out to 50,000 words and then you can agonize over word choice. maybe i'll have better luck this year. we'll see.