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We continue today’s Night Fugues diversion on Wednesday and Saturday this week.

…it was supposed to be a post about nursery rhymes. Clearly, somewhere, something has gone awry.

First, let me say I have a massive headache. So this post likely won’t make sense.

I’m currently at my computer wearing gloves. The heat’s working, the rest of my body is warm, but my hands are ice cubes. I hate winter.

I’ve been neglecting my website and my comic. Dunno why… sometimes a person just grows away from a thing. I’m going to try to grow back toward it.

It’s going to be a challenge though. Used to be this was my creative outlet. Now, as an information architect, I get paid to use those same creative bits of my brain at work, so when I come home they’re tired and they don’t want to play anymore.

On the other hand, the characters won’t necessarily shut up. Marin and the dogs especially. Not sure what to do about that.

Not sure what to do about the fact that I’ve left y’all in a mid-plot lurch either.

We’re working these things out, at any rate. Things are due for some changes.

You might start to see some short twitter-esque posts on here over time…. I sometimes only have a few minutes to say a thing. But I prefer to say the things that are comic-related here rather than the twitter feed. Which is really just me rambling on. Sort of like this, but shorter.

Anyway, things are in the works.

I have an absolute killer headache. It’s been around since noon. Not fun.

The most recent A Girl & Her Fed got me giggling though… third-tier villains shouldn’t be adopted unless you’re really going to take care of them.

Basic Instructions also had some “helpful” information on how to evaluate a new medication…

The Phillies won their first postseason game today!

And I’m working on comics.

Meanwhile, here’s some stuff from the internet:

• Pork. If you get this stuck in your head, it’s not my fault. (Flash and sound required.)
• Ralph Lauren proves they’re too stupid to a) cease perpetuating stereotypes around acceptable body stereotypes, b) feed their models c) learn Photoshop, and d) understand the ideas behind Fair Use. Backing BoingBoing all the way on this one.
• Top 10 Video Game Tips for Noobish Parents – and if you don’t know what that means, you probably qualify.
• Superhero Facebook Status Updates
• What Stormtroopers do on their day off.

Aaaand some video.

Simon’s Cat – Hot Spot. (I just got the Simon’s Cat book and it’s awesome.)

The Phillie Phanatic Milks a Cow.

You are being shagged by a rare parrot!

Family Guy, Disney style:

Helen Keller, captured on video, speaking:

OK, that’s enough for tonight. Head still hurts. I should sleep.

Ah, drawing webcomics is so much more effective when you close your tags, and upload the images. All fixed. Dumb dumb dumb.

Since we’ve been without comics for way too long, I’m going to try to get 3 up a week until my to-do list stops telling me I owe you folks more comics. So this week is Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday, with a really really big Night Fugues as the Saturday comic. Enjoy!

Nighthawk is home from the hospital, as of yesterday. He’s still not 100% and we don’t know when he’s going back to work yet, but just having him healthy enough to come home is a great improvement over where we were 2 weeks ago.

We’re both exhausted, but on the mend. I took yesterday and today off to help us get life back in order… and to spend some time with this guy I’ve missed for the past week It’s a good thing I took yesterday off, too, because we thought he’d be discharged from the hospital in the morning and it was mid-afternoon before we were finally free to go. Ah, hospitals.

Anyway, the plan is to get the comic rolling again and stuff, so the period of radio silence should be over. Thank you all for your good wishes and your patience. Here’s a video of Kaylee in a cardboard box as your reward

Sucks: when your husband is sick enough that you have to take an unscheduled trip into Philly to take him to the doctor.
Extra sucks: when you get sideswiped on the Schuylkill Expressway by an inattentive woman’s SUV on the way there and now have to get your car repaired.
Ultimate Suckage: when your finally reach the hospital, they decide your husband needs a “tune up” (run of IVs and therapy and such) to clean all the crap out of his system… starting Tuesday and lasting at least a week in the hospital and at least 21 days of IVs.

Yeah… my life’s going to be chaos for a little while. Expect sporadic updates at best.

But there are still 2 Idiocy comics in the queue for tomorrow and Saturday, so you’ve got that going for you.