kirabug’s idea files

Someone asked me the other day what I do when I say I didn’t do anything a given weekend or evening. Well, there’s…

• writing or drawing the comic
• working on the Online Comics Day 2007 site
• working on this site
• reading comics
• reading books about drawing comics
• knitting
• playing Final Fantasy 12
• cursing at the laptop because it froze up
• taking walks with my husband
• date night
• playing Final Fantasy 3
• reading my email
• hanging out on the forum
• playing with the pudge dog
• playing Solitare Til Dawn
• watching Nighthawk play Oblivion
• baseball!
• and I’m sure a bunch of other stuff I’ve forgotten.

So my apologies that I haven’t been around much… some of this stuff will be dropping off the list as I either finish it or lose interest again. The comic and the blog aren’t going away, just sometimes I get quiet.

It literally took me portions of two weekends to update the Daily Comic List, and I discovered some really cool comics doing so. Make sure to check out Girls with Slingshots, which had me laughing out loud.

I also flipped the asterisks — instead of trying to remember which ones aren’t child-appropriate, I marked the ones I’m pretty sure are.

For the first time in ages, I updated the Daily Comic List. Pulled a lot of the blogs (they work better in my RSS reader), updated links, cut comics I just didn’t enjoy reading anymore, and generally cleaned up. Nothing new, but if you have time to kill and you hadn’t seen it before you might be interested.

It’s been a good day to update the Daily Comic List. Sinfest is back, Todd and Penguin is back, El Goonish Shive is close enough to back on schedule to be considered “back”, Absurd Notions/Why The Long Face says it’s back (but no update schedule yet), I added Healing Hands and Phables (which is about Philadelphia) and corrected the link for I am a rocket builder.

In fact, whereas my last four or five updates to the page had been to move comics into the “not updating” pile, I only had to move one comic (Dirty Blonde) to deep freeze this round - otherwise, I spent the morning taking comics out to thaw. Nice.

It’s likely to be a “many mini-posts” kind of day for me. So far, everything I’ve read on my Daily Comic List has made me want to go, “Ooh! Read!”.

I have that problem a lot with Schlock Mercenary. But then, nothing makes me happier than a plot-heavy space opera with science lessons scattered in for good measure. Today’s a bonus: it’s on earthquakes.

Makes me wonder what I’d be doing for a living if I’d've signed up for a geology course in my junior year of college instead of computer science.

I’m home from work, finally, and relaxing for just a few minutes. I have many bugs to squash in the program for class, but wanted to continue my streak of posting. Plus dinner to cook. Oh, and I think I need to sleep, since I didn’t get to bed until after 1 this morning.

Anyway, it was a good day. Not much to report. AtAT is back. That makes me happy. I did get a chance to read some new comics, and I’ll definitely be adding Ornery Boy, Dicebox, and Green: Wicked Wicked Ways to the list.

The Phillies are winning and dinner’s in progress. A good night!