Sandsday

For the record.

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I’ve been trying to bring myself to write a post for a while now. Check that: several posts. On a couple different topics. And doing other things, like exerting some effort into finding a job at some point.

Every time I’ve tried, I’ve gotten sidetracked. The most work-free way I have to connect to the Internet has gotten really weak and inconsistent all of a sudden, but that’s not the worst of it. For those and other reasons, I’ve gotten sleepy at certain points. I think I’m starting to become made of Dr. Pepper the way I’m going.

Tonight? I’m putting up the strip, and an associated post, and immediately hitting the hay. You have been warned that the post may not be as ideal as it could.

Tuesday? I’m getting every goddamned last inch of sleep out of my body.

And hopefully, right now, I don’t fall asleep at my laptop.

Abstractions without context, and a rare moment of self-honesty

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I wrote today’s strip in what you might call a fit of pique (I’m not even sure what that means) after getting dissed. Probably a mistake to crank something out in the moment, but what do I care? Are we really so uptight as a society that we value pandering to everyone over honesty? No wonder politicians do the same. At heart, we’re all politicians whether we like it or not.

I’m perfectly fine with getting my ass handed to me. The sentiment in the last panel is genuine (although I intend to continue my remarks tomorrow). In fact I would have been perfectly fine with receiving this criticism via e-mail. The problem is that:

  1. None of the criticisms offered are things I see as bad for what I’m trying to do.
  2. Conversely, I’m not getting any criticism that would be constructive for me and what I’m trying to do.

Incidentially, the main reason I’m writing this post is to point out the latest deluge of readers.

Strip will be up soon.

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Very soon. Hey, I’ve been much later than this.

Okay, I’m only two hours late as I write this, but if the next strip is what it might be, it would mean tomorrow’s would be one less hour late than today’s, if that makes any sense.

Strip will be a little late

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Several things going on at once and I’m agonizing over the one after this one. The strip may go up as soon as midnight PT, or as late as 10 AM PT.

UPDATE: Gah. Okay, it’s 11 AM PT and the strip is only now going up. Tomorrow’s strip will be in the morning as well, hopefully not this late, and Thursday’s strip might be a little later at night than normal. Just a reminder, have cookies on when browsing the archives. More posts forthcoming later today.

Oh where, oh where, have my little readers gone?

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I finally have one or two regular readers of the strip that aren’t me, and I’d like to remind them that the strip goes up every day including weekends. Because I keep agonizingly waiting for SiteMeter to put up their promised changes and there’s a reason I dumped Bravenet, I have no way of knowing whether anyone saw yesterday’s strip (at most one person). Which is a damn shame, because I think it’s one of my better, funnier ones and I’d hate for it to have gone completely unread the day it was supposed to shine! I don’t want my moments of greatest genius to go to waste!