3:39 PM
It’s Monday afternoon and I’m avoiding work and blogging again. It’s snowing, and the world outside my window literally looks like a cheap snow globe. Huge flakes coming down, but thankfully, it’s not really sticking all that much.
Just woke up from a nap and it looks like my mom decided to go out in the storm to go to the store. I double checked that my dad was still downstairs when I got up, since it would be just like our luck to have him decide that he’s having another fake heart attack in this weather. I sure as heck don’t want to drive in it and I think my mom’s nuts for going out in it in the first place.
Work is work. It made me toss and turn during my just finished nap. We made a number of message board rule changes in the area that I work and my mailbox is filled with responses to my announcement of the changes. Surprisingly, not a lot of positive or negative responses, just a bunch of stuff about how we need a folder for a team that’s changed divisions, even though they haven’t officially moved yet and there’s no chance that anyone would post in the folder for the team since they don’t post in the current one. I guess people love to bitch and panic over just about anything these days.
Working on more strips tonight if I get through this mail. I have three our four abstract ideas that I’d like to do with some of the screen savers folk. Just little ideas about how to add back story to some of the characters we haven’t played with. I’m currently to footage from early September for Techlive and Screen Savers. Call for Help is all over the place. The rest of the shows are pretty generic so I’m not worried about timeliness and I don’t think anyone’s going to notice time changes since Jennifer London, Sumi Das, and Kris K. rarely change their hair. They’re beautiful women, mind you, but they’re not like Kate or Erica — they don’t go through a million hairstyles in a year so the footage pretty much stays the same.
Kate’s funny, btw, I realized we really ran that joke for everything it was worth and then kept going with it. That’s why, yes, it ended in the last strip it was mentioned. I didn’t mean to pick on her this much and, Kate, if you’re out there reading this, SORRY! I’m going somewhere new with it for the new season and SORRY! in advance to it. I keep forgetting that she does plays in NYC a lot so from time to time she’s really only a four hour drive away from kicking my sorry butt from here to Cleveland. The rest? Neener neener neener, you can’t find my hidden super secret hideout on top of the mountain in — ha! I’m smarter than that! 🙂
While I’m thinking of it, Evil Jim is credited for me adding “that’s swell” to Leo’s little Gangster routine in the last strip of season seven. I guess he remembers Brady Bunch better than I do. BTW, also mentioning it so he isn’t offered a bribe to sell me out since he’s been to the super secret lair and probably would give directions to anyone who meets his asking price. 🙂
In another random note, for those thinking that I think Leo is the source of anything Evil … well, I’ll admit that Leo, by nature, is a being of pure evil, I don’t blame him for being anything other than Leo. While he’s being used as a catalyst for change in the current round of strips, don’t think he’s responsible for anything of that nature in real life. I know I didn’t have to make it clear but I do want to get it out there. The changes were made by forces far greater than Leo. Obviously they were needed at the time, but two and a half months later the network is well … what it is now. I just hope it survives the year.
On that note, I’m out.
k9