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NEWS (August 5, 2008):

I'm sure all too many of you noticed the glaring lack of updates on Thursday and Friday, and probably thought, "Harrumph, what's up with this?!"  In fact, I'm even updating Monday's strip late (though I'm also putting up Thursday's and Friday's simultaneously, so you're getting three at once now, which hopefully makes up for the fact that they're all really late, right?  ^_-').  But there was a reason for it: Thursday was the day Ben and I moved to our new house!  (And, yes, "house" -- even though it's still rented, we've always lived in apartments before, so this is really exciting.  Hurray!)

I had this brilliant plan for when Ben and I moved on Thursday, the last day of July -- we had to switch Internet Service Providers because our old ISP wasn't available in the new town we were moving to, so I figured we'd set things up to get the Internet working at our new place a few days before we moved in, thereby making for a smooth transition.  But it would seem fate had other plans, because the new ISP had a huge emergency in the week we moved, setting everything they were doing back by a number of days.  And then our old ISP decided to interpret "Thursday is the last day of service" as "let's cancel it on Wednesday, a day earlier than was specifically requested," so I lost Internet access without warning a day early, and then didn't regain it until five days later than expected.  AIIIII!

Fortunately, our new ISP has been very nice to us so far, so I'm hoping we'll be happy with them.  Also, given that their basic plan is about three times the speed for half the price of what we were paying before . . . and it's more stable . . . yeah, that's pretty cool.  I was freaking out about not having Internet access for so long, but since they did have a good reason to delay (a bunch of their power lines had gotten destroyed by a truck, and they had to fix those pronto), and they were very nice about customer service, I can forgive them that delay.  I just hope my Amazon.com customers -- and you guys, my comic strip fans -- can forgive me for having been so absentee for almost a week!  (Wrings hands nervously.)

Anyway, other than that Internet trouble, which is now, to my great relief, fixed, the move has gone fairly smoothly.  Ben says he's impressed at how fast I've been unpacking things (YAY!  I love impressing people!), and I'm hoping the house will look somewhat presentable (maybe even completely unpacked?) within a few weeks.  I'm actually one of those weird people who likes packing and unpacking, so I'm tackling the task with enthusiasm -- it's that everyday housecleaning stuff that tends to be the bane of my existence.  (Grin.)  I'm so glad Ben and I try to share the cleaning chores, not foist them all off on just one or the other of us.  Because, I mean, while I want to be a stay-at-home mom, I'd haaaaaate to be a "full-time homemaker."  I hate cleaning, I hate sewing, and I find cooking boring.  My little sister, who loves cooking, has howled with laughter more than once to see my version of a "home-cooked meal" (let's just say microwaves and "just add water" tend to be heavily involved).

I'm still working away at my writing, though I have had to put the vast majority of my life on hold for the last month while I focused on packing (and house-hunting, until we found this place!) in earnest.  I'm also hoping that, once I've finished all the urgent unpacking, I can get back to rebuilding my comic strip backlog, since it's kinda been suffering these past few weeks.  ^_^'  Ah, well, at least I'm really psyched about the storyline I'm drawing in my sketchbook right now, so that helps things!  I love it when long-term plans come to fruition, especially when the plans are for something just plain fun to begin with!

Well, that's about it for things going on at the moment -- no new extras or anything like that, unfortunately, but I'll try to squeeze some in as soon as I have something resembling free time again.  Thanks for reading, and I hope you're enjoying the strip!