Holy smokes! Not only did I get this week’s comics completely finished by 8pm tonight but I’ve managed to get half of next week pencilled as well. I totally see a week’s buffer being created. And maybe double that after next week??? Time will tell.
And I’m not going to interrupt it for long for the sake of a blog post. Managed to get a boat load done for this week’s comics all tonight plus a quickie illustration for the Tuesday feature on martinis. Definitely a good day. Back to it!
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especially when you feel like you’re running on empty in the hours you’ve got. Such has been the last several weeks.
After finding out the results of the liver biopsy tagged me for a rare genetic protein anomaly that leaves my liver and lungs vulnerable to damage (aren’t I lucky?) I go to Dr Z for the 6-month check in to find out my cholesterol and insulin are high and now my thyroid is, too. Joy. The alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency is still in question as to severity (waiting on appointments with the pulmo and a new gastro) but mainly will mean I get flu/pneumo vaccines each winter and more aggressive treatment for respiratory infections. The cholesterol might have more to do with the raising thyroid levels (right now I’m at subclinical hypothyrodism level) than my diet (which is already high-fiber/low-carb) though, as always, the goal is to loose weight and improve labs overall.
In other news! Work is good, not always as productive as I’d like, but some days are tougher than others. Just finished up another month of articles this weekend and have 6 of the required 7 titles planned for October. It’s been a year since the new contract and I was worried then that I’d run out of ideas. Thankfully that doesn’t seem to be much of a problem at this point, so as long as I can keep all irons in the fire that should still be going good. The comic went SWIMMINGLY this past month with the story that I’ve chose to call “A Fine Romance” that chronicled the first 3 months Spectrum and I dated. I’m sure there will have to be another installment in a few months, but for now I’m switching gears and hoping to use the time the next month’s updates will allow to work on the Year 1 book.
And still the ideas come. I have so much that I want to do, one of these days I hope to get a fraction of it started 
I go away for a weekend and all I can think about upon my return is the tightness in my calves, thighs and butt from climbing those 3 flights of stairs over and over again. Well, not the only thing, but it’s the most pressing right now.
Spec and I went to the Big Bend Ghost Tracker’s Windsor Hotel workshop and investigation and it was really interesting. The 3 seminars were actually what we’d seen at Wrath of Con (just really, really condensed at the time due to schedule issues, etc.) but this time around it was a lot more relaxed and well-presented. After dinner we got to participate in an investigation of some of the known hot-spots of the hotel (they’ve investigated there before).
It really was a phenomenal experience overall. Not sure yet about the EVP work or photos/video they might have captured but we also did scrying and even used a Ouija board with rather surprising results. If you don’t believe in this sort of thing it’s okay and I’m not going to go into details but those of you who do and are curious, feel free to email me and I’ll tell you what happened
So, just as I was finishing up the comics posts for this week and just before I started blogging my internet here died. Dead. No resuscitation. And the weird thing was that the router was still working because I still had the local half going but nothing outside. And the modem showed everything was flickering on schedule. No clue. And I had stuff to blog about!
But tonight, I have Internet and time and all I can do is sit here and stare alternately at the television and the laptop. Blah! I ate something that didn’t quite agree with me and now feel rather icky and listless. Which is not good because I wanted to get another article written tonight. Guess it’ll wait til tomorrow. I’m still good for deadline, even with the Ghost Hunt this weekend. It’ll all get done and I think I’m going to bed early.
Several blog posts are brewing inside my head but they’re not ready to leave, yet. Among them are a Dragon*Con report, a health update, and others. We’ll see if any are ready to go tomorrow. Until then, I ink and I work and I write and I sleep. There ya go.
So I’m back to working full days again (late arriving notwithstanding) and working on comics and articles and all that fun stuff. And I’m exhausted and it’s only Wednesday night. Bah! I’m also on slacker-mode when it comes to dinner, I just can’t stand the thought of cooking right now, at least not anything that doesn’t require the microwave and a single vessels of some sort (fyi, pyrex pie plates are AWESOME for heating and reheating items in the microwave, seriously). I may try to break that cop-out tomorrow night but, well, maybe not. We’ll see.
So, what have we learned? Percocet does NOT equal productivity. I had zombie-brain for most of last week resulting in not much of anything getting done. I went into work for a total of 5 hours (well, 4.75) just to take care of payroll, mail and bank deposits and got some work done on the comics but not enough; it was a pencils week, but at least I continued to update. I did manage to get my articles wrapped up (man that was tough… forced march all the way) and my invoice submitted (which is good, since that next set of quarterly taxes is due this month) but I didn’t get any working ahead accomplished.
And the answer a question on the last post, gall stones are formed by the body not filtering things correctly. The stones are usually cholesterol-based (since that’s what the bile stored there is meant to help break down) but some can be protein based. You can also just have sludge in there for a variety of things. While I can’t be sure, it’s a good bet the 300+ stones were bb sized, not marbles, some natural variation occurring. I think my body is finally used to not having the gall bladder there anymore and things seem to be running as they should. My incisions are healing up and I’m still sore, but all is generally good.
Haven’t heard back about the liver biopsy, but I have a follow-up appointment this Friday so she may just be holding them until then. Now just to stave off any potential con crud/pneumonia/bronchitis etc.
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