The Marvelous Patric

dear blog,

it's raining. thundering. etcering. so i'm on my laptop, safely unplugged from any cords, at work using the wifi.

what's new with Patric...? well, let's see... I've been drawing like crazy lately. I'm actually ahead on FNS for the first time in ages. Not just like a little ahead either, but legitimately ahead. I hope to keep building on that. I've also been drawing Fun Factory again. Shocks! I'm gonna release the rest of the script we had finished once i get a good backlog of content. My plan is to post one panel every day, like mccloud did with his morning improv comics. i figure as long as it's a long form comic and there isn't much pay-off weekly with one page, why not give folks one panel a day and so when we reach a full page it feels like an accomplishment. it's kinda a scam.

this week, i've taken the plunge and i found a used cintiq on ebay. it'll be interesting to see how that works out.

this weekend is the DFL state convention. i don't think i'm going, which i feel bad about. I feel like i'm letting down the folks who elected me as delegate, but I just can't go. i have to work this saturday. And, if I took off this saturday, i think i'd have to work the saturday of kendrick's bachelor party. and i really need to be at that. no matter what i do here, i'm going to let someone down. i'd rather let down faceless voters than faced family. besides, even though i've been supporting franken the whole time, there's a part of me that kinda hopes Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer wins the endorsement. i wonder if i would have really voted for Franken when i got there.

saturday is also game day at paul and aleesha's. i have to work, but i'll go over after work. there had better be killer bunnies! i've really started geeking out on table-top gaming.

in a few months, it'll be time for SDCC. I'm going this year. I realized, days before pro-reg closed, that i would die if i didn't go. maybe my body would live on, but a good-sized chunk of my soul would have shriveled up and died. I'm going to do some more coloring samples and maybe see about doing some freelancing again. I won't have a table there, but it'll be nice to just walk amongst the people. Although, if anyone reading this happens to have a table they'd be willing to share or just take a few of the big FNS books, i would love to do that.

My entire application to grad school is in. I'm cautiously optimistic. I got it all in by deadline. I should have had it in sooner, but the whole politics thing got in my way and distracted me. still, i've applied and done all i can do.

all in all, i've been busy. i have also been playing with dexter and dixie quite a bit. the two dogs have quickly become very close friends and now my bed is quite crowded as both dogs sleep with me at night.

in other pet news, i was down to two mice. one of the mice got out and was found by dixie three days later. ginny, the escapee, appears to have suffered a leg/spine injury at some point. i'm not sure if dixie did it to her, or if it was the jump off the desk. so i put her back in the cage. somehow, she has managed to escape again, despite being crippled. i am less hopeful about recovering her a second time, because this time, i noticed she isn't eating the food i put out for her on the floor. meanwhile, janis, the other mouse, appears to be sick as of today. when i get home tonight, i fully expect to no longer have any pet mice.

Current Location: work
Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: thunder

dear blog,

as of tomorrow, i will be at least 20% better looking. That's right... I'm getting zapped. The "laser" will be shot directly into my "eye ball", correcting my "vision". between the eye surgery and the new car, i figure i am now 25%-30% more dateable.

in other news, mom was in the hospital again. it was really more to do with the original stuff, which they weren't quite sure what it was. they have now reached the conclusion that it was vascular, have taken steps to fix it, and she is recovering nicely.

i'm working on redesigning www.freaknsqueeks.com . i was informed, by many different people, that the site design was a huge roadblock to reading / worshipping my comic. the redesign has been going on for about a week, and at the moment, i'm just redirecting the .com to the webcomicsnation page. this is because there is all that nice code over there. i, knowing nothing about code, like the fact that they have a nice plug 'n' play system. but, there are things i wish i had control over that i don't. and, since i don't really understand the code, i really can't change a lot of stuff. my coding ability doesn't go beyond creating a link and embedding an image. and no, i'm not going to learn code. i've tried. i've failed. i'm not built that way.

i fear i may have to move fns off of wcn. which would mean moving 1200+ strips. and re-uploading / making pages for all of them. i have this fear because i'm starting to think that comicpress might be the best way to go. but, we'll see. i want to see what the new comicspace venture will offer in terms of features before i make any decisions.

i've also been drawing my new weekly comic, picture imperfect. PI is quickly becoming far more autobiographical than i thought it would be. i haven't officially announced anything, but there is a www.picture-imperfect.com now. i figure once i know what's what with wcn/comicspace, and i have more than a dozen strips up, i'll make some noise about it.

this weekend, i'm driving over to wisconsin for a one-day comic show on sunday. i really don't know what to expect, but the table is free, so i just have to pay for gas and a hotel. 10 million dollars later, we'll see what happens.

dear blog,

The other day, my mom had a doctor's appointment. As they ask their routine questions, they asked her "are you currently in an abusive relationship?" my mom's answer, "if i am, then i'm the abuser."

Yesterday was Valentines Day. Or, as us ugly people call it, "Thursday."

Today, I accomplished something. I learned all the words to "The Alphabet of Nations" by They Might Be Giants.

Only two more weeks remain in the big "Vote or Don't" campaign at my website for the new sunday feature. Picture Imperfect was in the lead last I checked.

Current Location: work
Current Music: Ruby- The Kaiser Chiefs (in my head)

dear blog,

today, the awesome website, The ComicBloc has posted an interview with me. I really hope everyone reads it to discover my awful shocking secrets.

Current Mood: excited