fredart : blogbits

Y’know, i was going to say ‘where the hell did December go’ but i know very well where it went. It was one of the busiest months Sarah and I have ever had, and that’s saying something We’ve been working our tails off since Thanksgiving, and we’re still not done. I was not expecting to have to deal with a lot of shipping this week after Christmas and I was hoping to be able to focus 100% on the comic, but, uh… that didn’t happen It’s a good problem, of course, but it’s funny when your idea of a Vacation becomes ‘gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have an evening to just sit and watch TV together?” We have only been able to do that twice this month, and i tell you, it was more enjoyable than any trip The last thing we have to do this year is Inventory and year end accounting stuffs, which we are going to work on tomorrow. It’ll be a lot of work, but once it’s done we’re good for the year and I can turn my focus 100% to hitting my deadlines for book 5.

One of the reasons I haven’t blogged at all recently is that i’ve started work on moving the blog part of this site from Movable Type to Wordpress - it’s a lot easier to maintain the installation, and i am liking some of the features better. For a while, Movable Type wasn’t functioning on the server due to an upgrade - that’s fixed now, so i can post again

Yesterday I had one of the drives fail on my mac, but luckily i didn’t loose much - most of the content was backed up elsewhere (thankfully i had done a recent DVDr backup of the contents). I can scan and rebuild the two comics i lost. Still, it was a pain having to get a new production drive up and running so I can work. After dealing with that last night and then getting a new drive this morning and restoring contents back to it from my backup DVDrs, i decided that the writing was on the wall for 2006, and i’d push the comic posting to Monday and start the year off right. Almost done with the drawings, and it’ll be nice to be able to finish it up without the stress of trying to post a late comic.

As i’ve posted a number of times over the past few months, i’ve been enjoying my little Kanon fix every week whenever i can fit it in. I watched Episode 13 today, and it was full of much win. Mai’s character is filling out, and her personality has an interesting twist on it in this version. Her action scenes were great - Mai in full kick ass mode. Sayuri was amazingly super cute and awesome in this one… Sayuri and the anteater… I almost died, it was that cute. Seriously What tied the episode up in a little bow for me was the delightful little Nayuki scenes, from her look at Yuuichi in the opening scene to face down on the kitchen table to bumping sleepily into walls… wahhh, it’s so nice to see Nayuki not pushed to the side this time around.

Ok, i gotta get back to working on the comic. Lots and lots of stuff to ramble on about, but this will do for now. I hope everyone had a happy holiday, and i wish everyone a happy new year - it should be a good one

pirotunes: “‘ve - 05 - Take on your will” from “Verge -I’ve Girls Compilation”