fredart : blogbits

It’s amazing how much time babies take up in the first few weeks, till you learn how to multitask better. You sort of have no choice, and i’m getting there but jeeze, everytime i turn around it’s something else (in one instance this morning, i had to change my own shirt as well as Jack’s outfit - something he seemed to be quite proud of ^^;;)

Today is Black Friday again, and you may remember this rant from last year. Funny, we weren’t getting much sleep last year either, but for totally different reasons. Needless to say we weren’t going out at 3am to wait in line for any Black Friday specials this morning. Hell no.

Though I have a feeling i might be doing it next year… ^^;;;

I’m working on a christmas ornament for this year, as well as some dog tag designs to go with the zombie ranger shirt i’ll be posting probably tomorrow in the MegaGear store. Ugh, so much to do.

You can tell i’m a positive thinker though, because i went and started the downloads for the Clannad episodes that came out since Jack arrived. Haven’t watched a one of them yet, but maybe at some point i’ll be able to…

As most of you are by now aware, a little over a week ago our son Jack Obadiah was born. We knew he would probably be coming early (as indicated in the rant that is at this moment still up). I’ve had a lot of crazy stressed out weeks, but last week topped them all.

No, not just because it was our first week as new parents (in and of itself a life changing event) but because Baby Jack came early and we had to deal with a number of potential problems, one after the other, that thankfully has all come around and not become problems or health issues. After a week, it looked like Baby Jack had cleared entry to the world and really is doing fine. His launch crew is tired, worn out, emotionally drained, but very happy. As i said in the few updates i did to my twitter last week, Mom and Baby are fine and doing well, and now are doing well enough that Dad can relax just a little.

I can honestly say that i didn’t even go near a computer for days last week. I really need to say a big thank you to Dom and the rest of the MT crew for covering the site for me this week. I AM sorry about a whole week of Shirt Guy Dom comics. Thanks for being patient as i get my act together and get back to work, this time as the proud dad of a great little guy named Jack.

Now to work on a MT rant to give a slightly better account of how everything went down

This is one of many character design sketches i’ve done for a story idea i’ve been working on - its the character found in the recent colorwork i posted a few weeks ago. Like i said, i’m not going to post much info on this yet because the ideas are still formative, and i don’t want to give anything away yet We can say that its oddly futuristic, but with a particular slant that comes from my particular way of looking at the world.

[Link to new sketch]

Flehf. I feel like i’ve been hiding in a box for the past few months, at least from an internet pov. I’ve had so much going on in relation to the coming of our first baby that not only have i not taken the time to rant or blog about it, but i’ve almost not wanted to. It’s a weird thing, really. You’ll have little details about your life you don’t really want people to know about, and then you will have other more interesting things happen that you would love to blog about but you cant without explaining the things you want to keep private… i suppose thats just the nature of the net - you really do develop a conscious awareness of how people perceive you based on what you put up for people to see, and fears of crosstalk between data sets can make you feel… rather mum.

That said, it was actually a nice release to post my rant on megatokyo yesterday giving people a heads up on some of what Sarah and i have been dealing with in the past few months.

Today’s going to be an incredibly busy day. I still have to get back to work on the next comic, i wasn’t able to work on it at all yesterday, but i should be able to sit down this afternoon. I really don’t know where the days go sometimes.

The real indicator that i’ve been a little overwhelmed lately? I haven’t watched the new Clannad TV series from Kyoani yet. Not even the first episode. That’s telling
I’ll keep you folks posted.