What i can hardly believe is that last year about this time, Sarah and i were getting ready for Jack to arrive.  We knew that he was probably going to come early, as it was a high risk pregnancy, and we were going to the hospital several times each week to keep an eye on the little guy.  I thought things were hectic then.  Hah.  How blissfully unaware we were of the fact that in three days he wasn’t going to so much “arrive” as impact like a huge meteor.  For any of you ‘parents to be’ out there who are visiting the hospital for checkups during the last month or so… BRING YOUR BIRTH DAY BAGS AND CAMERAS AND STUFF WITH YOU.  Don’t be like us, who figured “we won’t need that stuff till next week.”   Hah.  Right.

It’s been both an amazing and frustrating year for me, to be honest with you.  Pretty much everything surrounding Jack and my family has been wonderful.  I’ve been and continue to feel both daunted and challenged by this whole ‘being a dad’ thing.  I think i’ve done ok.  Jack is a happy and healthy baby, soon to be a toddler (he’s experimenting with walking).  He’s a true joy, and i have kept my promise not to disgust all of you with insessent prattling about how awesome my son’s drool is and how impressed i was about a spectactularly filled diaper.  Thank you for induldging me with a few pictures here and there.

The frustrating things about the past year have had a lot to do with the constant struggle between sharing the responsibilities of taking care of Jack, doing the comic, writing thinking and being creative so i can do a good job on the comic and related thing, design new products, take care of the MegaGear store and things at the warehouse, as well as the other baby we took on this year – our new shirt printer, which lets us print shirts on demand but has one small drawback – I have to make all of the shirts we sell now.

It’s been a long time since i have been able to pull off a 3 comic week, and things like this site and the rant column on Megatokyo have been deathly quiet, but I’m hopeful that with this 1 year milestone i can finally work towards getting things more up to speed.  I think my artwork is as good as it’s ever been, and the storyline for both Megatokyo and other things i have been doing a lot of development thinking and working on are really quite good.  The holdup has been the raw time for production, which has been a real problem for quite some time.  As Jack has grown, however, i’m starting to see some easing up on the constant attention he used to require when he couldn’t really move around or play on his own.

So, that said, i’m working to start bringing more things back to life, like the rants on MT, the blogs here, and even some of the drawings and sketches i’ve been doing – i have quite a few that i can post here.  I am also looking forward to a new version of this site, which the web guys are keen to start working on.  Of prime importance is also the fact that we’re finally getting somewhere with the email – the spam has been so bad for the past six months that i literally have just not even been checking email.  Once that is fixed, i’ll feel like i can actually hear the world yell at me again.

Thank you for your patience with me for the past two years.  It’s been a long, difficult but ultimately rather amazing road.  I’m looking foreward to showing you just how much depth this experience has added to my work.  Thanks for reading.

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Posted by fredrin on November 6th, 2008 :: Filed under Daily Blogging
Tags :: Jack Obadiah, productivity

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