I promise you that my wife will be back to normal in time for her next appearance in the strip.
Also, my plan is for the reruns to stop for awhile. The holidays and the day job got in the way there for a couple of weeks. Thanks for bearing with me.
While I’m in thanking mode, I’d like to thank all of you who bought my book, bought my shirts, clicked my Amazon links, commented on my site or read my comics last year. It was a great year for me. I get much more satisfaction out of Basic Instructions than I ever did from Stand-up comedy, and you all are largely to thank for that.
My wife and I are strolling around our local Costco when I look at the toy section and see a set of toy night vision goggles
When I was a kid, my cousin John and his friends used to make toy swords out of PVC pipe, packing foam and duct tape. They would then go out into the swamp (They lived in the Tri-Cities, where there was more opportunity, if you consider “swamp access” an opportunity) and pound the crap out of each other. Why do I bring this up? Because that same day in a toy section I found factory made, plastic core, foam rubber swords designed for kids to pound each other with. All you need to supply is the swamp.
I’ve come to realize that I don’t mind getting older, because my cliched old man speeches are going to be fantastic.
“In my day, we didn’t have your fancy factory made foam swords. We had to make our own weapons, like the Jedi! And if it was dark we didn’t have working night vision goggles. We had to squint, or use the force!”
I’d be lying if I claimed that “How to Use Technology to Perform a Repetitive Task” wasn’t at least partly inspired by my experiences prepping comics for the new site.
Speaking of the new site, we seem to have most of the kinks worked out at this point. I’d like to thank all of you who have bought stuff from Amazon through my links! I appreciate it.
My traffic is still way up. I’ve had a lot of coverage on Digg with each of my last three comics, and as a result I’ve had my first real experience with hate mail. Good times. For the record, I will happily approve comments that include criticism (maybe “happily” isn’t the right word) as long as there’s something constructive in it. If if it’s just designed to hurt someone’s feelings, it’s not going to see the light of day.
Two quick pieces of business:
1. If you want to order a signed copy of my book and have a reasonable chance of it getting to you by Christmas, you should order by Friday night if you’re in the US and Thursday (12/18/08 … today) morning if you’re in another country. Amazon can certainly get it to you faster and can make guarantees about delivery time, so if you’re really pressed for time that’d be the way to go.
2. There’s an excellent chance that I’ll only post one new strip next week. We’ll have to see how my schedule shakes out. I just wanted to warn you.
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