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Ugh.

I’ve spent the past week breaking down and completely reorganizing my art room as well enduring Little Dude’s first days as a Kindergartener.  So the strip will most likely be up tomorrow with a couple of blogs over the weekend.

Patience!

Yesterday was a big day.

The wife and I took Little Dude to get his pre-kindergarten eye exam.  Shocking beyond belief is that the progeny of two extremely near-sighted people has almost perfect vision.  Not so shocking was that Little Dude messed with the heads of everyone trying to evaluate his vision by deliberately misnaming the images he was supposed to identify.  And then giggling about it.

Afterward, it was my priviledge to drop the wee man off at my mom’s where he would spend the next couple days.  Presumably the last trip he gets to take for a long while once school starts.  He was delighted to see Grandma Cindy.  Just as I was about to leave, however, I discovered a rather large tick hidden in his hair.

No, not this:

The other kind.  Needless to say, a great deal of sturm und drang went into removing the thing… and a small piece of Little Dude’s scalp with it, it had attached itself so tightly.  The boy came through the ordeal like a champ and hopefully my paranoid perusal of the CDC’s Lyme disease pages will be for nothing.

Of course the boy was completely unphased by the whole thing such that when I loudly proclaimed I’d earned a hug for “removing a parasite from your head” he allowed me to give him a hug… and then tried to place the bite mark in my face.

Sometimes it’s good to take a look back and take measure of where one’s been and how one has grown.  I don’t have a lot of old artwork scanned, but what I do have is certainly a bit…  different.

Geez, it may not show up as well since this is an elderly scan by a bad office scanner, but I’m not sure I could squeeze much more hatching and cross-hatching in this pic!  Maybe it’s the conflicting light sources or whatever the heck I was thinking.

It’s eerie to think this picture is almost 10 years old.  I’m not sure if I should dig some more old artwork or “accidentally” dispose of it.

So.

I just finished putting my son to bed by reading him a small excerpt from Stephen King’s The Dead Zone. You go to Hell for that sort of thing, don’t you?

O_o

Oh.  Wow.

What started out as a small break to catch up on things and think out the rest of this little storyline spiraled into greatly embarrassing hiatus.  I’d like to say that most of the problems stemmed from a busy schedule and a lack of spare time.  Sadly, a big part of what left me (and presumably anyone left reading this) stuck was not really having a clue as to where to go afterward.

I still don’t know.  Not really.

But I’ve got something I haven’t had in a long time: momentum.  This story is finished and I’ve got the next one cookin’.  I’ve been back at the ol’ drawing board (figuratively and literally) for a bit now and I’m planning on rolling that into more artwork and more strips.  I’m not going to be delusional and say I’ll keep a perfect schedule, but I’m going to put my best efforts into putting SOMETHING up here frequently.

So…  let’s try this again, shall we?