7/5/2007
Hope you had a happy fourth, or as I like to call it,
Onto a cheerier topic. I've got a strange-houred summer internship, so lately I've been up at all kinds of ungodly hours. I normally enjoy staying up until 2am when I'm able, and my job basically flips that upside-down and says, oh, you start work at 2am so go to sleep way early before that. So bear with me if I don't blog as often, but it is non-essential to the site. I bet most of you don't even read this blog, so whatev.
In other, other cheerier news, I am going to a family wedding this weekend. It will be pretty awesome and I'm really looking forward to it. Free food, fare and hotel?! A nice, short trip for me and the family. But that means I have enlisted someone else to update my site over the weekend. Please, bear with us if there's any hiccups over the weekend. I don't think there will be (because we ironed everything out yesterday) and my protégé is fairly savvy; I'm sure he will do an awesome job. Thanks again for covering for me. You know who you are.
7/6/2007
Made a few minor behind-the-scenes site edits. It turned out codewise I still hadn't deleted everything I could have from the old menu bar system rollovers I had. There was still some garbage from that, so I went through and deleted everything I could find. I possibly missed something here or there, but I think I got it all.
More importantly for you, though I have improved the browsing experience! For those of you who love to use hotkeys (I'd die without Alt+arrows and ctrl+z) I have re-ordered the tab link selection. Now, when you press tab, the first link highlighted is "Previous". Following that is "Archives" and then "Next". So if you want to navigate the site just using the keyboard, you can press tab to find the appropriate link and then click enter to follow it.
More exciting news! Searching Google for "dry ice snowmen" yields my site as the top result! Unfortunately, it offers a spelling suggestion of "snowman" instead of "snowmen" and "dry ice snowman" doesn't get you to my homepage, sigh. Oh well. It's a Google improvement, at least!
7/13/2007
Hey everyone, happy Friday the 13th! I've got an idea for something incredibly awesome. For right now, I'm keeping it a surprise. I'm working on plot development, so stay tuned for more updates about the awesome surprise.
In other news, I've been majorly thrashed by just going to my summer job, so I haven't had much time for letting you know what's been going on, or updating on time. If I haven't already let you know, I'm interning studying seagrass in the inter-tidal zone. That means we have to wait for low tide to be able to reach the grass. Guess when low tide centers around? About 3 in the morning, thank you.
This means that my sleep schedule is so terrible, there's just no chance at attempting a "normal life". I tried normal things, like going to a movie and going to a concert, and these things just killed me. I quietly await the chance to get a normal life again…
Although, there are some fringe benefits to working in the field basically every day. For first, you get to be constantly surrounded by the biggest aquarium touch-tank. I've gotten to work next to wild sea stars, mussels, sea hares, octopuses, crabs, fish, more crabs, anemones, coral, kelp, and of course sea grass. Also, I get to see the sunset basically every day I've worked, for those of you who are romantics. The real treat is getting to see the moonset though. That's enough about that. Look for updates about the aforementioned surprise.
7/17/2007
Did some behind-the-scenes stuff… again. Sorry, but when you are reading about HTML nuances, that is just what you get. Some stuff you might care about: I gave the blog's text some cushioning space.
Aaaaannnnnddd….
Made the page for my future game!!!
That's right, The secret cat is out of the secret bag. I have now fully committed myself to making this game. So I better do it. As it says on the game page, I plan on having this done by
As an aside, I like the concept of an Etc Day. I'll have to pin that one down to a date and claim it as my own.
7/22/2007
THE LAST HARRY POTTER CAME OUT! Sorry for shouting, but if you were like me, you wanted to get midnight when it came out, but then got lazy and just got it during the day. I've already read through it last night, and I will not go into details, but I was mostly satisfied. Maybe after awhile I'll address what I didn't like, but for now I will not be the one posting spoilers. And anyway, for the most part I thoroughly enjoyed it.
A nice little thing to look forward to: I've got a fun blog story coming up soon enough, about my horrible battle with a terrible game. I think you'll really enjoy it, so be ready.
7/29/2007
I'm still working on the review of the terrible game; it's taking longer that I had first imagined. But, the reason it's taking so long is because I had no idea how much bad stuff could be fit into a game, so that means the review will be that much more awesome. Just you wait.
In other news, this has been coming on for awhile. I'm changing the lineup of when I update comics. I've now got lots and lots up for people who are just coming in, so I don't feel it necessary to constantly update. And for those of you who are regulars, you can just suck it up. I want to achieve three things: quality comics, regular updates and a long running time. So, I'm going onto a more regular cartoon update system.
I'll have snowman comics MWF and bonus comics on the weekends.
I think that's fair enough. I want to continue to give you lots of content, so be on the look-out for fun extras every now and then!