You ever had one of t hose string-of-events where things just keep happening (not necessarily all bad mind you) and before long you realize it’s been a month and you’ve stumbled into the middle of a mess and forgot how you got there in the first place?

That’s pretty much what happened here.

It started with me taking a trip over to Kansas City, which I had planned on and prepared for, and turned into bonanza of bizarre.  Computer troubles, changes at work, a little house/dog sitting for a weekend, and a Final Fantasy Beta later and I’m just now at a spot where I can look back and go “holy cow… how did I get here?”

To enlighten a bit, my computer that was broken was suffering from the death of my hard drive.  Normally that wouldn’t be so bad, except that in this case we were having problems getting the old files (including all the BlueStar stuff) from the old HD onto the new one, and then the new one wasn’t recognizing at first.  It took about a week, but we got that all fixed and everything is up and running smooth.  I want to send a giant thanks out to Brian Sparks once more for his help.

Along with that delay I also spent a weekend house sitting for a friend (away from my computer with the comic stuff) and then I admit I got a bit swept up into the Final Fantasy XIV beta that just came out.  Pathetic?  Yes.  Fun game?  It has potential.

So, anyway, I’ve got the computer back, and I’ve got everything installed again, and so all I need now is some time to work on comics.  My plan is to have a new comic up by Thursday morning, and since I’m so far behind I’ll do a comic on Thursday and Friday both.  In color.

From there I’ll get to work on the regular schedule again and do my best to avoid any more disasters or distractions (either unforeseen or seenunfore) as I work away at it.   Thank you guys again for the patience – now let’s rock this party!!  (Or, some other cool line.)