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So, it’s Thursday, the last day of September, and here I am, sitting in Jess’s dorm room while she’s at class watching it rain outside. Not that I can really complain, I mean hell, it’s better then being at work! But, there are a few things on my mind that I was thinking about doing today, but I just can’t decide what to do.

I brought a bunch of old games with me to play. I was thinking about loading up either Blood or Sahdow Warrior, but I’m not sure if I really want to. Then I was kicking around maybe a trying out a new site design, but since I don’t have ny of my files with me here, I have to do everything manually. Not that that’s a big deal or anything, but I’m not sure if I want to do that right now either. Although in all honesty, I have started playing around with a new CSS for my main page. What I’ve come to realize over the past few months is that my site isn’t what I had hoped it would be. What I would like to do is make this more of a (insert laughter here) blog then it actually is. This is a blog, but really in name only. I mean, how can I post to this thing maybe three or four times a month and call it a blog. I know sometimes it’s just laziness, and other times it’s just that I don;t think of it, but I really want to start posting more. Especially with a lot of the things that I have planned in the next few months, I really want to post more.

I was actually planning on going for a nice long walk to day while Jess was at class, but as it turns out, the rain had other ideas for me. Oh well. It looks like I will be spending most of the day inside. That’s okay though. Maybe I’ll peel my ass away from this computer long enough to shave, take a shower, and then maybe play a game or something. Who knows, maybe I’ll even sit down and read a book. Or better yet, if it does stop raining, I can go for my walk.

Geez, it’s almost October already. Where the hell has the time gone? Technically I know where it’s gone, it just doesn’t seem like it’s been going that fast.

For those of you in the know, you know damn well where I have been spending almost every free minute when I’m not at work for the past (almost) three months. Those of you who think that maybe I got lost in my basment and have just found the door, let me enlighten you. It’s actually quite simple when you think about it, but there’s the little catch that always tends to bite me in the ass. The simple answer is that Jess and I have been spending almost every single minute we can together. This even means leaving work at like 7pm, going down to her college, spending the night, and then leaving at 4am to get to work by 6am. I think I may have just given away the slight pain in the ass part, but for those of you with a math learning disability, here it is….it is a 1 hour and 30 minute ride to either one of us. That’s 3 hours round trip. That’s 164 miles round trip. Not only do you have include gas into that equation, but also $5 worth of tolls to see each other. But you know what? We’re okay with that. This is what happens when you’re in love with someone. Little things like gas money suddenly become no big deal. LIttle things like giving a guy $5 for driving on his road also becomes no big deal. Spending 3 hours a day in a car usually consuming at least one major meal to save time becomes sonething you don’t even think twice about doing. And getting only about 3 hours of sleep before you have to drive back and go directly back to work for another 9 hours doesn’t even faze you. Why doesn’t this bother us? Because we both know that just to see each other for 5 minutes is worth every second in that car and every dime we spend we get there. I love this woman more then I have ever loved anyone before in my life. I’ve always heard the saying that love hurts. To me, I always thought that they were talking about the pain of breaking up with someone, but now I know what they are talking about. It’s when you love someone so much that it actually hurts to be apart from them. This is how much I love Jess. This is why I spend so much time in my car. This is why I get little to no sleep anymore. And this is why I’m always ready to do it again at the drop of a hat. (and for those of you not putting 2 + 2 together, this is why there have been no updates/posts lately. Duh!)

Now that that’s out of the way…what else has been going in you ask? Well, not to omuch really. My birthday is coming up. Not that big of a deal. Jess is being nice enough to come up the day before and make me a nice birthday dinner. This is a big thing for me considering she is really the first woman who has ever cooked for me. Not only has she made me some pretty damn fine dinners in the past, but she’s not only making me dinner, but desert also! We’re not talking a stawberry Pop-Tart here…we’re talking like a real home backed confectionary delight! This is going to be good!

Well, it’s about that time where I have to get ready for work now. I know, it sucks but hey, I need the money. I’m leaving right from work tomorrow night to go down to Jess’s for about 2 days or so. I’ll see if I can maybe start making some posts from down there while she’s at class to try and raise my posting numbers higher then 4 times a month. Time to go get naked and wet. Later…

Ok…here’s the situation. I proposed something to Jess about a week ago (no…not THAT question), and she happily accepted. What I am talking about is her moving in with me after she graduates college this May. So, one of the conditions of her moving in with me was that she needed a music studio. You know, a place she can give music lessons and practice. So, I took her to my upstairs last night and I told her that with the exception of my little prop hallway, she can have the rest of the upstairs to do what she will with it. She got all excited and started mapping everything out. So, the first step was cleaning everything out. (A.K.A. get rid of Trev’s crap that he can’t let go of) Honestly, I thought that maybe we would start slowly in the next few weeks. Nope! When I came home from getting a lamp at my sister’s house, I saw that she had already cleaned out the closet where I keep all my old computers, camping stuff, and hunting equipment. Needless to say, she was on a roll and I was recruited to help out. We got the entire upstairs in just a few hours. Unfortunatly, I now have a mound of garbage and a lot less nelongs to call my own. But it’s all for a good cause and I really can’t complain. Here are some pics of what we accomplished today. Just click on the thumbnails for the larger picture.

It feels good to be back at home with my rig. See, when I left here on Sunday for work and then Kutztown, my PC was very sicks. It got infested with some very nasty viruses, adware, spyware. I didn’t have time before work to fix it, so I just left it. When I came home at 12:25am this morning, I knew I had to get to bed since I had work in 5 1/2 hours. Well, as I laid there, I just couldn’t sleep knowing my computer was broken. So low and behold, I was up until 1:15am this morning working on it, but when I was done, it was up and running at 100%! So, I then felt very relaxed and comfortable enough to go to sleep. Yes, I know I’m weird. You don’t have to tell me that.

A post or two ago I mentioned about scanning some of my sketches that I did with JP when I got back home. Now that everything is up and running, I did just that. Here’s the basic style we’re looking at right now. This may end up being the new design for the Trev character actually.

Still very rough of course

I’m down here at Jess’s dorm/apartment killing some time while she gets back from her next class. I came down here last night to see her and spent the night. I have work today rfom 2pm-11pm, which sucks, but at least allows me time to see her before I have to hit the road. And seeing as she has an hour break from 11am-12pm, I think this will work out nicely.

As to what else is going on, not too much. I’m getting shafted again at work, but then again, this is nothing new. Things with Jess and I are getting better and better day by day. I don’t mean that in a way that suggests we’ve been having a bad time together, but with each day we see each other it seems to be better then the last. To me, this is how I always envisioned a relationship. It’s nice to finally have one like that.

JP and I worked a bit on the new comic concept. The only thing I have drawn right now is a rough idea for a new Trevor character. I’m obviously not home so I can’t scan it in and post it, but I think I really like the style of this character. The only thing is now can I reproduce that syle again and come up with a JP and supporting characters? We’re not setting a timetable on this project. W’re just taking it more as a “if it happens it happens” kind of approach.

Well, Jess just got back so I’m going to spend the last few minutes that I can today with her. And then after that, it’s in the mighty blue Neon and on the road for an hour and a half and back to work. Oh the joy…

I feel bad because I dont seem to post here anymore. But, it’s not for a lack of things going on let me tell you. In fact, it’s just the opposite. I’ve been literally on the go with Jess since early July and it looks like we’re not slowing down anytime soon! But I do have a few other things in the works which might interest some of you.

First in the news, JP and I have been kicking around possibly starting up another web comic. Our first comic was moderately successful and we enjoy it for the most part, but then the demands of a constant update schedule coupled with our increasingly complex lives (break-up for him, meeting somone for me) left the comic on the back burning for far longer then we ever wanted it to be. But, we did learn a lot about what works and what doesn’t, both on the front end and back end of things. If we do decide so start another comic, we’re ereally going to try and do things that we wished we had done the first time!

Secondly, well….I really don’t think there’s anything else right now. I’m sure there might be some big new in a few months or something, but as of right now, the possibility of a new comic is about the best I have to offer.

So, it’s time for me to go to bed. I might do a little sketching before bed and see what I can come up with since it’s been months since I have drawn anything. But other then that, it’s 8am-5pm for me tomorrow and then over JP’s house to do a little brainstorming anf see what ideas we can come up with and if we want to take on the challenges of doing a comic again. I’ll keep you guys informed. Later…