So, my husband's car is now having starter trouble. His friend from work spent two-three hours of my night dealing with his car that slowly lost it's ability to accelerate (after he hit something unknown on the highway). My car just got done with 2k$ in engine repairs, my mom's car had a similar set of repairs recently, my dad's truck is having some starter issues, and two people at my work are also dealing with engine issues.

Seriously, all within a span of three weeks. What the hell is happening to all the cars? Maybe it's the anti-baby boom of cars.

It's been about 2-3 years since that whole, "oh hey, sorry folks, the economy just kinda collapsed" hit everyone. I know a lot of people *cough like me cough* have been avoiding standard maintenance, putting off buying a new car, etc. Maybe this is just the vertex of a big bell curve of 'this is when cars that normally wouldn't still be driven start to break down.'

I don't know. But When hubby's coworker's car slowed to a halt tonight it ate like 3 hours of my life. Not that it wasn't fun talking with him, picking up Starcraft II, grabbing a coffee at Cafe' Felice, but it was 3 hours I was intending to finish up page 37. So, instead, you get a page which is quite nicely polished up, but a bit incomplete.

Also, this is the point at which, I have a small favor to ask of everybody:

Please pass this comic along. I'd really like to get a bit more readership, and until our finances stabilize and I can purchase a few cheap ad spaces on the net, and get up the nerve to start plugging my comic to any of the comic artists I read regularly, it's the easiest way to get this comic to more people. I'll be printing some business cards soon, so I'll finally have something to hand to people when 'oh yeah, I do this web comic, it's free, wanna go see it?' comes up in daily conversation.

So. Car is fixed (though I'm already detecting noises that should have been gone now...) for around 2000 dollars. That is all our rainy-day money and then some put on the credit card. Grr. Compy has been completely reinstalled, and I'm slowly getting through all the program reinstalls, and the several-day process of forcing windows to update itself properly. I haven't gotten a chance to work on the pages for chapter 2 much, though 20-or so pages are storyboarded, and I started placing text and stuff in Photoshop since it's entirely digital now. I am 1/2 done with the cover. It should be hella shiny once I have it all worked together.

As for me? I was sick for half of today, and when I felt better by 9pm, went off to the movies to see Sorceror's Apprentice. I don't know why hollywood cant' get more imaginative with alchemy-style magic. It just makes me shake my head every time. It always drops off and becomes uncreative after a few tricks. But the writing was good.

It just gives me more reason to really push the envelope with the magic in my comic. Which is something you have yet to see even a fraction of. That will improve. Oh yes, it will :)

Had to take my car to the mechanic cause it was not just making noise, it was freaking RUMBLING. Like, felt like the car would rattle it's way off the road. Today was Car engine failure and mass computer-virus fail. My husband had to scrub my compy down when he came home, and the car bill is at 700 dollars and climbing.

So. We're moved in, the computers are finally operational, and the old apartment is finally CLEARED OUT. Took us four days, and I'm not sure we're getting any of our deposit back. Chances of a page on Monday? Slim, but not impossible.

We've finally signed the lease, and our move-in day is June 26th. We'll probably be dead that whole weekend, and I'll probably still be unpacking and arranging for well, weeks. At least. But before I even unpack we'll likely be plopping down some money on paint and drop cloths. That's right. We're allowed to PAINT at this apartment :D. It's written right into the lease! Huzzah!

What does this mean for your webcomic appetite? Possibly nothing! That's right, NOTHING! Because I've already finished chapter 1. You heard right. Completely finished. all 35 pages, just awaiting their pre-programmed update times. If I get some more free time I might go back through to graytone pages I didn't have time for, but for now, most of my time will be eaten up by last-minute checks, packing things up, trying not to go crazy, and finishing a necklace for a very good friend of mine.

So I'm going to try not to continuously hover around my own website for the next two weeks. I'll pat myself on the back for actually getting stuff done ahead of time instead.

For those of you wondering, we're not moving far. We'll be going about 5 miles away, from south seattle to Renton (still part of metro-Seattle area). The move isn't cause we hate our landlords, mainly it's to move in with our friend Tech, save some money on rent/ utilities, and find a better compromise location for all of our jobs. Mainly my husband, who commutes to east side, which is a 1.5 hour commute on bad days..... BOTH WAYS.

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