Issue 1 - DONE!

Well, my wife ended up not being in labour, so that gave me the weekend to finish work on issue one of my comic!

Unfortunatley, it also means the baby dropped and my wife is even more uncomfortable than before. We see the midwife tomorrow to see how things are going.

My son's cold seems to be getting better, but mine has hit full swing, and it sounds like my wife is starting one now too. I hope she doesn't have to suffer through delivery with a stuffy nose or sore throat, the delivery part will be hard enough.

I was hoping to play around with my tablet today on some inked art stolen from MassacreMike over at the Mental Kavity, but unfortunately, that didn't happen. I am thinking I will focus on the comic as much as I can, and maybe try out the tablet when I need a break from writing. I've had it for a few years now and haven't used it all too much, but I've been itching to do something art related for a while now.

Now that I think of it, I do have to start working on the nieces' Christmas gifts soon...

Procrastination and Other News

I fully intended on writing a post about procrastination this week, but something strange happened. I actually stopped procrastinating and started writing, and I got a good chunk of a 22 page 1st issue of a short 6 issue graphic novel written. It is pretty rough at the moment, and I know it will require a re-write or 2 here and there, but it's started now, so I am happy.

Over to nerd news, the best news I heard all week was that the new V series will be premiering on November 3rd. Its a long wait, but I've been waiting over 20 years, so another 2 months I can handle.

Other geek news is that there seems to be a strong possibility that there may be a third Ghostbuster's movie in the works. I know this rumour has been floating around for a while now, but it has resurfaced and all cast members seem to be interested. Lee Eisenburg and Gene Stupnitsky (the Office) are apparently writing a screenplay. Hope it turns out better than Ghostbusters 2 did, and just as awesome as the original.

And speaking of Ghostbusters, these new action figures look freaking awesome. I will need to get my hands on these ones for the collection.

Well, that's enough procrastination for me, time to get back to writing :)

My Recent Blog Neglect...

Hello. You may not remember me, but I am the guy that is supposed to keep this blog up to date. I haven't been doing a good job of that as of late, but here's why.

A few Fridays ago I went to the wedding of a friend of mine. It was a really good wedding, reception and dinner, and a good time partying with all my old buddies. I wish Mike and Jane the best wishes in their years together to come.

I had also found out the Thursday prior that I was going to have an interview the Wednesday following for a position substantially higher than the one I am in now (the next step up in my office is more of a jump than a step). Now, I normally prepare for interviews as if I were studying for the biggest test of my life, and I don't want to fail, because the answers are usually about me and my experiences/knowledge. So, up until Wednesday morning, I was pretty much burying myself in all things managerial, leadership oriented, and accounting based (yeah, it was entertaining reading).

The interview has since come and gone. I think I did rather well, all things considered, and look forward to hearing how things turn out. I am of the mind that if I get it, great, if not, no biggie. It was a good learning experience. I will keep you all posted on how things turn out.

Speaking of how things turn out, I never did post what happened to the little rodent babies I found in the yard. The remaining two lived through the night, which I was glad to see. Science North wouldn't take them though, so things looked bleak. But, later in the day, mom eventually came and claimed them both.

Since the Wednesday night of my interview, I have been catching up on some comics. I picked up and tore through the latest issue of Wizard, and am reading 2 trades of the Amazing Spiderman, written by J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame). It is a decent story, and one that I had started reading a while back, so it is good to finally catch the end of it now.

Finally, I have been completing some research for the graphic novel I wish to write. I just had to look up some info on DNA evidence for solving crimes, when it really caught on, etc... Now I am working on piecing everything together to form the outline, then I can start writing.

Which brings me to the topic of my next blog post - Procrastination. Anyone have any thoughts, comments or theories about procrastination? Please share, I seem to be doing quite a bit of that on my self-assigned projects lately. And once that baby comes, you may not see any posts for quite a while...

Strange (and somewhat sad) Find

When my wife and I moved into our house, there was a child's playset and small sandbox left in the yard. With the coming of our son's first birthday, his memere bought him a new sandbox with an attached picnic table with umbrella. We decided to clean out the old sandbox and give it to his memere for when he visits over there.

Today I got around to doing this little chore. I started by emptying out all of the toys, then shoveling out the old sand. I then picked up the sandbox and tipped it over. My attention was first grabbed by the massive amount of ants and ant eggs underneath the sandbox, but then I noticed a clump of loose, dried grass that looked out of place. I moved it around a little and heard a small squeaking noise. I gently pulled back some of the grass to find 4 pink rodent babies!

I told my wife about it, who then wanted to see them. We decided to leave them there, covered as they had been, in case their mother came back looking for them. We checked on them every so often to make sure they were still okay (though, really, neither of us would know what to do to help them anyway, but we were concerned just the same). After a few hours, we checked and saw that 2 of them were gone. They are too small to get anywhere far on their own, and the nest wasn't disturbed, so we ruled out some sort of predator (that would have probably torn the nest apart and taken all of them at once). Below are the remaining two babies.

We don't really know what these guys are, as most rodent baby pics online from this stage seem to all look alike. Their eyes are still sealed shut, as you can tell from the photo. We are hoping that the mother comes back to get these guys before it gets too late and cold out for them. We have debated taking them in, but then the mother wouldn't come back later for them, and we have no idea how to take care of them anyway. We also may take them in for the night and bring them to Science North tomorrow, as we are bringing our son anyway.

It was interesting to see these guys, but kinda sad knowing that they may not make it through the night (yeah, I know, they are just rodents. I guess having a baby at home and expecting another in the next month and a half has that kinda effect on you).

Anyone have any idea what these guys could be?