Leaving the pen to your Wacom tablet intertwined in your fingers as you type on your keyboard. Like I’m doing right now.

I’ve just spent the last ten hours* in some indulgent drawing, the new large Dicebox update graphic for Girlamatic,** this being the current one. I’m very pleased with it, but now I’m tired and want to relax. But my eyes are tired and my hands want resting. So I don’t wanna read, watch a video, play a video game, design, write or draw. But I’m mentally alert and buzzing and want entertaining. Normally this means a walk—but I’m waiting for a phone call.

No point really, just venting here.

I need me one of those voice recognition programs. In the meantime I might as well go clean something. I’ll appreciate it later, I guess.

*With the occasional chore break.

**It appears randomly when there’s a new update, shuffled in with the otherseries on Girlamatic that also updating that day.

…then to get together with your husband to administer 150 ml of fluid to your cranky old cat with an I.V.!

And I have the lucky duty of sticking the needle in the poor little guy. Me, who hates needles so viciously.

The weirdest part is that since your administering this large amount of liquid (comparative to a cat’s body) under the skin in a fairly quick manner, he gets this temporary pouch of liquid off to one side of his body until it absorbs. Ranger tends to dress left, if you wanna know. I guess that’s really slosh left.

Best part is, we get to do this everyday this week! Then every other day for the next three weeks after that. Good times, I tell ya.

The above is a quote from Abbie the Cat Has A Posse.

Found by Kip, who got it from somewhere else.

As I had mentioned briefly before, I have the honor of Christopher Baldwin filling for me over at Girlamatic, with a short Dicebox story called “The Punishment,” * which he has begun with two great looking pages.

What you might not know is that two years ago, give or take a couple of days, Christopher gave Dicebox its first bit of publicity by alerting people of it’s mere existence on the Bruno homepage–in a day it went from maybe ten people seeing those first few pages to a few hundred. Certainly startled me. Hence I find his doing a fill-in piece for Dicebox to be oddly and sweetly fitting.

I used to read Bruno in its first incarnation in the UMass student newspaper. Not that I went to UMass or even lived in the Pioneer Valley at that point. But as my ol’ friend Barry Deutsch was also doing a strip for that paper, Cast of Thousands,** I had a reason to read that paper’s funny page when I visited the area; naturally I would also read the other good comic found there.

And as Barry’s new series Hereville will debut on Girlamatic tomorrow, these two fellows will yet again be sharing a comics page. Except this time I actually read all the other comics as well.

*Of course technically, it’s not Dicebox, Dicebox is a very specific story. This is more correctly “a short Molly and Griffen story.”

**Which Barry, really, really should post online.