Good morrow, fellow stressheads!
Well, well. Look at the place.
For a long time I have been meaning to do a lot more with the site than I have been doing. For starters, the comics are undergoing something of a reinvention, involving the addition of plot, characterisation, humour, etcetera. Also it’s actually going to be something that could conceivably be considered a comic by anybody with a thimbleful of sense.
Of course, you won’t have seen any of this yet. And it’s not just out of laziness. “Are things keeping our beloved Benny from doing the things he promised us?” the voices ask. Let me count the ways:
- Stomach troubles & absent-minded-fuckwittedness: my stupid brain forgets to do the necessary movements in order to administer medication for the distended acid-bag breaching my thoracic cavity, meaning my body attacks me in unnervingly gastronomic ways. This leaves me cranky at the end of the day after work, and in no mood to make comics, develop websites, and brainstorm. A creative hiatus hernia, if you will. Hey, that was pretty good – for a man whose body is slowly digesting itself.
- Computer trouble. This involves my only having a licence for the 64-bit version of Windows 7, which has proved to be a bitch to dual-boot with a MacOS X installation which refuses to boot into 64-bit mode. I have finally overcome this issue in a rather shady but otherwise workable fashion, thanks to the ever-ready counsel of Intertree.
- External hard drives. Lots of my stuff was on an new 320 Gig external hard-drive which has decided to give up the ghost apropos of nothing. Also another, misplaced, external hard drive, which the household gods have recently seen fit to return to me, was missing for quite a while, depriving me of the installers for several packages I needed to continue various projects.
- Money worries. These have dissolved themselves in the past few months, thanks to a number of people and a payrise.
- Family problems. These are part of life and will simply never go away, so I’m learning to have to live with them. Life’s an impatient fucker and just arrogantly goes on, never looking back, even if you fall behind and really fucking need to get some stones out of your shoes.
The list for upcoming projects is as long as your arm (if you have no arms, try and borrow one from a friend or relative for reference). I’ll not list things exhaustively here, if only because I’ll look like a jerk when I don’t actually do them.
One thing I’m particularly looking forward to, and which appears to finally be in serious danger of actually happening soon (yay!) is my long awaited (by me, at least) Programming Projects section. I’ve got a few programs in the later stages of production which have simply been set back because of the aforementioned computer trouble. Some of them I’m going to have to start again because I’ve lost the source code, and for a long time I didn’t have my old copy of Borland Delphi 7 to hand (for those of you in the know, I know, it’s ancient. But it serves my purposes for now) and I lack the funding for a more up to date version. Readers will be able to give me some ideas about programs to write, small ones at first, then building up to more adventurous projects. You’ll hear about it on the blog first! Watch this space .
Another item on the agenda will be the Electronics section. There are a number of circuits and devices I’ve had the mental schematics for for a long time, not the least of which is the technology project from 5th Form coursework which never saw the light of day because of either (a) my own stupidity or (b) my teacher’s completely retarded sense of humour. The story behind this is quite a bitter one, and deserves a blog post of its own someday.
Mark my words, friends, I shall have my revenge! And it might make entertaining reading, too! Double mofo whammy, bitches.
All the pieces are falling neatly back into some kind of order. And I appear to be actually using the blog now! Another double whammy you lucky, lucky motherfuckers.
Right, well, back off to work, and also to start composing an acceptance speech for a hitherto unknown but nonetheless prestigious and, make no mistake, completely undeserved award. More on that later.
Keep toiling, minions! Muwhahaha!!
BCWS
Benjamin “Clumsy Writer” Smylie
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