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Monday madness

So on Friday night we went to the Phinney farmers market and got some locally grown organic pork chops among other things. On Saturday the pork was thawed but it was too hot to cook. On Sunday I spent most of the day cooking. First I made some bread. Nothing fancy, just the fast white bread recipe from the joy of cooking. I used the SAF Red Instant Yeast that I ordered from King Arthur Flour last week. The bread was awesome, like always, but the yeast made it rise almost double what the old Fleischmann's yeast I used to use did.

Check it out:

Then, for dinner I fried the pork chops:

Made some white sauce with fried mushrooms and onions:

Put it all on rice and served it with some fresh corn:

It was an awesome meal :-)

I caught Nisa being a real jerk on Sunday too. The litter box is in the bathroom for two reasons, first to keep the dogs from trapping the cat in there and second to keep them from eating the kitty-roca. Nisa still finds ways to be a jerk though.

No way to know for sure how long that'd been going on when I caught her but it's entirely possible that the cat had been stuck in the bathroom for a half hour or more.

New comic posted at http://the-jerks.com/ tomorrow morning! Be sure to look for it.

--Abe

Friday!

So, we voted Nisa the jerks of the week because she ate some huge turd on our walk and Angela had to dig it out of her mouth. It was gross. Then, she climbed up on the table and ate all of the cats food. So I pushed the chairs in as far as they would go and later I caught her pushing one of the chairs out!

We've posted two comics on http://the-jerks.com/ this week. Our schedule is Tuesdays and Thursdays. It look like we had about 3K hits since Tuesday morning which is pretty good. Hopefully that will get a lot bigger over the next six months or so.

I've been busy all day and I have a lot to do still so this one is short.

--Abe

Whoops

Well, this weekend was fun. We went to greek and mom and I split the Rack of Lamb again, which is always amazingly good. But I never have clean dishes at the restaurant we went to. Oh well.

This weekend my mom also showed me how to color my comics in photoshop. And I went, "Duh. You should me that last time I was here. I will remember this time." And I did. I have started on coloring the Dino-Vamp. I will post it when I am done. But that will probably be next week. Might have been today had I not been totally distracted by Corgis on You Tube. I looked up Talking Corgis and found this:

That was so funny. Then we finally hooked up the Web cam and started recording the corgis. Not a very good camcorder, but better than none.

Also, our dogs totally do some of that. Nisa also does a funny little growl while she stands up next to Abe. Here is a quick little video of me making Nisa sit up and lay down. You can see how bad Abe's camera work is. And that Nisa moves far too fast for the camera. Watch her tail, too. Very funny.

Monsters and Dames ... and snuggies

First things first, a little drawing love. Here is a goblin or something and the Monsters & Dames drawing I did. I plan to try coloring these in Photoshop. I have to be sure to close everything else and save whatever it open because last time, the stupid program kept crashing when I tried to color (old snow white). For the Monsters and Dames drawing, I like everything but the legs of the monster. I think I gave up on them. I do realize, I need more than just a #1 Round and a #4 flat...

I have also inked Hellboy v. The Tentacles by voya and Chakata cover by Thegerjoos. But since they are not mine, I will not post them. Just super super super fun practice. And the actual ink of the cover is better than mine. But I am guessing that one was done at a bigger scale and possibly using more than just a #1 brush. I could only do it at 8.5 x 11 because I had to print it. It was really fun to ink and took about 4.5 hours. Wow. Long time.

Well, we were having t-shirt weather while it was snowing like crazy every where else. Now we are freezing. We had to scrape ice off the car windows before we drove to the dentist this morning (where I got my night guard and lower "retainer"). The dogs are all wrapped up in their snuggies.

Happy Monday

Soon, very soon, the closet will be done. Our house has been a terrible mess since last week. Tomorrow I'm heading to the good will to donate an old tv, an old monitor and a bunch of other stuff. I should have the living room back to basically normal in the next few hours too.

Turbine was kind enough to let me play Lord of the Rings Online for free all weekend. I had a blast. They've made some amazing improvements to the performance of the game engine since I last played. It used to hitch and stutter a lot but these days I just turned everything up as high as it would go and it runs like greased shit out of a ducks ass. Wow, I just actually thought about that saying for the first time in my life. How would one get the greased shit into the Duck, so that it could come out of the ass, without damaging the Duck in some unspeakable way. Hmm.

Anyway, excellent game and it was made all the better because my friend Night from EQ2 joined me. It was the first time we've been able to play together in months and months and I had a great time.

We finally got Nisa spayed this past weekend. Turns out she had a false pregnancy going. We thought she was just getting fat over the past few months! This morning she was able to walk up the stairs to the apartment by herself for the first time. She's mostly been sleeping. In fact she's asleep on the couch right now. I tried to take a picture of her in the pillow and blanket throne she had constructed for herself but as soon as the camera came out she buried her head under the pillows.

Well, back to the moving and cleaning.

--Abe

Wednesday Comic!

Angela drew this one on the tablet. It looks great!

I'm so tired. Monday night at 2 am Ernie started this terrified howling that woke us both up. The poor guy had had a bad dream or something and scared himself awake. He was so scared that he actually pee'd a little in his kennel.

We took care of him for a bit until he clamed down but then it took me about an hour and a half to fall back asleep.

Then I woke up about 45 minutes late because, in my mostly asleep panic, I had turned off our alarm. I got ready for work in about 20 minutes and was able to make it on time thanks to tuesdays being work at home day for Angela.

It was very exciting. And that's why I'm tired right now.

So, it turns out that there's a 95% chance that my job is seasonal and they just don't tell the people they hire. I've been talking with people that work there who are actual employees and they told me that they usually let all the people with my job go starting in mid-january.

Angela and I decided to curtail the frenzy of buying stuff that we had planned in favor of saving and paying off bills so that, if I do get laid off again, we'll have a much easier time of if because our expenses will be lower and we'll actually have some money in our savings.

Going to sleep now.

Abe

I'm just off this week

Damn it's HOT!

HOT HOT HOT

We took the dogs to petsmart last night when angela got home so they could spend at least a little while at a comfortable temperature. They seemed to really enjoy it and Nisa's ears and nose returned to their normal color for a while.

When she gets really hot her nose, and the insides of her ears, start getting darker and darker in color as she gets hotter and hotter. Last night the insides of her ears were almost purple. Poor girl.

Yep. FAll can start up any time now. I'm ready for clouds, rain, wind, cold.

--Abe

More Georgie and Arthur

I imagine that Ernie would actually enjoy having a person in the house that was small enough to ride him like a horse. Nisa, I think, would not be into to it though.

I'm drawing a comic or two almost every day now. Once I've drawn them and scanned them in to the computer, Angela re-draws them so they look good. I get the perspective all screwed up and stuff. She told me the other day that I basically commit crimes against art in my drawings.

That made me kind of proud.

As I'm sure you've figured out for yourself, Georgie is pretty light hearted for the most part. She's always screwing around. Arthur is more serious, dour even.

--Abe