Beetle, beware of the wrath of a jealous Sarge!
I thought it was a dog but I think it's the weird ass cat alien thing in profile.
Sorry, couldn't resist rewriting dialogue for Family Circus. The original appears first. The original is rather menacing for Family Circus.
Vera and Drew ride horses and wrist wrestle at the same time. I smell oncoming train wreck in the second panel.
My results from a career counseling site (answered additional questions to narrow things down because the first list contained too many manual labor type jobs - Boilermaker was number 2 on the original list)
Today is Walter Koenig's birthday. He is 71. Below are some funny images of Chekov from Star Trek (images from echosphere.net) 
Activity
A good run. I wanted to maintain the under 11:00 mile for 5 miles but I'm pleased with my overall performance.
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C'mon Drew, Vera wants to go riding! The Comics Curmudgeon will have fun with this.
For the first time in months the background remains consistent between panels. No odd turns and shifts.
My drive name conflict has been solved. Everything is working well. I start a new weight training regime today that focuses on strengthening my legs.
Fagin, learn to pixelate properly (it involves a computer and some image editing software) or just draw a paper bag over Wendy's head. The zip tone grid trying to look like pixelation is just lame and ruins the gag. Drabble sucks so hard that I can clean my floors with it and this particular strip is the hardwood floor setting.
Yes, I am aware of the irony of a person who draws a so-so web comic criticizing a syndicated cartoonist whose crappy comic appears in way too many papers. My crap does not have to smell like fresh baked cinnamon rolls in order for me to recognize the foul odor of a steaming pile.
My IE7 is back in working order. Yeah!
Now to deal with my conflicting drive names problem.
My browser is screwed up so I cannot download any comics. Right click does not function at all and several buttons on my toolbar are missing. It looks like I have some hybrid of IE6 and IE7. I cannot find out for sure because that option is missing. Until Friday, I had IE7 and it worked fine.
Attempts to download IE7 fail as well as attempts to download FireFox. I've sent a note to the IT guys and hope to have some help soon. I can limp along with the Frankenstein browser. I have most of my bookmarks memorized.
The first draft of the infinite project is complete and in the mail. Now, it's a matter of hanging the posters, brace for the bitchin', ahem, take feedback and produce another iteration in January. I might need to remind people of my limited Photoshop skills.
I was part of a productive meeting on Sunday. I was glad to help the Board President prepare the agenda for the upcoming board meeting. She lured me with ice cream. This process will make the meeting shorter, more focused and productive.
This week I ran/ walked 19.63 miles, burned 2300.1 calories and weigh 175 pounds.
Wednesday: 8.03 miles in 1:37:42
Friday: 2.27 miles in 50:47
Saturday: 7.03 miles in 1:18:13 - I am speed!
Next week's training plan:
Monday: 30 minute easy run
Tuesday: weight training
Wednesday: 7 mile tempo run; 5 miles @ 10:58
Thursday: weight training
Friday: walk the dog
Saturday: 14 miles @ 12:23
Sunday: rest
Activity
This route had a lot of nice steady downhills. I think I will use it for my tempo run.
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The last panel of Saturday's Rex Morgan M.D. I will hold this image in my mind next time I find myself annoyed by a cell phone user.
Took Loki for a walk. Activity
I did not work out Thursday, so I took Loki for a walk today. He did well off leash once we got to the nature trail. He did great on leash, too. He ignored other dogs and even layed down when some dogs approached on the nature trail. Since I walked with a dog you can probably guess what all the stops were about.
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I attempted to replicate Dawn's hand in the first panel. I dropped my phone. I couldn't balance it on my thumb. The man wearing the blue shirt in the second panel looks away hoping to find something more interesting. Alas, for the poor fellow all that's over there is Gil Thorp. Any bets on how long this break up will take?
I took the day off yesterday to wait for a repair man. He actually appeared when he said he would and had the parts he needed in his truck. Now I can dry clothes in the dryer instead of hanging them. I know using a clothesline is a greener way to live but I don't enjoy drying myself off with sandpaper and wearing cardboard.
I used the day to draw some extra cartoons and work on the new web design. It will probably officially launch in January 2008. I hope to have it complete by then. I had no idea just how big this thing has become. I may post the thing at the end of the month depending on how far I get in adding content. I've been building the pages then going back and adding the content so if I launch early there will be quite a few pages that do not have content. A lot of it is copying and pasting but I can make pages very quickly. I've found that my web updates with the new design will take the same amount of time as the current use of FrontPage.
Activity
Had a somewhat long traffic stop right before reaching mile 4. I found that frustrating. I did not feel like I was moving that fast on mile 5. As usual the last half mile was the hardest. I've been unable to pick up the pace regardless of the distance.
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Bonus avatar courtesy of Rex Morgan MD:
Variations on a gag:
Sometimes, I feel like Dilbert in the last panel after going through yet another anti-racism/ anti-oppression/ embrace diversity workshop or presentation.
In the United States, the dentists wear masks to protect the patient. I would think that the set up in the last panel would make access to the teeth more difficult.
Who hasn't dreamt of this happening?
You might be a tad obsessed with Mary Worth if you find yourself attempting to imitate the poses as drawn. The hand pose in the second panel is doable but a tad painful. No, I can't draw hands any better. I know alumni from the University of Texas (t.u. for us Aggies) and other schools with that shade of orange as a school color would love to know where Dr. Drew purchases his lab coats. The matching pants can be found easily.
Silver Taps - Aggies remember 11 students in sacred tradition - News
James O'Brien was the reason I attended this ceremony last night.
I was out and about way past my bedtime last night. I attended the first Silver Taps ceremony of the new school year. I knew one of the students who was being honored.
In the silence, I thought about James, his family and the attitudes toward Texas A&M traditions that I sometimes encounter at church.
I find some of the attitudes toward the traditions rather frustrating. Many of the people who attend my church are affiliated with the university. We work on making sure that we do not assume that newcomers are also affiliated with the university. But there seems to be a bit of a disdain for the traditions of Texas A&M and the somewhat conservative views of the student body that leads some people to see the UU church as a refuge from all that. Others think that change never happens because of the entrenched traditions. Below the surface, where several people I've encountered at church refuse to look, the traditions evolve and new traditions form to replace out-dated traditions. This evolution may be a bit slow for some people's taste but it happens. Dr. Gates made some huge strides in diversifying the faculty, staff and student body while maintaining the goodwill of all the parties and I hope the replacement president can continue that tradition.
If those who have such disdain for Texas A&M traditions and the attitudes of its students would attend one Silver Taps ceremony perhaps they could learn to appreciate the spiritual value and the way that tradition can serve as a common experience that binds the student body and unites former students. I saw at least 1,000 students at this Silver Taps ceremony. I doubt very few of them knew the deceased personally and may not have shared much in common with the deceased students but they attended because these were Aggies and that was all that mattered. They stood silently in the darkness, listened to the footfalls of the cadets, listened to the 21 gun salute and the playing of taps and then dispersed in silence.
The strange thing about my church is despite the number of people affiliated with the university very few actually received degrees from Texas A&M. Only two or three members would stand up in the sanctuary and proudly proclaim that they are Aggies. In my nearly 10 years with this church I never heard anyone proclaim that they received their Aggie ring (this is a big deal at Texas A&M) or got their senior boots (I've never seen a member of the Corps of Cadets attend our services) during Joys and Sorrows or mention that their children got accepted into A&M and will attend. My church seems to value higher education as long as it is pursued somewhere else.
I don't think being an Aggie is incompatible with being a religious liberal. In my opinion, I think our church would grow and have more student involvement if we learned to appreciate the positive aspects of Texas A&M tradition and appreciate the progress that is being made toward embracing diversity.
Whoa Nelly, Drew! Mary Worth has pulled out all the stops! The index finger of doom, the crossed arms and the withering stare break down Drew's defenses. He is dizzy and reduced to thought balloon asides. Mary's powers even messed up Drew's hair and made the room turn (wait the room always turns)! Drew you must tell Dawn you are dumping her now! Mary will not leave you alone until you bend to her will. She will stalk you in your dreams, lean over your bedside as you attempt to sleep and fly halfway around the world just to meddle in your life. You cannot escape the Mary Worth! Ask your father, he will verify Mary's unrelenting nature.
Nice dig at your own comic strip. Single and Looking just changed its name from Out of the Gene Pool. I like the old name better. It is a good comic strip that should replace any one of the zombie strips that have invaded the paper. It would be a great replacement for Cathy. Single and Looking has relevance that Cathy lost sometime during the second Reagan term.
A bit late in posting last week's running log. The long run last night really wiped me out.
I ran 24.56 miles, burned 2954.7 calories and weigh 177.8 pounds.
Monday: 2.58 miles in 35:00
Wednesday: 7 miles in 1:22:04
Sunday: 12.01 miles in 2:30:23
This week's training plan:
Monday - rest
Tuesday - weight training
Wednesday - 8 mile run @ 12:31
Thursday - weight training
Friday - rest
Saturday - 7 mile run @ 12:31
Sunday - rest
I'm sure people in that line of work refer to themselves as cheese slicers. Machines probably do that kind of thing but someone has to run the cheese slicing machine. I bet the person who runs the machine has heard every cheese cutting joke there is. After 38 years on this planet I still giggle at "cut the cheese" jokes so maybe the cheese slicing machine operator really enjoys his/her job and loves to tell people that he/she cuts the cheese for a living. I would.
On the topic of UU classism and humor - would the hypothetical cheese slicing machine operator feel welcome in our churches and would we laugh at the cheese cutting jokes?
Great parody of Family Circus and playing with a semi-regular character.
The Egg McMuffin. I'm old enough to remember a world without the Chicken McNugget. I was in high school when the McNugget was introduced. I also worked at a McDonald's and know what a Chicken McNugget would turn into once it has passed its freshness time. It would turn into a briquette (a McBriquettte) when thrown with some velocity would leave a nasty bruise. It was unnatural the way the McNuggets would be fine at 19 minutes, 59 seconds but then suddenly turn into these little bricks at exactly 20 minutes. I ate and still eat McDonald's food but the short shelf life (7 minutes for a burger to 1 hour for a pie) of the food really bothered me during the time I worked at McD's.
Now that's some green living I can get behind.
