The Hammerheads entry should have the image working today. I’ve also added an entry for Cap’n Bill. That one has link for Trot but it doesn’t go anywhere yet. The illustration for the Trot entry needs to be inked, shaded and photoshopped.

No drive to do anything last night. Got home. Made Nizzibet the avocado and turkey sandwich that I’d promised and heated up leftovers for myself. We traded news about our days and then, because I wasn’t in to doing anything productive and she didn’t have the energy, we watched The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brunner’s character is a Cajun. Apparently that’s a handy excuse when actor’s have odd accents and their character is still supposed to be “American”. A little silly given how many immigrants were running around the Wild West at the time. Silly also considering how many of those Mexican peasants in the movie didn’t have Mexican accents. Fun movie.

I’ve updated the Oz Squad Who’s Who page to include bios of the Sawhorse, the Gump and a couple of Hammerheads.

I’d say Happy Birthday to Gregg Victor too but I couldn’t find an image to link to.

Still sick but now it’s the sort of sick I can effectively ignore until it goes away.

Saturday –
Nizzibet and I went for coffee. It’s a Saturday morning ritual. We either go out to breakfast or go to coffee. It all depends on our finances and what else we’ve got going.

Nizz had a business meeting. While she was gone I moved the weight bench and weight set upstairs. I could have disassembled the thing but I wanted to see if I could get the bench upstairs without doing that as a challenge to my ingenuity and a generally machoness. It’s now sitting in JayDogg’s old room.

Did some scanning. Did some inking. Nizz got back and we went to JayDogg and TwoM’s. LittleM had a play date next door so we didn’t see here for a while. When she got back she wasn’t interested in hanging out with the adults. She’d had kids to hang with and we definitely rated second best. After awhile she got bored and decided we were okay. While Nizz and TwoM watched Elf I spent some time throwing and spinning Little M all over her room. She’s fairly light. The biggest thing to pay attention to is how long she is. I had avoid thumping her into things. When I finally wore out we settled down to a game of Dinosaur Checkers.

All was interrupted by dinner. Lasagne. Yum.

I’d probably feel worse but, instead of getting upset about it and therefore cranky, I’ve pretty much rolled with it. That means not trying to do things that I’m going to screw up or get too frustrated about. It also means I’m not getting as much done as I’d like. That is annoying. I never include a “getting sick” contingency in my plans.

Today I will be using Google to locate and print out images of Panzer tanks and knitting needles. For drawing reference. I checked around yesterday morning for tank images and discovered that there are quite a few to chose from, many of them images of tank models rather than actual images of actual tanks. Not that that’s a problem. I’m drawing a retrofitted Panzer. Now I’ve got to print out a bunch of them so they are available for handy checkbacks. I’m pretty sure I know what knitting needles look like but it never hurts to check.

Work on the Who’s Who pages has had to be set aside to get some other work done. I will mention it whenever I post another entry.

I’m feeling healthier this morning. Not great. I’ll still probably hit the sack early tonight. And therefore not get much drawn. I’m bringing my sketchbook to work in case things are slow enough for me to play. I’ve got a number of characters that I need to get down before I start needing to include them in actual comic pages.

I suspect that I’m coming down with a cold. The weather has been warm. I’ve been relatively productive. Perfect time for a crash. I’ve got that scratchy feeling in the back of my throat that just won’t go away. This has often been the precursor to the nose that won’t stop producing snot. I plan to go gargle with salt water (one of BigSis’s favorite tricks) and go to bed early.

Should I be seeing purple centipedes crawling under other people’s skin?

Description of the Manitoba “Bigfoot” video. Of course. The video airs on A Current Affair tomorrow night. Screen captures will be showing up all over the internet soon after.

Eric came by the office today. Since today is his day off he brought his daughter with him. I think she’s three. She had a great time bringing me bubblewrap to pop for her.

Saturday – got new tires, sold extra books (got more than I expected and they took less than I expected), napped, drew a new Trot and also a Cap’n Bill, watched Head in the Clouds, a sweeping historical romance with a real bummer of an ending and The Fearless Vampire Killers, a comedy that was entirely too slow for my tastes.

Sunday – mowed the lawn, fried up some turkey bacon, drank a couple of bottles of wine, went shopping, drew a Nick Chopper. Not necessarily in that order.