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.

Today we go spend some money. Cause we’ve got some. Wouldn’t want to hang on to it too long now would we? We’re getting new tires for the car. It’s needed them for about two years now. While those are getting put on we’ll have some of our unloved and duplicate books getting traded in at Epilogue Books. Then Nizzibet gets a hair cut and we go buy some clothes. Big plans for the day. I’m so jealous of us.

Actually on the Dining Room Table – I gave JDogg my drawing board when he moved out –

In sketch form – the Gump

Waiting to be inked – a couple of Hammerheads, Glinda, T.M. Wogglebug, the Glass Cat and the last of the Tcho-tcho illustrations. (The Tcho-tchos are for The Black Seal not Oz Squad.)

Waiting for shading and photoshopping – the Sawhorse

Waiting to be redrawn – Trot (Nothing wrong with the drawing. It’s … dull. Trot is a livelier person.)

I’ve bowed out of doing illustrations for the Sasquatch Chronicles. I was already running late and with needing to pack up, paint and move I just saw myself getting later.

I also have quite a few kaiju waiting to get worked on but I don’t see myself getting back to those for a few weeks. Or more.

Added info about Oz Story to the Oz Comics pages. I’d provide links but the cat has decided that she wants my attention this morning and doesn’t appreciate me trying to type when she thinks my hands could be better used to scratch her.

The Hungry Tiger and the Kalidah pages are now up. I’m not sure if I’ll keep the character history for the kalidah. I can’t tell if what I wrote was actually amusing or just a poor reflection of what was amusing when I first thought it. I’ll have to reread it in a couple of weeks and see how it hits me then.

Added images of Oz-Story to the Oz comics page.

Not much to show otherwise. I have writing to do for the Who’s Who pages. More drawing for that as well. One more illustration for the Chaucha article. I’ve set the end of May as my deadline to finish the Sacrifice comic.

A friend’s father passed away this weekend. Not unexpected. He had a bad heart and he’s had a few heart attacks already. Apparently he finally got hit by one that he couldn’t recover from. I’ve been trying to reach my friend without luck since I heard on Sunday.