And they update the site again?

Crimminy! I can't even get through all my backed up watch list. Things loaded with bugs. All these updates and still the drab grays everywhere. No accounting for taste I guess.

Guess where I've been?

Go on Guess. I'll even give you a minute.

You went to the bathroom didn't you?

Anywho... I took a month offa work to see AMERICA! Well, just the U.S.. <--(Is this right?)

Yup I was one of the many to do that all you can jet pass deal with Jetblue. Pretty snazzy. Thirty days of constant travel and hotel rooms. Bounced from coast to coast for awhile there. After much jet lag and deafness I figured out to just rent cars and take trains sometimes.

Went all over the damn place! First stop, New York City. Last stop, San Francisco! And most everything in between. I climbed the mountains of Oregon, walked the deserts of Arizona, braved the seas of Maine and saw a Sox game. They served chowder! In the stands! I visited some of the musts. Statue of Liberty, Grand Canyon, Vegas, Golden Gate Bridge, that museum from Feriss Buller's day off. Yup, pretty epic journey I had.

Next stop Europe!

Kidding!

For now...

Gawd, I'm tired.

Star date 6-26-09

The journey has been arduous but we have finally developed peace talks with the...

Blargh...

Thats better.

Man three new pics in a week? Thats gotta be some kinda record. Guess I just needed a solid project to get behind. I really just want to flesh out some of characters more and enhance their personalities. Its kind of liberating not having to worrying about your own personal character and somehow its just gets easier to be more creative. I think its a problem alot artists around here could have. Koibito dragon is benched for the rest of the season or till I feel like it.

Cars running good. I had to figure out a precise way of turning the key to start my car now. Its a kinda annoying but easy enough to live with.

Been hot as hell lately. The heat index is in the hundreds and the thunderstorms are things of beauty.

Had a gelato for the first time. Pretty good.

Oh! Crazy thing happened yesterday morning. I wake up earlier than usual to a strange light eminateing from outside my window. I get up in nothing but my skivvies and open the curtain to view a blinding flash. The background quickly vanished as the light grew stronger and stronger. I shouldn't describe it like light, more like an energy discharge. I honestly believed I was going to die. The apocalypse had come and I staggered back a few steps clenching my fists repeatedly saying no... noo... NOOO! My heart stood still and I fell alittle braceing for a death I was not ready for.

And nothing...

I looked around and went back to bed.

My car is EEEEVVVIILLLLLL!

Seriously. My cars been pulling a Michigan J. Frog for two weeks now. Ever since the serious rains started down here my cars been acting funny. She runs fine except more often than not when I try and start it. It cranks but the engine won't turn over. And always when I needed it most. Going to work, getting back from the grocery store, helping friends. It was like it was mocking me.

So I finally take her in to a garage failing in all my efforts to diagnose the problem. They didn't know what was wrong with it either! They thought something was wrong with ME! They day before I brought it I must've tried a dozen times to start the engine and nothing. Out of shear luck I got it going in the early cool hours of the morning. Time and time again they started it up without any hesitation. Diagnostics, gauges poked in every facet, four guys monitoring ever side of the car and they couldn't recreate the problem. It took them three hours to tell me this.

I decided enough was enough and walked back there, sat down in my car and cranked it. It wouldn't start. They almost pissed themselves.

With what little they observed the saw fit to give me a theory on what the cause was. Shorted out sensors and a leaking engine block. Sounds expensive doesn't it?

Well it was.

I pick my car up the next morning. Seemed fine. drove her a short while home and pleased with myself I got ready for a rewarding day out on the job. I get in my car and turn the key and...

Utter the loudest profanities in my life.

It wouldn't start... Never in my life have I been so pissed. I called the garage in a stewing rage while they made every concession to please me. I got a tow truck to come by and hitched a ride to verbally destroy the first mechanic I saw. Before that could happen they swiftly swarmed the car. Going everything as quickly as possible. Then one of them started the engine. First try.

Thats when I threw up my own brain.

She's been running perfectly fine after that.

By the way I saw Up today. Pretty damn good movie.

Lots of it!

Took me a month and a few hundred dollars but I finally resurrected my lawn.

Thanks to me breaking the sprinkler system earlier I found a new sense of manly responsibility welling up within me. Yes, my time had finally come to where I cared about how my yard looks. And I did it all by my lonesome. No gypsies, no lawncare experts, no pregrown sod, nothing but me, dirt and seeds.

I won't lie, my yard was dead save for the trees. Nothing but dirt and leaves. Hundreds of pounds of leaves infact. My poor back... I must've bagged two dozen bags of leaves and dead grass over a period of three days. Then I tilled the soil with nothing but a rake endlessly mixing new seeds and fertilizers into the dead barren ground. Weeks passed by. I watered twice a day for almost half a month but it was worth it! In the end it was the Kentucky Blue Grass that proved to be the one. All other species failed to even germinate in my cruel netherworld of a yard. The blades were tiny and thin but very much alive. My faith was renewed.

Later I seeded the lawn a second time useing only the Kentucky Blue to fill in any sparse areas.

Today was my new lawn's second mowing and I couldn't be more proud of it and myself.

No ants, no weeds... Just soft lush green wet carpet.

I just saw it.

And I'll be inner monologueing like Rorschach for weeks.