The short answer to that question…I don’t know.  The actual answer after this warning: It’s going to be long and wordy.

Still reading? Alright, then.  Lately I’ve just been unmotivated.  I sit down to write a strip and I just can’t seem to get anywhere.  I think maybe it’s because I don’t really know where I want to go with it.  I’ve been tossing the idea around of just starting over fresh and calling the last 170-something strips a warmup.  The characters are still as much fun to draw as ever, however I think I painted myself into a corner in the way I established the strip.  A lot of times I’ll get ideas that just wouldn’t work for the comic the way it stands, not to mention the amount I censor myself knowing that family members drop in most days.

What’s this mean for the comic?  It means I’ll be taking a month or two to think about what I want to do. I   need to take a hard look and reevaluate everything. I may try to find a way to write it onto the course I want to take, I may toss the old strips into a folder on the server and start again when I have a clear idea of what I’d like to accomplish with it.  The only clear goal I’ve had since I started has been to find a way to make a living drawing one way or the other.  While I do have awesome readers that swing by and check the site out every day, the numbers have basically been the same since I first started, which tells me that there’s a lot that I need to change around here to ever make that goal happen.

That’s basically it.  Once I get things sorted out on my end, the strip will resume.  I’ll post sketches and what not randomly in the meantime just so I don’t forget my login info, but nothing on any kind of schedule. If you’ve made it all the way to the bottom of my rant/rambling and have your own two cents to throw in on any of this I’d love to hear it, ’cause if you’ve been a reader for awhile you’ll know that I really have no clue what I’m doing around here.  I’m basically my own pointy-haired boss from the Dilbert cartoon.

*Update*

I’m still down in Phoenix, but at least now I have my PC and drawing supplies with me.  I have a few things to take care of tomorrow, then I have the rest of the afternoon to sit around making comics.  I have to set up a makeshift work area for a while, but hopefully I can get that taken care of ASAP.

Sorry folks. I took a spur of the moment trip down to Phoenix for a couple of days, and forgot to bring any drawing supplies. A new strip will be up Monday after my mini-vacation is over.

Still working on finishing the template for the site. Hopefully I’ll have the time to do it this week, I didn’t get nearly as much done over the weekend as I would’ve liked. Time to go work on the winning drawing for last weeks contest. Also for the past winners, I’ll send an e-mail out once the original drawings get shipped, I just haven’t been able to get to the post office to ship’em yet.

As you may have noticed, I’m in the process of switching the site over to a Worpress/Comicpress setup. Unfortunately that means I won’t have a strip up today, but it will be back on Monday. I’ve already got the archive setup, now it’s just a matter of changing the layout from the default, and a few other details. If I finish soon enough this weekend, I may be able to get a strip up Sunday night, then again on Monday. I also need to work on this weeks contest winner drawing as well, so it looks like I’ll be a busy little nerd.