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Well Bush is President again. I guess I'm moving to Canada. I will have to spend the next four years sleeping on either Scott or Pierre's couch. -_-;
Halloween was a lot of fun this year, I scared the crap out of many kids innocently trying to trick or treat at my mom's house. They had it coming.
Also I carved a neat pumpkin this year, I'll have pictures up once I find the power cord to my digital camera dock.
The Cast/Story page, Gallery page and Links page now exist, and are slowly coming together as legitimate sources of distraction. Feel free to browse, but be prepared for the worst!
Oh and we have new fish! Alyssa has taken over the tank the last week or so and we now have two new goldfish... so naturally the Fishcam is back. I hope our new ammonia monitor can help us prevent any more... "incidents."
Also next week the Staccato posters that were only available at Connecticon 04 will be going on sale online. I'm not sure if that is exciting or not, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
And now... it's off to Canada! Oh right, I mean work.
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A bunch of things to mention tonight.
Firstly, I threw together a Halloween Staccato wallpaper which is eerily similar to the Halloween header up top. A strange coincidence, but a free wallpaper is a free wallpaper!
Secondly, we lost our last goldfish, "Rocky"... so for obvious reasons the Fishcam has been taken down indefinitely. He was with us such a short time I didn't even have a picture of him, but none the less, I believe a memorial haiku is in order.
Name: Rocky Balbulbus
Species: Fantail Goldfish
I think the hardest part about losing our fish was that even now we still don't feel like we know what went wrong. I really can't figure it out... it could have been overfeeding, ammonia/nitrate levels in the water, something with the new tank. It just very discouraging not knowing where we went wrong, especially after the long amount of time we went with no serious fish problems in the tiny tank. Alyssa has even asked the mighty intraweb for answers... but I'm not sure we'll ever really know what the problem was. Anyway, it'll probably be a while before we try getting fish again... seeing as my confidence level in my fish care abilities is completely shot. At least now I can stop depressing everyone who comes to this site looking for humor. >__<
Thirdly, Team America: World Police was hilarious. I meant to say this like, back when I saw it last Sunday, but naturally I forgot until now.
Fourthly, the only new working addition to the site from this weekend is the "Email To A Friend" button, which lets you email the latest Staccato strip to a friend/family member/arch-nemesis/hated rival. I probably wasted a lot of time working on the CGI scripting to make this work... but it's one of those things once you get started on it you just want it finished and working correctly. So yeah, be sure to use it... or else all my time was wasted in vain! VAIN!!!
Fifthly, speaking of wasting time... I started playing MapleStory earlier this week. Those Koreans sure know how to make a free MMPORPG! Thanks for tellin' me about it Q!
Sixthly, I think it's important to mention that 6:35 had it's 100th strip recently... and that if Stef made more comics the world would be a better place. 'Cause it would.
Sevently, I'm off!
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Excuse the poor coherence of the blog tonight... I'm a bit sleep deprived.
While proof-reading today's strip, head grammar-nazi Brandon told me that this strip was like the Staccato of the old days. "No throwaway jokes or complete randomness....good character humor." I have to admit, something about the writing in this strip does seem to work better. The only thing that worries me is the fact that I scripted this thing super fast at the absolute last minute. Does that mean my best writing shows up when I'm completely exhausted and I need to throw a comic together at the last minute? I can't say that would surprise me in the least.
So... our other sick goldfish died today. Actually it was technically my sister's goldfish, which made his passing even worse. When I found that he had died, I seriously broke into tears... because our set of fish that we've had for quite a while had passed away. I think the real reason I'm so upset is because we had been taking such good care of McGill and Bulby in our little two and a half gallon tank for such a long time, and then a few weeks ago I made a big investment by getting a huge 20 gallon tank, and this new environment is probably what led to their death (something about ammonia and nitrates... which I can't understand since I've been getting the water checked at the pet store quite often). I really thought taking care of goldfish was easy, but apparently we made some mistakes... and it bothers me that these fish had to suffer for it. At the very least I'm glad that they aren't suffering any more.
After all this death I'm pretty bummed out... and I was thinking of taking the FishCam down, but the new third fish we had gotten a week or so ago after getting the new tank doesn't seem to be having any problems in there what so ever... so I guess I'll keep the cam up on the off chance that anyone can actually spot a tiny brown goldfish swimming around a huge 20 gallon tank. I have no idea why this newer fish (Rocky Balbulbus) is so healthy in spite of all the problems recently... but we're going to keep a close eye on him and see what happens.
Anyway, McGill was a tough fish, bought from a Wal-Mart and kept in a bowl for most of his life. He is truly worthy of a memorial haiku.
Name: McGill
Species: Comet Goldfish
I'm sure stuff like this sounds crazy, but McGill and Bulby had great personalities, and it's painful that we won't have them around any more. And if you had asked me a year ago if fish even HAD personalities I probably would have called you a moron... but believe it or not they actually do. It's going to be a while before we consider getting fish to replace them. Right now we just want to see how Rocky holds up in this tank that seems to be causing so many problems.
Yeah I know, there are lots of things going on in the world right now that are far worse than some dead goldfish... but not to me. >__<
Anyway, this weekend I'll be dedicating at least a whole day to the completion of this new website... along with some other projects I'm behind on. Be sure to stop by on Monday to check it out!
Oh and for some reason, none of the other webcomic artists from Ubercon have linked to Staccato... which I can only assume means they all hate me and want nothing to do with my crappy comic. I don't blame 'em really, but still, where's the love? >__<
And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the depressing daily blogs about dead fish.
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