In 1996 the Greenville bus system stopped running for a while. After being taken over by several different agencies, it’s still having trouble.
Cover for local alternative newspaper The Beat.
Archive for January, 2007
2007 Calendar
Am I late? I hope I’m not late. Here’s a nifty little monitor calendar for you. Adorned with 2 robots to keep you company all year long.
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Thanks J Chris, now I don’t have to sit alone at home in the dark. I can do it in the company of total strangers.
State of The Union
I’m not good at caricatures. I really should try and work on it. This is the best of the few I drew of the darling Mr. Bush during the State of The Union (I added the photoshopy color afterwards). Yes, the others look nothing like him also.
Here is a quick look at what he had to say.
Words listed with numbers of mention.
Taken from the transcript provided on CNN.
September 3
Iran 3
Environment 4
Freedom 5
Energy 8
Health 8
Good 9
Economy 10
Security 10
War 11
Iraq 22
Terror 22
America 57
Lost: 3 minute robot subscribers
Trouble in Cyberspace
I’m going mad! First of all, registerfly.com let www.wideawakepress.com lapse for about 25 days. With the only tech support being, “here’s your money try again” or “Start a trouble ticket and they’ll fix it” or “wait 5 days and it will be renewed.” Finally it did get renewed and is up and running. But I honestly believed I was going to loose it. I even registered wideawakepress.net fearing the worst. I’ve tried to transfer the remaining domains to another company. But they’ve yet to approve it.
On top of all that, my e-mail address has constantly been flakey. Which is from a totally different provider, infinology.com. I haven’t received e-mails sporadically and the people sending them wouldn’t get e-mails telling them I wasn’t receiving e-mails. My wife’s site was doing the same thing www.campbellcpafirm.com
Now I find out my 3mr mailing list is completely gone! All the subscribers e-mail addresses are gone. I have a backup from December 2005, so if you’ve subscribed to it sometime this year then you’re not on my list anymore. Regardless, I don’t think I’ll be sending anymore until I can get tech support to answer the phone. I’m going mad! Please Internet God, if you’re out there, ease my worrying pains. Make it all better soon!
Update: Thank you Internet God. My mailing list for robots is magically back! OK, maybe the trouble ticket I left at Infinology got answered by a tech. But who really responds to trouble tickets anyway?
Remembering 2006
What a year in the life of me. I thought about doing some sort of recap of the year. Maybe a remembrance perhaps of comics, music, television or movies. Then I thought, there are a million people out there doing that. Why not do a personal list, something I could actually look back on and say: Oh yeah, I remember that year. What? No, you don’t have to read it.
—February—
It’s all of your business
My wife quit her job, in the middle of tax season, and opened her very own firm. Campbell CPA Firm opened its doors and after we scrambled to put it together in only 2 weeks. Mostly it was my wife who did all the scrambling, I just moved stuff around. The third best thing we’ve ever done together, my son being the first of course.
Zig Zag 2 Comic postponed.
—June—
Going Blind and loosing my mind
Started loosing my site, hospitalized, treated and tested for Multiple Scorosis (a cause of Optical Neuritus) missed Heroes Convention (the most hyped one ever) due to complications from a lumbar puncture and sleep depravation. I regained eyesight totally! And quit wearing glasses later in the year.
Zig Zag 2 Comic postponed again
—August—
10 years on the beach
We were on vacation with our entire family, wife’s and mine. One day we popped it on everyone that we were renewing our vows the next day. We did it on the beach, on our 10-Year Wedding Anniversary. Yes, it’s the second best thing we’ve ever done.
Attack of the Swedes
My sister moved back home after 9 years abroad. Bringing her 3 young wonderful boys with her. Man this year has been packed with life changing events!
—October—
The horror of it all
Wide Awake Press first published book! Wide Awake 666 is killer horror anthology of stories from over 40 different artists. Printed locally. Promoted and distributed by 3 Boys Productions. What were we thinking?
—November—
Gobble Gobble Goo
We had an amazing Thanksgiving day at our house. 16 family members gathered around the ole table. Including my sister-in-laws new husband along with his mom and brother. It was an amazingly wonderful day.
—December—
He knows when your awake
Another great holiday, including our sons first Christmas that he kind of knew what was going on, Santa coming and presents and what not. I can’t wait till next year!
—Upgrades & Fixes—
New heat and air unit for the house
Friend falls through roof (emergency patch crew never finishes job)
Our dead tree hanging over neighbors garage removed
Finally moved old Dodge out of the front of the yard (sat for 4 years)
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It was a pretty crazy year. And I hope 2007 rocks half as much as 2006. What was yours like?
