I’m still kicking. Just worn out at the end of the day. I love call center work, but the commute (carpooling) adds 3 to 5 hours a day.
Gonna shoot for doing a couple comics on my next day off (Sunday).
Cheers!
A few days late; blame the Doctor Who marathon.
I think 2010 is going to treat us better than the last year. Just a feeling. Maybe being employed has something to do with it.
Given my current work schedule, TMI will be updating on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and maybe Saturdays for the foreseeable future. I might even bring The Bit Bucket back.
Plans for the coming year: Carly’s mother shows up, Ace gets taken for a wild ride, Rocky’s stepfather gets out of prison, something burns and karma happens, love is realized, and someone leaves for college. But not necessarily in that order.
Cheers!
Yeah, no picture here. As mentioned before I got the blog and comic posts mixed into the same category. I’m working on re-categorizing posts. Only 900 of 1016 to go . . .
I just spent nearly 4 hours getting home from work. Just in time to be getting ready for bed.
So, Wednesday comic might be a bit late.
Cheers!
Archives may appear to have double posts on comics. Many of the older blog posts are miscategorized. I’ll work on it when I can. I gotta get some sleep.
Cheers!
I was about to give up.
The motherboard I thought I could still use was actually bad. Hate to think I pitched a good board. But Fry’s had a good deal on a CPU and motherboard, so Mom got me an early Christmas present. Then I found the hard drive was also going bad. Luckily I still had a spare, so besides the memory and case, it’s a new computer. About all I lost was my collection of fonts.
Cheers!
Spoke to soon. The system’s back to locking up and or simply not booting again.
I found the board that that I quit using a while back simply because it didn’t support more than 2 memory sticks. Gonna see it I can get something going with that, but I don’t have time for that tonight.
OK, so I spend two weekends and what little time I have of the intervening weekdays banging my head over what appears to be a failing motherboard and/or virus.
The problem with the BIOS may be that it simply doesn’t like USB keyboards. I’m kinda stuck for that. I like my Zboard Merc.
The problems with the system being unstable and preventing Poser from running finally cleared up when I uninstalled AVG, then uninstalled and reinstalled Poser. I still need to reinstall the content (had that backed up at least) and I’ve got to call it a night (I have to get up early these days).
And I’m supposed to be good at fixing computers! Argh!
But I think we can hope for a Wednesday update.
Cheers!
So, some of you might recall me mentioning that XP had become unstable on my production system. Loading the Windows 7 RC on it seemed to be working, but over the weekend it started getting wonky again. It would hang for 10 seconds to a couple minutes, or even lock up. I started having weird mouse problems, especially in Poser, where they system would act like I was moving the mouse up and left, a whole lot, any time I held the mouse button down. Even tried another mouse. I got into the BIOS setting and could hardly navigate thru them. It took several seconds for a key press to do anything, or nothing would happen, or it would act like I was holding down the key. Now the machine won’t even boot.
So I’m guessing the BIOS got corrupted. If I can’t get it fixed, I have an older system that I can probably use. Might be a day or two until I can get it going with Poser and update again (now that I’m working again I don’t have much free time on weeknights). At least I’ve learned my lesson on backups.
In the mean time, I wouldn’t turn down a Mac . . .
Go read Planet Karen. She’s updating again.
Cheers!
Update 12/08/09: Flashed the BIOS a couple of times and I can boot into the system again, but Poser’s still being wierd. I tried running Poser on my older machine, but it keeps locking up, even on Win 7. I think that was the reason I quit using it now that I think of it. So I probably won’t have a Wednesday comic at this rate.
Update 12/14/09: For some reason Poser just won’t run anymore under Windows 7, even on a clean install. Spent all weekend finding that out. I’m going to get out my XP 64 discs when I get home from work tonight and just start over.
I start work Monday, but it’s going to be two or three weeks before I see a paycheck. I’m gonna need money for fares, gas, and lunch.
So, for a limited time (at least the next week), prints for the comic and gallery are available for $9.95 including first class postage to US and Canada addresses (additional postage is needed for USPS Priority Mail or first class to international addresses, but if you order 6 or more prints, I’ll mail anywhere for free).
Cheers!
