I already said something today, and all of you about to die of shock because it's rare that I blog a couple of days in a row let alone twice in one day, but I just had to. I just HAD TOO!!! If I didn't then I wouldn't be able to put up this 11 minute long animated Weird Al video:

Trapped In The Drive-Thru



There! Done! Finito! What are you still doing here!

Is it? Can it be true? Could today finally have come?

It’s Friday!!!

I love Fridays as a rule, not those fake Fridays like yesterday, but the real Fridays that signify the end of the week. I liken it to opposite bookends sandwiching the work week together; Friday is the baby face (or good) bookend while Monday is the heel (or bad) bookend. Neither of which is appropriate for the next two weeks as they are considered neutral during times of peace (or vacation).

Now, I slept like total crap last night as it felt like Christmas was coming the next morning, so I want you all to send out warm fuzzies our way with regards to traveling this evening. Michelle’s graciously offered to do the daytime driving so I could rest after work, but I’m terrible at sleeping in vehicles. Let’s hope I’m tired enough to overcome that, though.

So, I guess I’ll just say, “See you in a week or so!”

Bye, now…

...But it made the news, so I guess it is news. Kinda...

You have to head over to the only TILAH strip to actually reflect current events so far. I always knew this about Shannon, but now I get to tell the world...

So, joy of joys it's finally Friday today, and as soon as that Cromagnum man pulls the pteranodon’s tail I'm going to slide down the back of this Pachysaurus’ and head on....

What?

Thursday? It's just Thursday?


Aw, sh-*END TRANSMISSION*

Is it Friday yet?

Saw Wild Hogs last night which is kind of funny because just prior to seeing it I was telling myself that I really haven't seen any movies dealing with middle aged men pretending to be bikers, getting hit in the nuts, making 'poop' jokes and overcoming obstacles lately.

Don't get me wrong! It was still a pretty fun movie, but it definitely wasn't the height of originality. Good ensemble cast with cameos sparsed along the way, but definitely not the usual movie I would see in the theatre. I went with Roger, though, so I was in good company.

I've been working hard to get the strips ready so I don't have to work on them over my vacation, but I got struck with an idea yesterday that was brought on by a news article I read, so it may be a late night. Wish me luck! I was even working on it while I was in the bathroom making a next door neighbor last night.

Here's something cool! I always think it's awesome when something I've been following for a while starts achieving phenom status. So's the case with Ask A Ninja. And a true telling of status is when you get to interview movies stars Will Ferrell and Jon Heder about their upcoming movie Blades of Glory:



Now that's just freakin' sweet!

It's gotta be Friday now! No? Crap!

I guess there was some confusion as to why I posted that video in the previous post. Am I searching randomly on YouTube for content? No! If you look closely at one of the stars of the Josh and Justin Show, you may notice that I'm slightly related to one of them....by marriage. He is my nephew as I am his "Uncle Whatsisname."

Hey! Is it Friday yet?

Oh, I had to share this, too, which was brought to my attention by Dave who is responsible for Taking the Bi-Pass. It's the evolution of a beard:



That had to take patience and dedication. The look on his face was constantly passive. I just want to know how many pics were taken a day and how long it took in total.

Okay, is it Friday now?

You’d think it a blessing when they open up a Tim Horton’s two city blocks away from your office building as opposed to the humongous 5 or 6 city blocks, but when service is lacking and they try to make you sick, you start to see it in a different light. The passed three days I’ve gotten off one train station later so I could go into the closer coffee shop so I could enjoy my extra large one cream, two sugars in the comfort of my office. I won’t make the extra effort any longer.

This morning, my third and final visit, I was enthusiastically greeted by the middle aged counter lady with the words, “Next customer!”

She didn’t ask what I wanted, so guessed she just assumed I knew my role. “Extra large, one cream, two sugars please,” I said with my typical charming smile that has wooed many a female in Spring time (but no longer used as such arsenal…married!).

Not a word is said to me. She takes my exact change and robotically dismisses my presence with her infamous catch phrase, “Next customer!”

I reflexively, if not a little sarcastically, lean in and say, “Your welcome!” This gets me a look of surprise from my cash grabbing counterpart as she didn’t recall saying “Thank you.”

I head over to the serving counter where another gentleman is waiting for part of his order. A young blond nose-ring adorned female is sluggishly preparing my coffee. Her half closed eyes are the typical trademark sign of a morning person. I’m not wearing my gloves at this point because Calgary weather has decided to be kind to its dwellers today, and Tim Horton’s cups are infamous for being terrible at protecting their holder’s hands from scalding. It’s not uncommon for a patron to ask for their beverage to be double cupped. I did so this morning.

I was given a look of disdain. Somewhere, sometime in a previous life I had wronged this golden frocked coffee maiden, and she stomped over to another counter, took out a cup that insured I wouldn’t be able to win any prizes from, and dropped the first coffee cup into it. The other gentleman waiting gave me a look that said, “Can you believe this?” I laughed out loud and said, “My goodness!” and chuckled my way out of that Timmy’s for the last time.

But that wasn’t the catalyst for my decision not to patronize the new establishment.

The pinnacle of sins that they delivered upon me was only discovered when, after sitting at my desk and booting up my computer, I peeled back the coffee cup tab and discovered what looked like cheese floating in my drink. The cream was curdled.

Is this a sign of what the weekend is going to be like? I mean, I just watched Eragon with the kids, and while it wasn’t the worst movie in the world, it could have been better. Is that how I’m going to look back at this weekend. I guess only if my dog gets loose again…

It’s time for The Josh and Justin Show:


Justin, I want you to know that your aunt threw up in her mouth a little when, and I’m quoting directly from your film (which episode, I can’t remember), you said, “You be the monkey!” Consider that an achievement. Any film that parodies the good ol’ Benny Hill running around skit is definitely worth the watch. Congrats! You made me laugh. Now we just have to work on your sound…Great editing, though!

The new strip was posted a little late but on the right day. Looking at it now, I’m not too happy with the over use of the fadey border for panels 2 and 3, so that may change. Thankfully, next strip signifies the ending of this story arc, and on to newer things. I’ve enjoyed it, though. It’s good to follow an arc every now and then as opposed to doing the one shots all the time. We haven’t done that since we premiered in January.

I forgot to mention this, but if you subscribe to the newsletter then you already know. But Courtney's coming back starting March 30. My favourite living dead girl is back...



Be sure to check out all of her zombie antics, y'all. And don't forget to vote for MLDG to be the top zombie website:



I'm so very, very happy that Jason's new born is fit and fine and that he's finally allowing him some time to toon. Yay for obsession!

Agh! I can't wait till the end of May. I have no idea how Lilly is getting out of the backyard as we've plugged every conceivable hole and most inconceivable ones, as well. Now Lilly has to remain on a chain leash in the big backyard and will only be off leash in the appropriate areas by the Bow River.

I'm not going to go into detail about what happened yesterday, but suffice it to say it wasn't fun. I guess it's been deemed by certain commenter's that we ALLOW our dog to run around the neighborhood like we open the door to let her terrorize the neighborhood. She is, however, our responsibility, and we'll do our best to keep her from running around. We don't want to lose her, after all. She's just too darn social.

I like that some people hide behind anonymity to say things. I've been pretty open with my life here on this old blog, and I've made no effort to hide who I was. I've written my triumphs and I've noted my mistakes. It's fun to write, and it helps me remember things that bring a smile to my face, and helps keep in mind bad run ins so I can learn to act accordingly next time.

I've made light of my family's adventures and of my wife's night terror like dreams. But let me tell you this: a person who says things like calling my better half a "psychotic wife" and questions her parenting ability without even knowing her is, and pardon my language, nothing short of an asshole.

On a happy note, it seems that Lilly is just fine, and that light at the end of the tunnel that is our end of lease term never looked so good. It freakin' snowed again, and I just learned that it was the first day of Spring.

Wow! Where's the time going? I guess when you have a full time job, play with your kiddies, have a wife who demands to see you once in a while, and run another website you just start losing track of time.

Well, I'm done apologizing for it for now!

Hey, Justin! I've seen you lurking around the comments there. I'm glad you're reading, and I just wanted to let you know that I'm aware of your presence. Hopefully you frequent the more entertaining website that I'm responsible for: Take It Like A Husband. It's where I'm spending most of my internet time these days.

It's true! I post a news-like articles underneath each comic that sometime come off like a blog entry, but what I'm really trying to do is culminate a community of users who're interested in things that I am. It's fun to share interests, right? So hopefully I'll have the forum up and running soon (Shannon? You listening?), and then anyone and their dog can talk about comics, animation, bichon frise/poodle crosses and cloud formations that look like 20th century prime ministers to their heart's content.

I'll try to keep the content under the strips as interest related as possible and keep the personal stuff here. I've just been in a blogging funk lately that's extended to a despair and depression at being in Calgary, away from friends and family. We've tried to fill our lives with interests and activities Alberta related, but not a day goes by that Kristen or Rylee don't mention Victoria and their want of going back. We'll see what happens, but there may come a day when My Alberta Adventure will be over, and a different kind of adventure will begin. Hopefully a publishable adventure!

I still have pics and vids of our West Edmonton Mall trip to post, but the longer I wait on doing that, the more detail I forget. I'll do it soon!

On the psychotic babble front, Michelle is still trying to collect on my life insurance policy by scaring me to death. She was cuddling Rylee at her bedtime and fell asleep herself while doing so. I was working on a new strip at the computer. Suddenly she screams my name and begs me to come quickly. "Something’s crawling up the wall!" she screams.

I ran into Rylee's bedroom to find Michelle leaning over our daughter pawing at the wall. I turned on the light and saw, of course, nothing.

She explained to me that she saw what looked like an egg on the other side of Rylee who was closest to the wall. The egg cracked and a demonic baby emerged and started crawling up the wall. I'm looking into medication for her...

Michelle says it's the house. If she means it's haunted or if there is some sort of negative energy (see above) that's causing this, we're not sure. What I am sure of, though, is that Michelle's scared me more with these night terror-like episodes than my first viewing of John Carpenter's The Thing.

Must be in a winter funk. That’s the only way I can explain that I only posted once during the month of February. To be fair, February is a short month, and it isn’t an uncommon occurrence for people to miss it altogether. Unless it’s a leap year! Then you’ll usually hear things like, “Wow! Is it February 29th already?” or “We’re in a leap year? That sure snuck up on us!” or “Hey! This calender’s from 1986!”

Next year is a leap year, by the way, so consider yourself warned.

Stuff has been happening, but I just haven’t been blogging. Pretty sad when the bulk of the blog entries lately are about why I’m not blogging lately. Let’s just chalk it up to a combination of being busy and lack of motivation.

We went to West Edmonton Mall a couple of weeks ago, and that was an adventure. I’d show you the pictures and video, but I haven’t a clue where the camera is at the moment and everyone else is asleep so I can’t ask them. We’re also considering buying a house, but that almost cements our permanent status as Albertans, and I don’t know if we’re ready to do that. That and pretty well the only way to get our foot in the door is by getting a 40 year mortgage!

A 40 YEAR MORTGAGE?!?!

Did you know they even had these? I mean, I know that it’s just a way of starting out in the housing market, but having that loom over your head is kind of frightening. 40 years! I’d be well into my seventies if we never renegotiated or, you know, were idiots.

Hopefully I’ll be a little more diligent about doing this! I love to write, but if I have to force myself to do it and it’s not fun, then there’s no point, right? So far, that’s not the case, though.

Cheers!