We took our Kate (Aurorah) out for dinner to Fox Bros BBQ - which is lost on her newly vegetarian habits - but she had the veggie burger and said it was deelish.

We got all caught up with school and the trip to Annecy for the film awards. Great stuff!

Nick is running her home now then it’s off to bed with us. Tomorrow Nick must work, but it’ll hopefully be slow since most everyone will be off. Kate’s MacBook is having fan issues and her poor iPod Touch is broken, but we hope to get everything repaired in short order. For me, tomorrow will be some laundry and putting together the dentist’s site. I think I’ve got it worked out in my head, it’s just a matter of getting to render in html.

It’s been a good night getting caught up and hanging out. :-) G’night!

Just damn. What a long, arduous, crappy week.

I’m happy it’s over and I plan to drink some wine tonite. I’m brain dead and I can’t do a fucking thing creative anyway, I may as well have a drink.

It’s hot outside and I thank whoever the god of A/C is profusely. It’s worth whatever Ga Power wants to charge me. I don’t care how much it costs! 75-76º in here is quite comfy!

The Clear.com WiMax is working out great. I told ATT to suck it today, which was very fun. I wish I could ditch them completely - I’m paying $30/mo for the damn land line. I’ve already looked into going all cellular, but I’d still be paying the $30/mo for a cell plan PLUS have to pay $300 plus $12/mo for the security system upgrade. Soooo, nah. I’m happy with the money we’re saving by switching to Dish Network and Clear.com: about $23/mo after it’s all said and done. I can dig it.

Um, what else? Nothing I want to get into. Those who are close to me know whatup this week. Those who don’t, well, it ain’t none o’ your beeswax!

Have a great weekend everyone! Stay cool! Peace out.

Missy and DJ would like to thank their Aunties Emily and Stormy for taking care of them this weekend! They send purrs and fur! :-)

I’d like to thank the girls for watering the poor plants in 95º weather, bringing in the papers and trashcan and cleaning up any random cat puke that was around. Assuming there was any? I think the cats only puke when we’re home, which is really weird…

Anyway, THANK YOU! I owe you both dinner and drinkies! MUWAH!!

Ok, let me tell all the comic nerds (readers, writers, artists, whatever): GO TO HEROES CON NEXT YEAR. If it’s the only con you attend, GO. We had the most amazing time. It was so great that I am still a bit agog trying to process it all. The organisers are awesome, the attendees are awesome, everyone there was truly off the hook with the nice and helpful. VERY SUPPORTIVE!

Highlights:
- We were INTERVIEWED!! Comic Related does podcasts to spotlight up and coming artists and offers a wonderful support system for artists like us who are trying to get a leg up. The podcast isn’t up yet, but our pic is! (GAH! I’m hungover and man do I need to lose weight! Duuuude, I’m fat!) Check them out: Comic Related.

- We met so many wonderful people it’s all a blur! First, a shout out to two lovely ladies that made us feel welcome as soon as we walked into the dealers room: Karalyn and Krystalanna! Great to meet you both! Can’t wait until next year!

- Shout out to RM Rhodes and his lovely purpleness! He can be found at oletheros.com. We hope to start up a nation wide independent comics collective that will give independents like us the power of numbers to perhaps work out publishing deals, printing deals and whatever else we can dream up. Interested? Send me an email.

- Super duper extra special shout out to Comic Related. You guys made us feel so at ease and welcomed. We are still on cloud nine from the interview and we THANK YOU so much for the opportunity. You totally RAWK!! :-)

I can’t say enough about this convention. The support and camaraderie there really makes you believe that you can do it (whatever “it” is). We are bursting at the seams with positive feedback and the feeling that there really are people out there who want to help us get known.

I’m just rambling now, so I’ll stop here, but you’ll hear more about this con as I process all the input we got this weekend. We will be at a table next year. And we cannot WAIT. :-)

It’s been a busy, busy week! Monday’s Atlanta Cartoonists meeting was awesome! My goal was 10 ppl and that is what we had! Yay! I tell you, only 10 artists and the talent was oozing off the table. I was impressed. Seriously, if this group is representative of the kind of high calibre talent we have in this town, then everybody needs to look out! Here’s the crowd:

The first Atlanta Cartoonists meeting!

Our Clear Wire experiment is going well. We will cancel ATT next week. We’ve been consistently pulling 4000+kps downstream and 500+kps upstream from it - and we’re only paying for a 3mps account, so I’m pleased. The bandwidth will come down as more ppl sign on, but living in the ghetto, I’m betting that it won’t be too crowded down here. I also don’t think it’ll stay under 3mps consistently like ATT. The average speed with their sorry ass was 2.5mps. Again, if any of you Metro Atl ppl are interested, you can call David Youngblood 678.371.3187 he’ll hook you up with a seven day trial.

Tomorrow we make the trek to Charlotte NC for Heroes Con! We are STOKED! This is a COMIC convention - no stupid costumes or any of that crap, just COMICS. Every publisher is there, plus all the small press and independent companies, too. We are taking about 30 Weasels to hand out to various publishers and such. This is a working con, so there will be much meet n greet going on. Next year, we will have a table.

Speaking of next year, the plan is to attend these cons as vendors rather than attendees: Phoenix Comic Con (Mem Day), Heroes Con (late June), San Diego (July, if we can swing it and find a booth to share) and APE San Francisco (Oct/Nov). I’d LOVE to attend WonderCon in San Fran in Feb, but I doubt we can afford it. Although, that would be easier to afford than San Diego!! I’m also going to revisit the master con list and flesh out all the regional cons we can drive to. Oh, yah and perhaps do a table at DragonCon. You all know my feelings about that convention and the slimeballs who run it…

So the plan is to hit it hard next year - all things being steady with work and money. We are doing some tests for Weasel tshirts, please hop over to spreadshirt.com and give us some feedback about the designs, prices, etc. We want to know what everyone likes the best before we order a shit ton of them for cons!

Our pal James (whose wife Becky does Little Vampires) ordered a Weasel T from us and is doing a spectacular job of modeling it, too! Thanks, dude!

Ok, enough tweety tweets, facey pages and bliggity blogs. Gotta get some work done!