The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

In Today's Episode: Sorrow Has The Swiftest Wings moves towards its conclusion with The Traveller coming to the aid of the stricken space-liner, and the AGK dealing with the waste spill, everyone seems to have their hands full - including a particularly unwelcome guest with hostile intentions...

Release Notes... And our cast is at last complete, as a hero falls. The conclusion "airs" on Friday...!

Meanwhile... It's really good to sit down with work colleagues and discuss a problem, and actually know what I'm on about, with your contributions actually counting for something. Thank the gods "Fox River" didn't kill my will to work, what seems like an age ago.

A big LEGO delivery arrived today, meaning that I can now move forward with my webcomic plans - check banzai.thepatentdragon.com for further developments!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Praying for today's gardening to get rained off...

I was up and surfing at midnight on Saturday, as the world rotated into Sunday, and my birthday. There was at no point a moment when I "felt older". You get that when you fall asleep at the computer, and nearly fall off your chair...

Anyway. New Work has a day off today, so I've been catching up with my somewhat curtailed Sunday lie-in, followed by a liberal dose of goofing off on the 'net - mostly thanks to Sinfest. I'm annoyed that I'm not getting as much writing done as I'd like - the above falling asleep issue has a lot to do with that - and so I am instigating a "Get Back To Writing" program. Starting today, I head upstairs as soon as dinner is done, and spend at least one hour writing and developing before I do ANYTHING else - even anti-virus updates...

...or shopping. My pay situation is still untangling itself at the moment, in that I'm still playing catch-up. My debts incurred because of the March "pay failure" are dealt with, but my Mission 101 task

42 - Get comic orders in more promptly (4/33)

mean that this month's credit card bill has TWO comic orders on it, just when I was comfortably getting back into the black...

To hell with it. Spiritwalk present, here I come...

...after GBTW Hour. ;-)

In Other News... Yes, Russell, the clever Radio Times cover was a bad idea, telegraphing the "Big Reveal", and stealing a lot of its thunder. Line up for your slap upside the head, sir...

Other than that, tonight's Doctor Who continues in much the same vein as the season so far, i.e. it is "must see" TV! Only Prison Break and the CSIs can hope to match it.

Was going to throw together a topical web-comic, but I couldn't find any Star Trek Enterprise screen-caps for it. Guess I'll have to do the CSI Miami one instead - maybe later tonight (gonna try and hard-reboot my sleep patterns, so I should have plenty of time). I'll piece together the Enterprise script as well, and maybe post that at another date.

Meanwhile... The weekend! Yay! Got Pan's Labyrinth on DVD for £11.97! Yay! Doctor Who Season Three starts next week! Yay!

Excuse me while I go and try to strike a balance between relaxing and creative processes...

Okay, it's all down-hill from here, now that the halfway mark has been passed. Even so, you still get looks as though you're wearing a t-shirt with a photo of your genitals on it - doesn't anyone read their office memos?

Oh, and I should stress that the proposed webcomic does not feature the above concept. I'll be taking my inspiration from the truly excellent Twisted Kaiju Theater, and a wholesale rip-off of Borat - who won't be getting another namecheck any time soon. I have a background image now, and all I need now is a star...

Also... Okay, finances are back on track. The creative process continues at a healthy pace. Yep, stuff seems to be on track, in general - and BB and SiL's Big Project is starting to move forward too.

And Finally... I don't think it'll be getting warmer any time soon...

I like these...

Twisted Kaiju Theater - WARNING: rude and possibly offensive things!

Two Lumps: The Adventures of Ebenezer and Snooch - feline hilarity!

Chronicles of Garas - D&D-inspired adventures with great art!

the n00b - MMORPG misadventures, so true to life...

Elsewhat... they just changed movies, so byebye *batteries not included, and hello Flash Gordon. Sweet.

Wheeeee! New Who tomorrow!