Happy New Year, Merry Christmas and Hannukah too, but it ended already

Long title! No comic today due to work shoved at the last minute. Normally I would be able to do it tomorrow, but I am going on a little vacation. That over-abundance of paid time off I was mentioning a few strips ago.

Anyways, don't expect any comics until January 3rd when I return. A new year, a new wife (well, same wife as this year, but she still has that new-wife smell) and everything will start fresh. And taxes. Always taxes. Oooooo, and Superbowl. Yeaaaahh!

Someone saw Tron: Legacy last Friday! It was great*

*Visuals were amazing, music was intense, story was OK, guest appearance by "The Dude" was irksome

Also, had a 101.2 temp on Saturday. It's been so long since I had a temp that high that it was more of a novelty than anything else. Then when I woke feeling all better on Sunday, I felt all drafty and cool. Very interesting. Pleasant? No, but fascinating at least.

My wife had nausea. Not so fascinating. (We both at at a very un-recommendable cafe in Multnoma County that was both fat and in the city, if you get my drift.)

Kill 'Em Dead

In-between Calls does Android! Yay!

Franklin Wunder's finish date has been moved to February. Originally it was November. Look Ma, we're just like the big studios. Fortunately the due date was arbitrary, with no ill effects felt from pushing it back. Honestly it could probably be done in January if the director would stop having a life. I mean geez, stop hanging out with your family!

The Hunger

Too hungry to...draw a comic? Not a chance, though I did munch on some almonds while I pondered the subject matter.

Tron Legacy comes out this week, and somebody's pretty excited about it. (Hint: it's me!) I am gonna see it in 3-D and then maybe again in 2-D. Then perhaps I'll go all crazy and see it in 1-D. I'm pretty sure that involves staring at a piece of string.

Surplus

For those of you who are jealous, ponder this; How does one collect such an abundance of paid time off? Perhaps because he has the attendance record of an elementary school nerd? The point is, I don't take many days off, as opposed to working for some magic company that gives you two days off for every one day worked. I think Google does that, I could be wrong.

Last night of Hannukah tonight, so enjoy those lights, my Jewish friends! And for all those gentiles out there, after tonight you don't have to hold your tongue on wishing people a Merry Christmas. Our holiday is over, there's nothing to correct you on.

Hannukah or Channukah?

Originally I was going to have him make up traditions for Hannukah in order to take advantage of her naivety, but every fake tradition I thought of was more sane than the actual observational requirements. And who doesn't love those CG polar bears knocking back Cokes with Santa? Terrorists, that's who. Casing point, that jerk who tried to blow up our tree lighting ceremony in Ptown. What's with that? All the bigger cities were closed?

Anyways, it's about time for me to go pick up some jelly donuts, or "Sufganiot" in Hebrew. Pronounce it phonetically, three syllables.

We've All Been There

Don't even act like you've never done this. All cubicles should have their own ventilation systems, or at least warning lights that someone just poisoned the air.

Anyways, Franklin Wunder is watchable, with very little explanations needed, such as "oh this part will have music later", or "Yea, we need to re-record audio". Granted, those two disclaimers still are to be heard, but they are very infrequent. Now all I have to do is convince the director that the ending needs more resolution. Oh these indi-directors, they aren't happy unless their audience doesn't know what just happened.

Predator Repeat

Let out early today, and I'm gonna pick up my car from the mechanic. I saw Predators last night, and it was pretty awesome. So, with time ticking down until Thanksgiving weekend, I felt it was time to pull an oldie but a goodie. Have a good weekend, and don't get trampled by me on Black Friday!

Nature in Balance

I have an appointment to bring the car in on Wed, soonest I could get it in, don't worry. I was allowed to leave work 20 minutes ago, but stayed to do the comic after a week of set-backs. You're welcome.

TURKEYDAY ACOMETH!

Bad Week for Comedy

Ok, a co-worker's transferred backlog of mail kept me from doing a comic on Monday, and installing new carpet prevented a three cells of comedy on Wednesday, but gosh-darn it, I am going to post a comic today. I can see it now, my character mentioning something about how we can't get any work done because of the construction, then someone else not being able to hear me due to the noise, and then maybe even a random explosion. Oh it will be a great comic. I can't wait to...what?...you're going to paint the walls now? Ok, I don't see how that affects...oh, it's toxic?...yes, I DO notice your gas mask...I see...sterility?...well, we don't want that...

Ok, so no comic today, due to my office's lack of forsight on doing all this construction prior to people moving their stuff and persons to the new space. Think ahead people, and you won't be running from toxic fumes. Speaking of which...'cough'...I gotta go.

All Bad Things Never End

No comic today. I was asked to help a coworker by catching up her four day backlog of mail to enter. And yes, I did finish it. Cause I knows how to get things done. Except consistent updated comics. That seems to prove tricky. Oh, and yes I just moved cubes like a week ago, but now we have to pack everything up and "hover" while they put in new carpet. Why new carpet? I dunno.

Fun With Reality

Have YOU ever been hungry enough to eat reality? Bet you never considered it an option. Ah, the luxuries of being a comic character.

I finished audio balancing Franklin Wunder, but the first half was done with on-board speakers, and the second half was done with professional studio headphones. I then went back to the first half and found my self surprised at the shoddy work I, myself had done. Oh Dan of the first half, why can't you be more like Dan of the second half?

Anyways, after sound effects, more music, some re-recording of audio and slight color balancing, we might just have an awesome movie on our hands. Oh, and of course Herman Colbert has to have another run through to make sure our movie lives up to his esteemed standards. Don't question the Herman, just go with it.

Just Don't Ask

Actually this is 100% true, but they were also gracious enough to give us a temp for six months. Because a systemic, long-term problem can be fixed by an employee that's there only long enough to understand what they're doing on their last day, and then leaves to presumably die, because temping affords no health insurance. Everyone is a bit grumpy today.

I go home to attempt to cook. And this time, not a single ingredient has graced the freezer. I am very excited. We're talking garlic potatoes and beef stir-fry...both from a healthy cookbook. I can feel those ripply stomach muscles emerging already.

Nutrition Facts

Ugg, on a topic unrelated to today's comic, there is a scene that I was audio balancing for Franklin Wunder that is giving me grief. There was a refrigerator running in the background, humming a little tune to itself the entire scene. That in itself isn't too bad, but our microphone was running out of batteries, so it wasn't picking up as well. So when I bump the volume so we can hear the actors, guess who's humming comes to the forefront?

Bah, I will see what other tricks I can work, but we might just have to re-record the audio. Ever try to watch a video of yourself, and then repeat the sentence you just uttered exactly the way you did? Well, our actors will answer yes to that question come the end of this month.

Too Close to Home?

We gave out full sized candy bars, people! You can't just let that kind of left-overs go to waste! "Why don't you give it away, Dan?" Aw, well if you aren't going to suggest anything constructive then don't bother chiming in.

Due to a technical glitch at work, I won't get paid this last Friday's check until tomorrow. This is not an economic disaster for me, as I have all my bills spaced out and have savings to cover situations such as this. The same cannot be said of everyone, even those whom have a much more robust salary than I. Research afforded me a staggering statistic, that more people live from paycheck to paycheck than not. I think I'll go home and be thankful today.

Halloween Leftovers

I'm back, baby! And it's good to be home. Aside from my paycheck being $80 due to a glitch that the payroll department won't admit. Or my car being hit twice in one month by our neighbors...while it was parked. Anyways, good to be home. Halloween was a blast, The Walking Dead on AMC is a must-watch, and Tony Stark costume was a hit at the party I went to. My wife/little sister from Bioshock was pretty hot as well, which is odd for me because the character is a child. Don't know how I'm supposed to feel on that one.

Today marks day one of Franklin Wunder being past it's completion due date. Is it finished? No, but close. 75% of the Audio has been balanced and sweetened, with lots of tweaks to video and music being added along the way. More music, some re-recording of audio, some sound effects, and color correcting is all that is needed, placing my personal estimate of it's completion within this month. Not too bad.

Honeymoon Sendoff

Oh man, Wolverine cameo! Hope that can get you through till November, cause this guy's going on his honeymoon. I'm so excited, I just had to post this comic early, so nothing would stop me from blasting out the door at closing time!

Technical difficulties

The comic is done, but blogspot.com is doing maintenance and has disabled the ability to upload pictures. Oh man, I will have to post it tomorrow, it's a goodie!

Fourth Wall

It's not really that funny, but I just wanted an excuse to break the fourth wall. The fourth wall is the imaginary line between actors and the audience. Originating from stage, you have the two sides, and the back of the stage, but the actors are to imagine the fourth wall (currently being occupied by a large audience). If ever the actor were to talk directly to the audience, and allude to knowledge that he is in a play, that was "breaking" the fourth wall.

See, you get a comic AND a history lesson. That's just good value!

Buyer's Market

Just to make things clear, I have not yet left for my honeymoon. Just putting that out there. Yes, I got married almost two months ago, but hey, patience is a virtue.

Half the office looks like someone tried to divide by zero today, with cubes being utterly disassembled and a faulty ceiling vent trying it's darnedest to drive me insane. Glad it's Friday. This weekend might just see the point where I can officially say "Franklin Wunder is CLOSE to being viewable". It'll feel good, but we will still have some audio to grab, and some more music to compose.

T-minus 4 workdays until vacation!

Quarantine

Not sick yet, or at all (knock on wood), but I have seen many fall to the fall cold that is bouncing around like a toddler after an ice cream cake party. So many bottles of Purell hanging around, it's a wonder they don't just pump it into the air vents.

This weekend proves to be a thick edit time for Franklin Wunder. There's a DVD with changes and additions the director wants me to make, and once they are in place, I can balance the audio. About a weekend's worth of work, and I have a free weekend. Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.

Quick to Judge

This is what happens when short staffing leads to rushing. Thing get lost. Unfortunately the request for overtime in order to prove to the higher-ups that another staff member is called for was denied. So we were told to just make mistakes until they hired someone to help us. I will repeat that, not because that's the wording that was used, but because that's what they meant. We are supposed to, EXPECTED to make shoddy work so that when the reviewers ask why it's so bad, we can say we need another staff member.

The corporate world is confusing.

Shifting in Transit

Thus why there was no comic Weds. The move has been a real debacle, and I only wish I had more time to properly make fun of it. Our department was told that we are understaffed, and the only way to prove that we need more staff is to...stop performing as well as we are. Kinda shows you the corperate mentality; Don't fix a problem until it becomes a disaster. I happen to have a certain wife who subscribes to that philosophy when it comes to her health.

Speaking of wife, the 22nd (honeymoon lift off date) is fast approaching. Boy howdy am I excited.

Too Good To Last

True story. Even the Galactus part. Oh, and he is Jack Kerby character from the Marvel universe, in case any of my readers don't get the classic comic book reference. And for those who saw the second Fantastic Four movie, this is what Galactus really looks like. So yea, not some storm cloud in space. Sorry.

The video I'm shooting is a contest connected to my company's giving campaign. They match every dollar donated and you can choose from lots of charities. If I win, I get $1,000 to donate to a charity, which I think I can sleep well at night if I do. And, since it is through work, I have been running around all day filming and sweating, explaining to people that yes, that thousands of dollars pile of filming equipment is mine and it's what I do. Maybe I will inspire people to pick up a hobby or something.

Identity Crisis

Sadly, this happened today. After noticing that we hadn't been getting our usual amount of electronic appeals, I asked around, and was told that I should find myself, and ask me why I stopped assigning mail to myself. It was a symphony of stupidity, and my nose almost gushed blood in an attempt to protect my brain from living in a world where such answers are given.

Arc Reactor is built, and just needs a few more adjustments and wiring to call itself complete. Also, wedding pictures are up, and you can see them by going to ykvision.zenfolio.com/danandbree and using the password "roses". Enjoy the romance, taste the love, hear the fun, and something about smell and feel I guess. Might as well hit all 5 senses.

Carrot on the Stick

Technical difficulties almost delayed this one, but only resulted in a somewhat simplified joke system. That doesn't make it any less true. Honeymoon in California is T-minus one month, and boy is it hard to keep the train of thought from stopping for tea.

Arc reactor is coming along nicely, if a bit larger in scale than it's emulated counterpart. Nevertheless it is cool, and once the LEDs come in the mail, it will be shiny. Who can resist a shiny cool thing? Not I, not I...

No Bueno

Here's a bigger question; Who took the picture? Ah, got you there.

LED lights have been ordered for the arc reactor. There were cheaper versions that would have required a bit of circuit building, so I went for ones that were already wired and ready. All I need to do is connect them by wires to each other and then the battery, and Tony Stark will live on.

Back From Yom Kippur

Actually it is my wife who is friends with Adam West on Facebook, and who is soo cool that she's ice cold. Just want to give credit where credit is due.

Production on this year's Halloween costume has begun. The supplies have been collected (most of them), and some things have already been put together. It will definitely be time consuming, but luckily I am starting early. Unluckily, well for the costume anyways, I will be on my Honeymoon for half of October, so this needs to be done by October 18th or so. The race is on!

Stretched Thin

Oh and I am. Oh and I am.

This weekend is my only repose, and yet I keep filling it with activities that threaten my rest. Friday night starts Yom Kippur, and who knows what temple activities my family will be partaking in. Then Saturday I will begin construction on an Arc reactor for my Tony Stark costume (Halloween 2010, baby!) Then Saturday night the wife and I are going to hit up Oktoberfest. Sunday I might have a filming gig, and then I will explode. Yep, exploding is on the docket. Go figure.

Wordplay

I knew I had some sort of joke involving the double meaning of yams. I hope this was it. The thought process followed meatloaf and yams as a very 1950's dish, then to 1950's colloquialisms...you see what I'm working with.

Anyways, Halo: Reach is getting some pretty positive reviews, and I am leaning towards purchasing it. The question is not "Do I have the money", but rather "do I have the time?" Of course I have the time. But that might be at the expense of things that already sit on my plate. Such decisions weigh heavy on my mind.

Head First

Things are finally starting to settle down after the wedding. Man oh man was it a fun wedding, though. There is a sneak peak of the wedding pics, if you want to spec them out, go to ykvision.com and check out the blog. The photographer is Yasmin, a friend of Firefilm and and excellent picture snapper. I recommend her both for her skills, and for her personality.

Plus the pictures make my belly all warm and fuzzy. Though I think my hair could have used a little more mouse.

Aftermath

OH man, I thought for a good ten minutes on how "Marriage Powers" would manifest themselves, and nothing came to mind that wouldn't end in a slew of hate mail. That just doesn't seem like a good plan to me, so I went the "Leave it to Beaver" route. Safe, I think. We both love pie.

Wedding went off without a hitch. I am blissful, happy beyond all measure. Now to begin the month and a half long trek to October 20th when we get to enjoy a nice honeymoon in California.

tick...tock...

Excited?

And boom goes the dynamite. The answer to the question above, in case you were wondering, is yes. Just to clear that up, I am excited about marrying my high school friend, who became my college friend, who became my college sweetheart, who became my best friend. Am I anxious to the point of a nigh imperceptible vibration that my entire cellular structure seems to be experiencing? You bet your shiny metal butt I am.

Gotta get the tags updated on the fiance's car after work so family from out of town doesn't get pulled over when they borrow it. Having a task that is mostly non-wedding related seems to be settling my stomach at the moment. Nice.

Well, see you all in a week, I gots ta get ready for my nuptuals!

This Week...

Electron super-collider? I barely know her! Bahahahaha, but enough jokes. This week is the week where the magic happens. Family comes in from out of town, decorations get put up, and meditation gets a larger chunk of the day than normal. OH, and work is busy too, ergo no comic.

Should be fun. Whoo boy. Yeeh haw.

The Last Free Weekend

Do not mention tachyons around my fiance. She goes ballistic. It all stems from when she and I were watching one of those science shows, and they talked about the speed of light. The narrator made the statement that nothing goes faster than light, except space itself. This is based on the observation that distant supernovas are moving away from each other faster than they should, and is a whole thing unto itself. Unfortunately my lady heard the narrator say "Nothing moves faster than light, except light itself". This made her fly into a rage about how that didn't make any sense (admittedly it doesn't) and how biology is the better science.

Needless to say, my show of choice when she is out with the girls involves astro-physics, quantum dynamics, and string theory. Ah, to be a nerd in love.

T-minus Ten...

Hey, look! He has a droid...oh he's so hip. If you don't know who Cthulu is, either google "H.P. Lovecraft", or just imaging an impossibly ancient, absurdly huge monster with tentacles for a face that lives under the water as long as a cult keeps sacrificing virgins to him. Basically that.

Work has a lunch BBQ tomorrow. I am excited because I get to dress up like a soda jerk (haha, no really, that's what they were called) and dispense various floats to coworkers. Got my bow tie and apron all ready. Yum.

The Move

Unfortunately this one isn't too far from the mark. However, I just might get a window seat, so it's kinda ok.

12 days until wedding. I think I just moistened my pants. It's warm, and on a day like today, that's just uncalled for.

I encourage all to visit the Wundermovie.com page to view the 22nd episode of "Making Wunder". This one is really more like a mini trailer for the movie, and for once I can say that the trailer actually represents how good the movie is going to be. Oh, and the song that plays will get stuck in your head if you let it. Or in my case, if you don't let it and it forces its way in anyway.

Modern Version of an Old Classic

Try as you might with your phone applications and your snail mail, sooner or later you have to check your email, and then...he's gonna get you!

Boo.

Expendables will be viewed by me tonight. I will then proceed to become so manly by proxy that I will arm wrestle a grizzly bear for who gets the right to swim upstream 200 miles and eat salmon that will be smoked simply by being close to the buff radiation that my muscles give off. It's gonna be epic.

LAN party

As the title hints, he was at a LAN party, not a party with ladies. Local Access Network, it's basically when everyone brings their computer physically to one dude's house, and they hook them up and play games with each other. It's nerdy, it's weird, and I am proud to say I have never done it. But I can still make fun of it.

Truth be told, I am drained due to finishing principle filming on Franklin Wunder. The flashback scenes are done, and they went great. Aside from some freezing actors who spent the better part of an unseasonably cold August day in a lake. I am excited to insert the additional footage and see the story finally flesh out and make sense.

Math-tastic!

Why is a provider in the office with me? That would never happen, this is silly. I like it...but it's silly.

I was just asked to stay late to do work that should have been given to me at noon today. Then I noticed that the deadline isn't till Monday at noon, and I start significantly earlier than that. So they were late, then they were wrong...TGIF I guess.

Overtime

Yes, another day without a comic. We have gotten so busy that they've approved overtime if we need it. Perhaps you don't understand the gravity of that statement but I find it hard to convey into words how stingy this company can get. Scrooge McDuck just agreed to pay double wages to his nephews to do their paper routes. If you get the reference, then cool beans because Duck Tales were great. But also you understand how odd it is that overtime was approved.

Less than four weeks till wedding day. I have little bouts of the "freak out" but I think it's all going to be OK.

Kerpow!

I would write something witty here, but alas as we have discussed above, my head has exploded.

Introspection time!

I find that the closer to the wedding I get, the more nervous I am. This might seem obvious to some, or all, but it isn't the presence of jitters that I am surprised by. It is the reaction I produce. I find myself becoming more focused upon each jolt-like realization that the BIG DAY is mere weeks from today. Instead of becoming flustered, I become laser-like. It is the "I thrive under pressure" to the extreme, and I gotta say, I kinda like it.

Connection Error

Get it? Cause the toaster is burning his files? Ahahhahaha...but seriously, who's taking my files?

Today is exactly 1 month until my wedding. Each day I have some sort of flashforward memory-of-what-hasn't-happened of the event, and I am always happy, so that's good. I guess you could call that an optimistic premonition. Plus I get fitted for my tux on Saturday, so that's just super fun.

Burst of Flavor

Note the representation of all that was, is and will be cool in the "Cool Explosion". Yes, Batman is there, along with Pegasus, sunshine, etc. It's just that cool. Go to Youtube and watch the new Tron trailer and have your head explode with happy.

Starcraft II comes out tonight at midnight, thought I suppose that means it comes out tomorrow. I never played the first one, but everyone tells me it was epic. Evidently it qualifies as a career sport in Korea. My PC, though a beast in it's day, barely makes it past the minimum specs, but not quite to the recommended for this new adventure. Still, I might have to partake.

Fifth Meal?

Got off early today, so no comic. Filming a wedding this weekend, and also some pick-up footage for Franklin Wunder, so no real weekend. Hmm, I sense a deficiency in fun stuff…Maybe a liberal application of tacos or nachos or pizza or some combination of cheese and crunch will do the trick?

Squeaky Wheel is Annoying

Ok, fine. Gluten allergy is a legitimate issue. Much like ADD and ADHD. And there's ABSOLUTELY no abuse of diagnosing those two. That's what I'm saying. If around 80% of food has gluten, and the office has less than 1% of employees that can't eat gluten, it just doesn't make sense to waste limited funds catering to the few. Spock would back me up. Good ol "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

Plus, I think there is a correlation between gluten allergy and chronic whiny annoying cranky syndrome, or C.W.A.C. for short. See what I did there? It kinda sounds like quack, as in the doctors who diagnosed them. ZING!

I AM THE LAW

Once again, my entire team went AWOL, leaving me and my boss to handle what can only be called as a heavy mail day. It's not that I dislike people taking time off, but if you aren't sick, how about a little foresight? Here's an analogy of what I am talking about; Two guys are moving a table. Guy up front looks back to see no one else helping. Guy two remembered he had a dentist appointment, and had to leave early. Does guy up front begrudge guy two for going to the dentist? No. But maybe he shouldn't have agreed to move a table if he knew he didn't have time? Or for that matter, maybe he should have waited until the table was moved before he left?

Hence, after 26 pieces of mail in a team where 15 is the norm, split between three people where the norm is 5, I didn't have time to draw a comic. Grrrr. I'm thinking I should switch to doing a monthly animation, rather than a tri-weekly comic. But who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Show Me Potatoe Salad!

I like that he had time to bandage up his stump before he objected to her actions. I guess he was mesmerized by the delicious spread.

Weekend is here, and hopefully with it brings a viewing of Inception. I hear it is so mind-boggling that it might end up a sci-fi classic ala Blade Runner, where multiple viewings and dissection lead to further understandings of the film's meaning and themes. That is, until Batman 3 comes out and makes all the money in the world ever. Christopher Nolan is a smart cookie. Speaking of cookies...potluck time!

Reader Reaction Two!

I kinda drew this one before I knew what the characters were going to say. Sort of like stream of consciousness with art. But my disreguard for proper planning is your gain!

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S TIME TO FILL IN THE BUBBLES!!!!

Just submit a comment below on what you think the bubbles should say, and the winner will get their submission put in place on Monday. The comic is general enough, yet with a quirk, that I think there is a lot of ways this could go. Have fun!

Rumble

Sometimes I forget that people completely loose their minds on weekends too. Hence the killer blob-esq. mass that awaited my team today. I think everyone was kinda dragging their feet, perhaps the heat over the weekend led to some light sleeping. It certainly led to some sunburns (Not me, but the victims kinda...stand out.)

I installed a new printer at home, and successfully networked it to my PC, my Mac, and fiance's laptop (also Mac) wirelessly. I am very proud. Now if I can only install some plugins to my version of PLAYON, I might be able to cancel cable, and save a cool $110 bill per month. But if the buffer isn't fast enough, or the HD chokes the system, then the cord to comcast will remain intact. We shall see.

Event Horizon

I tried drawing this one only once, and then copying and altering the image in the computer. That was a mistake. Whether the limitation falls in my skill set, the remedial edition of my work-based edition of Photoshop, or the fact that I draw with a pencil better than a mouse, it ended up taking much longer than if I just drew everything over and over again.

Man, it's hot out. "How hot is it" you yell out, as if on cue? Well, umm...very? I dunno, hot enough so that you sleep poorly? Hot enough that you throw fiscal responsibility to the wind and go anywhere that is air conditioned? Hot enough that your eyes boil? Ok, maybe not that hot, but still...quite hot.

Ouch-kabibble

I was doing bear crawls (think hands and knees but the knee is just barely off the ground) and I shoved my left hand into some bark dust, shaving off a few layers of skin. Fine, I can deal. Then not ten seconds later, I do it again, but replace bark dust with a very displeased bee. Luckily the bee stinger didn't go into the bark dust wound, or this would be hilarious.

And no, I am not allergic. Your move, bees. Better step up your venom. (To the bees of the world, please do not step up your venom.)

Three Day Weekend of Fun

Happy 4th of July, everyone! Yay, explosions and eating!

My Kinda Stock

Tonight, I'm going to OMSI after dark. Think going to a science center but with beer, and less kids. Personally I have fun with kids, and beer isn't my thing, but it's good to have adventures once and a while.

Franklin Wunder is coming along better than all expectations. I feel bad for all the projects that came before it, now belittled in comparison. 44 minutes have been edited, and still tons of footage left to go, let alone 2-3 more shooting days. Hello, feature film.

Ensuring Finacial Success

Ever since a financial speaker came to the health fair and talked with me and my coworkers about how to make your money work for you, I have been hooked. From increasing my investment up to the maximum matched amount to reallocating my 401K to higher performing stocks, I have made (over the long haul) quite a pretty penny just by moving around the money I already have. Dan of the future is very happy.

Now if only I could get more funds into Dan of the present's hand.

...Candygram...Flowers...

Land-Shark, anyone? Awww, classics. The real question is, how did UPS allow a live shark in their truck? The box looks pretty brown to me?

I discovered a wonderful website the other day and now I am addicted. Ok, ok my coworker discovered it and told me. Ok, ok, someone told him...the point is, go to Mint.com and enter in all your bank accounts. Don't worry, his bank told him about it, and it is very secure. It's a budget site that downloads your spending and maps it, so you can see your spending habits, work towards goals, and feel bad that you ate at Wendys three times in one week back in April. I didn't, I'm just saying you might have.

Again, it's owned by Quicken, it's secure, it's addictive.

Guest Spot the second

Dustin, my good ol buddy over at plusonecomic.com is going on vacation, and asked me to guest spot on his comic. It's about havin' a baby! (Not making a baby, so calm down.) Here is my assist to him, if you can't read the writing well, just click to enlarge. His comic uses a smaller resolution than mine, so the next looks weird when we cross-mojinate.

2010 Health Fair Friday

This one doesn't even have my face in it, but truth be told at this point I was so pressed for time I just slapped things together. Still, it gets the information across, and that's what counts. Umm, peoplez loves their cupcakes decorating! Yes, this was by far the most attended and complemented activity throughout this entire health fair week. And besides watching people wolf down the decorations without even placing them on cupcakes (you know who you are) I had a fun time too. The prize for best cake was one of those huge cake pans that look like a cupcake. Fitting, I think.