I have created a similar thread elsewhere but felt that I should create one like this for more places than just on comicfury because some positive vibes can go a long way. What are some awesome things that happened to you today?

Today was a downer in many respects, but the moon is looking very cool tonight, big and golden, so I've been standing outside soaking up moon rays. After that I'm ready to take on the world, but I'll probably just go to bed instead as it's 4AM.

Ironscarf wrote:
Today was a downer in many respects, but the moon is looking very cool tonight, big and golden, so I've been standing outside soaking up moon rays. After that I'm ready to take on the world, but I'll probably just go to bed instead as it's 4AM.

I'm a night person myself so I know the feel. The moon is absolutely gorgeous, And there's never been a More perfect time to stargaze as I hear that a point in time is going to come where people won't be able to see stars anymore.

Gn And I hope Tomorrow is better for you.

I went to the space museum. It was kinda meh and I feel asleep during the movie about the space elevator but there was air conditioning. Had a picnic with strawberry wine in the middle of a roundabout.All around a good day

Today has been a bit bothersome. My head has been very, very, very bitchie today. Thoughts like “your comic writing is all done wrong!”, “you're not doing enough for the DD awards!”, “your not doing enough for the world!”, “why are the themes in your comics so middle of the road when they should be all radical and stick it to the man a lot more!”

All that aside I'm really enjoying this new black out curtain I've bought. Makes it a lot easier to sleep without having so much sunlight coming in. Also I'm happy that I got my colonoscopy done last friday and I'm currently medicating my Ulcerative Colitis (Don't Google it!!!), which seems to be taking that problem in the right direction.

Got to work with a massive dizzy spell, extreme eye pain with light and sound sensitivity and nausea. Took some Excedrin and worked through it. Feeling almost alive. Cloudy, threat of rain does this to me. I can push through it but really leaves me wondering why I bother.

Let's not go into how my comic has gone into the toilet. Eight hundred page views dropped to eighteen in two weeks? WTF? What happened?

I finally spoke to a doctor (endocrine specialist) who I felt actually listened to me and knows what he's doing. For the first time in my life (regarding medical care), I don't feel like I'm imagining things or being dismissed.

(I'm scheduled to have a bunch of lab work to figure out which of my glands is misbehaving.)

After the appointment, my parents took me out for a small steak, which was very good. And my sister bought me some Sims 4 expansions for my birthday. I'm just about to give them a try.

I took a short walk and look what I found by the local scrapyard.



I have no special interest in motorcycles, but this gorgeous machine made my day.

Went to visit the last resting place of thirties crooner Al Bowlly today, who was killed by a German parachute mine in the blitz. It was proving very hard to find, but as it turned out I was in the wrong cemetery, which was then raided by the police because it was full of glue sniffers, or whatever they sniff these days.

I finally found the right cemetery and was able to pay my respects to Mr Bowlly, so persistence paid off in the end, though not for the persistent substance abusers.

Ironscarf wrote:
so persistence paid off in the end, though not for the persistent substance abusers.

Hahaha!

A good thing for me- I got a nice new pair of white bluetooth headphones for watching TV. They're lovely and work great so far ^_^

I had an old pair that I really liked because they were comfy and had great battery life but they're pretty old now and literally falling apart. I've been patching them together and repairing them- latterly one of the ear pieces completely snapped off so I designed and made a brace out of sheet stainless steel to fully fix it and look good at the same time, which worked perfectly, but now the other ear piece is about to break off in the same way and the on/off button is jammed and super hard to use (I much have dropped them on it at some point), so the writing is on the wall unfortunately.

I will try and fix the other ear piece and use them only as computer line-out headphones.

ThrisbyDude wrote:
Did some small chores around my family's house today because a family member from up north is going to be coming in the house.
It doesn't feel like much, but it's good to feel busy around the house instead of just sitting around bored. :)

Nice. Cleaning is so relaxing.

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I went into work today. It felt like 2019, again, for the first time in three years. Barely any masks, polite attitudes, and respectful manners. It felt like the final scene in X-Men: Days of Future Past when everything resets in the last ten minutes.

I talked to my boss's boss today. She travelled 300ish miles from her office at headquarters. She's nice.

My dog has been shivering in the morning, so I ordered another outfit for her. It actually fits, and she actually likes it. (It's like a short blanket and doesn't restrict her movement.) Yes, dressing my dog in cute outfits brings me joy. But also she needs them because she is smol and catches chills.

@usedbooks- that sweater dress is adorable.

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I went for a walk by the park and it just so happened to be Friday Roller Skate Night. The music was jammin’, so I walked home, packed up my roller skates, knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guards and a headband before returning to the park.

The last time I have roller skated in public was at Chicago’s Rainbow Roller Skating Rink/Arcade in the early nineties. The other roller skaters were friendly enough to offer tips, taught me how to balance, let loose, and have fun. There were a lot of positive personalities in the rink. I was even gifted a towel for showing up.

Inspiration struck me and i finally settled on how i wanna end one of my current comic projects. Always feels nice when one can suddenly oversome writer's block like that.

Well, after 15 years, I've reached another milestone on YouTube . . . 400 subscribers.


Meanwhile, apparently PewDiePie and Mr. Beast are in a head-to-head race to become the first YouTuber to reach one billion subscribers. Bigger YouTubers are allowed to do that for some reason: they can beg for more subscribers all they want, and people just do . . . if little guys like me even ask if anybody would consider subscribing, we get attacked for, “shamelessly and desperately crying for attention,” then end up with dislike bombs because of it.

After a huge slump beginning to fix stuff. -Doctor about the pain in my side.
I pulled a muscle during a coughing fit from Covid.
-Got my replacement camera. Playing with the settings to get it to match the old one learned a bunch more about it. It's beat to hell and back and I've a feeling it might be an Afghan/Iraq veteran. Something about the dust encrusted in the zoom button.
-Comic back in steady production. Always feel better chugging along putting together panels and pages.

I did some tile grouting today which I have never done before and it sort of went OK I think.

I also finally got around to creating the home page for a comic I've been meaning to start on Halloween for a few years, but something always got in the way. This time it coincides with the anthology, but if I put it off for another year it'll never happen.

Went to the royal botanical Gardens at Kew today to enjoy the glasshouses. I had no idea they were having a Day Of The Dead festival in the temperate house and best of all, an awesome all female mariachi band called Mariachi Las Adelitas. Well worth a listen.

This didn't happen to me, but it made me happy:

So North Korea went a bit mad and fired missiles all over the place near South Korea. One of them landed also directly on the sea border of South Korea (in the ocean). This made South Korea apoplectic with rage and fear, which is understandable.
Their military said it was basically an invasion and they would respond with maximum force.

So they fired THREE missiles.
Into the exact same spot…
in the ocean. XD

LOL

HAHAHA!

I shouldn't laugh, but it IS funny ^_^

I mean, it shows they have better missiles, can target them properly, and have them ready to retaliate to an exact location super fast, unlike the bumbling North with their stupid junky 3rd hand Chinese copies of old out of date Soviet stuff.
But launch THREE into the ocean is such a silly gesture. Expensive too… Probably cost anywhere from 20 million to a 100 million? Depending on the missiles. Either way, what a waste.

Today, for the first time in a very long time, I took out some bristol, pens, a bottle of ink and a Winsor Newton series 7 brush.

Oh joy! Oh rapture!

And for the first time in a very long time, I actually liked something I drew.

Today was the first day using the new laptop. It is wonderful. The smaller screen centers my attention.

And three new versions of solitaire. ;)

This is a good thread so I'm reserectioning it !

Today I went to a museum and saw all different types of shells from the sea. I was just driving by and thought I'd check it out. Very cool.

For the past few weeks I've been managing to put together one page of the comic a day. That's four pages a week. I use the other three days to put together the raw panels that get turned into the pages the other four days. Feeling pretty good about it.

That's cool, Bravo!

My cat mouse came and sat on my lap twice last night as I was working on my computer, twice. ^_^
I can count on my fingers how many times he's sat on my lap in his lifetime.

Since his sister died he's been more connected to me, but he very rarely cuddles up like that, he's the kind of cat that shows affection by sitting beside you. I felt honoured and happy. :)

Got a lot Of progress done on my comic today

I saw the most incredible Red Sky sunrise this morning as the train passed through Trenton, NJ, to Philadelphia, PA. The news was talking about possible Northern Lights being visible in the Northeast early this morning. It was such a sight to behold with the black silhouette outlines of trees cast against the red dawn. Probably one of the best views I have seen from a train car to date.

Im happy as ever.

I spent the entire night crocheting in my favorite terminal at LAX and then I boarded a plane to Hawaii!

Mahalo. Aloha 2024!