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April 25, 2010: And Where Have You Been
When I concluded the strip in November 2009, the plan was to keep updating the site with occasional comics to celebrate special occasions (such as holidays), sketches, best-of compilations...
Then tedium set in. Then the holidays kept me busy. And then I had an accident.
In early January, on the first day of work, on the way home, I broke my thumb. The left hand's thumb. Big deal, I thought at first. But then, the first operation failed. Towards the end of January, the second operation went bad. The surgeon put my entire left hand in a cast for five and a half weeks.
Over this time, the thumb pain had became chronic. One of the loose screws inside my thumb threatened to puncture the skin from within. They put me in the hospital for two weeks for pain therapy, then added another week to remove the titanium surplus. I was the least damaged person in the four bed sick room and I'd felt like a complete poser if it hadn't been for the pain.
I have been out of the hospital for one week now. At some point, I sketched and drew a couple of comic strips just to keep my sanity. On Friday, the stitches were removed; now all that's left is to recover a decent range of movement. The whole thing has cost me more than three and a half months of my life. Enjoy the new strip.
My heart-felt advice to you all: Don't break a thumb.
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- The State Of The Strip (12/3/2009)
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- WTF (11/11/2009)
And just like that
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Windows 7 happened
- Now What (10/5/2009)
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- Ha! (9/11/2009)
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- Absence makes the heart grow yonder (8/12/2009)
Oh boy
- Where have you been (7/13/2009)
Yeah, I know
- Housecleaning (5/25/2009)
Scheduling stories for your pleasure
- On the road to recovery (4/30/2009)
Back from antibiotics
- Sick, sick, sick (4/18/2009)
Back on antibiotics
- He's getting older (3/13/2009)
Happy birthday, Andrew
- Sneeze, wheeze... (3/11/2009)
More apologies
- Atchoo again (3/6/2009)
Apologia
- Reader Apathy (2/13/2009)
Contest ends with no winners
- Left Turn Ahead (2/9/2009)
It's a contest! And an extortion
- State Of The Strip (1/19/2009)
How we are doing
- The Strip Is Broken (12/12/2008)
And so's its maker
- Sorry And All That (11/24/2008)
Personal issues again
- Scheduled Outage on Friday, Politics (11/3/2008)
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Too much work, too little time – same old, same old
- Not quite dead yet (9/26/2008)
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- A Change Of Heart (8/25/2008)
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- Waving The White Flag (8/19/2008)
Still too much work, too little time
- Struggling With Deadlines (8/2/2008)
Too much on my plate
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- More Excuses (5/14/2008)
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- Behind The Scenes Shenanigans (4/28/2008)
Behind the scenes and behind schedule
- Apologies For The Delay (4/24/2008)
Or: How "Portal" ruined my schedule
- Computer Week Is Over (4/9/2008)
Thanks for writing in
- Advance Warning, Computer Humor (3/24/2008)
Terrible news for technophobes
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A little something for the faithful
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Failure to comply
- Reader Feedback, Leading up to Strip 00 (1/18/2008)
Readers give me a piece of their minds
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Interruption of service
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Well in advance, in fact
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Thanks to a friend
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Quenching rumors
- Out of the Gate (8/29/2007)
There really was no punchline, and the sketches are in the mail
- Breaking Character (8/27/2007)
A switch in style, and hope for the contest winners
- 200 Readers And Counting (8/10/2007)
Sketches done, readers counted
- Contest A Raging Success! (8/1/2007)
The winners have been notified
- Big Contest! Actually, a small contest (7/27/2007)
Win artwork, impress friends
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About the archive pages
- Now I get the appeal of Special Editions (7/6/2007)
Changed two strips, added an RSS feed
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