Hey, everyone. Apologies for the delay on Monday’s comic. I had it finished and uploaded, but the blog wasn’t posting with it and I couldn’t get things sorted out until late Monday night. I would have gotten to it earlier, but I had a bunch of house stuff to take care of first.
It’s been a little more than a month since we moved into the new house, but it seems like we’re constantly addressing issues inside the house. Nothing serious. But a lot of little things that cumulatively make us feel like it’s not OUR house yet. So after we get the kids to bed, we work and toil and try to erase any trace of the former owners. We’re installing light fixtures, door handles, painting rooms… everything.
But like I told Cami earlier tonight, “Every time we replace a light bulb or cook a meal in this place, the more it becomes ours.” So, there’s that.
Of course, on top of things, I’m wrapping up my Master’s degree. I also had to do a little work this evening on an outline I’m putting together for a group project due in a couple of weeks. I have class this weekend and then finals on November 19 and 20 and then I’m done – DONE, I tell you! No more night classes. Free time unencumbered by thoughts of marketing initiatives and ethical practice. It will be a glorious day, I tell you.
Don’t tell Cami, but with my Master’s out of the way, I’m toying with the idea of bringing Theater Hopper back maybe twice a week at the start of the year. Don’t hold me to that. Obviously I need to figure out a schedule that allows me to do that. But I kind of figured since it will be Winter and we’ll be in the house much more, maybe that’ll be a good time to explore my options.
I have to tell you, I haven’t enjoyed updating the comic once a week. I’m the kind of guy that usually does better with a little momentum behind him. I’d be remiss if I didn’t admit that sometimes Theater Hopper feels like a neglected chore.
I don’t WANT it to feel that way, though! I like Theater Hopper. I want to continue doing Theater Hopper. After 8 years in the game, I’d really like to make it to our 10 year anniversary – even if that means hanging on by my fingernails for the last 6 months.
Anyway, this took kind of a weird turn into personal confession territory. But sometimes I like to paint a picture for you guys with where I’m at in my life and I feel like I haven’t been communicating that very well lately. I want to re-establish myself. Not just for your benefit, but for my own. Like I said, once I have that momentum, it’s easier for me to stay focused and get other things related to the comic accomplished. Until then, it’s kind of a waiting game.
Lets talk about Saw 3D for a second, shall we? It’s the 7th movie in the franchise, right? I can’t even keep track anymore. They say it’s the last one. I’m very “meh” about it. I mean, I guess it’s good that they’ve tried to weave a narrative through the movies, but at this point, is anyone invested except the die-hards? I hope the ending was satisfying for them because the Saw franchise pretty much painted itself into a corner in terms of attracting new fans.
Who among you watched Saw 3D? Was it what you expected? Were you satisfied? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
If you didn’t watch Saw 3D, tell us about your Halloween weekend? Go to any cool parties? Have any good stories? What was your costume? Share with us in the comments below!
If you want to know what I did this Halloween weekend, I walked Henry and the neighborhood and took him trick-or-treating. He wanted to be Buzz Lightyear. I decided to coordinate with him. It went over pretty well.
I wish we weren't so old so we could go trick-or-treating. At least then this night wouldn't be a total waste.
Yeah, but it's not like we have costumers or anything.
TRICK OR TREAT!
That is the most adorable thing I have seen all day.
Glad to hear about the possibility of increasing the updates to two a week. I find that only having updates on mondays results in you talking about movies that just came out and so you’re rarely talking about movies coming up. An update on monday to reflect what’s happened over the weekend and one on thursday or friday to talk about what’s coming out would be good. That way, you could predict what you think will be good, and then reflect on that prediction the following monday!
And more Theater Hopper is a good thing for everone! 🙂
You’re exactly right about talking about movies that already came out – and I HATE that.
I was thinking about updating on Tuesday and Thursday so I could space things out evenly. But I don’t see a reason to upend the Mon-Wed-Fri pattern I was in before I dropped to once a week.
I’ll probably do Mondays and Wednesday since I got the most traffic of Wednesdays before scaling back.
Is that an Iron Man pumpkin I see on your porch? Nice. I went to Saw in 3d. I think the only 3d parts were a couple times guts flew at the screen. Not worth it in my opinion. It had a pretty lousy ending too considering they just wanted to work in Cary Elwes so it ended up not making much sense. I would say, the worthwhile Saws are 1, and 3-6. The only way now to make the series worthwhile again is to to prequels where Jigsaw is alive again. Seriously how many sequels can you make where the bad guy is still dead? It’s almost comical.
That photo right there is what Halloween is all about.
Updates twice a week would be a very good thing, and I echo Andre. Obviously it has to fit your schedule, though. Good luck man!
Paul
WOW! I can’t believe how grown up Henry is already! Seems like just yesterday we saw the blue pacifier announcing his arrival… Time flies, I guess. Hope your family had a wonderful Halloween and congratulations on the completion of your degree. It has been amazing the way you have juggled everything, and I hope having this off your plate gives you some room to breathe.
Hey Tom, first off your kids are getting so BIG! That’s an awesome Halloween theme you have going there. Did Cammie also participate?
I went to a few costume parties, then went out to a bar and someone dressed as death (the grim reaper) was sitting at a table with Death (from Neil Gaimen’s Sandman). Upon exiting, they handed me a tarot card with “November 3, 2010” written on it and the guy said, “I’ll be waiting.”
Now that it’s November 4, I’m still trying to figure out where I was supposed to meet this guy…and what he was going to give me when we met up. 😉
That third panel was epic.
Ha! Glad you liked it.
I enjoy going big on the expressions from time to time…