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I give up.

I need some real life friends, I have nobody to play apples to apples with.

TELL ME, INTERNET, HOW DO I MAKE FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE?

Even my cats are friends with everyone but me.
fuck my non existent life.

edit: Fine, I relent.
Facebook :( add me, I guess.

Hey!

So yeah, been down and what not. FUKC IT! I'm going to cheer the fuck up if it kills me. :P


And guess what... Yeah, New Hey Fox posted today!

A reminder: This is not actually how things went down, but it's close enough for Fox's world. :: grin :: Today's comic is, I think, genuinely funny. Yay for not being 100% mopey and whiney huh? ^.^

By the way. I'm trying for NaNoWriMo again this year. I haven't posted about my novel yet, but I'll put up a excerpt soon. If you wanna keep track than hit the link, and if your participating too than go ahead and let me know so we can do that whole friend link thing.

Yeah..

So That's it for now.

Later!

Internet is up and running at the new apartment.
In the process of deciding where fishtanks will go right now.

fun times.
The old tenants took the nice washer/dryer, sob.

Edit: We ordered a couch. It's large and sort of a mucky brown color, but it's very soft.
Now I just need an ottoman.

We're moving on wednesday, so lots of packing today.
... That's all, nothing of note has surfaced, really.

Quick tank count though for my own good. smallest to largest.

broken 2.5, rimless 5.5, top rim removed 5.5 (moms tank), rimless 10 gallon, 15 gallon long, 20 gallon long, 20 gallon square, shitty 20 high, shitty 37 gallon, new 40 breeder, two shitty 40 longs.

I want to get down to 10 tanks or under. I gave away my cracked acrylic 3 gallon. I think I'm going to give away the broken 2.5, I was going to fix it so it would be a 2.5 on its side, but I don't have the will really. I'm going to sell the shitty 20 high (for like 5$). The goldfish are in the 37 until the 40 breeder grows in, then I'm going to sell that one. I'm moving the moss from one of the 40 longs into the 15 long, then tearing the crappy rims off and selling it as a terrarium.

I'm also buying a 30 cm cube this week, though.

This will leave me with 2 5.5s, 12" cube, 10 gallon, 15 long, 20 long, 20 square, 40 breeder, and a 40 long (farm tank).
Finally, I would eventually like to buy a nice, new 40 long as a display tank for tiger barbs, yaaayyyy tiger barbs.

Leaving me at, DRUM ROLL, 10 tanks. TA-DA.

( This will be my new wallpaper soon )

One of the pictures I dug up from my previously-forgotten semi-recent art.
It's perfect, frsrs.

By the power of greyskull This delicious pumpkin ale, I will have a new 1366x768 wallpaper tonight.

Double update I know I know, but, holy shit you guys you know what's seriously amazing?

My hobby is basically paying for itself right now.
I made enough money selling UG this fall to break even on a 40 breeder + light, and the equipment for my 5.5 gallon. And I've sold enough manzanita this week to buy a 12" cube, and possibly even cover the metal rack I bought today for my nano's. Hopefully I'll be able to sell the rest of my manzanita to cover the filter for the 40 breeder.

There's still a whole bunch of equipment I need to buy for my tanks, but seriously, amazing.

I ... I feel so awesome right now.

:D

So I completely busted my old laptop this week, I broke and locked the hinge on the left side this time, so now it's impossible to close without breaking the plastic housing. So I got a new laptop tonight, with windows 7.

It's tiny (13" screen) and the resolution is sort of obnoxious (widescreen, ugh) but it's nice. It's so SMALL too, no CD drive, so it's super slim.

So far windows 7 has been a dream. The default icon settings are really annoying though, they're all huge, I get the feeling they're trying to make it more old people friendly. It doesn't help that my screen resolution is really tiny so everything feels huge. I managed to find out how to resize the icons on the taskbar though. Hee.

... Can I turn off the spellcheck in google chrome? It doesn't even recognize the word google!

the only gripe I have with windows 7 so far is that the default wallpapers suck, REALLY suck. I need to find a new wallpaper stat, but that's back to my obnoxious widescreen resolution.

I don't feel like another katamari or okami wallpaper, I should make my own (I found a really nice picture of blue that would be nice, gotta clean it up.)

But in the meantime, gotta get rid of these ugly leaves.

So who wants to help boycott Best Way Disposal in Kalamazoo, Michigan? I will quote from my former schoolmate who did some detective work: "Best Way Disposal is owned by the Balkema family... Mary Balkema, Kalamazoo County Treasurer, headed up the opposition against Ordinance 1856 - the ballot initiative that now protects gay and transgender persons from being denied housing and employment." And someone else adds: "They used [Best Way Disposal's] address to serve as the center of the 'Vote No on 1856' campaign." Conscientious citizens are advised to switch to Waste Management, whose slogan is: "Think Green.® Think Waste Management."

I am so proud of the citizens of Kalamazoo who came together and stood strong in the face of vile hatred that danced a merry jig on our nation's Constitution. Their great victory was discussed on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann and mentioned in the Huffington Post (thank you, Derek, for the heads up). I wonder how many people out there are now wondering, "There's a Kalamazoo?" Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo, and they no longer discriminate against gays! (It's against the law, anyway. I'm sure it still happens.)

SO! What have I been up to? Fighting the plague. I also drew this picture. I am trying to participate in NaNoWriMo despite the malaise. I think I'm about 3,000 words behind the goal, but I am hoping to catch up. Right now I am on approximately page 21 of an average sized paperback book. I wish that were half as impressive as it sounds.

Having my head firmly entrenched in Kalamazoo the past few days makes me very anxious for my return trip this winter. So many places I want to go! Hey, I could even take the bus system now that I am used to such things, should that even prove possible, considering how shitty I recall the Metro being. Just saying I don't need to rely on borrowing cars from the folks or rely on friends.

Alas, I should return to writing. It's cheering, but I'm still feeling ill. I called in sick once this week, and I may call in sick again. I could of course use the money, but it isn't dire, and I really need to let my body fully recover. I do have sick pay, but I was going to save that for Xmas. Oh well. I get money for Christmas. That'll have to make up for not working a week.

I think I figured out my near pathological fear of zombies. It's the slow, impending, and irrevocable sense of doom that they cause/represent.

hrrrgghhh horrifying.

I have

So much crap.
I'm not even kidding, I've been going through all my old are and goddamn. so much useless shitty drawings. my trash box is FULL.

I have to go through the shit under my futon next.

oh
boy.

Hey all.

So I haven't been around here lately, and the comic has been pretty slow to update. For those of you that haven't seen me in the meatspace lately, the short story is that I've not been dealing with reality very well lately.

More to the point I've been thinking about just ending Hey Fox.

I feel that doing so would be a disservice to myself however, so I've decided to force myself to continue.

Today I dropped just over a hundred bucks on URL's. So now you can find the comic at any combination of "heyfoxcomic" or "heyfoxcomics" dot "com" "org" or "net" now.

So that's good right?

Anyway, Hey Fox has indeed updated today.

Today' comic was going to be the first one back, but by request I finished up the pizza joke I'd started before... um... my hiatus.

So the next few might or might not be actually funny, but they will at least be some broad strokes of explanation.

Ok, that's it for now!

Later!

PS

Oh yeah. Happy Birthday Secret!

I've been sitting here for fifteen minutes, watching the world go by and thinking about its physiology, how insane and wonderful it is that everything works so well, that existence has come as far as it has and that it has the potential to just keep getting cooler.

Every time I say something like that, my friends start getting all nostalgic for college. Does that mean you grownups never get caught up in the sheer awesomeness of everything anymore?

Halloween was another bust this year. Ended up staying home, watching "Night of the Living Dead" on TV, and keeping Sprocket from running out after the three groups of trick-or-treaters that rang our bell. (I think it's the bell that scared Sprocket. It is rather clunky sounding. Probably vintage 1969.) At least Sherelle and I went out the night before to Meat VS Deathguild featuring Hubba Hubba Review at the DNA Lounge. That's a club, by the way (or three clubs sharing a night together at the same venue). Lots of great costumes, pretty good music, a few shows by some fairly talented ladies, a costume contest (the 9 foot tall robot won), and all around worth the $13 entry fee. Very crowded, though, which made dancing sometimes difficult. I wore a costume that I made myself and am fairly proud of and pleased with, the Grey Lady. She's a ghost, or many ghosts, as there are numerous haunted places around the world that have a ghost they call the Grey (or Gray) Lady. I got the idea and basic pattern from this year's Martha Stewert Halloween magazine. You can find pictures of the costume and the costume contest in which I did not partake below:

Halloween 2009

Today I stayed around home in my PJs all day, watching TV, participating in the Gaia Halloween event, crocheting more on this bag I am trying to make, and working more on my latest vampire story. Jennie reminded me that it is now NaNoWriMo, which I signed up for a couple weeks ago. She is also participating, and I think I will need her encouragement. I only wrote 500 words tonight, but I did get distracted with some valuable research, so maybe it's okay? I learned about plank roads that ran through Plainwell a hundred years ago, and that there is a restaurant that makes reference to them on Main St that I now want to eat at.

Yesterday, I did play an awful lot of Gaia's MMO. I really have to wonder how different my perspective on the game would be if I weren't so close to its lead programmer. I told him I'd start a new character fresh and take notes on why the game sucks is not as enjoyable as they'd hoped it would be. I'm not sure how great an idea helping him with his job is considering he has become a virtual shut-in because of it. Maybe I'll get dinner out of the deal. That would, of course, require traveling down to San Jose since he refuses to drive up here, claiming "it's too far." San Francisco and San Jose are situated rather like this: San Jose is Kalamazoo, and San Francisco is Grand Rapids. And I don't even live in San Francisco anymore, but in Daly City, which is kind of like Wyoming. We used to drive up to GR all the time to see Dale's open-mics and such, then drive home that same night. I fail to see how this is in any way a grueling trip, especially when he is supposed to be my friend and has repeatedly said that he wants to see my new apartment. Whatever. He's clearly a loser.

That reminds me that I bought an aquarium! Haven't set it up yet because I need something to place it on, and no fishie friends, but that will come in time. A Ross just opened up near here, and they have some nice, inexpensive cabinets. There is also a Home Depot, which may or may not carry something like that. I met up with Bacon last week for coffee, and he needed to buy litter for Sprocket, so he allowed me to take advantage of his car, and we picked out the aquarium, stones, and other essentials. The rest I think I can transport by bus, or grab someone else with a car. I want another of the algae eaters like Charlie, who I had before, and a couple of albino cory catfish. They're so cute! And possibly some mollies of some kind, or maybe guppies. We'll see. It was a pretty big investment, but one that is totally worth it to me. I miss having an aquarium, and I think this one will make me very happy.

If I click a link that takes me to Facebook and I'm not logged in, I get sent to a login page, and after I enter my username and password, I get redirected to the page I was trying to view. A bunch of other sites do the same thing. On LJ, it just sends me to the home page. Why is that? I don't know programming, but shouldn't that be reasonably painless to put in?

I went trick or treating for the SPCA tonight, I collected about 80$+

I would've stayed out longer but I had a raging headache, oh man.

From what I've seen, the process of altering controversial beliefs (religious, political, moral, etc.) tends to follow a pattern: kids fervently uphold their parents' views when they're young, then start to listen to enough of the counterarguments to become agnostic on the issue, then pay no attention to it for a while, and then finally decide to actually focus on the question and make a decision about it. I've seen this happen with the change from conservative to liberal, the change from religious to atheist, the change from atheist to religious, the change from omnivorous to vegetarian or vegan, and a host of others. The final perspective isn't always in opposition to the original--my opinion on abortion followed these steps from knee-jerk blind acceptance of one side (of course abortion should be legal, and you're just wrong if you think otherwise) to ambiguity and active ignorance (I'm not sure what I think, and I'd really rather not talk about it) to a period of careful consideration, after which I settled on my original opinion, but with actual reasons and a new capability of discussing it on a rational level. That period of indecision and not thinking about it is, I think, important to the process, and I've discovered through interactions with a lot of people that pressing the issue when someone's in that stage is about as pointless and frustrating as trying to argue with someone who's knee-jerk convinced that they're right.

My mother is--surprisingly, for someone normally so adamantly in favor of scientific progress--against vaccination. None of her kids, including me, were vaccinated when she had control over the decision. I believe Clayton and Lincoln have still never been vaccinated; Cordell had to get his shots before he could go to Japan, and I had to get mine before I could come to Clark. I've been in the "ignoring the decision" stage for a few years on this. I thought about it a little when I got jabbed for Clark, but I think I was still not quite ready to attack the issue.

I just read an article about it in Wired, and now I'm ready to take a look at the science and make a decision. So: tell me what you think, and back up your position with links and names and studies that I can look into. I suspect most of my flist is pro-vaccination; if you aren't, and you're afraid of getting jumped on, feel free to contact me privately or delete your comment immediately (I'll get it e-mailed to me).

EDIT: Please be civil.

Hey all!

So I've been sorta depressed lately and having a real hard time getting back into funny mode for the comic...

That being said, I'm going to try to just bore through this.

So here goes. Hey Fox has indeed updated!

And today's is indeed a Halloween party, though nobody came in costume this year. Still looks like fun huh?

Upcoming comics will cover (sort of) what's been going on lately...

Much love!

Fox