Well, my life has been shaken up like a snow globe and now has been allowed to rest enough to return to some strange semblance of stability. Sigh. My wife is disabled and looking forward to a year or more of painful surgeries. I’ve been spending a lot of time helping her, taking over more home responsibilities, getting my kids in line, and rearranging her computer, life and personal space around her disability. It’s been very trying. I took time off unannounced to manage this. But, now I’m back, hopefully without interruption for awhile.

Here’s a graphic I made for Halloween before going on sebatical.

Thought I’d do a little catch-up here, as it has been… um, 3 months. Here we go:

• In June I got my black belt - I earned my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Lots of hard work (and more than one injury) paid off.
• MWM! turns 50 - At the start of July Mistakes Were Made! reached its 50th strip.
• June Donation Drive Went Well - My donation drive for June brought in almost two-hundred dollars. Not too shabby.

It’s been a busy couple of months. Lots going on. More updates later. J out.

First, my donation mini-strip is up. It can be found here. It is a quick primer on the Zombie language, Zombese.

Also, I would like to take a moment to plug a comic I like to read: The Order of the Stick. Not only does this comic capture the strange humor of D&D, it addresses many gaming issues, is witty as heck, and has compellingly funny characters. it’s worth a look and stands out from all the other ’stick man’ comics that are flooding the webcomic market right now. You have to click on the Order of the Stick link to the left but I’m sure you can find it.

Nothing super-serial to report today. Lets just hit some bullet-points

• Easter - I didn’t do anything too special. I did make a site graphic for the MonsterMug. See bottom of this post. I hope everyone had fun.
• March Donation Drive - This was a success past all my hopes. It garnered $147 US. This helped me buy art supplies, pay some bills, and get the site its own addy. Woot! I owe MWM! a desktop and mini-strip this month.
• MWM! has become mistakes-were-made.com - MWM! has its own addy.
• KU on indefinite hiatus - I really liked doing this comic, but full-page format is too draining on me. I may come back to it down the road, but not right now.

Nothing much else right now. Seeya, J.

Just a quick update of how things have gone these past few days:

• I passed my Kumdo test and am now a 4th gup. Yay!
• I have gotten $76 US in donations for MWM! Considering I was planning on Zero–Nada, Zilch, The Big Goose-Egg–in donations this is quite a pleasant surprise for me. Thanks to all donating readers!
• I have started work unloading freight. The hours are early morning, which I love, but sometimes a wee inconsistent. It’s heavy, physical work, but that’s not a problem for me.
• In the last few days I’ve updated my donation graphics, made a strip, added an RSS feed, and made a forums Members-Only item for MWM! Whew, what a marathon. As with all Members-Only stuff, to see it you must sign up for a free forums membership. This month’s guest stars our forums member DG.

That’s about all. I’m out.

J to the Big.

Thursday I test for 4th gup in Kumdo, the traditional Korean art of the sword. I know my stuff so I’m not nervous that way, but I am worried about my foot. i pulled a side tendon in my calf and it’s been giving me problems with that foot. I hope it doesn’t rear its ugly head during testing.

Nothing much else to report. Still working on MWM!, including a new St. Patty’s image:

A couple new things are going on this week.

First, is job-hunting. I am looking for work to tide me and my family over until I can either get back to grad school or find better work. I had an interview yesterday along with a drug test. nothing sense esteem for a job like tinkling in a cup.

Second, I am developing ideas to expand MWM! and give a donation drive that will allow the readers a little say-so in upcoming bonus material. We’ll see how it goes.

Lastly, I made a new title banner for MWM! check it out:

More later. Big to the J.

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. I did little piece of MWM! art for the holiday.

This design has become a bit of a mascot for the site and can be seen in several other places, not the least of which is the donation pic.

This design originally showed on Cecil’s coffee mug in strip #2. It was originally influenced by certain 8-bit video game enemies, such as Mario’s Bullet Bill. I modified the original concept and added zombie-green coloring. It’s official name as MWM!’s mascot is MonsterMug. MonsterMug will continue to make appearances in and out of the comic, especially in holiday pictures.
I began MonsterMug as a lark, something cool to have on Cecil’s cup, but it has taken on a life of its own. This makes me chuckle a bit because MWM! started as a bit of a lark and now has become a full-blow comic, almost 2 months running. Funny but cool.

See you around, BigJ.

I have been sick as a dog with the flu. Between the aches, fever spikes, at one point delirium, and coughing up semi-solid chucks of gooey… stuff… I’ve had one heck of a winning weekend. However, I am getting better, so updates should be coming shortly.

I have big plans coming up for Mistakes Were Made!, having to do with an update schedule and a chance to let the fans get involved a bit. I’m not going to say too much about it now, just keep an eye out on MWM!’s page and the forums for upcoming news!

Ok, eventful week. I broke my C: drive. Thanks to a backup drive I am up and kicking. Thank goodness.

I don’t have much else to add. Resurrecting my 200+ bookmarks, my many cookie passwords, and other stuff has left me a tad drained. This month I plan to add something cool for forum members, but it’ll have to be a surprise.

See you round, Big J.