Germs Come From Germany, Right?

Thursday, Thursday...

Twas a good one today. Rug Shop Day part two. I hate to admit it, but I'm still working on the things I've been working on all week so far! It's embarrassing! I want to get something done already! I'm still editing the Rug Shop Tour video clip. I'm still formatting the Piranha interview. And I'm still tinkering with today's comic. I'm just about done, but I wanted to get today's post going before midnight. I'll finish it up tonight and edit it in here, so if you read this comic-less version, come back! I think you'll like it. Then again, I live in my head, and things I think are funny often aren't so funny to others... just ask my wife!

EDIT: OK, here's the latest Wagnervana Strip! It introduces Dave-O as the final character in this first run. He's my military adviser and good friend. I hope you read this and like it, Dave-O! Send me pics of your arm tattoos and I'll modify the strip accordingly! As usual, click on it to make it bigger...



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I finished The Darkness That Comes Before, and honestly, it turned out pretty good. Still, I'm on the fence as to whether I should proceed to Book Two or not. I am so close to 50% that I could be swayed either way. I think I have a good feel for the author by this point, and there have been some well-written scenes. But he's still pretty full of himself, and he is STILL referencing people, places and events that have yet to be explained... ugh.

In the meantime, I needed something to read last night, so after finishing Isaiah 40 (which is a chapter I'm considering memorizing - it would make an amazing monologue...) I picked up Hawkwood's Voyage, by Paul Kearney (Monarchies of God Book One), and it grabbed me right from the start, which is a good thing.

A spider is currently running across my laser printer...

I hope you enjoyed reading about my recurring dreams in yesterday's post. That's not all of them, by any means, but they are the strongest and most frequent. I may add more as my mood strikes me.

I decided to modify my "This Dayve In History" to reflect the next day, rather than the day I'm writing in, since by the time I'm writing about it, the day is over! And I'm sure you don't stay up to midnight Pacific time each night to read my hot air, so it only makes sense to talk about the day that you might be reading this in!

On This Dayve In History: March 20th.
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- March 20, 1727: Sir Isaac Newton died in London, age 84. (I wonder how old he was when he invented the Fig Newton?)

- March 20, 1942: General MacArthur leaves the Philipines, saying his famous "I Shall Return" quote. (Leading shortly thereafter to The Bataan Death March - absolutely horrifying. No quip here.)

- March 20, 1952: An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly, wins Best Picture Academy Award. (Not bad for a film where he surrenders, eats cheese and never bathes... hey, when in Rome...)

Every time I'm browsing through the "this day in history" lists, which I've done for years, actually, I'm always struck by the obscure listing of things that happen that you just KNOW that no one on earth remembers. Things like "1821: ferry boats sinks in Grogans Straight, 540 people die" or "1870: coal mine explosion in Scooter Tennessee kills 186"... I'm always taken back by the idea that these were all real people like you and me. Some dam collapses in some eastern European country in 1910, and 600 people die. The numbers are just tossed around, we glance at them, shrug our shoulders (if that) and move on. I always try, at least for a few moments, to put myself into that scenario... working on the docks in Chicago off-loading a boat in 18-whatever, and an ammunition ship explodes nearby, and people are dead and dying all around...

I'm sure people that survive such things are scarred for the rest of their lives by the trauma... and now to us, all these decades later, it's barely a footnote in history. Doesn't even register as a blip on our personal radars. That's probably for the best. Imagine being loaded up with the accumulated horrors of history - we wouldn't be able to take it - we're not God after all... Just the accumulated horror of World War 2 alone would probably flatten an entire city...

Ah, but I digress...

Hey, you know how you sometimes see pictures where people are posing, but some yahoo in the background is making a ridiculous face, ruining the picture? I love those... here's a great one I saw today - made me laugh out loud (if you'll pardon the cliche...)



Hilarious...

Anyway, I'm going to go finish up the comic and post it tonight before turning in. Until tomorrow, keep in mind, no animals were harmed in the writing of this post. Well, that's not entirely true... remember that spider...? MUAHAHAHA!!!