Well, finally back from Woodbridge and back here in Savannah where I have a proper internet connection. So I’m now able to post comics again! Gotta play catch up though, so expect anywhere from three to five strips posted up every day until I get all caught up. Thanks for bearing with me.

As I stated in my last blog post, I may or may not be posting up comics while in Woodbridge for the holidays due to a potential lack of a scanner. WELL…there is in fact a scanner here (it’s the same one I have back at Savannah) BUT there is no internet. At least there wasn’t any internet until a few hours ago. And even now, I can’t connect to my e-mail, iChat, or upload anything onto my server. I can only surf the web.

SO…that is why there were no new comics posted up. Sorry. Not my fault. And I most likely won’t be able to post comics again until I get back to Savannah on the 2nd or 3rd. So come back January 4th and catch up on my Xmas vacation “adventures”. See you then.

The posting schedule recently has been out of whack because I’ve been busy with getting ready to go home for the holidays and other stuff. I’m not 100% sure if I’ll be able to post up inkdicks while I’m in Woodbridge, but if I can find a scanner there I’ll be posting up once I get set up and settled. If not, well, I’ll see you next year.

But most likely I’ll be able to find a scanner. I hope.

I was in Atlanta yesterday so I didn’t get a chance to post up yesterday’s comic. So I posted that up this mornng and will post the comic for today up later in the afternoon when I get it done. I’ll give a full report on my Atlanta trip in the comic for that day.

Sorry for not being as consistant with getting caught back up on the inkdick. The joy of cooking and cleaning up after Thanksgiving dinner ate up some time. That and I had to wait until yesterday to buy a new sketchbook for the comics as the old one got filled up. But I’m getting back with it, don’t you worry.

Also, Amy started up a new blog and it is AWESOME!

It’s called AmyBITES and it’s her cooking and baking blog. She has been cooking and baking a LOT lately, so the updates have been frequent. She posts up photos and detailed recipes and instructions with every post. She also posts up some food that I make, like this yummy pumpkin bread that I made for Thanksgiving dinner. And as someone who sometimes gets to eat the food she makes, it is all SUPER YUMMY!

So if you like food and making food, this is the blog for you. Check it out, bookmark it, and leave a comment. Again, that’s AmyBITES.

So I’m posting again. Thanks to you all for your support and words. It’s been a rough two weeks, but I’m slowly getting back to a sense of “normal”.

I’ll post four to five strips up everyday until I’m back on track.

Thanks for understanding, guys. Tell everyone that I’m back.

Have a happy turkey day and all.

Yesterday night, right outside my house, I was held at gunpoint by five to seven kids. KIDS. They looked like they were in middle and high school. They all had guns. They took my wallet (with my credit card, debit card, social security card, driver’s license, SCAD ID, and two bucks in cash and change) and my cell phone. The guy with the shot gun hit me in the back of the head two to three times with the handle of his gun.

But I’m alive. And that’s the important part. I’m trying to focus on that fact right now. Also they didn’t take the car.

I’m still shaken up, obviously. I’ve been the victim too many fucking times this quarter. The quarter began with my iMac getting stolen, and the quarter is ending with THIS shit. One week from graduation and this happens. I lived in Savannah for over four years without any incident. I lived in this house ALONE and nothing happened.

This fucking sucks. This quarter fucking sucked. And this is how I end my college career.

I’m taking a few days to maybe a week off from posting any comics. I don’t feel like drawing about what happened just yet. I need some time. I don’t know how long. It’ just too fresh for me. I’m sorry about this. I hope you understand.

And now because of this the rest of my schedule (artwork, school work, personal stuff, getting the iDonations done, etc) is getting pushed back and messed up because I have to be on the phone with people to protect my identity and credit, get new cards, new ID, talking with police AND deal with all the trauma that comes with being held up at gunpoint by five to seven kids with guns. My mind is in a horrible place right now.

I don’t know if I’m going to be ok. Not for a little while anyways. I’m sorry. This sucks.

I would like to catch a break someday…

So the issue with Comcast is still not resolved. This may take a while but I’m working on it. I am currently leeching off the internet connection of a neighbor. I feel a little guilty about that, but you know, desperate times…

Anyways, the, um, borrowed connection is very slow, but it does allow me to upload things onto my web server via FTP, so I can finally update again! Be warned though, this stolen connection doesn’t always work for me, so if it farts out on me, I may have to go another few days without posting. Sucks, I know. But as long as I can keep tapping in to this connection, I will keep posting.

Thank you and sorry about all this. Comcast can go eat it. Fucking cable monopolies getting away with doing whatever they want…grumble…

EDIT: There was a snafu when I uploaded the late comics up. Apparently I hit ’save’ instead of ‘publish’ for the November 4th comic so it didn’t upload. Problem fixed so go back and read it if you missed it. It’s an IMPORTANT one.

So, there are some problems.

Comcast is fucking shitty. Here is what’s up:

1) The internet is being slow as shit.

2) I can’t upload ANYTHING on any server via FTP. NOTHING! Not on this host, not on my SCAD student webspace. At first I thought it might be my computer or my web host, but we tried uploading something via FTP on Amy’s computer and on her site’s host and the same thing happened. So by process of elimination, it has to be our internet provider, Comcast. They are somehow blocking us from uploading things via FTP. I don’t know how or why.

I have tried calling them tonight multiple times, and each time I talk to their phone-robot, press the numbers, go through a maze until I get to an option to actually talk to a LIVE HUMAN BEING. Then the phone rings and ‘click’ hangs up on me. This happened three to four times.

So what this means for inkdick…

Irregular updates until this shit gets fixed (and I now plan on being a zit of Comcast’s ass until they fix this). Irregular updates because now I’ll have to go trek over to a SCAD building just to upload things onto my site, but I can’t do that every single day or every single time I need to update. So until this clusterfuck of a situation gets fixed, that’s the way it has to be.

Please don’t stop reading because of this. It’s not my fault. Really. And I’m really sorry about all this.

I’ll try to get some comics up later today or Saturday. I don’t know for sure when since I’ll be busy with Comix Art Forum all this weekend. But I’ll try.

I’m really sorry about all this. And again, fuck Comcast.

Sorry for the lack of comics. There has been something seriously wrong with my webhosting service and the site’s been up and down (don’t EVER use webhostingpad.com) and there is something wrong with my internet service (thanks a bunch, Comcast). It’s taking forever for anything to load on this connection and I won’t be able to upload anything at all onto my server until this all gets fixed. So there will be no new comics posted up until then, whenever when that will be. I’m really sorry. Once these problems all get fixed, I’ll post up all the comics from the past few days.

Sorry. I know this fucking sucks, trust me. I’m here pulling out my own hair over this.

Blerg.