Mooch

So this week I actually do have something to rant about. I was at the mall today and all I wanted to do was play an innocent game of Dance Dance Revolution. Anyway, I was playing my second game with my sister's friend and I was on my second song and these two 13- or 14-year-olds came up to us to play a game. What you're supposed to do is just put a quarter on the side and get out of the way and wait your turn. One of the kids (the smaller one) stood in my way while he put his stupid quarter there and was blocking my way, while I was doing really well, I might add. This sort of bugged me but I just looked past it. After I was done with that song, I called my brother over to come pick a new song for me. The punk small kid said "Let me pick one," so my brother did. I said to my brother "Don't pick one that's harder than two or three," because I was on light and it's still pretty hard for me. The punk picked a four, and said that it wasn't that hard. So I was like, "fine," because I didn't feel like dealing with him. So the song started and it was actually really hard for me because I'm not that good yet. I didn't want to stop, because I wanted to get better. Then the punk got on the dance pad and said "Let me play." OK, you don't get in front of someone you don't even know and kick them out of their own game. I said, "No, it's my money, I'm going to finish it." I was fully annoyed now. And even near the end of the game he asked me again, and I said, "No, I'm not giving up my seventy-five cents that easily!" I felt like kicking the stupid punk. So they played their stupid DDR game after us, and one of them got a C. So I laughed. Anyway, that felt good. This week's episode doesn't have much plot or anything for that matter. Just more about getting a job. Real life fun stuff. I guess that's enought "talking" your ear off. I shall bid you farewell.

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An Unexpected Life Update

(reposted from July 13 from my Patreon)

Hi all. I need to fill you guys in with some harrowing details of my life. As you may know, much of central Vermont was hit by disaster flooding. Unfortunately, my house is located directly in Central Vermont. The last few days have been horrifying, wet, dirty, and exhausting. Our entire basement was underwater. Like, our ceiling tiles were knocked off. Our first floor was hit a little bit, and now our house is covered in mold and mildew. And because our electric box was in the basement, there’s no power in our house, and there’s no way to turn it back on without an electrician. It’s such a huge, insane mess. My house was unlivable, and we had to get out.

Luckily for Dean and I (and Vienna), we were able to get out yesterday and drive north to stay with Dean’s family, who are high and dry up here in Northern Vermont. I realize I’m one of the really lucky ones who’s able to flee to a safe place, and of course, I’m worried about everyone still stuck behind.

Also, equally lucky, Dean was able to save all my computer equipment, con merchandise, etc. So I was able to take all that with me. Right now, I don’t have anything set up, but I should in the next few days. I know I’m already late sending out the mail to higher-tier patrons, and I’ll get that to you guys as soon as I’m able. Hopefully, understandably, this also means the comic will be on a bit of a hiatus until I can get everything settled a bit more. I don’t know when I’ll be able to go back home, or even if I’ll be able to go back home.

Anyway, I just wanted you guys to know what was happening. I’m OK now, just tired and overwhelmed. I hope everyone is doing well and not having to deal with this, too. Take care all, and thank you for all of your support. It means so much, and I can’t wait to start getting new art and comics up.

Update as of October 8, 2023

OK! So what’s going on currently: It’s been a few months! I know! I’m not purposely neglecting the comic or anything, I just don’t have a space where I can comfortably work for long periods of time on a computer. So comics are kind of out until I get back home. I’ve been able to get the last few wallpapers up on my Patreon because they’re only out once a month so I was able to break up the process a bit so I’m not sore all over all day.

Anyway, life/house updates. Our house has been being worked on this whole time. Unfortunately for everyone, it’s been a long process because there are hundreds if not thousands of others also affected by this mess. And there are only so many workers/contractors out there. We have made a substantial amount of progress to our house, right now we’ve gotten some funds from different places and we’ve put them into fixing and cleaning everything up. Our power has been back on for a bit, we have clean, running water (though not hot yet), and our basement is gutted out, cleaned up, sanitized, etc. Lots of things here and there have been fixed, like our roof being patched up, and other small things. We have a heating company coming in to do our heater/AC and our new hot water heater, and amazingly, they will be taking our old radiators out as well! So that’ll be really cool having all that new wall space. We’ve got a brand new fridge, and a new washer and dryer ready to be hooked up and used. The main thing right now is getting our new heating system up and running (especially because I live in Vermont), and once that’s done, we should be able to go back shortly after. I can’t give you an exact date right now, because I don’t know when it’ll be, but we’re looking at early-ish November. Which is much better than the original estimate of late December! -_- Anyway, so once we get back home, and we get things back in normal order, I can get back to doing the comic weekly again.

I know this is probably not the news you wanted to hear and believe me, I wish there was a much easier solution to all of this. But please hang in there, we will be back. Thanks for all of your support over the years, it really means a lot!

Posted by Heather
October 8, 2023 12:19 PM
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