I’ve been working on some scripts. I planned on getting a strip done this weekend but forgot in my planning that it was my wife’s birthday. Haven’t gotten to do any research into this Twitter thing the kids are all raving about. I’m trying to fix the site for the non-widescreen monitors, so I narrowed the header since I think that’s where my problems started. I’m hoping for a new strip Wednesday so keep your fingers crossed!

Sorry, no new comic as pseudo-promised. I’ve been working on a joke for a week and just can’t make it work  and I’m just not going to force any more stinker strips. I just haven’t been putting the time in on PD since I came back and it’s been a little stifling on a creative level. Instead of working ahead and having a direction, I often find myself trying to come up with a gag 3 hours before a post and I won’t do it anymore. I owe you guys who’ve stuck with me way better than that. I need to refocus and make this my #1 priority if I’m going to get anywhere so that’s my weekend plan: unclutter my space, get some scripts written and lock myself in to a 3-a-week posting schedule. I’ve done it before and I can do it again. Feel free to nag if I miss a post (hint hint, Teresa). I’ve let too many things distract me. Plus I have to make a serious push at promotion (thanks, Irms), like learning Twitter, getting more familiar with my website and playing with Facebook. Spring is almost here and I’m gonna be ready. So, once again, thank you guys so much for sticking with me and reading another whiney artist post. Here’s to the end of all that stuff and on with the funnies!

Welcome to the new reader from London! Said reader went through the entire archives on Sunday from a link on the webcomic “Imy”. Drop me a note and I’ll send you a signed print!

I was chaperoning a field trip yesterday so I have to work today which is why there’s no comic. But a new one should appear tomorrow! Now if I can only get people to read it…

Been a bit under the weather over the past week. I’m really trying to get on a decent pace but there seems to be more and more things standing in my way. Should I take that as a sign? Nah! Screw the universe – I’m making my own way!

Anyone check out the SI swimsuit issue yet? Can’t get enough of that Bar Rafaeli, weird name and all. I’d say I’m secretly in love but that would insinuate a secret. She was so sweet on Letterman last year when she got the cover shot. And them ugly futball players have hot wives! Green M&M went a little far on the inside back cover, imho.

Sometimes the fates are working against us. And always against me. As I sat down Sunday evening to complete the next strip, my son started having shallow rapid breathing following a bout of stomach flu. Happy Valentines Day! So we were on worried parental watch for a few hours until we contacted a nurse who suggested we go to the emergency room. Long story short, after becoming a pincushion in order to discover he had pneumonia, they decided he needed to be admitted at least overnight and possibly a couple nights. So I was back and forth to the hospital for about a 4 hour period, finally settling back in at the computer at 12:49am. Anyway, he’s doing well and the strip will still be posted today, just not quite yet. Thanks for your patience, or, if you lack patience, thanks for trying.

Well, I might have fixed my computer, but I haven’t had the time to finish the next strip. So it’s been a pretty useless week here at “prematurely disappointed”, but the good news is that there will be a Monday strip next week! Can’t remember when I last had a new strip on a Monday. C’mon back!

Well, the daily content idea isn’t working so well. Turns out, my life is pretty boring minus the comic (not that the comic is that spantankeringly great or anything). Nothing really much happens so why bother? I did have a doctor visit the other day, but the funny part inspired a future comic, so I can’t share it!

However, my computer is now officially, once again, on the fritz. Seems something is continuously generating BUP files (apparently backup files), and it’s taking all my computing ability away and slowing everything down to a dead snail’s crawl. But I can’t figure out which program is doing it, so I can’t stop it. I’ve deleted over 32,000 56K files since this morning, and they just keep showing up. Hopefully I’ll get it fixed soon so I can finish the current strip (which the artwork is done on, but the words and coloring are all computerized and not happening). Anyone ever heard of this problem? I googled “generating BUP files” but everything comes back as a normal computer activity. This is not normal.

Punxatawny Phil saw his shadow today, folks. Six more long weeks of winter. Not much going on with me. I expected to get a strip done tonight but work asked me to come in an additional day so probably no late night. We’ll see. Working on getting a more regular schedule and get back to Wednesday and Friday updates, just not there yet. Haven’t even gotten to my sketchbook in a week so there’s no update on that yet either. As I often say to my boys, “Bummer, dude.”

Thanks to this reader who stopped by on Wednesday and read pretty much everything. I can only assume you found something you liked (or were trying really hard to find one laugh amongst the entire archive!). Drop me a note at prematurely.disappointed@yahoo.com with a favorite strip and I’ll send you a signed copy!

And for those of you still awaiting said signed copies, I’m getting to them, but you may want to drop me a reminder at the above address with your favorite strip and address, just in case!

That’s a sound a bored hooker makes (cue the “Ba-Dum-Bum Beaver”!). Only announcement for today is that there’ll be a new strip tomorrow and that I won an illustrated copy of “The Hobbit” on ebay. I remember checking it out of the library over and over when I was a kid. My son Nathan recently showed some interest in the Lord of the Rings films so I thought I’d get a copy. See you tomorrow!