I cranked out 14 days of scripts today. The Voices In My Head have been yammering non-stop for a week now, but I’ve been busy with book-stuff. I’m STILL supposed to be busy with book-stuff (footnotes aren’t done yet), but the buffer dropped low enough that I sat down this morning knowing I needed a good scripting jag.

I had one. It wiped me out. 19 rows of scripting isn’t really a whole lot of words, but scripting has to be TIGHT in order to work in my strip. Voice, plot, punchline… some of it is formulaic, but doing two weeks’ worth of strips in one sitting is very draining.

It’s also fun. I didn’t know what exactly was going to happen, though I knew the where, the who, and the why. Now I know, and I can’t WAIT to see how it looks drawn.

But right now I’m hammered. I’ll be role-playing here at the Keep until midnight-ish, and probably trying to pencil a few of these scripts on the side. Hammered or not, I really want to see What Happens Next.

–Howard

A big thank-you to kelloggs2066 for posting the link to the Toyota truck-thrashing progamme (spelled that way since it was a british programmmmee of course). I entertained my two youngest with it while I cleaned my office. I think they both watched it at least four times.

Oh… here’s the link.

My office is a wreck.

I’m not quite sure how it got to this point, but I’ve got to get it in order. I come in here and can’t think. NOT good, not with the buffer at 3 colored and 7 inked — there’s serious thinking to do right now!

Tomorrow morning I need to set aside an hour to haul out the waste-paper and the giant monitor I’m no longer using. Maybe then I can find the space to sort and tidy the stuff that is actually supposed to be in here. And maybe then I can get cracking on the buffer and the last of the marginalia for Book I.

–Howard

I looked at Today’s APOD, in which the Huygens probe photos were used by an artist to create an “artist’s concept” of Huygens sitting on Titan.

Consider… the parachute is still attached.

What if the parachute had come down on top of the probe? More than a billion kilometers from home, with 90 minutes of battery power, the probe would have gotten pictures of the inside of the chute.

I’m not accusing anybody of poor planning, or anything like that. I’m just imagining that happening, and giggling quietly. There would have been no artist’s rendition, but cartoonists all over the blogosphere would have drawn funny pictures. (Well… at least one of us would have.)

–Howard