Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Yarr!

My tribute to this great day will be delayed until Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between hits the streets. Why? Because TLAPD made it into one of the new footnotes.

–Howard “I’m such a scurvy tease” Tayler

With the materials now shipped off for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between, I’ve got a little extra time on my hands. It will require discipline for me to use this time wisely.

Specifically, I need to focus my efforts so that I can get lots of work done during the day, and then NOT DO ANY WORK DURING THE EVENING.

Today went pretty well. I got a late start, but by 4:30pm I had scripted and pencilled a week. So far this evening I’ve spent time with the family, grilled a nice burger for myself, rented a couple of movies, and made plans to play video games for a couple of hours.

Tomorrow I’ll color a week of comics and ink a different week. I expect to be done by 5:00, so I can have play-time in the evening.

Wednesday and Thursday should be spent in the same way, and then Friday I can take a couple of days all the way off for the symposium at Swarthmore College.

In particular, I make me giggle when I come up with utterly disgusting phrases like “refreshing sports energy syrup.“

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/09/14/bionic.arm.ap/index.html

I’ve been expecting this for 20 years. Not that I need it, mind you.

Man, science goes so SLOW!