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April's monthlytransmission
All kinds of changesabrewing and transpiring.
Well, this is the last month inthe ultra-spacious, arm-and-leg-rent, apartment. May we'll beliving in a much more affordable joint. And by affordable, I meandamn near five hundred bucks a month cheaper. We have someoverlap time, so we're moving things in shifts. It's nice to beable to stretch all the work over two weekends. That is, if we'renot lazy and put this all off to the last minute.
I think I may have one of themstomach ulcers. With all the stress and gut-wrenching financeproblems and job search difficulties, I'm surprised I don't haveworse. It feels like I have a short screw twisted into the wallof my stomach. It hurts at night, and when I drink coffee. That'sprobably not good as I have about four cups of coffee forbreakfast.
I got yet another envelope from Hand R Block, telling me I have to send in a check for even moremoney to the same place again. I have no idea. I threw twohundred bucks in the gutter, asking these morons for help. If I'dhave thrown my tax forms at a pile of monkeys holding pens, theycould maybe come up with less mistakes. I tried to do the rightthing and have it prepared by a professional service, and it'sscrewed up worse than if I did it myself. I think a lesson waslearned here, though I don't know what it is. I know I hate taxesin general. They're the equivalent of SAT test stress.
This month's aweful science-fair,Madcowboy, turned out pretty good, I think. I usually never, everbrag about my work, but this time I have to say I came reallyclose to what I had pictured in my mind when I was working on it.I've been wanting to do this cowboy story since we went to theJoshua Tree back in December. No idea why. Maybe because I'dnever really seen the desert before I moved out here. This pastweekend we went to visit some friends of ours in Vegas and wentto Red Rock Canyon. It's really nice there too.
Five issues of the Gypsy Loungeare complete, lettering and everything. Of course no one knowswhen or if they'll ever end up in comic stores. I'm planning onapplying for a grant this summer, and hopefully something evenbetter could happen before that. That'd be nice. Lots ofoptimistic thinking, here. And you know what they say aboutoptimists...half full of shit.
Oh wait, one last thing, it's beena long time since this site has had any improvements. In fact,this may actually be the second time that the lexotronic site gotthe update treatment. I thought I should talk about this a littlebit, and explain how it wasn't me being a lazy jerk, but in facta whole lot of bad luck that kept this site from being kept up todate. When I moved out to California in November, it was myimpression that we were going to move to a new apartment in thebeginning of the new year. That didn't happen until this month,so I had never bothered to get any kind of internet connection atthat place. I figured, why bother, as it was only going to be atemporary stay. I had Aweful Books editor-in-chief, Jim Rugg withhis supersonic internet speed line at my disposal, and he had noproblems about helping me out in a time of need like that.Unfortunately though, Jim was also moving around the same time.When I sent a zip disk to Jim Rugg in February, it got lost inthe mail and I had no idea until almost a month later. And ofcourse it was too late. Jim had moved and had to cancel hi sconnection. So, in summation, nothing went right. Though my workfor the good people over at Opi8.com was delivered on time eachmonth, the lexotronic site gathered dust. So how are you readingand looking at all this brand-new stuff? I had another friendupdate this for me, as I impatiently wait for the cable man toarrive, so I can jump into the 21st century. Because of thecrunch to get this site finished, I didn't have the time toproperly prepare the new corporate section. So, it isn't allcorporate stuff, but it'll have to do until I can gather up a lotof the fine and classy artwork that I produced for the MindSimCorporation. So be on the lookout for that in the future. I amvery sorry if any of you were swearing at me under your breathevery month, waiting for me to get off my ass and get some workdone. I promise this won't happen again, and that lexotronic willbe kept up to date in the future. Hope you'll all come back nextmonth.