Insert whatever cliched saying you’d like in the title, it’s all good. Point is, I’ve been extremely busy as of late. Between cleaning up the house, trying to workout at least three times a week, cranking away on the BitArtist project, podcasting, and everything else I don’t have much time to post here or sleep or do much of anything.

The good news? Well, if you’re a webcomic artist the good news is that my BitArtist project is almost finished and should be ready for beta testing next week. It’s going to be completely free, as in beer and speech. Hopefully people will find it as useful as I’ve intended for it to be. Quite a bit of work has gone into it, and I’d like to think that it shows. It’ll be under constant revision and upgrading and I’ll be building/modifying other software I’ve written for public use as well.

So there you have it, I’m a busy busy man. Nothing you didn’t know already, I’m sure. But you all should know by now that I can’t help but state the obvious.

Okay, so this is about the sixth time in three years that I’ve moved. Which means, on average, I spend no longer than six months at any one place (sometimes more sometimes less). The new place is a lot bigger than the old one, almost double the size…and minus all the deadly mold from our last hovel. So this is a nice change from the past year.

Things are slowly getting reorganized and put into their respective places, but it always takes longer to unpack than it did to pack. So it’s going to be a while. I’m just glad the heavy lifting and such is over. Chad Diez swung by to lend a hand on Saturday evening, which was greatly appreciated. Chad, if you read this, I don’t think we could’ve gotten the washer and dryer in without you, bud.

Oh, and on an extremely late and completely unrelated note, happy belated birthday Shawn. You’re a year closer to the finish line now, big guy. Better start pumping them Shawn-puppies out soon, you aren’t getting any younger.

Okay, it’s been a week since I updated. There’s a good reason for this, that reason has been the last week in total. Here’s a list of what’s happened just since my last post.

• My car broke down on Monday. It’s been to two shops and should hopefully be ready tomorrow.
• We’ve had to resort to a rental car.
• We found out our house has a mold problem (common North Cali thing) and we’re working on getting out of our lease and into a new place.
• My wife and I had our three year anniversary
• One of my friends has been in and out of the hospital.

Well, that’s been it. It’s been a very trying week to say the least. We’ve had some good news, but mostly bad. Hopefully the coming week will hold some good fortune for us.

The anniversary was lovely though. I got the wife a nice diamond necklace, took her out for a French dinner, and had a really nice time in all. It was good to spend some time out with her on our own, we don’t get to do it enough.

Okay, that’s enough about me. How have you been?

Traditionally, a red eye, is one shot of espresso in a cup of coffee. I’ve never been one for such weak traditions myself though, which could be why I usually throw three shots into it.

Why am I writing about this? Well, after a few years of diligent service my poor ol’ coffee pot finally stopped making coffee like it used to. I had to put paper towels under her to keep her from leaking all over the counter, the basket drip was pretty much shot and wouldn’t hold if the coffee pot was pulled out from under it, and she’d just seen better days. I’ll still keep a hold of her just in case I get an office somewhere at some point. She’ll do just fine for little jobs, but not the normal wear and tear I put her through.

So we bought a new coffee pot/espresso maker combo. Now I’m not really much for those emasculating European coffees, but a red eye is a pretty nice way to start the day if I do say so myself. So, while it does have the steamer and all that good stuff on it, I think I’ll save those things for making the wife some fancy coffees. I still remain a fan of the black and bitter usually, although I have been known to put cream and sugar in my coffee in my old age…at 26. Don’t get me wrong, she likes black coffee too she just can’t drink that much of it.

While it was a little more than your standard run-of-the-mill coffee pot, $100 isn’t bad at all for what we got. I don’t usually like Bed Bath & Beyond because I’m not into decorating and things of that nature (anyone who has ever met or seen me in real life can attest to the fact that I have no fashion sense), cooking is something that I do like to do and they have some pretty handy stuff there…sometimes.

I just thought I’d share my new morning company with you all. I should probably dial back on the coffee, but if I did that I wouldn’t get done with half my days workload. Besides, it just tastes so darn good.

Well, as promised, I’ve got a picture up of my tattoo. I know I said “pictures” but I decided to only get one because A) I don’t see the point in taking multiple pictures of the same thing and B) this isn’t MySpace and one picture of a random body part is enough for anyone thank you kindly.

At any rate, here’s the picture. It’s based off a painting of the USS Constitution. I’ll post the side-by-side so you guys can have a comparison.

All in all I don’t think it was bad work for just over an hour in the chair. This was the first tattoo shop I’d ever been into that had TVs set up in the workspaces so you could watch a movie while the artist worked, very weird.

I like it, and I’ve already found out that if I flex my bicep it looks like the ship is running with full sails, so that’s always fun to show people. I’ve never had a tattoo that did tricks before. I’ve already had it compared to Little Pete’s tattoo of “Petunia” on ‘The Adventures of Pete & Pete‘.