Who, What, Where?

4-15-12 I wake up to bots kicking the door at 8:10am. So I get up, get him his stuff and lay back down on the couch and catch twenty more minutes of sleep. The commission I did made the customer VERY happy and he wants to do another one. So we agree on what it will be and I get up to check online shit and start pencils on it. The bots is VERY hungry today, so I cook him some fries and he eats em up! I pencil the piece and send it off for approval, and then get to work on a Superman related piece for FCBD sales. He hits me back with changes around noon and I work on them and send it back. This goes back and forth for a while with changes here and there. I wanna get it just right. Finally the wife gets home and I head in to Kroger to turn in bottles and then to work. I realize once there that I am an hour early as my schedule was changed, so I sit outside and listen to the new Joey Diaz comedy album I got. I go in and work till 2am. I was going to get groceries after work but I am much too tired to do so after the long day. I get home around 2:30, laughing to the new Louis CK album on the way, and pass out around 3am.

 4-16-12 I wake up at 6:55 for the bots but the wife takes over and puts him on the bus. I sleep till around 11:50 and say we should get up and go sell her Ipod that we no longer need. We get up, get bots off the bus and head in. They won’t buy the ipod unless its charged, so I sell a couple other things and get bots a Futurama disc set. Then we head to Kroger for some groceries, then Wendy’s for lunch. We get home around 2pm and I check online stuff and chat with Shane a bit online. I am behind on some commissions and sketch cards and am hoping for a full couple days of artworking. I get the first commission done and send a pic off to the buyer for approval, then work on the next. I already got my copics out so I decide to color some Mars cards. I stop for an hour and clean up the house a bit. Then watch Game of Thrones episodes 2-3. Bots passes out around 8:40, and I continue on coloring cards. The wife gets home shortly before midnight and we talk about going on some museum trips this summer. I get an email reconfirming my participation in an upcoming hush hush card set and reply back quickly. She passes out and I watch Star Trek on Netflix next to her, passing out around 1am.

4-17-12 I wake up at 6:55 and get the bots ready for school. I get him on the bus and I pass back out till 11:50. I check online stuff and get him off the bus around 12:05. I check online shit for a while but then decide to clean up our bedroom and put away laundry that has been sitting in baskets for a couple weeks. I get done and clean a bit more here and there, doing dishes and such, and then make plans to cook the wife’s favorite meal when she gets home. Then something tells me to try looking at my mom’s chair that has sat broken in our house for four years. Something told me in my head that if I looked at it today, I’d fix it. So I flipped it over and went to work and before I knew it, I had the wood back in the groove, discarded parts I didn’t need for it and had a new bracket on it, fixing it. I decided I needed to strengthen it with more after we eat. I peel potatoes and the wife gets home. I cook potatoes, biscuits and dumplings and we eat like kings. After resting a bit, we go to Menards and I get some nails and a small bracket and screws. We get back and I go to work on the chair some more. I get the wood completely fixed but the wife and I cannot get the springs back across the bottom of the chair. I tie it with some string rope and it holds decently. I give it a try and it works perfect! Then I am inspired to re-arrange the living room to accommodate the chair. So I get to work on that while she gives the bots a bath. After a half hour, I have the major furniture all re-arranged and I vacuum the couch and cushions. Then move the chair out to its new place and re-arrange all the cords that go with the TV and all the things attached to it. Bots goes to bed around 9:20, which is the same time I am done with it. The wife and I take out the trash and she goes to bed cause she has to work early. I blog, update online stuff and wait for a talkshoe show to start. No show happens, so I put out the offer to do a Chatter cause I am anxious to talk Game of Thrones. No one is into it so I just work on Mars Attacks cards alone while watching reviews on Cinemassacre.com. JJ calls and we chat for about an hour and a half about Heroes Con, Podcast stuff and other things before he finally konks out around 12:30. I stay up watching a bit more Cinemassacre reviews and then head to bed, passing out around 1am finishing up the Star Trek from the night before. An earlier night than I expected I’d have, but I was tired from the workload I gave myself all day!

 4-18-12 I get up at 6:50 and get the bots ready. He’s unusually cooperative this morning and even lets me wet and comb his hair all nice. He watches Max & Ruby while waiting for the bus and I check email. I get a message from Underground Cards saying my blanks for Night of the Living Dead are finally coming and the turnaround time is quick, but I still commit to do the cards, even more than I originally said I would. No problem as I am excited as hell to do the set! I get him on the bus and pass back out till 11:40. I get up and shoot emails to Shane and a couple other people. I get bots off the bus and continue to check online stuff till the wife gets home at 1pm. I find out Van Halen are coming back around and entertain the idea of going to see them, if I can find someone to go with me. The wife passes out for a nap as she’s been up since 4am, so I head out to get some soda for the kid, drop off a book to UPS to return it to Amazon and then the Post Office to mail out the Titanic cards. I get home and scan the receipt and send an invoice to Cult stuff. Then scan some commissions I did for Ray and post them to deviantart as well. Lastly, I scan some of the Mars Attacks cards and send them to Topps for approval. A short time later, I get approval and Decide to post up a few of the cards I have done with a link so people can pre-order the set from Topps. I check Twitter and find out Dick Clark has died. Instantly, I feel a little sad and morbid when I realize that he was on my “death pool” for 2012 and thus I have pulled out in the lead on it. I always watched him on $25,000 Pyramid and every New Years Eve of course. What a legacy that guy leaves behind eh? The wife gets up and I get ready for work and head out. I get there a bit early and listen to podcasts before its time to punch in. It’s a slow moving night and I am asked to go through ALL the Dvds to look for a few barcode discrephensies, so that takes a while. After that, my right foot starts hurting again and its even more painful this time around. But I suffer through it and work my shift. A Club side co-worker wants a ride home, but it would mean I would have to stay an extra 15-30 minutes past my shift to wait for him to get out on the club side so I can give him a ride home. I am not into it, but I agree. Eventually he asks other people and they accept. I felt bad about it and I said I’d do it, but I was anxious to get home cause I gotta get bots up for school in the morning and sleep time is limited. I get out at 2am and Tisha my co-worker has a ride, so I don’t have to take her home either. I get home and organize some discs we don’t want to sell in the morning and go to pass out but find Bots’ room light on and he’s wide awake in there. I lay with him for about 35 minutes till he passes back out and I hit the bed around 3:45 finally to go to sleep.

 4-19-12 the alarm wakes me up at 6:55 and I convince the wife to take over my bots bus duties cause I was up with him till almost 4am, and that I Would take the discs in at 10:30. She agrees and I pass back out after a piss. I wake up to the alarm at 10:45 and get dressed, grab the discs and go. I drop them off at Disc Traders and then head to my work to talk to my boss about a couple things. I asked for the time off for Heroes Con and was given a bit of gruff about taking that many days off. I wanted to explain I was a bit pissed about that. Also I wanted to clarify that just cause I was given access to certain manager things on the computer that I wasn’t being paid the wage of a manager, therefore I wasn’t into doing the job of such a position without the pay. She agreed with me and it was a very nice conversation. I learn that Déjà vu isn’t the most supportive of people taking many days off, to which I question the ridiculousness of such a concept. A person isn’t allowed to take a vacation?? But she let me have the time off and it was no problem. I also warned her that come September, the moment my wife’s water breaks, I’m gone two weeks at least. She had no problem with that. I head out and on the way I play a joke on my co-worker making her think I went upstairs to quit and I Was leaving in a huff. She totally bought it and I almost hit the door before turning around to see her long face in shock to the concept that I had just went upstairs to quit and I was walking out for good. I busted out laughing and patted myself on the back for a prank well executed. I left sort of wishing that it was true and that I had indeed quit. But that’s for a future time. I go back to Disc Traders and get my cash from the disc trade and text the wife to see if she’s into some lunch, to which she agrees. We get bots off the bus and head to McDs. Then we deposit the rest of the money in the bank so we don’t spend it. The wife and I are sorta testy at each other for some reason, to which I decide to just curl up on the couch when we get back home and avoid any argument. I doze off in and out for about 45 minutes in-between watching Olivia with bots. The wife heads to work at 2 and I get up at 2:30, check email and clean up my desk area a bit to start work on cards. I email back and forth with Nick about my payment on some cards I did and get some clarification on some missing Artist Proofs I have for the set. He says he’ll get back with me. I get to work on Mars Attacks coloring and a couple hours later, I got a lot of the newer inked ones colored. I take a break and play bubbles with the bots and help him clean up his room. I then return to some cards and pencil some more. Around 9:00pm, bots passes out. I cook some ravioli and make a list of things to get at the grocery store tomorrow. I pencil some more cards to ink during the shows tonight and call the Vu to find out next week’s schedule. I text with Ted a bit who is telling me his current living situation with his girlfriend and I wish him the best. Mark Walters calls/texts me to tell me that there will be no show tonight, moving it to Monday possibly. So I decide to take the rest of the night off and watch Beavis and Butthead with the wife. She gets home, bringing some late night eats with her. We chow and laugh at Beavis, always a good time. She passes out at 12:30 and I follow her shortly after, passing out to Netflix Trek around 1am.

4-20-12 Happy Weed Day. Get serious about it. Sign ballots for legalization, ya’ll! I get up around 6:55, shit and get bots ready for school. He’s in a good mood and cooperative so it is quite easy. Not feeling the greatest and having to shit for the second time since waking, I talk the wife into putting him on the bus on the way out the door for her work shift. They take off and I hit the pot again. After that, I decide to not go back to sleep in favor of either staying up to watch a movie or getting more work done. I’m afraid of wasting every quiet morning I am blessed with by just sleeping it away. So I brew up come Folgers and get to work on cards and update the blog. I pencil cards inbetween emailing with Shane all morning. We talk about practically everything from card work, weight loss, OCD pills he’s taking, the kids, sports and more. Around noon I get the bots off the bus and let him play while continuing on cards. I get bots at 12:05 and check the mail I get a handwritten letter from Ted explaining a bit more of his situation with him and his girl getting kicked out of their place. I type out a letter to respond to him while texting the wife about plans for when she gets out. I end up coloring almost 20 more Mars cards and I’m scared to learn that some of my Copics are running out! Gotta restock soon. I clean the kitchen a bit and gather the trash. I even scoop the goddamn cat box, my least favorite job. I cut my hair a bit and marvel that my front hairs are laying like they used to back in high school today. See, I’m thinning in the front, which is a family trait. There’s not much baldness in my family, but certainly thinning. It makes me look like I might go bald, but I likely won’t. One of the best physical traits I used to have was my hair. Lots of girls said so! But the last 10 years, I’ve noticed the thinning in the front and got self-conscious about it a bit. But every now and then, my front hair lays like it used to as if to tease me, the bitches. So as long as I can ignore the thinning in the front and the greys that are constantly developing in a Reed Richards style on the sides of my melon, I can maintain the illusion of my youth. Anyway, The wife gets home after 5pm and we head to Family Fare for groceries. We stop off at Mcds to get the bots some fries. We get home and I email with Tim Hamm about the possibility of me hitting the Rob Zombie/Megadeth show next month. We cook hot dogs and fries for everyone and lounge around. She watched a Ghost Adventures marathon while I sit and watch the rest of the Trek episode from last night and two Classic Album Documentaries on Netflix. One about Zappa and another about Nirvana. Bots passes out on the floor around 9:30 and she carries him to bed. No knowing what to do, I grab an Amaretto and Sprite and convince the wife to sit and record a new Idiothead podcast with me. So we finish recording an hour and change later and I upload it to talkshoe and announce everywhere that I did it. Hopefully that will help those who have been missing podcasts the last couple weeks. Then the wife and I sit and watch Rumble in the Bronx, which she has never seen. Its over and she passes out while I watch another Trek episode in bed. I end up asleep by 1:30am.