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Little behind/1 or 2 slots open fri (General upate 🗞️)
2 weeks ago
Not much progress this month... Circumstances conspired against me this time.. [tl;dr at end as always]
Was able to stay largely on schedule last month in spite of difficulties but just wasn't able to keep it up for another month, so have slipped behind slightly again. Two things outside of my control made it very difficult tho:
1. AC conked out again in the middle of the last stretch of the summer heatwave (I live in the US south), so was a sweltering 85-90F in my apartment for the first week and a half of the month, and I just did not have the energy or fortitude to push through the discomfort and exhaustion this time (even though I somehow managed it when it happened in September). AC's fixed now at any rate. Severely reduced output tho bc I could not push through the exhaustion this time around. Plus my computer would slow down and crash several times a day because it was just so hot in my apartment. For the record this is like the 6th or 7th time this has happened this year alone and I just have to eat a huge loss in productivity every time it happens which I think is really cool and awesome.
2. I genuinely have no idea how this happened but badly tweaked my lower back last week. A number of very basic actions now cause me extreme, acute pain, including but not limited to: getting out of bed, sitting down, sitting in the same position for any length of time, getting out of my chair, getting dressed, putting on my shoes, and especially coughing/sneezing. I don't know what I did that caused it, but needless to say output is pretty heavily reduced again right now, which is quite stressful. Not to worry tho, I am in less pain than last week so I think it's getting better, albeit slowly. I am hoping it is just a muscle or tendon problem. But I'm really only getting 2-3 hours work done a day. When I need to be getting like.. 12.
Anyway, I intend to take as long a period of rest as I'm able to once I'm caught up on everything that needs done, but no matter what progress I make it just seems hopelessly far away.. I really do hope I can transition to more of a patreon based model next year, rather than filling commission orders.
On that note, the backlog is only one item shorter this update (in my defense, it's a full color 6 page comic tho), which is not GREAT progress. I am also running very close to the end of the month with 3 of this month's batch of in-streams still needing finished, so it is looking like those are going to spill over into November. For that reason I'm only taking 2 slots for next month at this time, but maybe opening more when all of those are done. Needless to say I was not able to keep my regular work schedule of 2 weeks for monthly in-streams, and 2 weeks for backlog this month, so I will be trying to get back on track.
tl;dr
-not a whole lot of progress this month, kind of the opposite really
-AC broke in the middle of the summer heat for the 100th time this year
-as usual the slumlord who runs my building waited over a week to do anything about it
-there was a substantial drop in output due to it being 90 degrees in my apt and my computer kept crashing
-on top of that injured my lower back somehow and can't really move (or sit still) without sharp bursts of pain
-this has really slashed the number of effective work hours in a day and things have really slowed to a crawl
-only 1 item finished in the backlog this month (a 6 page color comic tho)
-at this stage most of the backlog stuff is large projects that are going to take a while to finish even under favorable conditions, still hoping to have it all done by EOY
-think that's it?
-also, patreon.com/svenonline if you'd like to support my art, I do at least a pic there every month, the more ppl join, the more art I can make there
Sorry for such a downer of an update.. hopefully the next one will be more cheerful.
xoxo
smokes/sven
Was able to stay largely on schedule last month in spite of difficulties but just wasn't able to keep it up for another month, so have slipped behind slightly again. Two things outside of my control made it very difficult tho:
1. AC conked out again in the middle of the last stretch of the summer heatwave (I live in the US south), so was a sweltering 85-90F in my apartment for the first week and a half of the month, and I just did not have the energy or fortitude to push through the discomfort and exhaustion this time (even though I somehow managed it when it happened in September). AC's fixed now at any rate. Severely reduced output tho bc I could not push through the exhaustion this time around. Plus my computer would slow down and crash several times a day because it was just so hot in my apartment. For the record this is like the 6th or 7th time this has happened this year alone and I just have to eat a huge loss in productivity every time it happens which I think is really cool and awesome.
2. I genuinely have no idea how this happened but badly tweaked my lower back last week. A number of very basic actions now cause me extreme, acute pain, including but not limited to: getting out of bed, sitting down, sitting in the same position for any length of time, getting out of my chair, getting dressed, putting on my shoes, and especially coughing/sneezing. I don't know what I did that caused it, but needless to say output is pretty heavily reduced again right now, which is quite stressful. Not to worry tho, I am in less pain than last week so I think it's getting better, albeit slowly. I am hoping it is just a muscle or tendon problem. But I'm really only getting 2-3 hours work done a day. When I need to be getting like.. 12.
Anyway, I intend to take as long a period of rest as I'm able to once I'm caught up on everything that needs done, but no matter what progress I make it just seems hopelessly far away.. I really do hope I can transition to more of a patreon based model next year, rather than filling commission orders.
On that note, the backlog is only one item shorter this update (in my defense, it's a full color 6 page comic tho), which is not GREAT progress. I am also running very close to the end of the month with 3 of this month's batch of in-streams still needing finished, so it is looking like those are going to spill over into November. For that reason I'm only taking 2 slots for next month at this time, but maybe opening more when all of those are done. Needless to say I was not able to keep my regular work schedule of 2 weeks for monthly in-streams, and 2 weeks for backlog this month, so I will be trying to get back on track.
tl;dr
-not a whole lot of progress this month, kind of the opposite really
-AC broke in the middle of the summer heat for the 100th time this year
-as usual the slumlord who runs my building waited over a week to do anything about it
-there was a substantial drop in output due to it being 90 degrees in my apt and my computer kept crashing
-on top of that injured my lower back somehow and can't really move (or sit still) without sharp bursts of pain
-this has really slashed the number of effective work hours in a day and things have really slowed to a crawl
-only 1 item finished in the backlog this month (a 6 page color comic tho)
-at this stage most of the backlog stuff is large projects that are going to take a while to finish even under favorable conditions, still hoping to have it all done by EOY
-think that's it?
-also, patreon.com/svenonline if you'd like to support my art, I do at least a pic there every month, the more ppl join, the more art I can make there
Sorry for such a downer of an update.. hopefully the next one will be more cheerful.
xoxo
smokes/sven
