Well, I'm sure many have noticed I haven't been around a lot lately. I keep hoping for the respite that allows me to once again devote the time I need to work on my strips, and finish the last couple commissions I have found I never quite got done. Between my day job, and finding a new place to start over on my home, I haven't had a lot of time to sit behind the keyboard. Having said that, by this evening, you all should be enjoying yet another segment of the Ober/Matilda universe, one where lil' Ober is doing something he will likely get his hide tanned for… again. What can I say… Love hurts, yes?

I've been pretty busy the last few months helping my sister get her place ready to move into, I'm on my way down there in a few minutes to install flooring… :| Its a good thing I'm good at pretty much everything, otherwise I'd have time to myself! I'm glad she's coming down, anyways- now Mum will have a place to stay, while I'm building my new place.

Anyways further news: I finally bought a "house"… Its about 2 steps above a cardboard box, the water doesn't work, and even the vermin refuse to infest it- too far below rat standards. So, for the forseeable future, I will be working on my new home/ studio, until the city condemns it, anyway. Its in a nice area, close to work, but just far enough from the city that the gunfire I hear is from the country boys instead of the gangs. All I have to do is polish that turd real hard, and I'll have a genie. Or an artist's studio. I suppose either would be good. I've always said I'd be happy to live in a rat hole, as long as I have a studio to work in- now its time to make that wish come true!

The object is to build the place I want right over the top of this joint, and then, pull it out from underneath before finishing the lower floor. The presence of wheels on the current structure makes that somewhat more feasible. The frame for my cottage is going to be assembled in the mean time, all of the plumbing and electric adapted to the new structure as a "refurbishment" to the original trailer. This is made easier by the fact that it ALREADY has an add on that was put on it years ago, and that will be the starting point of the timber frame takeover of the tin can- what is now the bedroom will become the living room- the first thing you see when you step through Fluttershy's front door. When the work is done on that, the rest gets done after a year or so. Its going to be… interesting.