Yep. I disappeared again. And I'm back again. Pretty much immediately after I got a new scanner (thanks to an advanced commission payment for a very kind commissioner who was totally new to working with me and was entirely too kind to help me out), my computer's power supply died on me.

Thankfully with some help from a friend and ebay, I managed to get that back up and running after a week or so.

Then once again health issues arose around mom and her fighting against cancer. Due to the circumstances around her disconnected digestive system, she was dehydrating at a criminal pace and just ending up back in the hospital again and again. Not to mention that the chemo was not playing nice with her or the dehydration.

So the past couple of months have involved a lot of doctor visits to work out getting her digestive system reconnected and then continuing treatment. This has now turned into an upcoming massively, risky surgery that only two surgeons in the state can perform. Fortunately if it goes well, after a recovering window of several months and just some very minor chemo, she should be back to 100%. If not, well. There's the very real chance she might not make it back out.

To top all that off, the pump that supplies water from the well to the house decided to die not long ago and take eat up $1000 dollars that really wasn't available in the first place to put in a new one.

And most recently, the Voodoo Walrus comic site is now down due to some massive technical difficulties that I can't handle. All I can do is sit and and wait until the ever glorious Webmistress Marron whips things back into shape. It's now going on day three of the site's down time along with the dedicated Voodoo Walrus email server being unusable since it's somehow linked to the site. Goody, Glad I only do but so much actual business through that.

So yeah. That's why you haven't seen a lot of me. This year is just kicking my ass up and down.

Good news is, commissions have been getting worked on. Progress has been made indeed. No where near what I'd like to say, but some stuff has been finished.

Unfortunately, it looks like I'm going to have to now break this recent silence I've had on not offering up commission sales because this past month has completely bled me and the household dry. So I'm going to work on getting as much progress on current stuff done as possible tonight, and then tomorrow I'm reopening commissions sales. Going for the gamut, digitals, inks, graphites, avatar pieces, comic pages. I'm opening everything up. Then I'm going to continue shooting coffee directly into my veins and I will balance all this out.

Because to be perfectly honest, at this point at least keep myself neck deep in drawing things that'll make people happy keeps me from thinking about the next month or so ahead.