Why haven’t I been posting lately? Take your pick:

1) Massive home improvements. We’re talking digging an escape well around a basement window and shoveling 4 tons of rock into wheelbarrows and putting it into place in only three hours. And that was just today. I’m sore.

2) I’m entering thousands of comic books into my new Collectorz comic collector database. That’s AFTER typing my entire collection into a Microsoft Access custom database and not being able to work with it, so I’m retyping this whole thing. Right now I have listed 2460 comics and I still have 2440 comics left to add in…plus a few long boxes’ worth of comics that I’ve purchased in the last year and a half and never had in the system. This isn’t just a fun project. It’s a way for me to make money, since I am still unemployed and need some cash. I can’t even show you the pages I have done since it would cause some of you to try to buy my Silver Age Action Comics for $2 before I can go back through and price them properly. BUT I can show you the small subsection I’ve set up for Star Trek comics and CrossGen’s Digital Comic Books; those are completed and ready to go, if any of you want to buy. They still aren’t anything to look at, since I’ll need to fiddle with the templates to look nice.

3) And I’m working with Phil Meadows to finish our 8-page Metro Med story for the Mysterious Visions Anthology #1. I’ve just heard from Ian over at Dimestore Productions, and the book is sounding like a winner. There will be at least two other stories, and the objective is to price the book low enough that more buyers will be willing to sample it.

4) On top of all these other problems, now Melinda and I are sharing a computer because we cannot get hers to hook into the LAN properly. When we moved into our new desks, the LINKSYS router got unplugged and reset, and we cannot figure out how to configure it properly. I really don’t understand networks. I wish I did…I’ll probably end up paying someone to fix the LAN settings. And until I sell some more comics, I can’t really afford to do that!