WEBCOMIC: Blue Sky #654
Click Here For Comic #654: "Last Chance"
A comic! Completely finished! And on time, too!
And hey, Wednesday's comic should be the same (well, it's not done-done yet, but it's far enough along that it shouldn't be an issue). It turns out cleaning off all the crap on my desk to create room to draw does wonders for actually WANTING to draw. I didn't have much time, but in the time I had cranked out a couple of sketched pages. Which, you may not be aware, can be one of the more time consuming and hard-to-get-motivated parts of working on pages. So yeah, we'll see how things go.
But now we need to talk about serious business.
I have taken a second job. It actually happens to be with the company I previously worked at; it seems he's found a new supplier and overnight needs practically a full crew to get things ready to be shipped out. I was called upon to come work part time, and since I really owe the guy for so much more than there's time to really explain here, I agreed.
I don't really need it, but the money is good and it would help me reach my goal of buying a house much faster, plus it's timely in that my family will hit a rough patch for a month that this will solve. I'm not exactly keen to work a potential total of 58 hours a week, or work with certain people, but I can be professional about it and I'm willing to give it a go. There are many more reasons why it would actually be a good idea to do this, but they themselves involve long drawn out explanations about the past few years that, again, there's little time to go into. Plus I don't wanna.
So, I bring this up because life is about to get a helluva lot busier for me. I have absolutely no idea how this will affect things. I know I'm going t HAVE to get sleep so I'm not late to my main job, and without the weekends I'm going to have to be on top of doing comic work in the little time I have during the weekdays. I'll possibly have to cut back on the volunteer work, which sucks because I'm a big part of that organization I help. I can still make it all work, but one little hiccup in the road could derail everyting.
But this is assuming I would be working consistently every weekend for at least sixteen hours. I actually have no idea how this will play out. They may not need me all that time. They may need me more. They may need me only every other week. I'm not going to know until shipments start coming in in about two or three weeks.
I do know, and I made this perfectly clear to my old boss, that if it begins affecting my main job I would have to stop, and he was cool with that. If I can do this for at least four months, it would actually give me enough to clear off my credit card. If I can do it for six months, I could have the money for a down payment on a house. And it might actually not be so bad; my current job gives me a not only the actual holidays off, but paid days I need to take for the days BEFORE the holiday, which apparently count as the holiday somehow. I don't know why it works that way, but who cares. In the end it means that come November, December, and January, I'm going to have days off coming out the ears, so doing this might not be so stressful after all. Now, come March when I have to start hitting our Summer Reading Program hard again, it might be different, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
In any case, it's been a very slow and tough road getting my debt paid off from my time being laid off, and that was over two years ago. I have to give this a shot, because it potentially means nearly an extra grand a month getting knocked off bills.
So if I start slipping again and I have a hard time recovering, I'm so very sorry. Hopefully that won't happen, but if it does hopefully I can recover quickly. But if I can't, please be patient with me. You guys have been great about that and understanding the real life issues I've been dealing with, even though I can't give you all of the details yet. I wish I could so you could get the full picture, but it's the way it is.
In any case, I wanted to give you a heads up. In about two weeks it's going to be a big question mark going forward for a while, so I'm going to do my best to get as much done as I can in those fourteen days.
See ya Wednesday!
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