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We all know how much Teri loves floating around in a vaccumn (not). Now all he has to do is get inside the satelite before he turns into a comatose popsicle. Sorry to all of you who were looking forward to seeing Vellum eat bion... more stuff to happen yet.

This page is a few hours later then I anticipated... but I had to take Tyhone to the clinic as he is currently dying, or thinks he is, from a nasty cold virus. After I had lunch with Vegout, as I do every Wednesday I was so sleepy I had to go to bed for a couple of hours. Seriously night shift screws your circadium rythm :(. I hope I can sleep tonight.

Dances is almost back to normal again. I still have to install the print drivers (and Dragon Age Origins *cough*) but everything else seems to be working fine.

Oh Mister Vellum... do you really need that much armour to face down one little ferin?

At last a page I'm really happy with. *insert fanfare* Things started off badly with this one. I hated my original pencil layout and had to play around for ages to get it to look right. I couldn't get the last panel right though, despite trying multiple camera angles and poses. Finally I had the pencils fair enough that I could live with it only to accidently bump my tea all over the damn paper. ARRRGH! Yes... occassionally such hair pulling, eye gouging moments occur in the life of my comic... but not near the scale of the panic last week when I could not find my hundreds of hours long in the making detailed synopsis for the next story arc when i first went to open them on my newly rebuilt computer. Tyhone laughed helpfully as he was sitting next to me at the time. He owes me chocolate for that. The page was a ruin. I salvaged the top half but the bottom half had to be cut off and thrown away. I decided to redo the last panel from scratch as I didn't like it's first incarnation that much anyway. I'm so glad I did. This second attempt turned out just the way I wanted it. The soaking disaster wasn't such a disaster after all.

As I said... Dances with Chickens has been reborn! Thanks to our admin Vegout I have a spanky new computer (yay... no more black screen of death). (Yes my computer has a name. I christened it 'Dances with Chickens' in honour of its first rebuild many moons ago. Hands up if your computer has a name and hands up for cookies if it's original.) It purrs along with... count'em...EIGHT cores! WOOT! With my graphic files I'm going to be using every single one of them. And fast... whew... she is fast. :). The only draw back is having to re install everything all over again. But thanks to vegout and Tyhone, who helped with getting all my apps back up and running again, all I needed to do is reinstall my drivers and a few programs I use to develope stories with.