Hard Drive Destroyed, Now We Get MS Paint Comics

Well, it always happens to me sooner or later... I use a computer long enough, and the hard drive fries crispier than a funnel cake in a Southern county fair. Fortunately, I have long made it a habit regularly to back up everything I create. Unfortunately, my 2.4 GHz dual core, 3 GB RAM laptop - my entire art studio, if you will - is a useless brick until I get my new hard drive in the mail.

In the meantime, all I have is our underpowered netbook - armed with the fun, yet evil (in a vague Comic Sans kind of way), MS Paint program. But the show must go on, and I bring you this week's less-than-appetizing The Remonstrance, in all its jagged glory. This is the first time I've ever used MS Paint, and I have to say, its simplicity is deviously addictive.

Computer meltdown!

This has been an unfortunate week for me computer-wise. At work, my machine would not start at all. I ended up having to replace the power supply and a fried stick of RAM. Later in the week, my screen froze up completely, and after rebooting I found the filesystem was corrupted. I spent the rest of the afternoon fscking my drive, which thankfully did the trick.

But to complete the trifecta, this weekend while we were in the mountains on a snowboarding trip, my laptop (which I use for cartooning) booted up to a big blank screen. After some fruitless troubleshooting, I could only restore the factory settings, wiping out all my data and installed programs. The good news is that I have most everything backed up on an external drive. However, I will be a little late with this weeks comic - hopefully I can put it up early this week.