I’m leaving for New York City. It isn’t so much a vacation as it is… um… no I guess it’s a vacation. I’m sick of these vacations that I need a vacation to recover from. Why can’t I just go to a beach somewhere and sleep all day? That would be a pretty sweet vacation. Instead my “vacations” are more like work. Harder work than my normal work. Does that make my normal work a vacation? If so, I need more vacation time, because my work is suffering. Now I’ve gone and confused myself.

Today I realized that in 34 days it will be the 5th anniversary of FredtheMonkey.com.

What the biscuit.

Well I’m back from vacation, and Space Chicken is due in on Friday as well. Looks like summer is winding down for everyone. Which means a lot of work for me again. But that’s okay, I’m looking forward to it.

We visited the sandy sights of Ocean City Maryland this past weekend, and it was generally pretty fun. I managed to wait until the SECOND day to get horribly sun burned (darn you failing sun block) so at least I had one reasonable day before every movement was painful. We also ate at an all-you-can-eat Crab spot called Phillips (which was awesome) and one of the evenings we had enough people to play a game called Mafia, where basically everyone gets a secret card and you’re either one of two Mafia, the sherrif, the doctor, or a townsperson. The goal of the Mafia is to lie to everyone and be the last ones left alive, and everyone else tries to figure out who the Mafia players are. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately the luck of the draw was not (or was?) with me and I was in the two Mafia member group 90% of the times we played. Guess I did something right, though, because I won every time but once. Victory!

Today I have a long list of things to work on, from Fred and Cubetoons to some church stuff for an event we’ve got coming up next month. I can’t believe next month is a week away… Man…

Hey all, I’m off to the beach. So expect updates to return to the blog early next week. As for updates to the WEBSITES, well… Probably next week too. I’m hoping, anyway. Still working on the new Fred cartoon, and Cubetoons and KB of course. In fact, I’m really really hoping to have a new update for all three next week! Or at least two. At the very least one.

*cough*

Anyway, have a great weekend, and if you’re bored you can always go check out those crazy forums of Fred and Cubetoons…

But that’s not a bad thing. I made stuffed cabbage today, and it has been in the oven for a few hours. As such, my entire house smells like the food. It is very difficult to get anything done because I’m pretty hungry for dinner now. But it isn’t quite finished cooking. Lousy meals that take hours and hours to bake…

Tomorrow morning is soccer on the Olympics. I hope the US Women’s team continues to do well. I’m going to try to watch at least some of it, but I have a lot of work to do because I’ll be going on a little vacation this weekend and need to have work done by then!

If you play 150cc of Mario Kart Wii, you’ll note that they really made it “Easy, Medium, and Hard” this time. 150cc is HARD. They throw as many items at you as much as they can, until you cry. You cry and they laugh. It’s a horribly difficult game.
Fun, though.

We celebrated our 1 year anniversary this past weekend. It was really fun, and I can’t believe it’s been a year already. Seems like mere days since the wedding. We took a mini-vacation, just for a day, in the same city we live in. It’s very interesting! I haven’t ever gone “on vacation” in my hometown, but things are certainly different when you aren’t just going from Place A to Place B. Walking around and just enjoying the scenery was exciting, and I saw things I’ve never noticed before. So if you’ve never really been a tourist in your hometown, I say go for it. It’s pretty cool what you can find.

After a long while, the new issue of Kingdom Blue is here. Note: the comic has entered a more serious set of issues, so don’t expect to find too much humor mixed in. Perhaps some here and there, but this is one of the occasions showing the less-funny side of the series. There will be more as KB progresses.

Anyway, enjoy! http://cubetoons.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=186&Itemid=1

(Also I am aware that the links on the top of Cubetoons.com aren’t the right ones. I still have to fix that.)

The TV at our house has been tuned into the Olympics pretty much 24/7 since it began last Friday. I’m starting to hear the announcers in my sleep. How many weeks is this thing? I don’t know if I’ll make it… Well, at least a lot of the events are fun to watch. I checked out Badminton yesterday. Wow, that’s… That’s some crazy playing right there. I would not be able to do what they do. I want to see Ping Pong as well.

Also on the list of stuff to watch is always soccor. I was sad about the US Women losing their first match. Hopefully they can manage to keep in the competition. So much for being so good, huh? Sigh.

China was winning at volleyball this morning before I left for work. Hopefully they kept at it and moved on.

Check it out! I’m a happy camper about this.

Sadly, my great Aunt Helen passed away this morning at the hospital. She had a heart attack and brain aneurysm a few days ago and was asleep since then, so she wasn’t in any pain at the end. Previous to that she was pretty active and, I think, very happy, so I’m thankful for that. I also got to visit her at her new apartment just last week, so I’m glad of that too. I believe she was in her 90s.
Just a reminder to share some time with the people you love while you still can here on the little planet we call earth. I’m quite content in my beliefs that she is in heaven now; it is much more peaceful than being sad.