I just ate a bacon sandwich. Here is the recipe:

Cook bacon.
Put on bread.

I hope this has been helpful to all you aspiring chefs out there. It was mighty delicious, I’ll tell you that.

So I really have no idea what, if anything, will be updated today. Aside from the blog which I’m doing now. I’m up extra early in order to wait for the latest Best Buy technician to come and try ONCE AGAIN to fix the TV. I hope it doesn’t take too long, because my next appointment of the day is to remove the stitches from my hand. I’m praying my finger has healed enough to not fall off when they take them out. I’m certainly not looking forward to getting more Novocaine shot into my hand until I can’t feel anything anymore.

Anyway, after the doctor’s visit I doubt I’ll be able to function very well for a few hours, lacking use of at least one hand, and despite that I’ve been given a project suddenly to complete a newspaper ad for this October event by TONIGHT. That’s some nice advance warning, huh? Yeah… So I need to get that done because if it isn’t in, the newspaper gets published without it.

Essentially I’m going to work as hard as I can to get stuff done, and if it happens I’ll post it here as soon as it’s up, but if not, forgive me for a small delay until next week. Next week which is the 6th Anniversary of FtM, by the way! I’m going to go buy a cake.

Here’s the latest from the Thank-You-For-Calling-Best-Buy-We-Hate-You story.

I spent a great deal of time on the phone yesterday and eventually came up with the following:

-No progress was made

-I was told I had to wait until tomorrow

-The only helpful person who was actually TRYING is going to be out of the office until Sunday

So essentially, I’m now WORSE OFF then when I started, because I lost my only contact there for three days. I did, however, get a number for another person who is taking over the case for now. The problem is that he is essentially ignoring my phone calls and telling me “We refuse to help you, you have to wait until next week.”

This is brilliant. The system they have in place is so ingenious I find myself anxious to see what obstacle they throw in front of me next. My favorite part continues to be the fact that they will flat out lie to me, and then the next person I talk to will apologize for that other person and claim they are telling me the truth (they aren’t). This is so totally unacceptable, I guess the next step is calling a lawyer. Great, just what I want to waste my time on. I’m going to call Jackie Chan. I bet he can get things done.

Best Buy beat me. They won. I gave it my all, but when employees start telling you “If the President of the United States called right now, I wouldn’t be able to help him either” then you know you’ve lost. How do you battle something like that? Aside from GETTING the President of the United States? I tried to be reasonable and use logic to point out how they could help, but they just kept saying no.

I honestly have no idea what to do now except wait and try again another day. I couldn’t get past their crazy defenses. Apparently everyone in the company can’t talk to anyone else in the company and have no way of contacting anyone else except via email. Which takes 3-5 business days.

Wha…?

You win Best Buy. You’ve defeated me…

Our TV broke a week and a half ago, and very soon Best Buy is coming to fix it. Instead of fixing it, though, they’re going to likely give me a new, different TV. I’m not sure how I feel about that, because I really like my current set. But I’m sure it will be fine, whatever they do to replace it. So long as it isn’t some crappy Panasony or some weird knock off.

I’m both happy and sad about getting a new TV. It will be nice to have the picture box back after a while with none, but at the same time I really discovered how much time I waste with it. And I don’t really feel good about the amount of time I waste on TV. So when it does come back into the house, I think I’m going to cut back. A lot.

Lol, I must have passed out on my desk last night. I woke up on the floor with a pillow, so I guess at some point I was conscious enough to lay down, but I don’t remember it.

Anyway, almost done. Just finishing things up now, so shouldn’t be long.

Looks like it’s going to be an all-nighter. I’m not sleeping until it’s finished, but it’s just not ready yet. Soon as it is, it’ll be up.

Just a quick update on the update! First, after putting so much effort into Mailbag 50, I’ve decided not to rush it out the door just to get it up before later tonight. Might as well do it right, right? So it should be up today, almost certainly, but it will still be a while.

On the same note, I’m not releasing Cubetoons Level 100 this week because it isn’t ready yet. I want to make every line extra clean and pretty for the big 1-0-0. Should be ready for next Friday, as long as I don’t nearly chop off another one of my fingers somehow. Which I shouldn’t because I can use a knife at all at the moment.

That’s it. I’m going back to work now. Can’t wait to be finished with this one and celebrate the Mailbag!

Here’s the lesson of the day: Do not use dull knives. Use sharp knives, because they cut what you are trying to cut, not not-cut what you are trying to cut and instead nearly slice off your little finger.

It is either very late at night or very early in the morning right now (take your pick) and I just got home from the emergency room where they sewed my finger back into one piece. It wasn’t FULLY cut apart, because a nice piece of skin was keeping it together, but I can say with honesty that I nearly cut the top of my finger off. It was pretty darn close.

The funny (funny? Maybe horribly ironic instead of funny) thing was that not TWO MINUTES before I was saying to Q “I need to get this knife sharpened or I’m absolutely going to hurt myself”. Two minutes. And then bam, there it is.

Sigh.

I’m totally done with these random injuries for a while. I don’t want anymore, thanks. And I’m going to end my blog post here because it’s really difficult and time-consuming to type with one hand. More later.

No, not yet. But I did do the draft for the ever anticipated Cubetoons Level 100. I was originally going to do a musical presentation for it, but this comic opportunity was just too good to pass up. I may still do that musical thing. It’ll just be off on the side someday.

Anyway, I just wanted to equip everyone with the news story that needs to be read in order for the comic to make sense. Or, as much sense as any comic starring Craigaroo and Matt can make.

That’s all. Go read it so you’re prepared.