I wrote this comic years ago, but this past week I had an exchange with a good friend wherein I posited the theory (stolen from a Tim Hawkins standup routine) that “Spin Around” was the best kids’ game. He countered that “Roll Down A Hill” was better, and I think he’s probably right.

Then, on Friday, I learned that it was Dialog Free Comic Day. I missed uploading it ’til today, but I can celebrate belatedly.

OK, so here’s the story. I drew this last week, and then I moved my drawing “office” into a new physical space, and lost it. I looked everywhere, but finally I decided I had to go ahead with the rest of the week’s strips.

You’ll never guess where it was: In the scanner.

Good news: I’ve begun regular updating again this week, adding material to the backlog.

Bad news: They seem to show up fine on RSS feeds, but not on the website itself. (I.e., if you click the “previous” button from the latest visible strip, you can’t see them). I’ll let you know when I’ve worked out this kink.

Good news: Next week I’ll begin regular non-backlog updates; new strips with current dates, three times a week.

Additional potential good news: I’m going to see if I can do at least four and maybe five strips a week for a few weeks so that, in addition to the current strips, I’ll still be replacing the backlog stuff. We’ll see.

Bad news for long-time readers: A lot of this “new” material is re-worked strips from “Fresh Fish 1.0” in 2006-9. Truly new stuff is on the way, but old stuff wins out in terms of efficiently making up for lost time and getting back on track. (For what it’s worth, I am happy with some of the changes I’ve made.) The upshot to this is that the faster I burn through “old” material, the sooner Fresh Fish is running on 100% new material.

Since my last update, a couple of things have changed.

Secondly, some technical difficulties prevented me from uploading a comic on Monday, but this morning I uploaded one for Monday and one for today. They’re backdated, so you may need to check the archives or use the navigation arrows.

Thirdly, I noticed that Saturday is St. Patrick’s day, so I’m going to upload a relevant comic for that occasion on Friday, which will temporarily break my pattern of catching up on backlog comics.

Firstly, although I didn’t expect it ’til sometime next week, our daughter was born last week. Everyone is very healthy and very happy at our house, but it still remains to be seen how it’ll affect the comment for the next couple of weeks. But you can enjoy this week’s updates (some of which are dated a few weeks back.)

Still filling in the backlog; this, like the St. Patrick’s Day cartoon, was an idea that would only really work at a specific time. Sorry the chronology’s all out of whack, but hopefully soon I’ll catch myself up.