Fresh Fish

Because I can’t imagine that I kept a lot of readers after an unannounced absence of well over a month. (Yes I can because so many of you are my good friends in other contexts.) But, you get back on the horse.

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.

Greetings everyone!

I know I owe you an explanation for the radio silence, so here it is: My lovely wife is in the final stages of pregnancy.

She’s felt better and been healthier in many ways than she was with our first child, but of course she’s had to slow down. That’s bad news for the comic, because she does as much as three normal people, and it leaves quite a gap.

So I’ve been going to town on family visits, household chores and the setup of the nurseroffice that we’ve procrastinated. That plus a day job equals no comic.

I’ve finished a couple which will post Monday and Wednesday of next week. The plan at the moment is to regain a regular schedule at that point, but realistically we’ll probably experience another comic setback once the baby comes.

It’s a bummer, but I hope you understand when I say that a healthy pregnancy and preparing our family for “the new kid” are fulfilling and enjoyable reasons for shirking “lesser” duties like the comic.

Hey everybody. Day-job crunch time and family visiting mean updates this week will be a bit irregular, but I don’t think I’ll out-and-out miss one.