Guest Comic from Silver! I'm Exhausted and Running Late!!!
Yay!!! \(^o^)/ My good friend, Silver, has done another great guest comic for me!! And I sure needed it, too. My dad just about killed me by having me do a lot of physical work, in the COLD wind, which my body isn't used to and now isn't very happy about. It's all I can do to sit here and type this HTML for the update, so please forgive me if I sound out of it. But a huge huge THANKS!! to Silver, for this incredibly silly comic! Be sure and check out Silver's Gallery on this site, if you haven't already done so. He's got several pieces of cool 3D art in there! I'm so fortunate to have friends who will do these special comics for me. Doumo arigatou gozaimashita, Silver kun!
Sigh...I wish I was able to keep up the regular schedule, because I hate having the story drag out like this, but there's just no way I can, with all the stress I'm under, while looking for a job. On that front, I'm still having no immediate luck. I'm applying all over the place, and sifting through hundreds of listings on all the job search sites I can find. I've registered with a temping agency; I've registered with the unemployment office; I've sent out I don't know how many resumes and job applications. Living out in the boonies makes it very difficult to find a job that's within a reasonable driving distance and pays well enough to make the cost of the drive worth it. I guess the only thing left to do is be patient, which is something I'm not very good at, for things like this. I usually do have a lot of patience, but with people pushing me from all sides and giving me hell because it's "taking too long" for me to find outside work, it's getting increasingly difficult to be patient about anything. I keep trying to tell them (and my dad, in particular) that most people don't get hired at the first place where they apply. It took me a full nine months to get the last really decent job I had, and that was with looking just as intensely as I'm looking, now. I've really only been looking for a job since late August, so if things go as they usually do, I may not get a job until after the first of the new year. I hope I get one sooner than that, because there are a lot of things I need (like visiting a doctor, buying a dependable car, and getting some upgrades for my ancient computer) that I can't afford. The web design business went well for a long time, but now, things have kind of dried up on the web, so I can't rely on that to provide me with a decent living any more. I get enough work to pay the minimums on my bills, but that's about it. Even that's not as stable as I'd like for it to be.
Yesterday, 12 November, was my dad's birthday. I did a lot of work for him, yesterday, helping him wire the house for some new lighting, and since I'm broke, that will have to serve as a birthday present. I don't know why I even think about his birthday, seeing as how he doesn't even know when mine is and will only say "happy birthday" to me, if mom or someone else says it in front of him. He has never given me a birthday present, even when I was a little kid, but until the last few years, I've always seen to it to give him one. I don't know why these things should even be important to me, but they are. Sigh...I guess I'm just a hopeless sap.
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Kaichi
