| Weekend Update + Comic Stuff |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|01:20 am] |
Things have been going well enough, if not particularly exciting. But then, I guess that's nothing to complain about. Jenny had her dentist appointment on Friday; she hadn't gone quite as long as I since her last check up, but it'd still been about 10 years. But she had nothing to worry about, as her teeth were in fine shape - no cavities or problems. It's back to feeling like summer, with temperatures in the 80's and up to 90. Looks like more of the same this week, so I'm thinking we'll be breaking down soon and turning on the A/C. Which means higher electric bills. Yay. Sunday was our monthly meeting of the Spokane Comicsmiths Guild, the group of local artists and writers that was formed after last year's 24 Hour Comicbook Day. We've begun planning for the next 24HCBD, which this year falls on October 3rd and will again be hosted by local shop Merlyns. We also discussed some other possible plans for this coming year which unfortunately are only in the discussion stage, so I won't go into details yet. And, of course, we also sat around and drew. I began sketching out designs for another character in my Fight City superhero comic - a super-genius crime boss known as "Brains" McBannon. I think these are the closest so far to what I want:  |
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| Hot Water |
[May. 6th, 2009|01:50 pm] |
They replaced our hot water heater yesterday, even though we got a new one last March and it worked fine. But that must not have been recorded, and the powers-that-be had already decided we were up for a new one. I tried to dissuade them, to save everyone the hassle, but they went ahead anyway.
On the brightside, it didn't take them near as long to replace it this time (last one they were here nearly all day for some reason). Maybe this guy just knew what he was doing. He said that the old one was going to Habitat for Humanity, so at least it's hopefully going to someone who needs it.
However... there were two guys who showed up first to drain the old one, and Jenny said she heard one of them complaining that he hated working when people were actually home. So they hooked up the hose to the old heater, ran the hose down the stairs outside, and left it to drain while they went to eat lunch. Oh, and the front door was propped open by the hose!
So our thought was - would they have done the same if we hadn't been home? Just left our front door open and walked away? I doubt they would've hung out and waited for it to drain. Thankfully a different guy came back to do the actual work, who seemed a lot nicer and way more competent.
Also, my wisdom tooth above the one I had removed has been hurting really bad over the past week or so, and needs to come out. My appointment's on Friday. Yay. |
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| Hooray For Insurance! |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|05:34 pm] |
Called the dentist this morning to set up an appointment for the cracked tooth, and we were lucky - they got me in this afternoon! But they weren't able to get all of the tooth out (something to do with the root being too long) so they referred me to an oral surgeon - who was also able to get me in today! Sooo, after a couple hours of poking, prodding and drilling, I got the cracked wisdom tooth out. The oral surgeon confirmed that the other three should probably come out as well, but I figure I'll wait until my mouth is completely healed up before scheduling the next appointment. For now, I've just got to take care of the sutured up hole in my mouth, but thankfully they prescribed me some painkillers to help out with that.... Anyway, I'm really glad that we've got decent insurance through Jenny's work. I don't even want to think how much that would've cost if we hadn't (as it was, we only paid $30, plus $9 for the prescription). Oh, and we also got hit with another big snow storm today. There's been a whole bunch of accidents and injuries reported already, and apparently the snow's suppsed to be sticking around for a while. Yay. |
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