Previous News05.27.2009 - Terrence Marks:It's Isabel's birthday! The good news is we found out what she's allergic to. The bad news is that it's dogs, which we just spent the last few hours around. Hopefully this time it won't be as bad.05.25.2009 - Terrence Marks:We're working on comics. For the last few days, Isabel has been having a very uncomfortable allergic reaction to something. The good news is that we've seen a doctor and got some medicine for it. The bad news is that it's also a powerful sedative, so I'm not sure how fast we'll be able to get back on track. We apologize for the delays and trust me, she'd rather be working.05.14.2009 - Terrence Marks:Isabel and I spent the last week in Florida, to see my brother graduate from law school. He's Dr. Marks now, which I think is just amazing. We had worked to get ahead of schedule so we could take that time off. Unfortunately, we are back on California time now and trying to adjust to the night shift. It's a bit more difficult than we expected, and it's going to take us a little while longer than anticipated.05.05.2009 - Isabel Marks:The image display issue has been fixed; please let us know if it happens again.For the next week, the RSS feed will probably update intermittently. The comics will be updating on time, however; we hope that you enjoy them.
05.02.2009 - Terrence Marks:We've been having some oddness with images and text files not showing up properly. We're looking into it. If it happens to you, please let us know and hit refresh.Isabel and myself both have Twitter accounts now. Isabel's is friends-locked at the moment, but if you add her, she'll probably add you back.Also, we've made the donation goal for April and will be running full tilt in May. The archives have been improved slightly - you can now click on a comic to go to the next one, and the weekly view has the navigation bars on the top and bottom.
03.30.2009 - Isabel Marks:Hi folks, I can't believe it's almost been a month since I last updated the news... it's been a rough one, from family matters and health issues (my allergies seem to be really bad this month and the medication I'm taking for them isn't helping as much as it used to ><), which makes making and reporting news a rare thing. There really hasn't been too much updates on the sites this month (although I have drawn the new images for the new You Say it First cast page- now for the energy to color them and then update the pages x_X).There really isn't much to talk about, in real life news that's not depressing, Terrence and myself are finally getting back into Maple Story, a game which he needed a break from. Personally I can't get into any other MMORPGs. It's not the most thrilling game, the graphics are dated, and it can be a little grindy at times, but we've been playing it literally since it got out of beta (I heard about it right after the beta closed, much to my sadness, so I stalked the main page for info) and for all the reasons I mentioned above, I actually prefer it to other types of games. I like the cartoony style, I am honestly kind of weary of 3D. I love not having to really think too hard while playing. And sometimes if we play long enough, I get that surreal feeling like we've been gone from the apartment for a long time and everything feels different (only a couple movies and actually leaving the place for a few days make me feel that way). It's not a game for everyone, a lot of younger people play it, which either causes us to feel old or to act immature (ok, it makes ME act immature ><), but for all that, I enjoy the game. Anyway, despite my rather negative glowing review, it's a fun game. Heck, any game where I can get married to my real life husband again and then kill cake monsters together has to be good on some level.
On the same note, over the last few years, I've gotten a few invites to the online community Gaia Online... when I say a few, I mean probably five or less ever. I just want to mention thanks if you sent one, but it's not really needed, I've been on Gaia for a while now. I don't really go on it anymore- but I poke it every now and again. If you look, it shouldn't be too hard to find me, but I won't post my user name due to hacking paranoia (unfortunately, it was attempted in the past quite a few times), and if you do find me, chances are I won't respond for a while... so, hi if you're on Gaia.
Ok, that's all the almost but not quite news I have... only two more days to sign up for the $4 a month .net subscription, starting next month it'll be $10 for everyone who wants a subscription (of course, for all of you who did subscribe this month, your monthly due will still be just $4 a month). So get in today and save! See you all in April!
03.20.2009 - Terrence Marks:Since I last updated, I managed to find an old-school cassette deck, with line-out even. Looks like it used to be part of a really fancy home entertainment system twenty years ago. That's cool. It randomly makes this horrible shrieking noise. That's trash. It records just fine and doesn't damage the tapes, but it sounds like I set it on fire.
This put me in a mood. Not angry. Not upset. Just unpleasable. I wanted to do something, but I knew whatever I did, I wouldn't like it because of the mood I was in. I've got all these old movies I picked up cheap, and I've been thinking of finally reading Kimagure Orange Road - I mean, I've heard good things about it. I might like it. But I wouldn't like it today. I'd just get five minutes in, put it down, and never pick it up again.
So I did taxes instead. I have absolutely nothing entertaining to say about the process, especially Form 1065 (which is intended to cover any kind of partnership, from husband-and-wife team to an international conglomerate - estimated time to fill it out is about 72 hours, if you're lucky). Anyhow, taxes are done.