Happy holidays to all those out in Deviant Land. May your days be happy and all that sorta jazz.

Happy 2nd Year Anniversary to SIDE B. Yea, hard to believe I've let this mental illness fester like an infected wound on my brain. Thanks to Santa Mom I now have a nice new camera to work with, so now I'll have probably better pictures to work with. So you might notice me tweeking the comic to adjust to the new photo sizes and such. Please be patient with me as I try my best to adjust. Of course any advice or help from others would be helpful and appreciated.

Anyways, as per usual, I DID get a room for Botcon 2010.
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And as you all know, not ONLY am I looking for roomies, but I'm also looking for characters and people who actively want a part in the 2010 Botcon comic. If you're interested in con room space or being in SIDE B either respond to this journal entry or send me a note.

Once I get a confirmed list of people who ARE going, I'll dole out the hotel price. I'll be staying there Wednesday to Monday. We're right next to the convention center and such.

So I hope to see you all in the New Year. May 2010 be better than 2009.

Love you all.

On the way down to Neko-Con from Jersey, my friends and I took the route 13 route over the Chesapeake Bay-Tunnel bridge. On the way back, we instead took the I95 straight back. Why did we take the separate routes? Both would take us to and from our destination... That got me to thinking.

I read this in one of the BS mags we print at my work place. It had a blurb about finding your path and it brought up Bruce Lee's philosophy. There is no SINGLE ONE WAY to do ANYTHING. There was no single path Bruce took to become a martial artist. He took many smaller paths to achieve his goal.

And so right now, I'm on a path of my own. It's been kinda long and winding, had it's ups and down, good times and riches and sunnuvabitches, I've seen more than I can recall. But do I regret the other paths I've either ignored or chose not to follow? To be honest, no. I've seen some great things in my life, to me at least. I've met so many great people, and learned so much along the way, not just about the world around me, but myself in the process. My road might not be the most DIRECT path, but it will still get me to where I'm going...

That deep thought being said, I have some announcements to make:

A lot of you have probably noticed how slow I've been updating SIDE B. I haven't had a lot of time to work on it for three reasons. NUMBER 1, My mother just under went arthroscopic surgery in her knee. So I have to take extra care of her. It's been demanding, but I want what's best for my mother.

Number 2, my asshole cock-sucking boss has had us working 7 days STRAIGHT for the past two weeks. I hope this isn't a permanent trend but since this bastard is a money grubbing swine, I might not even get HOLIDAYS off. Happy Thanksgiving mom, forget about dinner. I have to work. ((I have called the labor people. They can't do SHIT.))

And the Number 3 reason why SIDE B is so late...

My 7 year old computer is dying. I knew this day would EVENTUALLY come, that doesn't make it any easier on me. I started SIDE B on this computer. I've done art and RPed on this computer. Many of you, I met on THIS computer. There's some emotional investment here. I'm not the kinda person who is CONSTANTLY buying the newest, fastest, and shiniest techno gadgets. I like things that last. I've had my TV for like 15 years. The picture's not liquid crystal, LED or anything but it works FINE.

This brings up another issue I've com upon. I've had so many people chattering in my ears about what I should get. And we all know what the choice is... PC or MAC. I've used PCs all my life, we've had our ups and downs but it's the system I know ok enough. I putzed around on a MAC, I have some experience but that'd take a lot of getting used to. The problem is, EVERYBODY is telling about THEIR experiences. THEIR opinions, THEIR preferences, THEIR choices.

I appreciate advice and opinions, but when all is said and done, it's MY money that's paying for this computer. It's MY choice. I love how people are SO EAGER to tell ME what's best for me.

"We have to take you out of regular school and send you to problem child school because that's better for you."

"I'm not sending you AWAY to art school, you're going to the local community college. It's the better choice."

"You have to get a MAC because it's virus free. It's the best choice."

"MAC is the DEVIL, stick with PC, it's better for you."

All my life, EVERYBODY has always decided FOR ME what is better for me. Because I was emotionally and mentally unstable they automatically lumped me in with special needs kids and pretty much branded me a psycho who can't be trusted to live her life on her own. And that is fucking damaging. I STILL go to my mother to ask for approval for EVERYTHING I DO. I'm 28 years old and I STILL feel like I need for her to say ok. I'm scared all to hell of choosing something as personal and as important as a computer on my own because I've NEVER had to make that sort of decision. I've made some strides in the past, but I'm still not capable of trusting myself to do the right things and I DEFINITELY feel like I'm incapable of living on my own. So while I appreciate everybody trying to help me, but please, I need to make this decision on my own. I'll go to some computer stores, ask questions, test some models, and in the end I'll pull the plug on my dying computer and welcome the newest member of the SIDE B family.

Thank you all for your time and attention. SIDE B should be back to it's NORMAL schedule this weekend. BARRING my asshole boss stealing more of my free time. Of course anybody who wants to help me eliminate THAT problem, drop me a note...

50K KIRIBAN
Ok, whoever gets my 50,000 page view gets to request an episode of SIDE B with the cast and plot of their choice.

NEKO-CON
For those of you in the Virginia Beach or Hampton, Virginia area, drop by the Hampton Roads Convention Center for Neko-Con 12 November 6-8 2009, I'll be shooting SIDE B live on location and I'll be happy to meet any one for chattings or to even use you in the comic. Just look for the nut with the neon yellow hair.

SIDE B CONTEST
I'm also announcing the first Ever SIDE B contest. There are two categories Best Picture and Best Fiction So you have two chances to win. The theme of the contest is BEST MOMENT IN SIDE B HISTORY. You take any moment or event in the Past episodes of SIDE B and draw or write a short drabble about said scene. You can only enter once per category. At the end of the contest I'll choose a winner from both categories.

The winners will both get to choose the cast and main plot of SIDE B for one month (8 episodes).

Honorable Mentions will get a free commission.

Just note me with a link to your submission and I will keep them together. Use the title "SIDE B CONTEST ENTRY"

Contest Deadline: December 11th 2009

GO FOR IT!

WARNING: The following journal entry is a rant about my current employment and just stuff that's got me down in general. There will be childish name calling ahead.

I wish I could say things are going well, but they're not. And they haven't been going well at all...

My cheapass, evil, and all around bastard of a new boss just LIVES to show his contempt for the working man. First off the dick shitting cock snot hasn't turned on the AC since summer began and working in front of machines that run CONSTANTLY generates A LOT of heat. My pants and shirts now have permanent sweat stains and my skin now WREAKS of it...

THEN Fartknocker Mc Tit-fer-brains wants us to put in HOURS of over time, I'm not talking just staying an extra hour or two, I mean he wants us to work Monday THROUGH Sunday then come in Monday again. I've been lucky to at least get Sunday off so far but I don't know how much longer that luck will hold out. He thinks that when you work 8 hours you should only get ONE fifteen minute break. We take two, now we have to stay an additional 15 minutes to make up for it.

AND Ass-Hat Fuckington the Turd keeps accepting job after job after job after job without considering our permanent weekly customer jobs OR the time it takes to put the papers together and have them shipped out. So thanks to his insatiable greed, we now have too many jobs and not enough people (He's fired WELL OVER half the post press staff) or equipment to finish them.

AND NOW... DickInCunt FuckShark is dicking us on our paychecks. A lot of us are missing hours. We don't make a lot. I pull in $9.50 an hour, $14.25 on overtime. And now he's trying to steal from the workers...

I'm so angry with this criminal fuck that it's not even funny. I know if I go to the labor board about him I'll catch shit for being the Whistle Blower. And he'll only get a slap on the wrist and continue on his path.

I have NO WHERE ELSE TO GO. I'll never get another job if I leave this one. No one'll hire me. I've tried job searches, all it does is drive me insane because they all want EVERYTHING I don't have. AND DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT FINDING A NEW JOB LIKE THEY GROW ON FUCKING TREES. Why do I even fucking bother any more? It's not like I have a future or anything... I'm a mistake, a godawful mistake...

I'm sorry, I just feel like this is as good as it gets for me... This is the best I'll ever have or ever know and there's nothing else after this. I'll never get any where in life and I'll never find happiness or contentment, so why bother sticking around for the filler?

I'm sorry to bother anyone, I just needed to have a hissy fit... Thanks for your attention...

People hate things.

A fact of life.

One person's trash is another's treasure.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

It's OK.

It's OK not to like things. It's OK to hate things. We all have our top AND bottom 40's. But that's cool. So why is it that everyone is ALWAYS trying to come after you because you like/hate something?

I recently got in a frackus with a Disney fangirl. Everyone here knows I'm not a Disney fan AT ALL. Yet this girl came after me and started attacking me just because I don't kiss the ass of the mouse. I DON'T LIKE DISNEY. I NEVER WILL. And when you Nazi fan girls come after me because of it, it makes me hate it even MORE because of YOU!

If the fact that I don't like Disney bothers you, then talk to someone else! If you're so ignorantly petty that you can't get over the fact my opinion clashes with your own, then go to Hell and STAY THERE. Yet the bitch ignored the fact that I never outright attacked her or pissed on a Mickey Mouse doll in front of her or burned a pile of Disney movies on her lawn. But the way she came after me, you'd think I did. I just said I don't like Disney, I never said ANYTHING about people who like Disney. You can like it all you want, just leave me out of it OK?

I'm not hurting anyone or going out of my way to spread my hatred to Disney supporters. I'm just not liking something to myself. I don't shop at Disney stores or see the movies, THAT'S how I show my hate. BOYCOTTING.

So people, if you have hate in your hearts, don't force it on others, just keep it to yourself and AVOID what you hate. It IS possible to be a decent person while avoiding what you hate. And that's my two cents, keep the fucking change,