And there aren’t too many more this year. Naughty-Eight is flying by like a Penguin with a rocket pack and it doesn’t seem like anything will slow it down. Not even Batman.

At around this time every month, I’ve come on hear and written about how this coming month will be the month where everything begins clicking into place like clockwork. This coming month will be the one where I get into a routine and stick with it. This coming month will be the one where I get so much work done I’ll have sentences coming out of my ears.

And yet…

Some days I put it of until ‘later’, some days I get a little done and then take a break that lasts the rest of the day, some days I stare at the screen and say ‘….’ for a while before giving up.

BUT

This month will be the one where I get things done, Where I’ll get into a routine and everything will click into place.

I swear.

Maybe.

Lately I’ve been reading comics. I haven’t read that many comics in the past. I read spiderman and Xmen when I was a kid but I never really stuck with them.

I grew up in an area without comic book shops, and for that matter limited book shops, so I didn’t really have access to anything that wasn’t sold in newsagents.

It’s one of the things I love about this internet hooey. Access to things I’d otherwise not have access to, or even know about.

My first comic book that I actually loved was Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. I came across it in a strange way. I was searching for tattoo designs when I came across a tattoo of Nny. I searched for the title and found out it was a comic book. I downloaded all the comics and CDisplay to read them through and that was it. I had to buy them all.

Then came Y: The Last Man. I can’t remember how I came across the series but I found it around issue 20 and followed it all the way through to the end. It was a great series and, as you know, I love post-apocalypse stuff.

It’s been a year or so now since that ended, (around about, not sure of actual time though), and I haven’t read any other comics but I have been looking for other stuff I might like.

Then a few weeks ago, in much the same way as I came across JTHM, I came across a tattoo of a cool looking key. It was the key to hell that Lucifer gives to Dream in Sandman.

I thought about checking it out but I didn’t get around to it for a while

Not until, a week or so ago when I came across the trailer for the Watchmen movie and thought it looked awesome. I decided I wanted to read the comic.

So I downloaded it, and at the same time I remembered Sandman and downloaded that as well.

The first Issue of each had me hooked.

I read Watchmen right through to the end and it was great. It was also interesting coming back and watching the trailer again too. Everything made more sense and I was able to see where everything shown in the clip fit into the comic book, and made it that much better to see.

I’m still reading Sandman, I’m up to issue #39 now. It’s been awesome so far and I’ve been loving all the intertwining stories and the off shoots and the shorts between the stories as well.

Well, that’s what I’ve been doing with my time for the last couple of days anyway.

How about you?

I think I really went off topic there for a while. I was going to simply write about how I’m going to throw my all into work starting tomorrow - the 1st of August.

(interesting coincidence, kinda, One issue of Sandman that I read today was about Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus… otherwise known as Augustus…)

I think that’s all I wanted to say. Anyway, you’re boring me. Leave me alone. Go on! Git!

Until next time….

Last night I was at work, It was unbelievably busy as it is every Tuesday and so I pretty much switched into autopilot mode. My brain switched off and time passed unnoticed. The words “That will be *insert number off of screen*”…”Swipe your card”…”Have a nice evening”… and so on fell from my mouth without thought. I found myself day dreaming about my upcoming holidays and how I’ll have two weeks without the terrible drudgery of my sisyphean day job.

When I realised something. My holidays begin in 13 days!

Hooray!

For some reason it hadn’t kicked in on how close they had got until last night. I’m crossing my toes with excitement. Well, it goes to show, Two gorillas are worth a thousand Paris Hiltons.

Just one question though. Bart shot a satellite with a tank. Was it a special tank with a surface to orbit cannon?

So, I hear no one asking, what am I going to do with my time off work?

Work!

‘Are you nuts?’ I hear no one asking.

No. Well, maybe a little, but not for this.

I’m going to spend my time working on my writing. I have plenty to do as well.

One - Get started on my Post-Apocalypse based novel. I have written about ten words of this, so I’m only about five years behind.

Two - Continue working on my surreal world based project. I’m having a bit of trouble on this one, I love the first chapter and can’t decide if I’m taking it in the right direction or not.

Three - Do a second draft and editing on a short story I’ve been avoiding for about a month now.

Four - Finish a short story I’ve been working on for the passed couple of days. Then do some editing and polish to a high sheen.

Five - Write some more Doug of the Darkness updates.

A lot to accomplish in two weeks? Quite Possibly.

Am I going to sleep in the first day and thus start off a domino effect leading to accomplishing absolutely nothing for the entire two weeks? Quite Possibly.

Am I going to find a penguin walking in circles on my driveway and feed him fish instead of working? Definitely.

But hey, They are holidays.

So here’s where I’m up to. I’m going to start putting these little doogies in every entry. I’ve found that updating Doug into a blog has stopped me from putting it off for too long and I’m hoping these will do the same. I’m calling my two projects - Project Apocalypse and Project Surreal because I’m not sure how permanent their present titles are.

And there you have it, My complete lack of progress.