I'm Blue, updated Tuesdays and Fridays without fail.

Revenge Is a Dish Best Served By Robert Smith
February 13, 2004

Remind me never to say I'm not going to be working in a rant. Because I said very explicitly I wasn't going to be in Tuesday's, and hell's bells if I didn't get called in. And because of something dumb, too. ARGH. Well, I'll speak no more of it: it's past me, and that's that. Grawr.

As Web Guy Josiah and I are having our friend Sam (a.k.a. Samwise, Sam-a-Rama, etc... well, not really, but I call him that) visit this weekend, we had our own Valentine's Day last night, which I've found is a lot more fun when YOU can schedule it. Come to think of it, I think several holidays could be marginally improved if one could reschedule it to work with one's own time... Valentine's is just particularly nice. Anyhow. We had dinner at the Macaroni Grill (who has won my approval for their ambience, and Web Guy Josiah's undying affection for their chicken parmigana), who put squares of paper on your table with crayons. While waiting for the check, I of course scribbled something of Blue saying how good the food was, and on a whim, included the URL of our humble little site here. They probably just tossed the sheet without even looking at it, but I like to think that they noticed it, and it at least gave them a chuckle. My own brain hopes that maybe somehow, somebody saved it, and maybe that somebody is actually looking at this page right now, having diligently typed in the provided URL on the sketch, and so forth. Maybe one day a random person will direct me to an Ebay auction, where I will see my own drawing, scrawled in "eggplant purple" crayon - complete with little smudgies of olive oil here and there - and think suddenly "HEY! That's... I remember drawing that! Someone... KEPT it! How sweet!" And my heart would grow three sizes that day. Well, not really, but it'd be fun. I'm not going to put little sketches EVERYWHERE, though... don't wanna saturate the market, ya know. Kidding! Ah boy. But yeah.

QUICK REMINDER: new 'I'm Blue' store, complete with ninja. And don't forget the other ones, Gamers Unite, Mongoose Style, and, of course, the ever-popular W00T line. Eeeeenjoy. And enough with the store-pimpin'. Heh.

Well, that's about it for me tonight: be well, folks, and peace out to the peoples.

Some Kind of Wunderbar,
Annie "Blue" C

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- Dido
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So...After moving the image hosting somewhere else...I discovered something interesting. All that bandwidth that was being sucked up...was being sucked up by people who seem to be reading the archives...new readers. Welcome new readers. We transferred ~20 megs of HTML on Tuesday and Wednesday EACH. Damn, that is quite a few page loads, let me tell you.

Speaking of which. Sorry about the comic Snafu on Tuesday, I forgot to upload the comic until around noon PST Tuesday. If people continue to have problems viewing the image, it is either due to your web browser not sending a referrer url, or your browser being configured to not load images from a different site. To save our asses on bandwidth costs, I've opted to move all the image hosting to a different server, and protect us from bandwidth stealers by not allowing people to direct-link to them.

Anyways...If you are having issues seeing the comic, hold down shift and control while hitting the refresh button. If that doesn't work, try with a different browser. If that doesn't work, email us. Well, it is late. Good night.
- web guy Josiah