Mono for a Year

"I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored." - Wayne Campbell

I'm a little bored with my life right now. It's my own fault. I can't motivate myself to do anything really awesome right now. Last year at this time I was drawing comic and working on paintings. I was doing both of these things until a few months ago and then I just stopped. I don't have any great ideas for new comics. Well that's not true. I've got a couple ideas for ED the Business Warrior, but I want to do more than just ED. One thing I want to do is draw a Mormon comic. I've been feeling like this is something I should do for awhile. I've been dabbling with it in my daily sketches. I've done a few Mormon:Facts, but I want to do a story. Then the question is what do I write/draw about? I do not want to do a pioneer story. I think there's to much of that in church literature already, plus I want to appeal to more than just Utah Mormons. I would like to do a story with Mormon characters more than a story about the Mormon faith. That still leaves a huge hole of what do I want to do. I have to really be passionate about it too. If I'm not, I won't finish it. That happens to all my comics I start that are longer than five or six pages. The only comic that has had any story lines over that many pages is ED. It's strange to say this, but ED is my most accomplished comic I've ever drawn. Although I believe my Political Fridays comic is my most viewed comic I've ever done. Being able to see stats are awesome. I just need to find something that will motivate me. Once I'm motivated I should be out of my funk. If it's drawing a Mormon comic that would be cool. If it something else that would be good too.

driving across the valley

Life is moving so fast. We're leaving for Bloomington in a month! It can't be so soon, but it is. This last weekend we went down to Utah to visit our many different families that live all across the valley. Went to the zoo and saw the baby elephant and the monkeys. If you know me I love the monkeys. My sister and her kids were there for that. It was a good time. We also went to Ikea in Salt Lake, because Allison has never been to one and wanted to go. Ikea, now that is a store. They have rooms all set up to show you how you can build you house or studio apartment so it's cooler. The one problem with Ikea is it goes on for ever. Half way through I was thinking I need to take a nap, and there's beds right there to do it. I was half tempted to just flop down on one of there show rooms to enjoy a little nap. I had already gotten a good amount of sun that day, so my body was ready to fall down into a sun coma. Luckily I didn't get so much sun as to get a burn. Ikea was good, we bought a twenty dollar coffee table and some chocolates. I do enjoy good chocolates. Then on Saturday we drove up the valley to see Allison's grandparents. It was a pretty good weekend. Lots of driving, but still good.

The Nickel Cave

A couple summers back I was spending a bit of time in Utah. It was my first summer in Idaho after my mission and I really didn’t have anything going for me in Idaho. I was in-between jobs and I didn’t have any close friends at the time. Plus I was living with my sister and her three kids who were very young at the time (she still has a lot of young kids). I decide to take a couple trips down to Utah while I had the time off. You know, get away from the one of my sister’s kids to see my other sister and her three kids. Those trips were fun. I really just need a change of scenery and my oldest sister’s house helped me out with that. One of those times when I went down, her youngest keep talking about going to Nickel Arcade. I couldn’t understand what he was talking about at all. I thought he kept saying nickel cave. I couldn’t figure out why the three boys were so excited to go to a cave. I was on vacation so I decide to go even though I didn’t really have any clothes to go caving in, plus I hate to be enclosed in caves. I’ve got fears of everything. It should really make my life unlivable, but I still do some pretty awesome things. On the way to the Nickel Arcade I still had no clue what my sister and her kids were talking about. We drove up to Provo and I was still confused when we got there. After walking into the Arcade I figure it out. I felt really silly at the time thinking we were going caving.

On that trip to the Nickel Arcade I got to play some of the classic arcade games. The best was the fact that they had the original Mortal Kombat. I loved that game when I was a kid. I would always go over to my friend’s house and play with him. We would play on his Sega Genesis for hours. I missed that game. My nephew Calvin was there with me and I’m not sure if he had ever played Mortal Kombat before, but he played with me. It was great to be the guy who actually knew what he was doing for once. I’m that kid that can’t do the finish him moves. I totally wasted Calvin four or five times in a row before he got sick of playing me. That was one awesome trip to Utah. I loved playing Mortal Kombat with my nephews. I think I’m going to have to get it for my X-Box and start inviting my nephews over to beat them some more. Of course I have to be careful; some of my nephews are pretty good with a control. Some probably have more hours logged in on them then me.

Update on the David Cross incident. I told some of my co-workers and they decide that I do look like David Cross. They won’t say that I’m funny like him though. They think that I just look like him. So I guess I’m a balding guy with glasses, thanks everyone. On a side note, Nickelback is a horrible band. So if you thought about them when you saw this title I hope you hate them too. I know I thought about how I’d like to beat them as if I was Subzero from Mortal Kombat.