My Life In A Nutshell

My friend Scott Snyder commented in Flickr about the strip above: "And that's a long time to be on the edge of your seat. I think I need some salve..."

:-D

For those of you interested, archives of "My Life In A Nutshell" are available online. I started this semi-autobiographical strip back in 1999; you can see the first one here.



Saw the Narnia movie a couple nights ago with Jeff and quite enjoyed it. Lucy was PERFECT. Some of the scenes were EXACTLY the way I had imagined when I first read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as a nine-year-old. Jeff and I stayed through the end credits so we could clap for Weta Workshop. I am a Weta groupie, not only because of the amazing job they did on Lord of the Rings, but also because of my Waiting for Frodo interactions with Weta Digital. :-)

Had a good writing day yesterday. Also got another confirmation of a small illustration project, and an inquiry about a combination tech writing/illustration assignment. I've started working on an online illustration portfolio. This is new territory for me but I've been getting an increasing number of offers for paid illustration work, so I figure it's about time I approach it as seriously as I do my writing.

I put Christmas lights up on my office tree! See below:



I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again: I LOVE MY OFFICE. My new craft corner has been in heavy use with Christmas present wrapping; it's so great to be able to leave stuff out instead of having to put it away each time.

Hey, I have 78 people in my Frappr! map! It's great seeing seeing a sample of where my readers are from, including Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Canada, U.S. and Scotland. And of course in yesterday's Blathering, I learned more about Liechtenstein (a small state next to Switzerland) and Malaysia (they sometimes hook Christmas ornaments into their backs (!)). Sadly, Frappr! doesn't seem to work with all browsers.

Last month, I launched an informal experiment to see how high I could get a page called "skimper" up on Google rankings. As of yesterday, I was surprised to find that I'm currently #1 out of about 13,000 results! Looks like "skimper.com" is offline for some reason, and there's no sign of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (or whatever his name was).

How people are finding me:

buckley's cough syrup: I'm #1 in MSN Search. Ha.
chocolate covered grasshoppers: #4 in Yahoo!Search. I've been getting a surprising number of people looking for these. Are they THAT popular?!?
Worst love songs: #2 in Google.
stacking firewood: #2 in Google.
too paranoid: #1 in Google.
ematei: #2 in Google.
cute librarian: #2 in Google.
How many species of wild guinea "pigs are" there: #1 in Ask Jeeves.

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