Sick = Suck

I don’t know what I ate, or what crazy bug got into my system, but I am all messed up.

Luckily I write most of my blog in small snippets throughout the week so this won’t take too long and I can get back to being horribly ill.

Lets start with the Atomic Robo stuff. . .

A very excellent review of Atomic Robo #4 from IGN.com!

Sean Kleefeld gave a very thoughtful review of #4 over at Kleefeld on Comics. Though he might want to consider spell-checking a little more. LoL

Brian and I were interviewed recently by Heavy Inks –one of the more awesome online retailers carrying Atomic Robo. I’m pretty sure I offended one or more of Brian’s 8-Bit fans by calling them “thick chimps”. But really, they had it coming. You know that old adage that says, “There are no stupid questions,”? Well yes, it turns out there are.

Broken Frontier has been a source of very mixed opinions for Atomic Robo. Lucky for us DaveCole discovered us this month and we have been made members of his tribe.

Gutter Bleed appreciates our use of an old Jim Henson Muppet Show maxim. And if you can tell me which one you’ll win the No-Prize prize.

We never want to forget Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog either.

Over on Comics And . . . you can get a little sneak preview of Atomic Robo #6.

 

 

Mostly this has been one of those weeks were my family life has completely trashed my professional life. But not entirely in bad ways. The cat’s been getting into all kinds of stupid stuff, my father-in-law Mr. MaGoo has gotten even more crazy, and settling back into work on Robo has been really tough.

Kitchen Inspection Cat sez dishes are done now.

But iz your toezder cleen . . .?

Mua-ha! Az I thought. You seemz to haz a . . .uh! Youz got a . . .er!

Kitchen Inspections Cat is stuk. Youz will put down stoopid camera now and help me.

I filz out accident report on diz now. Kay, bye.

 

 

School was closed on Monday due to yet another giant snow storm. So rather than beginning my super awesome weight loss regime with a nice long walk, I started it with a few hours of shoveling snow and sleigh riding with the Widget. It was a lot of fun. The best riding is at a place called Carnival Hill, which is just a few blocks behind our house. I’d heard that a developer tried to build condos on the Hill a few years ago at which point the town officially bought it. That could just be a rumor though.

Its a BIG hill. That little speck at the left side of the tree-line is a person.

Start walkin’ Widget.

And walking . . .

And walking . . .

Looking down the hill now. That little pink dot on the left is Widget.

It takes about 20 seconds to ride down the hill and about 20 minutes in bulky snow suits to huff it to the top. Needless to say, I only went up and down once.

On one of the Widget’s runs I think she broke the sound barrier. She was still digging herself out of the snow when I trudged down the hill to snap this last shot.

 

My exercise did get started the next day, and the day after that I realized that I was hiking through some really pretty stuff and I should take some pics to share with you guys.

If you remember the “Emergency Snow Blog” I took a bunch of pictures in downtown Wilton, and one of them showed a rail road crossing and a really steep hill. Burns Hill Road, its called. I figured my best chances for losing weight via walking would be to hoof it up that monster each day after dropping the Widget at school.

The day I took these pics it was SO cold. even after hiking up the hill and despite a very warm coat i was still freezing cold. My beard froze to the fur collar of my jacket -I tried to get a decent picture of that but I was all defrosted by the time I figured out where to aim the camera.

I’m about two steps past the RR crossing, looking up the hill. For some reason these things never look as steep as they really are in a photo. Probably because I’m angling it up to get the shot?

You get a slightly better sense of “hill” looking back down towards the center of town.

Stupid effin’ hills. . .

I decided to leave the beaten path and poke around on the snowed in trails.

I love this place. Its about a New York city block away from my front door.

Watching the ice float by was pretty cool. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Unless you could PBS’s Wild America programs.

On my way back out I saw that my earlier tracks were filled with water. There had been a fair amount of crunching in that part of the woods -I must have crossed a stream and not even known it.

Looking down through the trees back into Wilton.

A minute or so before I took this picture my chin beard was one giant ice cube. It had frozen into the “fur” of my coat’s hood -ripping myself free was not fun. (Note to self; clean the bathroom mirror.)

 

Okay that’s all I got. Back to sleep for me. See you guys next week.

Random Splendor

New Japanese Board Game

I never get tired of seeing this movie re-dubbed.

I think that Crayone Physics Delux has got to be one of the coolest little puzzle games I have seen in a long time. Oh sure it can’t compare to masterpieces like PORTAL, but it’s a free download and sweet in its simplicity. Like Katamary. While CPD is still in development, you can download the original from Kloonigames.

William Shatner sings Rocket Man. (With special intro by Bernie Taupin. Woot!)