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Posted by Bob on August 4, 2006: All right gang, the comic is up as you've come to expect. Do you guys know what the thing on the wall next to the door is? It's supposed to be a cork board. I figure a music store should have something up there for like, "Guitar for sale" ads or "Drummer wanted" things. We've never used it before in a comic, but I'm looking at it now, trying to think of something to write about in my newspost. And that came to mind. Steve's getup is just stuff he found in the break room. It's a silver bowl and oven mitts.

Oh, points to anyone who figures out where the phonebook in the comic is from. It's not from my area, it's one I found online.

So, this weekend is the comic convention. I'll be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you're gonna be there and want to meet me, (yeah right) I'll be wandering around the floor, probably more often than not in Artist's Alley. I've got books to give out, and I've even got a preview of my next project that's not Think Tank related! Exciting, no? So yes, if you're there, be on the look out. I look like Bob in the comic, but I almost have a beard.

So, on Monday, I had a tech from Comcast come out to my house. See, my connection has been for sucks lately, and I've had enough of it. I knew the problem was the modem, I've been through this before. The guy comes out, and of course, the connection is fine when he gets there. He tests all my cables, and everything was looking good. We were showing a DL rate of like, 24MBPS. So he reported it as a cancelled call, or else we would have been charged something like fifty bucks. A few minutes after he leaves, I get a call from Comcast just to confirm that my visit was cancelled. I told them it was, as when the dude got to my house everything was ok. As soon as I hang up, the connection is gone. And I don't mean like, five minutes later. I mean the second I hit "talk" on the phone. And the connection stays gone. For three days. So Thursday, I go to Comcast and swap the modem out for a new one. I get home and set everything up, it's not connecting. I call Comcast again, and we get everything up and running. Yeah, guess what? The frickin' router quit working. I picked up a new one today and all seems okay now. The point of all this? FUCK THE INTERNET! So, anyway, if you're someone who's been trying to get a hold of me lately and couldn't, that'd be the reason why.

But, on the plus side, at least my network doesn't look anything like this. How could you let anything get that way? My OCD would just make me snap if I saw that shit in real life.

Holy shit, this thing is awesome.

The moral of this story? Don't fuck with Katja Base.

Hot, women prefer technology over jewelry. Forget learning preferences and ring sizes, just buy the TV you like!

Well gang, I hate to cut things short, but Steve's waiting on my post to get the update off the ground, so I'll wrap things up here. Back in a week!

Posted by Steve on August 4, 2006: This week's comic picks up right where last week's comic left off. As you would expect. It'd be pretty silly if we just left things like that and moved on, no?

I believe the Wizard Con is doing it's thing this weekend. I suspect Bob is going. He might even be there right now for all I know. It's not my turn to watch him. At any rate, I'm sure he'll tell you all about it, either now, or next week. So, you know, check back next week for a report. Or something. Yeah.

So, I had my PC back. For a few hours at least. They replaced the motherboard (as expected) but they apparently decided that the undiagnosed problem that was causing the system to no longer boot anything but safe mode was perfectly normal, and shipped it back like that (which was a bit unexpected). So it's back in the shop now.

I mean really. How does that work?

"Is the motherboard replaced?"

"Yup."

"Does the system work as expected?"

"Nope. Doesn't even boot."

"Sounds good. Let's ship it. It's Miller time."

Now that's service. See you next week.