As some of you know I have started a webcomic called Plastic Paddy Pogue. The idea being a creative outlet and maybe enough extra income to cover the costs of the hosting service for Mostly Maylone. It was also an excuse to buy an awesome Halloween decoration when I was unemployed. I have no delusions that this is going to even make enough money to cover hosting costs. That really isn’t why I’m doing it. It is a ‘something to do’. It’s also a stress relief for my brain to have a set schedule for something to be done at a certain time. Back in Anchorage my job had so many things that were due or needed to be done on a monthly basis at very particular times while I was doing a very great many number of other things on top of them. Yes in the end I suppose you could say I technically broke. While that is slightly true, I have found that if I don’t have something to really occupy my brain I end up eating and sleeping. A lot, and I am already prone to sudden nap attacks.
The comic is going well. I really am not broadcasting it all that much, in fact the only place other than facebook I’ve done anything with it is Comic Rocket. It has been a great source of inspiration unto itself. Ideas flow in to the point that I have had to write some of them down and sketch some others. I have one major problem though. Fully poseable is not as fully poseable as I want and need. I need his hands and fingers to be positionable, I would love it if he had more of a rotator cuff joint in his shoulders. So I guess this means I will need to make a skeleton. and since acquiring a 5′ dried out body is probably not in my best interests, I’m guessing I’ll need a second Plastic Paddy to make a mold of, or even to modify directly.
This of course is the conundrum. My first world problem if you will. I still haven’t managed to properly set up a shop in the garage. It’s getting there, but still wanting to catch up from my long term unemployment issue I haven’t wanted to use funds to do anything with it either. There have been other things that have seemed more worthy at the time. In fact, I still haven’t swept the floor from when I finished the guitar back in the beginning of October.
Perhaps I should put up some shelves at least.