October 28, 2005

Friday October 28, 2005 • Howard Tayler

When I was out and about on Tuesday a couple of birds saw fit to crap on Turbo Schlock, my 2003 Beetle. One of them had the usual birdie diet of "stuff that results in runny green-and-white crap," while the other was apparently getting by on bags of Dr. Andrew Weil's Holistic High Fiber Trail Mix.

On Thursday I considered washing my car, but I never did get around to it.

This morning it was raining. I drove my 8-year-old son to school, and then back at home I took my car-wash brush and easily brushed away the dried-green-and-white spot. Rain makes a great "pre-soak" setting, after all.

The Doc Weil splotch was stubborn, though. The brush did nothing, and the gentle-yet-scrubby car-wash-sponge with the netting on it only served to, umm... "loosen the stool" a bit around the edges. No problem: I parked the car outside of the garage, and waited. An hour later, just before driving my 10-year-old daughter to school, I took the same sponge, and easily wiped away the soggy guanola.

I'm feeling absurdly pleased with myself. Maybe it's because I like the rain, and a rainy morning makes me happy. As for the birds, well, as my Dad used to say: "Grrr... they SING for the RICH PEOPLE."

In completely unrelated news, I'll be at AutumnCon tomorrow, which (as of this writing anyway) is Saturday, October 29th. I'll have some originals for sale, but I won't have time to do commissions. Just pencil-sketches and panel discussions:

12:00pm - Intro to Webcomics (Seminar Theater)
1:00pm (or maybe 2:00pm) - How to be a great GM (TBA)
4:00pm - So you wanna be a webcartoonist (Canyon III)
5:00pm - Putting the Science into Science Fiction (TBA)

If you're in the area, give this convention a shot. It's a first year 'con, so it'll be fairly small and really enthusiastic.