Forward Ho!

April 11, 1966

"This is our land now! Make it stop raining!"

Not on board with the bit of racism or colonialism, but I do like BIPOC aggravating the white man.

I don't understand how this would help you get out of work. "Oh, I set my clock the wrong way so I'm late." Ok, well we are still docking your pay and taking two hours of your sick/personal time. Companies aren't even sympathetic to you being late during weather events, they certainly aren't going to be sympathetic to your dumbassery.

On Schedule

I lost my computer several days ago. Well, I didn't lose it but the hard drive completely died so I was without a computer for a while. I do have a Chromebook so I wasn't completely computer-less but I couldn't do any writing. With the death of my hard drive brings the loss of two novels I was working on. Why weren't they saved somewhere else other than the computer? One, I didn't know I could use Microsoft Office's OneDrive but I plan on using that from now on. Two, I used to save on external drives but I have had a lot of those fail and I end up losing my data anyway. I plan on backing up to OneDrive, Google Drive, and an external drive from now on.

One novel I lost was Wilbur and Kolak, a novel I've been working on since 2004. This is the third time I have lost it so I'm thinking that fate is telling me that maybe Wilbur and Kolak isn't the book I should be working on. I'm going to retool it, change some parts of it that haven't aged well in the 14 years I've been writing it and just see what happens.

The other was Vagabond Girl, a story I've been working on diligently over the last year. Unlike Wilbur and Kolak which was written long-hand in a notebook, Vagabond Girl was written in a Rocketbook so what I wrote was erased when I done typing it up. Luckily, I kept notes on what happened in each chapter after writing it so I at least have a skeleton that I can rewrite this novel from.

For 2019, I decided to focus more on my writing and I've been doing a decent job of it until my computer died but I hope to get back into it as we get into spring and summer. Along with the novel, I have a few short stories to work on, a couple of novellas, several research projects I need warmer weather for, and a new Story Series that will post exclusively on Ko-Fi.

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Wait. Wouldn't he be an hour ahead of schedule? If he had to be up at 8 then his alarm would be set for 7(?) so if the alarm goes off, it would still be 7 but the old 7 would be the new 8 so the old 7 would be a new 6(?). But it would still be 7 either way and give Brutus plenty of time to get to work because schedules don't shift because of Daylight Saving. 🤯

Sleep!

Hey, welcome back to Losers Are Made, Not Born. I am starting to hate that title more and more as the years go by. I have nothing for you this week except to remind and urge you to go out and vote this Tuesday if you already haven't.

"Didn't you know this is the day we set our clocks back?"

"Why do we do that?"

"Because a bunch of long-dead guys wanted to conserve oil, or be able to harvest in the morning, or some garbage to do with the railroads. It's stupid and mostly pointless these days but we keep doing it because, well, honestly because the government tells us we have to."

I don't understand why Brutus went into a long detailed explanation of Daylight Savings to cover up that he and Gladys had sex. Just tell Wilberforce that you and Gladys were having some alone time and let him go back to eating his Oaty Oh's.




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Was Brutus Just Standing There?

Our high school is sexier than your high school.

I was able to go on a tour of Topeka High School this weekend. It's a beautiful school, which I always knew but because I usually am only in the building for work-related things, I never really get a chance to appreciate just how beautiful it is. Go check out all the pictures I took over on the Tauy Creek Facebook Page.

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That's like our oven clock.

I don't like how Brutus and Arnie switch places in the next to last panel. Comic convention say that you should do that. Heck, basic everything convention says you keep characters in the same order as you introduce them unless it is clear you are showing movement. I get that it's for speech placement but there's got to be a better way to show that.

I think they've talked about Daylight Saving every year I've been doing this thing and I never created a Daylight Saving tag. Well, I got one now.