03.08.2010 - Terrence Marks:
Firstly, Cheyenne Wright, colorist extraordinaire of Girl Genius, was recently hospitalized. They're taking donations to help with the associated costs. I'd appreciate it if you sent some cash his way. We colorists have to stick together.
Secondly, You Say it First and NamirDeiter.net both had anniversaries last month. YSiF is six and ND.Net is five. We should've mentioned it earlier, but we were really, really busy last month and time flies when you're in a ruthaving fun.

Thirdly, You Say it First and Namir Deiter are both available through Archive Binge. You know how we have thousands of comics in the archives? Instead of spending one day (or a week) reading through everything, this can send up to 10 comics a day to you through the magic of RSS. That way you catch up quickly and easily. If you set it to give you 10 ND strips a day, you'd be up to speed by the end of April.

03.03.2010 - Terrence Marks:
I come home from a twelve-hour workday at 1 AM and there's a notice on our door - water's going to be off for "scheduled maintenance" from 10 to 5 tomorrow. As I've mentioned, I work swing shift so this is a serious inconvenience for us. Isabel is going to try to get comics done, but this will probably throw our schedule off for the day. And what's the point of scheduling maintenance if you're not going to give people at least two days notice about it, seriously?

Unrelatedly, if you've have trouble with any automatic renewal or subscription, please let me know.

03.01.2010 - Terrence Marks:
Thank you, everyone for supporting the comic. We didn't make the full $700 goal in February, but we're going to keep up the five-day-a-week schedule. As you may know, You Say it First's regular schedule is three a week. We're considering adding a space for five comics a week to the donation bar.

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01.25.2010 - Terrence Marks:
We're working on comics. In the meantime, I invite you to check out The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace (real life - he invented computers, she invented programming [to grossly simplify things]) team up to fight crime. It includes regular footnotes from Charles Babbage's autobiography. It's (mostly) true, and it's awesome in a way that only (mostly) true things can be. As a lapsed history nerd, I seriously recommend it to you.

Also You Say it First now has storyline-based navigation, which I'm proud of.

01.19.2010 - Terrence Marks:
And the rolling upgrade of YouSayitFirst.com continues. The archive pages have been adjusted to the new style (check out the new banners for each year). The donation bar has been revamped. And the wallpaper-of-the-month has been updated...for the first time since last May. Sorry. The wallpapers have been updating monthly; I just forgot to update the little previews.

In my defense, I don't usually scroll that far down when I read the site since I kinda already know what the news is going to say.

01.10.2010 - Terrence Marks:
As I've mentioned, I work evenings and weekends. That means that I have to do all my errand-running early in the day. This also means that "early in the day" means noon. So I had two things to do this morning: get another SIM card for my phone and recycle the cans. I drop by the t-mobile store and the network is down. No idea when it'd be back. As I left, I realized that I didn't ask if it was national or statewide. Then I realized that I wasn't about to drive to Nevada for it, anyhow.

I head over to the recycling center. They're closed today, but the automatic can processing machine is on. It's a two-step process.
Step 1: Insert can into hole.
Step 2: Repeat.
I got about twelve cans in before the alarm went off. I think I messed up on the first step, and I'm still not quite sure how.

My point is: there's some days I feel like I have to go to work. There's some days I feel like I get to go to work. Today, I got to go to work, because it'd suck to have just two things to do and fail at both of them.
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