#169 Freakouts
Weekly Dose - I can't cope with the news this week. Not even Heather.
Very short today.
Because the universe, in its infinite wisdom (or just to keep me on my toes) has spent the past two weeks throwing a bunch of crap my way.
I’m not handling it too well.
Yesterday there may even have been a rather large freak out.
When the ipad - the thing I do all my comics work on - decided to get itself stuck in something called a “boot loop”.
No, it’s not a fun line dance set to country music.
It’s a cycle where the thing turns on and off again endlessly and you can never quite get it to stay on long enough to get the files off of it that you just spent three hours creating.
I was able to pivot to another device for the rest of my work but those three hours, and the files that went with them, disappeared into the great vacuum of “time we never get back”.
So today will be a lot of cleanup.
And a series of coping naps.
If I can get my brain to stop doing it’s own stress filled “boot loop”.
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Time Off - Maybe
This weekend I’ll be in Columbus for the Reuben Award Weekend hanging out with my tribe.
Which means that, next Monday, I will either be super energized and full of enthusiasm for a really great post, or hiding under my bed because all everyone could talk about for four days was how AI is putting all us creatives out of business.
If you don’t hear from me next Monday you’ll know how it went.
Regardless, I plan to be back at the keyboard August 17th for sure.
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Works by other creators that capture our current moment…
This is the space I usually reserve for political commentary.
I can’t even go there this week.
I’m so freaked out and overwhelmed by all the badness that I’m sort of sticking my fingers in my ears for a while.
Heather Cox Richardson is usually the first thing I read every morning - I count on her sharp reporting to keep me abreast of not only the news but the news behind the news. The stuff the politicians, and other powers that be, are secretly saying in the back channels.
But this week I can’t even read Heather.
Because it feels like a constant stream of “Here’s all the illegal garbage going on right now that no one is actually doing anything to stop.”
And I just can’t take it.
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