Update

Well, Thomas is finally on the mend. After a week of tempetures running from 100 to 104, the doctor finally perscribed an antibiotic and that seems to have been what he needed to finally kick this thing. Today he and Tracy went on a field-trip with his day-care class to see Disney on Ice, which he enjoyed (at least the bits he didn't sleep through.) I went to his bi-monthly parent-techer conference, which was midly encouraging. His progress is slow, but he is making progress, and gradually making connections to abstract ideas and the skill at articulating what others are doing. He still isn't really intiating play with the other kids, but he doesn't object to being placed with another child to share play, and he enjoys group activities where he can model off the other kids for appropriate responses.

Meanwhile, I've gotten back on track with Damsels and Dragons. With luck in the next day or so I'll hit Strip #48, which would be my six-months worth of strips milestone.

Now if I could just figure out how to get back to sleep when I wake up at 1 or 2 in the morning...

And this is why I stopped watching X-Files...

From this week's "A Miracle of Science" author's commentary:

"I do want to clarify what I wrote in this space last time. Some readers might have gotten the impression that I was heaping abuse on writers who use the whole Enormous Government Conspiracy shtick, accusing them of being unimaginative dullards who deludedly believe they're being subversive and clever when they're really just repeating clichés that were already tired ten years ago. I want to emphasize that that was indeed exactly what I was doing. Seriously, anybody who's been paying the slightest bit of attention at any time in the past fifty years should have realized by now that the United States Government couldn't cover up a cupcake with vanilla frosting. Unless you either a) are having fun with the idea or b) are Warren Ellis, then please, just cut it out and try to come up with something more original. Future generations will thank you."

Link: http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/