A grocery receipt staring at me from just beyond my keyboard declares I "HAVE SAVED A TOTAL OF 1,900.64 WITH [my] CUSTOMER REWARD CARD." That seems bizarrely high, as the period it is measuring starts some seven months ago when I moved into this place and applied for my customer reward card because the only grocery store within walking distance is aggravatingly also the only local grocery chain that still uses customer reward cards.
It is of course a secret conspiracy to track our buying habits, but all they're getting out of me is that I'm eating myself into an early grave. And I've recently switched from drinking generic Diet Coke to generic Fresca. But I still drink a ridiculous amount of it.
Another reason that number seems oddly high is that the giant "You Saved" message on each receipt is usually less than a dollar. On this one it proclaims "You Saved $0.50." Also strange is the message telling me the name of my cashier, which is left blank, as though I jumped over the counter and rang myself up while the checkout girl was in the powder room.
Tomorrow (technically later today) I'm posting the first page of Joe Bivins: Man Genius issue #3. I'm still not sure if anyone's even reading the damn thing. I'm trying to decide when a good time to post pages is. I think if I use DrunkDuck's automatic system they go live at midnight PST (or maybe EST? I'm pretty sure the admins operate on PST but they might have it set up to post at midnight whatever-your-time-zone-is). I get a good amount of traffic from the thumbnail popping up on the main page, so I don't think midnight is the best time for that to happen. But then how do I decide when the peak time for that would be? I can't remember if I've had this problem with another comic before, I was posting LUB regularly for a little while but that's the ONLY comic of mine that's ever had a regular update schedule. I have to obsess over little problems like this so I won't be overwhelmed by the awful mess my life is as a whole.
Finally listened to the new Weezer album. I'm not going to do an in-depth lambasting like last time because that would require me to actually listen to it a second time and I don't think I'd survive that. Anyway no one's interested in reading that. (Although my Red Album review got a lot of traffic, but I did it right when the album came out.) I'm still struggling to figure out what the hell happened to those guys to get them to suck this hard.
I read an article sometime last week I think where they asked a bunch of famous authors what their 10 rules for writing were. I got too annoyed with it to get past the first page, because like always the advice they were giving was entirely about style and mechanics, most of which was bullshit anyway but even if it had been good advice that is the only thing about writing novels I don't have a problem with. I've always been good at stringing words together, I just can't come up with story ideas and when I do I always seem to get stuck ten pages in and I never manage to disentangle myself. Perhaps it's because I read so few books but watch so much TV and so many shitty movies, and now those are the only ideas I'm capable of coming up with. That's why I'm doing a comedy Sci-Fi comic instead of writing the great American novel (I seriously have no idea what the living fuck that expression refers to.) And when I get the urge to string a bunch of words together, I just come here and expel verbal diarrhea all over the place. I'm going out on a fecal reference. BLOOG OVER.
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