Done!; also, My Comic Reading . . .

Finally woke up before the alarm! (4:51 AM) Still, grogginess and not being used to doing this in a while led to one hour and 40 minutes past ideal time . . . skipping a shower. No matter, of course, I finally got myself some time, and have used it! Kind of tempered from this being a Brain Age day. Most importantly, I'm set up well for tomorrow!

Comic strips I read/kept up with today/recently (a lot of help from my RSS Feeder, redundance helps prevent misses) . . .:

- Joyce and Walky
- Shortpacked
- Sluggy Freelance
- Funky Winkerbean
- Sally Forth
- Zits
- Curtis
- Minimum Security
- Pearls Before Swine
- 9 Chickweed Lane
- Candorville
- Jane's World
- Luann
- Least I Could Do
- Penny and Aggie
- Loserz
- Megatokyo
- Stone Soup
- Preteena
- Lucky Cow
- Cleats
- For Better or For Worse
- Kevin and Kell
- Cool Cat Studio
- Fans!
- Sketchies
- Houston Chronicle Package (3 10-Comic Pages; 9 Chickweed Lane, Agnes, B.C., Beetle Bailey, Bizarro, Crankshaft, Crock, Curtis, Fast Track, Fred Basset, Funky Winkerbean, Hagar the Horrible, Hi & Lois, Mallard Fillmore, Mary Worth, Mother Goose & Grimm, One Big Happy, Pardon My Planet, Piranha Club, Real Life Adventures, Rhymes with Orange, Safe Havens, Sally Forth, Sherman's Lagoon, Six Chix, Spider-Man, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (space formerly taken by Tumbleweeds), Willy & Ethel, Wizard of Id, Zits)
- Judge Parker
- Errant Story
- Sinfest
- Real Life
- Schlock Mercenary
- Dominic Deegan
- Evil Inc.
- Applegeeks
- Questionable Content
- Barkeater Lake
- Imagine This
- PvP
- Out There
- UserFriendly
- Sheldon
- Garfield Minus Garfield
- Count Your Sheep
- Devil's Panties
- Anders Loves Maria
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Ceral
- Unshelved
- The Wotch
- Cheer
- VG Cats
- Courting Disaster
- I Drew This
- Ozy and Millie
- Sore Thumbs
- Taking Up Space
- Todd and Penguin
- Girl and Monster
- ZAP!
- Zortic
- College Roomies From Hell!!!
- Antihero for Hire
- Candi
- El Goonish Shive
- Penny Arcade

Not listed are favorites Something Positive, Doonesbury, and Lio. Eventually, I will list the comics I have by subscription from GoComics and Comics.com, comics I read on exclusive days (usually weekends), comics I read on the LA Times (yeah, how quaint), and the many other webcomics I read.

My most recent Usenet posts . . .:

Re: Paris Hilton Taking A Pee

Re: Ink Pen (5/20 to 5/22)

DS Parody Alert (5-22)

ADV to Stream Welcome to the NHK through Crunchyroll . . .

Sinfest (5-22)

Applegeeks (5-22)

100 crunches today. Just to be clear, I do push-ups Monday-Wednesday-Friday, crunches Tuesdays-Thursdays. I'll also see about doing my walking again . . .

'Til next time . . .

Slow Day . . .

Though I managed to get to bed around 10 last night (10:17), I still got up late today. Well, being Monday, I actually got up with my alarm at 4:18 to set my main computer's clock, and then the laptop, and then my PDA (if necessary), and then my clock-radio. After I got back to bed, I was out for quite a while, at least by my standards; the "setting time" was also under serious drowsiness. Anyway, I ended up 4 and a half hours past Ideal Time.

As it's getting late, I have to finish now.

'Til next time . . .

First Real Post . . .

Well, it seems the key to a good day is getting up on time, and now that I finally started setting my alarm again after those weeks of late nights, it's coming through! I value a good night's sleep highly, and fear of setting the alarm after all those late nights had left me getting up late too often, and concurrently going to sleep late. So, that's that.

The goal, of course, is to be out of the shower by 8:00 AM (let's call it, "Ideal Time"), which still doesn't bode well when a teaching job comes along . . . eventually . . . hopefully; anyway, I was out by 10:20 today, so that makes it a "2 hour late day," made worse by prescription pick-ups that needed to be done as well. Anyway, Iron Man tomorrow; unlike Harold and Kumar last week (missed), this one's a must.

Finally, happy May Day! For those who forgot, this is the true Labor Day, at least for most of the world. Though the US celebrates it on the first Monday of September, it's a great irony this country that won't celebrate it properly is the originator of May Day. To be exact, the Haymarket Affair of 1886. Just another historical tidbit, for what it's worth . . .

Anyway, 'til next time . . .

(pretty good for a true first post! I guess . . .)