TGIDF! (Dailies Friday!) (Patreon)

Once, in my twenties, I was pulled over for no reason, and my entire car was then searched for drugs, with no explanation as to why (was it the Kevin Smith bumper stickers?). Since then I've learned that I'm allowed to *ask why,* even though the thought of confronting a cop terrifies me (because I'm afraid to confront ANY stranger).

So, uh... this was embarrassing. :T

Remember my beloved Canon Hill Antiques store I mentioned in my hourlies last week? Well...

I felt very navel-gazey writing this, but I was surprised by how hard it hit me, and wasn't sure why at first. I needed to write it out.

My high school best friend Adam was the one who introduced me to this old stone two-story building with at least a hundred different vendors inside it. Since then, half of my house is now decorated by them. All my hanging lamps y'all covet were found there. Foster came into the kitchen while I was writing this, and told me that the chair I was sitting on (his contribution to the kitchen) was bought there. The people who ran it have become these mystical characters in my timeline; older, rough around the edges and familiar with half the people who came in. You know that rare movie where the background characters are so interesting and feel so established, you kind of want a spin-off about just them? That's the kind of people who ran this place.

Anyway. I was hoping the fire had only destroyed the back of the building - that's where the photos showed it fuming from - but as you can see from the other photos and their GoFundMe page, if anything wasn't destroyed by the fire, it was probably destroyed by water.

Anyway, anyway. Maybe one day I'll do a comic about "The Dress." I'm 95% sure Adam bought it for me from Cannon Hill.

I haven't written about my clown roommate in awhile, so...

The term "clown college" never ceases to slay me. (Btw, my housemate is going by Foster these days; no pronoun changes or anything, just a name shift!) 

IT WAS FINE, my charts were perfect and my doc even told me I hadn't needed to come in to "check in" on my Celiac disease unless I'd had symptoms of a bigger problem. But it feels good to be told I'm not dying of colon cancer.

I love his backwards out-of-nowhere elastic-band SPROINGs three feet into the air. 

What I'd originally planned to write about was how Pip woke me up at 4:45 and I couldn't get back to sleep, and how nice it was actually, because I woke up to a COMPLETELY unexpected snowfall that caused Luke's school to close for the day (so I went over to have breakfast with him, a rare treat). And I got to take pre-sunrise photos of how pretty it all was.

Thank you, Pip, very thoughtful of you.

Nothing like a dramatic breakup happening outside your house to remind you that you really don't have it that bad with your partner. (Idk if I've ever talked about this here - maybe just on Twitter - but people break up on my street all. the. time. I think because it's just far enough from the center of town and all the bars, it seems like a safe quiet place to have a drunk argument!)

I may have written a comic about the janky setup I had for my standing desk... but in case I didn't, it was two wrong-sized planks of wood wobbling on top of some wire racks. So...

Guys, it is BEAUTIFUL. Look.

(MY SCANNER CAN FIT ON IT?!?!)

My monitor used to sit on a box of GWS books and some excess 2x4s, but now it sits atop... 

... a widdle house for Fennel.

Here's a photo of the setup while I was tweaking today's batch of dailies, using that screen mirroring trick I wrote about awhile ago:

I know you can't feel it, but this desktop is SO SMOOOOOTH. And no hardware - it's all wood joinery! He brought it up in pieces and put it together easily in the studio.

Eric wants to start woodworking professionally - he works in tech and he craves that hands-on tactile experience - so if you're local and you need something made, let me know so I can hook you two up!

And since I shared Fennel, let's round this out with something that has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE and MAY NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN:

Incredible. May something unprecedented and beautiful happen to you this weekend, too. Happy Friday!