This and that.

It’s been a long, semi-productive day.

Ted, Brian and I went to Eddie Izzard’s opening night performance last night. We had killer seats: 4th row, floor – one of the benefits of working in this industry. The show was simply phenomenal, but I will say that I preferred his schtick in the Dressed to Kill Tour.

Once in a while, it’s nice to go to a show that you’re not working.

The best part was… that Ted got all dolled up. We used to go out so often, years ago, and as much as I love him (and think he’s adorable) when he’s in Levi’s and a tee, there’s something about him when he’s in his frock coat and cravat, or when he’s in Ghoulie Cowboy mode… it’s just… nice. Reminds me of when I fell in love.

But enough of that sentimental shit. I spent today working on orders for the Lab, messing with the site update, and testing some of my personal alchemical mixtures. Fairly fruitful, and would have been moreso if I hadn’t had a fuckall terrible headache to contend with all damn day. That’s what I get for having a beer at the show. I’m such a candyass about liquor lately. Total lightweight. Caught the tiniest buzz, and had to grunt through the entire next day. Idiotic. I do recall the days when I could chug a fifth of Jack with nary a burp, but those days are long gone. Who thought I’d end up so clean just by virtue of being too goddamn busy to be bad?

But I digress.

I was able to acquire a pound each of some amazingly good quality red musk and Egyptian amber – it cost me a ton, but it was well worth it. Within the span of about 10 business days, I should be fully restocked and ready to go live with the Equinox update. Now it’s just a matter of making sure the site stays up, and that ANY email gets through to us. I hate to resort to this, but if the problems don’t get resolved soon, I’m going to have to find us another host. I can’t take any more of this aggravation. Between this and the intermittent shipping problems, I’m not getting any sleep at night, and my blood pressure is skyrocketing.

Let’s see… what else happened today? I planted some purple cotton-bally looking guys in the yard, took Brian to the airport, and then came home and worked on the comic with Ted. We had an amazing epiphany regarding one difficult aspect of the story, and it’s flowing even better than before. It’s becoming mre twisted, true, but it’s coming closer to being the hapy medium between my thick metaphorical magickal bombardment and Ted’s love of good, old fashioned BAM! POW! WHOOSH! I am beyond pleased with its progress. Now if I can only find the time to get together with our artist…