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Happy Birthday, Gail!

You know I almost forgot it, and just by chance I remembered. Today is Gail’s 5th birthday! That’s right! That little puppy I started posting pictures of back in 2019 is a full 5 years old today.

You might have noticed I stopped posting weekly pictures of her a while ago. For the most part, she had stopped growing, so there really wasn’t that much of a change from week to week. Also, I was having trouble finding the time to make the effort.

Rest assured, Gail keeps on being an indomitable force in my life. Never does a day go by that I’m not forced to wait on hand and foot to this ornery critter. Other than when I’m at work, Gail is almost always with me. You’d think she’d be better behaved by now, but this dog loses her shit every time she sees a ball… or another dog… or food… or just realizes when we’ve turned down any of the roads on the way to one of her many favorite places.

To say this dog is spoiled would be an understatement. To me, spoiling means you treat them better than they deserve. With my previous dog, Grace, she was so good, spoiling was effectively impossible, but with Gail, spoiling is simply unavoidable. She lacks any sort of self-control or discipline, and she isn’t shy about letting you know how she feels in any given situation. If you have her on a leash, you better be careful because she can easily dislocate your shoulder.

But Gail is also easy to love. It’s amazing how she is such a people magnet. Gail has her own fan club, and people take walks by my yard just to come up to the fence to say hi to Gail and pet her. She’s very friendly and wants nothing more than to eat, play, and be loved.

Oh, and to poop… Soooo much poop!

So happy birthday Baby Gail!

-f2x

It’s just so surreal…

Yesterday marked 10 years to the day of my mother’s passing. Dad and I went out to dinner to pay homage in her memory. Like the decade before, I never would have dreamed we’d end up where we did.

I still maintain that somewhere along the way, I ended up in the “bad timeline”. I’m not saying that things are all that bad, or that I regret my decisions. On the contrary, I’m where I am today in spite of my decisions. No matter what choices I could have made, this is where I was fated to be… and it’s so unsatisfying.

On a lighter note

My comic is 20 years old this month! Think about it… 20 years ago I started putting pictures of stick figures up here in an attempt to dress up a rather boring hand coded html page. Seeing how it started and how it turned out is kind of neat. It has certainly gone through some dramatic changes from those original daily panels to my current sporadic offerings. I wish I could have combined the naive wit of my youth with my current “drawing” abilities. I’ve become far too jaded in my old age and it puts a damper on my creativity.

Of course looking back at some of my early work, I’m not so sure my “wit” was all that great either. The “art” was definitely bad… And now that I’m looking at it, the gags weren’t really all that great either, but I was putting out a daily panel rather consistently for a while there.

Yeah, now that I think about it… those old comics sucked. As I’m glancing through them I feel myself cringing in disgust… Wow… Maybe I do have some regrets after all! Oh those wasted hours I spent navel gazing to come up with crap that makes Chis Chan look inspired! Thank god no one is actually reading this shit!

So to wrap it up…

Happy New Year, everybody! I’m really not sure how much stuff I’ll add to Flush Twice in ’24, but I’ll get to it whenever I get the chance. Be sure to like and subscribe, and leave a comment down below if there’s anything you’d like to see happen over the next 12 months.

Pax,

-f2x