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As I write this, I'm relaxing to some tunes on a Pandora station seeded with Mark Knopfler's music.

Jeremy finally grew into Guitar Hero this weekend. He learned what it means to rock out and throw the horns. It was hilarious hearing him sing "Story of My Life" - a short story I'll bet. Then again, he's traveled a lot further than the average 6 year old. Still remembers his trips to Malaysia and California.

The old "Fabricari" comics were carried out to the trash and labeled for the recycling truck to pick up. On trash day, there's gonna be a tower of 11 Brenner boxes on the curb. I'm so happy to get rid of them. They were the embodiment of failure. That is, if I define success as making a living off of my comics.

But it was anything but a failure, I just raised the bar too high.

And I've got an awesome career these days. Speaking of which, I spent a few hours starting work coding a new comic system for my site in .NET. It's a great opportunity to apply some of that studying I've been doing over the last 5 months. And I've still been studying! It has been a huge help for the day job, but I really wanna get that cert to have something to show for it. I'm getting really close. I got a 78% on my last practice exam. (Passing is 80%.)

Speaking of studying - I filled up a box full of old computer books, programming books that I'll never need again, and instead of tossing them out too, I dropped 'em off at Half Price Book Store. Heh. I got 12 bucks!

And on selling off my crap - I've more than paid off my new guitar selling my CD collection. And I still have a hundred more to go! I might even pay off a chunk of my banjo too.

Spring cleaning is a bitch when you dig into minutia. Every square inch of my office/studio has been packed with art, comics, book, CDs, art supplies, computer equipment, sheet music, spare parts for my instrument... It feels great to pare this stuff down, but it's exhausting. And it's liberating.

It won't be long until it's time again to fill it back up with new comics, more art, and more crap.

One more thing, I've also been cleaning out my computer files. In doing so, I uploaded the second "season" of the time lapsed movies I made while drawing my book. For a sentimental guy like me it really puts my head in a knot to watch myself drawing comics 2 years ago. Now that they're on YouTube and Archive.org, I feel like they're a digital time capsule floating out there on the Net as a permanent reminder of the delirious stupor I was in drawing "Fabricari: Ad Hoc."