A year ago today, YDK was born! And right from the start, video games started getting in the way. Right about the time that I needed to be doing the first comic for AoA, the long-awaited Final Fantasy XII was released, and I couldn’t help put off things to play it. Just a tad, mind you. I still made a comic, but it wasn’t the one I intended… Then came the X-Box 360. Then the Wii. After that there was a job that got in the way, but that wasn’t nearly as interesting as the video games and I’ve already blogged about it in length… so why am I mentioning all this now? It’s just to remind you that these things have been with us all throughout ydk’s existence so far, and the coming of another such thing should not be any different.

You see, after a long year in which I worked my butt off for no money and little thanks, and coming an AWFUL long way in that year with AoA and LDCB, both of which have improved in leaps and bounds throughout their first year (not so much with LoA, but I’m telling you now: Year 2 is the Year of Dock Traz!), I decided to get myself a little birthday present to celebrate the year of a job well done. And I thought it was only fitting that that present be the last of the next-generation video game systems I had yet to get my grubby little hands on. Yes, today, I went out and bought a Playstation 3!

Now, upon excitedly texting some of my closest friends with this news, I got a bit of a mixed reaction. Some were amused, but concerned that it would get in the way of writing. Some were equally excited for me. Some were interested. And some were almost scornful. Okay, so technically, I said “some” and for all but one of those, I probably should have just said “one” but I was trying to make it sound more generalized. But you know what? I think I deserve a little special something. I think I’ve earned it. And more importantly: I don’t think it’s going to interfere as badly as I think some might think. I mean: just look at me now. It’s midnight. I bought it about eight hours ago, and STILL haven’t hooked it up! I’ve spent my day as I needed to, despite buying the PS3. I went to the grocery store. I cooked dinner for the fam. I went to church. I hung out with friends when I could have been home drooling over it. I came home and I got to work on the comic and the site. The PS3 is still in the box, people! Tell me that that’s not commitment to what I do! Tell me that any lack of faith in my ability to juggle what I need to do, what I want to do, and what I do to relax might be a tad unfounded at this point!

Ahem… Sorry, but it apparently gets on my nerves a little more than I realized when someone acts like they know what’s good for me and my life better than I do and what I can, can’t, will, and won’t do… Bottom line: I’m a person who appreciates the need for some kick-back time. So I’ve factored that into my life. That’s aside from the 32 hours of a paying job I work every week, the anywhere from 20-50+ hours I may put into the website in any given week, and whatever else I need to do. And it is work. If you don’t think it is, then YOU try piecing together two or three comics a week, or editing Episode 10 (gives me shivers just thinking about it). It’s not as easy as it looks.

Wow… I had absolutely no intention of making this blog sound preachy and defensive… not even a little. I’m REALLY sorry about that. It’s not as big a deal as it seems like I’ve made it sound… Anywho… so I’ve more or less already told you some of what’s up for November, but here’s just a little more detail… There will definately be another blog at the end of the month, wrapping things up and letting you know how everything has gone. There may be one right in the middle as well to check up, but that one’s less certain. On the AoA front, this week’s comics are all set-up for the EVENT, so obviously, it has to do with Josh. You’re gonna be finding out a lot more about Josh, how he got to where he is, and how he’s very important to a lot else going on in the comic. It’s going to be a good time! Of course, you know: LDCB has been delayed, but don’t fret: We have a lot of new videos lined up which I’m very excited about. I hope to bring the first one to you next week. As for LDCB itself, I believe that with the delayed production, I SHOULD (yes, even with having bought a PS3; again: have a little faith in me here) be able to have the new camera for earlier in the new season than I had thought I would, which is good news because it means a better production quality for more (if not all of) Volume 2 now! And again: The Year of Dock Traz! Those of you who have read earlier incarnations are gonna be blown away by what’s coming for LoA. I promise!

Now, if you don’t mind, I think it’s time I FINALLY get around to opening the PS3 box up! See ya’!

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So I was supposed to write a blog on Monday… but then I didn’t… true story.

Oh well. This will serve as Monday’s blog AND Wednesday’s promised “information.” What do you want first? An amusing anecdote or information? … I’m not sure if I have an amusing anecdote, so I’ll start with the information and see where it takes us…

First and foremost, I know there are about… er… thirty or so people (probably) out there (I don’t know who all of you are, although I think I might be able to figure it out if I really tried) who are eager to learn when the next LDCB is going to premiere… well…. As it happens, some things have come up. There are some personal issues that are going to need some time and there are some production issues that could benefit by having that time, so I’ve decided to postpone the premiere of LDCB Volume 2…. until 2008… I know: I’m sorry, but it has to be done. I can promise that Volume 2 will be better for it, okay? And what’s more, I can promise something else: just because LDCB is staying on hiatus longer than expected, does NOT mean that Traz Productions isn’t going to be shooting more videos your way! We are! And it’s going to be awesome! Coming this November, Traz Productions is going to MAJORLY expand our video line-up beyond just episodes of LDCB! We’ll still have LDCB and we’ll still have other LDCB-related videos, but now, IN ADDITION to LDCB, we’re going to have… well… lots of other stuff. The possibilities are endless, and we plan on taking this opportunity to go in a lot of different directions.

I will go ahead and tell you: first up, I plan on a little late Halloween treat, but I’ll tell you no more than that. Soon after, the socks will be back! And if you don’t know what I mean by that, check out Sock Puppet Theatre in the Extras section. After that… well, like I said: endless possibilities.

So that’s the LDCB portion of the news I promised… hope it doesn’t disappoint you too much about LDCB, and I also hope that you find our EXPANDED Traz Productions a worthy substitute! Now, I also have LoA news…

 I think I’ve mentioned it either here or elsewhere… but if it’s here, I’m too lazy to look, and if it’s elsewhere, I’m REALLY too lazy to look, so… you may or may not know that I’m going back to Square 1 with Legends of Az. Again… And really depending on how long you’ve been with me on LoA… again and again and again… but this time, it’s different… I hope. This coming month, I’m going to take my blood, sweat, tears, and story idea with me into National Novel Writing Month, and I plan to come out with a book! Or at least a really nice start to one. And if it is just a start to one then I plan on plowing right through the end of the competition and continue with the insanely persevering writing method on into December. During that time, I will also post SOME of the story on the site. Don’t worry, I’m not going to be skipping over anything. It’s just that I plan to write faster than I post anything, so even if I have 50,000 words or more written by the end of November, you’ll only have gotten a fraction of them on youdontknow.net. You’ll get more over time. But it might be a little slow-going. My focus here is going to be on the writing. I’ll post when I can. Hopefully, you’ll get an update a week. Which means: if all goes well, that’s an excerpt a week, a video a week, AT LEAST two comics a week… Yes, I do believe November should be a good month for ydk.

Now, let’s see… funny story, funny story, funny story… hmm… I got sick this past weekend, but it really wasn’t funny sick. Not even gross sick. Just annoying sick. I’m still getting over it… Hmmm… Nothing funny or interesting really happened at work… and the rest of the week, I do pretty much nothing but work on the site and buy DVD’s… well, sorry to disappoint, but my life sucks! Seriously: boring city over here! I can tell you an interesting thing I found out today: Dumbledore preferred the guys. Who knew? Ooh… that just gave me a really bad new idea………. heh… you’ll find out what evil idea I just had eventually, I suspect… until then… later, peeps!

This probably isn’t going to be a terribly long post for a couple reasons. First off, I don’t think I’m really in the mood to be writing right now. My head is all fuzzy and not-wanting-to-think right now. And also, a new episode of South Park (new, as in it premiered last night, anyway) comes on in thirty minutes, and I plan to watch it.

So Monday night after work, I changed out of my silly uniform and went to Denny’s with Jazznea. Now, I wouldn’t necessarily “recommend” Denny’s anyway, but I thought it was good enough and options are limited in the middle of the night, so… whatever. But I’m pretty much done with Denny’s now. As I was finishing up my meal, I uncovered buried in the pancakes what I first looked at and my brain just didn’t really grasp what I was seeing. As I stared at it for a moment, I finally realized that I was looking at a big black dead bug… a cricket… in my pancakes…

Now, I’m not particularly squeamish to begin with, but as I contemplated having eaten food that was mingling unbeknownst to me with this dead bug the whole time, I couldn’t help but feel a little wobbly in the tummy. I put down my fork, slid the plate away, and distanced myself from all thoughts of finishing that food that remained uneaten. And sadly, that’s pretty much the whole story. I showed the bug to Jannea. We showed the bug to the waitress, who was very nice by the way. She looked and reacted appropriately appalled by the fact that there was a bug in the meal, and I can appreciate that. What I can’t appreciate is the snippet of conversation I heard between her and her manager as she showed her my unpleasant surprise, which was, “… he could have put it in there himself…” I mean, I can appreciate the possibility, but even so, they should have comped the meal. They did not. They did give me a slight discount, and offered to make me more food, and offer to which I was just like, “You think I want the people who just served me bugs to make me MORE food? Seriously?”

So… yeah… I’m aware that I probably should have really gone off on them. The whole thing does rather disgust me and I never want to eat there (or at any of their places) again, and would recommend that you avoid them as well… but beyond that, I find that I just don’t really care to make any more of a stink about it. I’m not sure when I became such a mellow person, but… whatever. Sh** happens. So long as it didn’t kill me, it at least makes for a story… I suppose it would make for a story if it did kill me too… a better one even. But I wouldn’t get to tell it, so… eh.

So that was the start of my week. That came after an okay weekend. Work on Saturday and Sunday was fine. No big complaints from me. Monday was a little busy. And I marveled at myself for agreeing to work a little on Tuesday despite the fact that it was an inconvenience and I really didn’t want to and I keep insisting that I’m going to stop doing that… But that was fine too. It was only for four hours, and it wasn’t TOO busy. Although, I will say, working in the middle of the day on Tuesday was somewhat different than working in the afternoon and evening. Different types of experiences with the trucks, which in turn made me a little more nervous about screwing something up than I tend to be anymore. But it was all good. I finished the Cable and Deadpool collection I was currently reading and go to plan out a few more of the upcoming AoA comics.

Also, somewhere along the way this week, I stopped being stressed about the upcoming inconveniences in my life of Jury Duty and CLEET training. I figure I’ll probably end up waiting a lot on Monday for jury duty, but it should be good reading time, and I’ll take that. Potentially better than having to deal with work. And with any luck, maybe I’ll just end up being excused anyway, and all will be good. As for CLEET training, I’ll do what I have to do where I have to do it and when I have to do it, and there’s not much else I can do than that. Not worth worrying about. I’ll just do what I can to get it done and it will be what it will be.

And that’s all I’ve got to say for now. Later, peeps.