Today has been one heck of a bad day for me. As of the time I write this, I've been rained on by a thunderstorm, made late for a submission date for my portfolio, and had beer thrown at the back of my head. Yet somehow, those events are actually making me laugh. This would normally be a concern for my mental health, but I can't help but think of all the delightful ideas such misery gives me for comics in the future.
When I was younger, I had an old mentor of a boyscout leader whom we referred to affectionately as Mr. C, who always used to find some way he could make an example of how life might be worse if a person complained. If anyone ever whined that they were thirsty in the middle of a thunderstorm while sitting in their tent, he would invariably do something like have them shove their head out of the door and stare at the sky until they were no longer thirsty. Mr. C's favorite method of teaching new canoeists how to do things was to simply flip their boat on the first trip out. On at least one occasion, I witnessed him drag someone who was too lazy to get up, sleeping bag and all from their tent onto wet grass. As a young kid, I quickly learned not to complain. At least not unless I wanted to cook breakfast with the stove inside of my sleeping bag ( He was and is a helpful guy like that. ). As a result, I learned to do much the same as Mr. C and simply learn to remember that rather than simply being wet in the rain, I could be wet in the rain with a towel ( The irony and humor of a sopping wet towel under such conditions never failed to amuse everyone except the person holding the towel. ). As such, I eventually learned to simply think of all the ways things could be more of a karmatic slap in the face and use that to think on the bright side of things.
So, I suppose I should thank Mr. C next time I see him. Perhaps, I'll flip his canoe. I'll make sure he's got his towel first though.
And a bit of news here: The store is up and running for you guys. I haven't quite had time to fully integrate it into the site, but I'll get that done as time goes on.
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