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right now it really looks like that big, orange, toupee wearing, larger-then-life con man is going out crashing and burning.

Like a giant flaming turd!!! :)

A giant flaming turd who's about to go whirling and flushing straight back down into the sewers where he belongs!!!XD

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Andreas_Helixfinger wrote:
L.C.Stein wrote:
Andreas_Helixfinger wrote:
right now it really looks like that big, orange, toupee wearing, larger-then-life con man is going out crashing and burning.

Like a giant flaming turd!!! :)

A giant flaming turd who's about to go whirling and flushing straight back down into the sewers where he belongs!!!XD

Wasn't there a comic called Flaming Turd, back in the eighties?

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Yay! The US finally flushed Trump! :D
I saw an old episode of Mythbusters last night and they couldn't use the word "Fart" so they would say "Flartus" or "Trump" to refer to them. Since Trump is a common word for Fart I won't why no one made a bigger deal of that during his abortion of an attempt at a presidency. :/

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Burning the candle from both ends… Effing bloody treestumps! More and more I find that anything that changes the way my body should work messes me up. Alcohol, redbull, coffee, not enough sleep…

But if I eat enough, exercise, and sleep enough I feel and think great!

People HAVE to go without sleep for various reasons. They also need coffee and stuff to keep them awake for work and life, and they need alcohol and other thing to wind down and get some mental padding for the hardness of life… but those things create their own issues and make life so much worse for you.

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But if I eat enough, exercise, and sleep enough I feel and think great!

People HAVE to go without sleep for various reasons. They also need coffee and stuff to keep them awake for work and life, and they need alcohol and other thing to wind down and get some mental padding for the hardness of life… but those things create their own issues and make life so much worse for you.

That's why people always talk about "work-life" balance as if it's some mystical unicorn. I am a natural night owl who works a day job. So I need coffee in the AM to function, and usually a diet soda at lunch to get me though the afternoon. A vicious cycle, I tell ya!

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And that's without four medications that warn of "dizziness" and "drowsiness " New normal so had to adjust everything.

Caffeine doesn't work well for me anymore so I've gone to Gatorade and protein bars instead. I'm finding that decaffeinated green tea establishes a good rhythm as opposed to "keeping me awake". No coffee because of acid reflux. I don't want to have THAT keeping me awake.

And something as simple as to stop telling myself how tired I am if I happen to yawn. I'm not tired. Just need some oxygen.

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Coffee is definitely an achilles heel for me. I too have become more sensitive to what it's actually doing to me when I drink it. I can feel how it makes everything rush and flip out within me. Those caffeine stress hormones at work, which also screws up my sleep, especially if I drink it in the afternoon.

It doesn't help that I live in Scandinavia either, where we have these really long, dark winter periods every year that just naturally makes us feel gloomy and depressed til' summer comes. That's why we are so obsessed with alcohol and caffeine and sweet pastries in my country.

But I don't drink much alcohol these days and I have at least made moves towards replacing coffee with Rooibos tea which is red tea that has zero caffeine in it, which I drink most evenings. Perhaps I can actually make that full transition this year. I hope so anyway.

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I need to start drinking tea again…I get so cold, but I like the taste of coffee and the smell of it. Green tea can be energizing too. For some reason coffee can affect my sleep if I drink it in the evening, but not colas.

@bravo, the day I have to give up coffee and tomatoes for acid reflux is the day I stop living. I don't know how I would do it…

#andreas I also wanted to thank you…a while back, I started drinking coffee in a different mug thanks to the comment you left on my comic about coffee. It has definitely helped.

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@bravo, the day I have to give up coffee and tomatoes for acid reflux is the day I stop living. I don't know how I would do it…

On my birthday a few years ago I had a cup of coffee after dinner.

Got home and had the worst chest pain. In fact all the symptoms of a heart attack. Went to the ER got all the prodding and poking through the night.(they had Turner Classic movies on though) It was reflux and not my heart, but still I don't skip the coffee it's lots of discomfort if not pain.

I can tolerate one small cup of coffee. To me not really worth it when I'd routinely drain the carafe of the coffee maker. Can't have citrus either but can tolerate tomatoes. And definitely don't mix them together. No coffee with a slice of pizza followed up by a lemon ice.

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#andreas I also wanted to thank you…a while back, I started drinking coffee in a different mug thanks to the comment you left on my comic about coffee. It has definitely helped.

You're welcome🙂 Was it a travel mug? What does it look like?

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Bravo, sorry to hear that. It's good to know your limits. I actually found out I was allergic to quinoa a couple year ago. There were times I would get these stomach pains like I wanted to die, and antacids would not help. After painful trial and error, I found out it was quinoa. That was a sad day for me sine I like quinoa and my husband is vegetarian.

Andreas,, the mug I got was a gift from my office - it's a Yeti mug. I also like it since it's very well insulated, and I can pour more coffee in it!

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I had that yesterday! Only had one cup of coffee though, the night before. The acid in my stomach was doing bad things.

I did a photoshoot on Friday, went of with the models and friends afterwards, stayed at their hotel but couldn't sleep because redbul and whatever vodka drink I had messed with my brain.
Then off home early the next day. Got a little bit of sleep during the morning. Then off at 1pm to photograph a model friend of mine at a hotel… Off home at 6pm for another nap.

Then I did the Quackcast at 12am and that lasted till 4am. Didn't get much sleep again…
Spent all day sewing.
Went to bed late still sewing and watching mythbusters…
Exhausted at work the next day.
Got home, edited the Quackcast then stayed up till past 3am sewing, watching mythbusters and taking photos of my outfit.

Got another 3 and a half hours sleep. Then I rushed to get up and get ready to go off to the other side of the city to be a photographer on a boat party the models invited me to… Took over an hour to get there.

Great fun on the boat. I ate almost nothing, drank too much again. took many good pics… Off to an afterparty afterwards with a girl I met on the boat, then off to her place afterwards, then off home at 2am.
I got an hour sleep (because I couldn't fall asleep)… then off to work. Then finally off home for 2 hours nap, then uploading and editing photos…

I finally got about 5 hours sleep in a row last night, but I still feel awful :(

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This afternoon I'm off to see that lady from the boat again today, maybe take in a show and hopefully not get to bed toooooo late dammit!

It's great to say yes to stuff and take opportunities where they present themselves, but it's hard on the system. I've largely been avoiding coffee but I've been drinking a LOT of tea.

Anyway- life in a place with no CoVid-19. Summer in Perth.

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It's great to say yes to stuff and take opportunities where they present themselves, but it's hard on the system. I've largely been avoiding coffee but I've been drinking a LOT of tea.

Anyway- life in a place with no CoVid-19. Summer in Perth.
"Summer in Perth" ? …or "Memoirs of a Root-rat" ? B-) Haha…

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"Summer in Perth" ? …or "Memoirs of a Root-rat" ? B-) Haha…

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"Summer in Perth" ? …or "Memoirs of a Root-rat" ? B-) Haha…


Haha !! Not msny would get that pic. !

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I've just finnished celebrating my nephew's birthday. He's turning 1-year old next tuesday. Funny thing was that the birthday cake that his mother, my younger sister, made had the same colors as my user banner. Strawberry- and -pear colored cream on the outside with blueberry- and -white chocolate flavoured mousse on the inside. Delicous and not too sweet😋

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I've been muddling through "brain fog," which I thought was a term I made up to describe the mental migraine symptoms, but apparently it's a word doctors are using to describe a symptom of post-Covid syndrome?

I had the mildest case of Covid last summer. My chest hurt in an unusual way for three days, and I had a temperature of 99 (97.3 is my typical). But also all these post-Covid symptoms just sound migraine to me. I have had an increase in migraines since then, but could be unrelated. Either way, I struggle to focus.

Anywho, I am making progress on Used Books. Two pages left in the current episode, and then I'll be printing my fifth book. It used to take two to three years, but this one has taken over five years for the same 200+ pages. So, I'm excited about that.



What I'm not excited about is that my story has come to a big "Bridge Out" sign. I know the finale of my story and have scripts for much of the stories on the way, but I have exactly zilch for my next chapter. :( I am most certainly going to have to take a hiatus to assemble my book and to do some serious writing.

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I think I am a lerker(?) 😂 but that is wonderful! So many books you have printed. (I print mine small at home and it takes me months though or years to print it ready) but I do enjoy seeing how many and how much you accomplish with your work! I hope if you do sell you sell a lot of them.

And please be safe and take care are you feeling all better now?

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I think I am a lerker(?) 😂 but that is wonderful! So many books you have printed. (I print mine small at home and it takes me months though or years to print it ready) but I do enjoy seeing how many and how much you accomplish with your work! I hope if you do sell you sell a lot of them.

And please be safe and take care are you feeling all better now?
Aw. Thank you. The books look nice but I rarely sell any (maybe three or four books over the course of a decade). I buy a few copies to give to my friends. I get them printed through KaBlam, and they are available through IndyPlanet.

I'm okay today. I've had migraines for thirty years. They've gotten more frequent recently, but it might be because of how rapidly my eyesight is changing again. I've never figured out the triggers for certain, but they are mostly visual and/or weather-related. (I started getting migraines before storms last year. It happens every single time now.)

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That's awesome, Used Books! This week (if I can get my act together) I will post my 100th strip. I'd love to get my comics compiled into a book, so I will check those places out. I am sorry to hear about your migranes. I get these awful tension headaches which sometimes mean that is a night I cannot draw…:(

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That's a phenomenal collection UB! Amazing achievement :D

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It's finally happened, Covid got out of containment here! One of the security guards looking after the returned travelers with the infection got it and was out in the community… So far no one else has tested positive but the whole region is on lockdown till they've had a chance to trace and test all his connections.
Fingers crossed no one else got it and lockdown will end!

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Weird when you learn that people think you're hot… Dressing well and taking care of your hair pays off.

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Thanks, oz! I can't wait to get the book finished and in hand. Hoping to have it together by the end of the month.

You guys stay safe over there! My sis and family evacuated to her in-laws because of a wildfire. I hate to see this happening again. It's so deja vu from last year. -_- I don't think the world can handle another 2020.

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As my webcomic's production is drawing to a close, I thought as well to mention that I am opening up to say that I am making a print version of the comic–with a new team.

The webcomic is going to continue, but I think the print version is going to continue though.

Anyway what do you guys think?



I'm going to make a print comic this year! :)

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