.: I spoke with Pip for a while tonight.
Turns out her mother (Gantor) has shaved Pip's head.
Bald.
She seems pretty much okay with it, being bald. I guess that there's been a fairly serious lice problem down in Florida, and they decided that this was the best way to combat it all. I've never had lice personally (lucked out somehow), but I know that I wouldn't shave my head if I did. I'm losing hair fast enough now. Why rush things along?
But now, if and when she comes back to New York while it's still winter, what will she do to keep her head and the back of her neck warm? Hats? Scarves? I can't see her using them long enough to lose them, which might happen if she uses them long enough.
She told me some stories about her dilemmas and trials in Florida. The girls who are stupid, the boys that she likes-who are stupid. She also told me about some kid named Big Mike, who's apparently about 16 years old and is the local bully that the kids down there hang out with. I didn't ask Pip if they had a choice in the matter, I was too busy listening about his misdeeds and the question didn't occur to me until after we got off the phone.
Big Mike likes to hurt the other kids, I guess. Body slammed a small eleven year old boy when he came to Pip's aid because BM was twisting her arm. I think that if I should happen to get to Florida before they come back (which was the plan, though that was before Gantor said they'd be back in weeks, not months), I'll have to see this BM kid for myself. Maybe speak to him about why I've turned my back on the violent paths. Maybe show him why, too. Because it's only fun to hurt someone for about two seconds, if you're any kind of human being with a lick of empathy. Even when they deserve it, it's not fun, just necessary.
BM. Heh, that means shit.
I really do miss my girl right now. I miss her big time.
.:On the other side of things, Innerwebs still churning along at 88mph. Had to have been the fucking first 2 cat5 cables. Damn it. I could have been so much more productive these past few weeks had we just bought a new cable. Had we known, anyway. I swore it was the router, and still even suspect it, although at the moment it has quite the alibi.
.:Did the rough pencils and rough dialog for Jedi Jesus. Put it in six panels, which I'll work on some more tomorrow. If it's slow enough at work, I may even get it inked and scanned.
.:Came a long way tonight on the new theme. And now that it's looking mostly the way I want, I'll clean up the code, remove the extraneous personal shit and perhaps release it for public consumption. Will also likely set up the adapted ComicPress theme to go with it for people who want to use it for comics.
The problem I'm having now deals with the TTFTitles plugin. Somehow I hosed it for use on the main blog, even though it works fine on other WordPress installs on this site. I've dumped it from the server and reinstalled it and it's still hosed. I'll play with it tomorrow, and then if I can't figure the fucker out, I'll go get help out on the webespheres.
So technically, we'll call it version .9 at this moment. Version 1.0 will be the cleaned up and spiffified version.
The next step is going to be a fully original theme using all code from scratch. I also want to get some paper on php so that I can possibly start doing some minor coding of my own. I have a couple of ideas for plugins and the like. I would also like to set up my WordPress so that I can have a comic in a page that can be updated on said static page. Though perhaps a plugin would be best suited for that as well.
.:It's late.
For me anyway. Time for bed.
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