Outsourcing Effects Dinosaurs Too

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No job is safe. Especially so when your co-workers regrow teeth.

Yes, Whammies! Shattered Laptop Screen, hooray!

So yesterday, in a brief moment of inefficiency, I dropped my laptop. After envisioning every robot's worst nightmares of hardware failure and deathly corruption, Louie snapped me out of it with "aaaawww, cmon NO WHAMMIES!!" Peeked over the couch to find the screen completely cracked down the middle.

It just figures.  That's really all I have to say about it.

In the meantime I can use a spare monitor I have hooked up into the spare VGA port and still use it to its full potential - aside from the black void that stares at me in front of the keyboard while I look away shamefully at its temporary replacement. So for now I can still continue working at the very least!

So I'm not going to whine about it or sulk, or admit defeat to the world of doomsday devices.  I've researched all I could about replacement screens and was about to bite the proverbial bullet to have a tech shop do the repair for me and eat the cost.  I had just received the halfway milestone payment for some freelance spriting I am doing - was just grateful to be in a position to be able to afford the repair, and my tax return will be in the bank within the week.  Then I found a video outlining the screen replacement procedure for the exact model laptop I have and it looked REALLY easy.  Being that I am cheap as hell, the obvious choice was to do the repair myself. Tonight I will shop around at online wholesaler sites for the best deal, but so far I've found that the most I will pay after shipping and everything will be $90 and have the screen within 3 days - beats the pants off paying $200 or more, considering this laptop was a refurbish that I paid less than that for it.

My mom is awesome and got me an external harddrive for my birthday that performs routine backups of all my files while it's plugged in so I'm very fortunate - even if this did turn out FAR worse and the whole thing exploded, I still would have had all my hundreds of million dollar Work-In-Progress art pieces intact. Thanks mom, you have good tingly danger senses like all of the other legendary mothers of history. Except yours protected ME so that makes you better.

Awfully Lawfully

The winter holidays may be different for people of all walks of life, but one thing is pretty universal - in-laws are inevitable. And yes, it even applies to dinosaurs.

This week's comic utilizes the amazing live action intrigue of my 2 year-old daughter's dinosaur toys.  Notice how good they are for the camera?  (Click to enlarge)

Had lots of in-law action going on for both sides of my family celebrations.  Nothing but love for you guys! (except for you, Nick Frazier.  I offer only my fear toward you.)