Ok, let’s start with last week‘s plan:
Draw up some pencils for a project, get started into a war thing.
And that’s pretty much happened. I also had to respond to some emails and… it turns out I’m bad at responding to emails. Follow ups and stuff, I’m just bad at it. This is me shaming myself.
Next week, I’ll get on top of those things. Monday.
Had another IBS attack on Friday, it’s become very regular. Dunno what to do about it at all. It feels like once the doc has gone “Yeah. you’ve got ibs” there’s literally nothing else to be done just suffer the consequences of that.
Will make doc appointment on Monday too. Also gonna try and reign in my eating a bit, nothing after six (I’ve cut out gluten a few years ago when the IBS attacks where less frequent but much more painful and that seemed to work, now the attacks are frequent, but a third of the level of pain)
Here’s how an attack works: usually in the evening I’ll get a sense that it’s gonna be a bad night, my stomach starts telling me it’s not happy. Then around 1 it’s sore, to the point where I know I’ll not be able to sleep, around 3 it’s very painful (I’ve tried buscopan, pain killers, andrew’s liver salts, and the only thing that seems to have a modicum of effect is a hot water bottle)
Around 5-6 the pain starts to lesson, at this point I’ve been awake all night, but now I can hit the bed and be reasonably confident it’ll ease off enough that I can sleep.
And, if I’m lucky, I’ll be left alone to sleep until 11. Sometimes that can’t happen, and I’m up at 8:30. That day though, is often just a write-off for me.
I’m lucky in that I work from home, so I can take a day and just crawl into bed and sleep it off. Many can’t. And god knows what it would be like if I was still working.
Anyway, that’s where we are with that. On to other matters.
Boy this month flew by, didn’t it?
Let’s take stock:
I drew some folklore thursdays (technically I drew 3, and had one in reserve)
Beaowulf 
Anteros 
Portals 
Dragoni
There’s a couple of my absolute favs in this last month, so that’s good.
Other things I drew: finished off Chimpsky ep5 (6 pages), pencilled and inked Destroyer (8 pages) pencilled a thing can’t talk about (7 pages) and started on a War Story thing for a charity, pencilled and inked 2 pages.
So, that brings my monthly count to:
| Project | Pencils | Inks | Colours | Letters |
| Chimpsky 5 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Destroyer | 8 | 8 | ||
| Folklore Thursday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Pencil Project | 7 | |||
| War Story | 2 | 2 | ||
| Channel Hex | 2 | |||
| TOTALS | 28 | 19 | 3 | 3 |
OK, that’s not too bad an amount of work. I managed to get started on Channel Hex, and I’ll talk more about that next month when, hopefully I can tell you much more about it.
Next month I’ve got a war story to finish (time restricted, unfortunately) it’s 14 pages in total, but I’ve two finished on it, so 12 pages. PLUS a new thing for 2000ad, an entirely new strip created by me and Rory McConville. Which should be enormous fun. After that, I’ve got more Chimpsky to do!
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