STATUS / Good day today – it’s K and my one-year anniversary, so date night is planned.

ON THE DESK / A couple of pages of this, a couple of pages of that, and laying out the script for a couple of books (The Department of Truth #32 and Robin: The Boy Wonder #4) since my assistant, who usually does this part, is on vacation.

STATUS / Back at my own home and desk. Back pain nil, which I’d like to figure out how to maintain.

ON THE DESK / Big picture, sorting out my schedule for May – so lots of emails and staring at the calendar today. Other than that, new pages for Dawnrunner #4, and some writing work.

Been doing these for a week now, and I’ve been enjoying them – forces me to be a bit more mindful about what I’m doing with my time, and keeps me focused on the website rather than on social media as the place where I think.

It might be a good idea to designate these the “Status Updates” and change my weekly “Status”s to “Weeknotes” or something, otherwise it could get confusing. I’ll give it a few more days before that.

STATUS / Regular day, other than attending a friend’s standup comedy show in the evening. Back pain is nearing zero, which is a very good sign. Hope it lasts when I get back to work next week.

STATUS / Relaxed day. The last few days have been a bit cooler for this time in summer.

ON THE DESK / No work on deck today. I think I’ll work on final touches for the website update, which should go up in the next few days, and start kerning and OpenType work on the font.

STATUS / Family visited yesterday for dad’s birthday. My uncle wrote a heartfelt tribute to him. Today will be more relaxed in comparison. K is visiting in the evening for dinner.

ON THE DESK / Minor edits on the Pride Starman story. Planning to spend the day working on the website update.

OUT TODAY / The Six Fingers #3 with Dan Watters, Sumit Kumar, Lee Loughridge and Tom Muller, Spectregraph #1 with James Tynion IV and Christian Ward, Dawnrunner #2 with Ram V, Evan Cagle and Dave Stewart and w0rldtr33 #9 with James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire and Dylan Todd are released today.

STATUS / I kept being woken up last night by what I thought was my cat Loki’s plaintive whining, but it was someone else’s cat. Loki’s fine, sunning himself in the early morning daylight as I write this in the kitchen. It’s my dad’s birthday, so my sister and family will be visiting in the evening.

STATUS / Day 1 of staying at the parents’ to caretake for dad. My cat Loki is leaning against the back of the laptop and snoozing as I type this.

This is something I’m trying to do to blog more and “live” on the blog instead of on social media (which I’m mostly not on anyway). Several of my favourite bloggers have this daily “status update”-type thing. Let’s see if that helps. This obviously won’t be going into the newsletter.

The idea is to take a status call at the beginning of each weekday. If it doesn’t work out over time, I’ll just delete all the entries.