Just a brief post right now. I’m visiting my parents this week, and also trying to get caught up on a ton of work.
I exaggerated Steve’s concussion symptoms in the strips just a tad. I don’t actually need meds to help with the shoulder and neck pain…but I did, not that long ago.
The dizziness and lightheadedness still pop back, but are no longer debilitating. At a regularly scheduled concussion PT appointment last week, I was deemed still to have symptoms, but safe to travel.
I can recite the months backwards like a TOTALL BOSS! Go, me!
Top priority right now is Munchkin Discworld, and I am having SO much fun with it. The trip to England is a working one, and I’ll be drawing at the Royal Society for the Arts, a fabulous space just off the Strand, near Aldwych (which, disappointingly, means “Old Port,” and not “Old Witch.”)
I also have to kick 2026 Bike the Barns fundraising into high gear. I’m hoping to launch the campaign Monday. 2025’s swag was VERY late this time – much of it going out now! But it is VERY NICE swag!
Though I didn’t promise it at the time (because it had yet to be announced) the backers who ponied up for original art will be getting…classic Munchkin cards from the 2nd Edition!
This is probably the greatest Insane Charity Bike Ride trove since I began supporting the ride, 14 years ago! I’m hella-proud of these drawings, and if nothing else, I hope they make up for the ridiculous delay in getting swag out to backers!
I still don’t know HOW I will do this year’s Insane Charity Bike Ride – how long I might be able to make it, or even IF I’ll be able to ride my bike at all by then (the dizziness – though fading – has kept me from practicing).
So it makes sense that the theme of this year’s campaign will be “SAFETY FIRST!”
Stay safe, you!
- John
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