My cousin got mar­ried this week­end (con­grat­u­la­tions Tasha!) which means that my whole family is in town and every­thing is crazy hectic. There­fore, tonight’s blog update is going to be short and sweet (and late).

1) First, I’d like to point your atten­tion to the fine folks at Dig­i­tal Strips, who have kindly done a pod­cast review of Chronil­log­i­cal. Take a listen if you have a moment! The pod­cast is really enter­tain­ing—they’ve got great banter, which is key—and of course it’s pretty spiffy that they’re talk­ing about our strip. So yeah. Listen to it! Or else!

2) John is going to be out of town this Wednes­day and Thurs­day, which unfor­tu­nately can only mean one thing: FRIDAY FILLER! Apolo­gies in advance.

3) I know I keep saying that I’ll be updat­ing the site—but seri­ously, you’re going to be seeing some changes this July. There really is a new site design in the works, and we’re also con­tem­plat­ing chang­ing our approach to the strip. We want to keep things fresh, both for you read­ers and for us as cre­ators. We’ll keep you posted as the sit­u­a­tion develops.

That’s all I got. Greg out.

Okay, so: I have been work­ing on the site redesign. It is coming together! I think you will like it. I am hoping hoping hoping it will be up and run­ning some­time tomor­row night.

While work­ing on the Oh No Robot inte­gra­tion I real­ized that I hadn’t been get­ting email notices about pend­ing tran­scrip­tions. I had inter­preted the lack of noti­fi­ca­tions to mean that we just weren’t get­ting people transcribin’; instead, it turns out there were a whole slew of tran­scrip­tions wait­ing to be approved! Due to my crummy admin­is­tra­tive prac­tices, they lan­guished unused and unseen for far too long. Def­i­nitely my bad. I feel pretty bummed about it!

ANYWAY, I just approved them. And I promise to keep a much better eye on the Oh No Robot queue from now on. I can only hope our awe­some tran­scribers haven’t gotten too dis­cour­aged by my lameness!

In other news, I am going to be out of town for three or so weeks start­ing this Wednes­day. Where will I be? Swat­ting mos­qui­toes and out­run­ning jaguars in Brazil. Seri­ously! John will be tend­ing things while I’m away.

This means a few things for the site:

1. John and I are going to try to do the whole “distance collaboration” thing while I’m away. We’ve done this before (we were on oppo­site sites of the coun­try for most of the comic’s run) so we’re hoping it won’t affect updates too much. That said, don’t be sur­prised if you see one or two filler strips during the next few weeks.
2. In a clev­erly thought out scheme, I sched­uled our major site redesign to go live mere hours before I take my leave from the coun­try. Still, if some­thing goes wrong with the site (as it invari­ably will) please email me with your prob­lem. My net access will be some­what inter­mit­tent, but I’ll try to sort out the issue as quickly as pos­si­ble. In gen­eral, we ask for your patience if any­thing goes wrong with the site.
3. I won’t promise any blog posts while I’m away—but who knows! At the very least I’ll do a wrap-​up of the trip once I get back. In the mean­time, John’s in charge of the blog. What will he do with it? No one knows.