Well, this last week of May has sure gone quickly, hasn't it? I had actually been ahead on the updates, but I just got this one done about a day ago. And the last two emails I worked on took me an hour to address. This is a continuing problem, and although I've gone through this many times, I'd like to explain why the situation is so critical.
First, although under-employed (I work for myself - great boss but he doesn't pay $hit

) I work long hours and don't have much time for other things.
Second, although life is hard for everyone, not everyone is as overloaded as I am. I've got elderly relatives to care for, and my life basically consists of running around putting out fires, never able to get to anything before crisis stage, and then trying to stay awake late at night doing
CSR work when I'm too tired to accomplish anything else.
Then there's the fact that the sheer size of
CSR makes the updates difficult now. Not technically, but the
research. For example, this week I had to research
Mamie, a strip I hadn't heard of. Not only did I have to dig up the history of a strip so obscure even the encyclopedic
Don Markstein's Toonopedia didn't have an entry for it, I also had to check both the main site and this board for references. That's 1500 web pages on the main site and 13,000 posts here! To my surprise, I found one about the strip's creator
Russell Patterson that I myself was responsible for a couple of years ago when
Phil S. 
and I had just started doing the
Comic Strip Series!
That's why the Series, although not yet concluded, is only going to be presented on a hit-or-miss basis until fall. I've got the
Super-Spanking Summer updates all mapped out (more on that next week) and I think they need to come first, and while I very much would like to make two updates per week our normal output, I doubt that I can make it happen, especially when there is some super-heroine stuff by
Doctor Cylon that should take priority (during the summer) should I be able to manage a second update. Nonetheless, if I can do more, I will. As for
The Aces Artist, our last planned special of this anniversary year, that will have to wait until fall.
This week: The Comic Strip Series continues with a better-late-than-never application of parental discipline as
Mamie gets spanked. More
Sweetspot goodies

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