Odd-Fish

Odd-Fish: Ghosts: XVII

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:11:48 +0100

It's alive!
Finally, after many months of unofficial hiatus, here's the last page of Odd-Fish: Ghosts.
To be honest I had planned for it to be a lot longer with a convoluted and complex plot but I just don't have the time.
Better to go back to one-shot gags and horrible jokes for now until my life gets back into some semblance of normality...say, eighteen or so years from now.

The last few months has been a hectic time to say the least. We've sold our house in the 'city' and moved to a lovely place in the English countryside but mostly it's been MrsNobody's pregnancy and the birth of our son, Zachary at the end of June.
Zachary was born at 5:32pm on the 24th of June. He weighed 6lb 1.5oz (3kg) and is doing very well.

MrsNobody and I are enjoying the experience of endless sleepless nights, the delights of frequent nappy changes and the joy of constant demand for feeds. (Please note: the previous paragraph may contain traces of sarcasm.)
When does this parenthood thing become fun? Can it be soon please?
Seriously though, I wouldn't trade our son in for anything, not even a Cintiq. We love him to bits and I'm sure that once he stops being nothing but a screaming tube that you put stuff in at one end then clean up what squirts out of the other, he'll be well worth the effort.

Odd-Fish: Ghosts XVI

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:10:42 +0100

Part sixteen of Odd-Fish: Ghosts and we're very near the end of this journey. The next strip after this might well be the last of this long story and then we'll be back to jokes, puns and fun facts.
Hope you've all enjoyed it and thank you for persevering through the irregular updates and long waits!

I've just noticed that the new site design is broken in Internet Explorer. I'm tempted to just say sod it, if people insist on using IE then that's what they get, but I'm not that sort of person. I'll try to fix the problem over the next few days. In the meantime if you are reading this in Internet Explorer then perhaps you might consider changing to FireFox or Chrome. They're free, fast, secure and really rather spiffy.

Odd-Fish: Ghosts XV

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:08:11 +0100

Part fifteen of Odd-Fish: Ghosts continues apace. Well I say continues apace but with two weeks between updates it's hardly zooming along. Sorry about that.
As you can see, I've been working on a redesign of the whole Odd-Fish site. Hopefully it improves navigation and looks a whole lot neater. I was hoping to keep it within the 768 pixel width for those people viewing on older computers and netbooks but the width of the actual strip meant I had to make it just a tad wider to fit the second sidebar and have it a useful width.I'm hoping that there are now very few people who still use the 1024x768 resolution because even newer models of netbooks allow for higher resolutions. Maybe I ought to think about doing a mobile version of Odd-Fish at some point to cater for smartphones and mobile browsers.

In other news, here's the latest scan of our baby boy now only fourteen weeks away from making an appearance.
Obviously we can't wait that long so we opted for a 3D scan so we could see him properly.
We got a DVD of the whole proceedure too where we were able to check that he had all the right numbers of all the important parts - including those that confirm that yes, we are indeed going to have a son so we've added a few gender-specific things to the Amazon wishlist.

Odd-Fish: Ghosts XIV

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:05:45 +0100

Part fourteen of Odd-Fish: Ghosts and it's all going a bit ZALGO as Lovecraft learns what it's like when someone can't keep their tentacles to themself.

A big thank you for the items off our Amazon wishlist that several people have very kindly sent. We were surprised and very chuffed when they arrived and it's nice to see our little collection of stuff for the baby slowly grow.
One of the people who sent us stuff is the very talented Bob Todd, a digital photographer and illustrator with a thing for demons. Check out her gallery here.

Odd-Fish: Ghosts XIII

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:01:09 +0100

So onward we go with part thirteen of Odd-Fish: Ghosts.
I'm very sorry that it's been over a month since the last episode. The delay on updating Odd-Fish has been because over the last few weeks a lot has happened to Mrs Nobody and I.
We moved house!
We'd had enough of living in the middle of the urban jungle with people crowded around us and the constant noise of traffic. Where the wild animals wear hoodies and the only green you're likely to see is splattered on the pavement outside a kebab shop on a Saturday night.
So we've upped sticks and moved into the countryside where the sounds are of birds, the animals are less likely to steal your mobile phone and the green is on trees.
The move went smoothly with the main bulk of it done in a day in the back of a transit van and now we're settling in.
We didn't have internet access for two whole weeks because British Telecom did their usual incompetent dance that happens every time you change anything in your account. Eventually though we got back up and running online, although at a much reduced rate now that we're 6km from the exchange instead of 600m!
So over then next week or so, Odd-Fish will gradually get back to normal. I'll finally finish the current long form story and get back to puns and cheap gags. I estimate that there are maybe three to five more updates to finish the story.

We went for another ultrasound scan last week to check everything's OK with the pregnancy and were delighted to be able to find out the gender of the baby. It looks like we're going to have a son! Now we've just got to come up with a name that:

We both like
Hasn't already been used by another member of either of our families
Doesn't make it sound like we've named him after a character from a movie or TV show
Doesn't sound daft with my unusual surname
Doesn't make a unfortunate word or acronym when added to the surname
Isn't too common (we like Jack but the entire planet appears to be naming their kids Jack at the moment)
Isn't too unusual either

Phew!

If you look down there below the comments you'll see I've added a thingie that shows how far along the pregnancy is. There's also a link to our Amazon Wishlist if you fancy getting us something for the baby. Anything is much appreciated and a big help.