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I was greatly saddened to hear that Sandra, the lady in real life who was the inspiration for
Sandra StęppenWylf, The Good Mother, passed away recently at the age of 61.
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Karen was an excellent barmaid. I distinctly
remembered her enthusiasm. Her boss should
pay her more.
Millrose Restaurant, Haufmann Estates, IL, August 2005
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This is the logo for the fictitious Writing (pronounced "Ritting") Football Club.
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News
14DEC2011
First off, if you downloaded any of my fonts before this date, delete them.
Go to the character's page and download the fonts again.
I have spent a substantial amount of time 'cleaning up' the old fonts. They were horribly inconsistent, the wrong size and had numerous other problems. They all now have full punctuation, international letters and some even have the Cyrillic alphabet. So if you have downloaded any of my fonts before today, delete them and download the new ones (which have the same name, by the way). I also have a new font for Jess.
I have just finished 15 weeks as a student-teacher in a high school, (ostensibly) teaching Algebra I to year 9 students. During that time, I had students shine a laser in my eyes and threaten to punch me in the face. Two of my students have children (these are 15-16 year olds). I can rest assured that the state of Texas will never suffer a shortage of cheap labor. And yet...
There were some victories. Students who might take as long as ten seconds to calculate the sum of -3 and 5 (without the use of a calculator) can now find the slope of a line, given two points (and a calculator).
I shall (hopefully) soon be a certified teacher for the state. I have also just had an interview with a telecoms firm (not Ericsson). So, things are looking good for my return to the working world. I might even get a page or two done now and again.
Normally I would thank you for reading, but I haven't given you anything to read for quite some time.
But thanks for visiting, enjoy the new fonts and I'll be posting more stuff soon. And tell your friends.
30SEP2011
So, it's been a whole month since I did anything. Well, my class load has lightened slightly and I've got a project that I've been wanting to do for a while and I need your help.
For a while, I've noticed that my fonts are set too high. In other words, they almost seem to be superscripts. I have figured out how to fix that and have begun to do so. However, it occurred to me that I could make my fonts a little more international in the process...
So here is what I want from you, Gentle Reader:
Write to me (grim at otterstow dot com) and tell me what other non-English letters should be included. Now, I'm not talking about adding the entire Cyrillic alphabet here - my software is limited in that regard. I'm talking about the letter "e" with umlauts and accents or maybe a cedille, or the upside-down question marks and exclamation marks one sees in Espanol - and, obviously, an n with a tilde over it. I noticed I have a mysteriously faithful Scandinavian following, so I would certainly appreciate input from that community.
Thanks for reading and tell your friends.
30AUG2011
Today marks one year since I was diagnosed with cancer. It also marks the last day that I worked for Ericsson. Being (well) over 40 years of age, I find myself unemployable in my field. Having been unemployed for (well) over six months exascerbates the situation - companies that are hiring are specifically telling the long-term unemployed not to apply. And heaven forfend if a potential employer finds out I had cancer last year.
Although my particular version of cancer has a very high recovery rate, I am quite grateful to be alive. I am also grateful to have a roof over my head and some form of financial solvency.
Back in April, I came to the conclusion that I probably would not be re-hired in my area of expertise. Not being one to sit about and mope, I began to take steps to re-enter the teaching field (I taught at a small, private Catholic school nearly twenty years ago) and, thus, I entered a training program to become certified to teach physics and math. After paying a handsome tuition, I completed a few courses over the summer. Now, I am engaged as a 'clinical teacher', known more commonly by the oxymoron 'student-teacher'. This involves spending the full day at the school, observing at first and then slowly being immersed as the full-time teacher. It also involves lots of writing, e.g., daily reflections, lesson plans, observations and surveys. In addition to this, I will frequently attend classes at night and on the weekends. In addition to that, I will have to complete, according to my records, over 100 hours of online coursework which, I can guarantee, will take more than 100 hours of my time. All of this will end, I hope, in early December.
If all goes well, then I will be bestowed with teacher certification and then I can begin to look for a job as a teacher. As usual, my timing is perfect. Recently, our state government, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that [sarcasm=on] keeping the nasty-bad tax-man away from the hard-earned billions that the multinational corporations worked so hard for has a higher priority than educating these greedy, selfish, lazy children, who could easily educate themselves if they just put
a little effort into it [sarcasm=off]. Thus they cut (among other things) the education budget by 13% or $US 5 billion. Oddly enough, the state has a 'rainy day' fund of over $US 9 billion which will remain untouched as it is only for 'emergencies' - like rainy days, which seem to be in very short supply for the past few months. Ah, yes, we're supposed to pray for those.
But I digress...
This affects you, Gentle Reader. Even with all of this extra work, I could still produce a page each week and do a tiny bit of work on the sequel, but I would make no meaningful progress. Thus, I have decided to put the graphic novel on hiatus so that I may finish the sequel and clean up the prequel. I will try to post something in the sketchbook and maybe offer a snippet of the new e-books as well.
Thanks for reading (thus far) and I appreciate your time and attention.
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Thought I'd try out this little gimmick for a while.
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2 - Vote at the Belfry by clicking this link and then on the Allegory link. You can vote at the Belfry once a week.
3 - Subscribing to Allegory at the Belfry is even better!
4 - Tell your friends about the site. Tell them there are free fonts and a free e-book.
5 - Write to me (grim at otterstow dot com) with suggestions about what would make this web-site better. An RSS feed? A comments section? Re-installing the forums? A referral feature?
6 - Tell me how to do these things. I might be an engineer, but my web-page design skills haven't kept up with all of the developments like php and RSS. Or, even better, offer to do these things for me.
For any other comments, suggestions and questions, please write a polite, well-composed email to grim at otterstow dot com
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