Good morning, readers.

I’d like to take a moment here and thank everyone who has been voting religiously, you’ve kept us hovering around slot 200, not bad for our first two months. We’re excited to see so many different countries up on our stats list, including Luxembourg which has siezed the #2 spot on the list behind the USA.

We have decided to officially start advertising now that we have enough of a start here, so look for ads popping up within the next few weeks on other comics. We’ll also be trying to draw in our home city’s crowd by doing some paper advertising here, so we hope to see some of our neighbors signing on to see us.

On April 3rd (unfortunately the same day as the start of Tekkoshocon, see previous blogpost), Anne and I will be boarding a plane to California, and we will be gone for a week and a half. Thus, no one will be here to monitor the site unless I gain internet access, but I don’t think I’m going to feel inclined on my vacation to site-manage. So what does this mean for The Tempest, some readers have asked?

> Will the comic still update for the 2 Mondays you are gone?

Yes. We have them already in the uploader.

> Will the vote incentives update?

Yes. They are also pre-uploaded. However, I have to update them on the left sidebar manually, so they will refresh in the blog instead, where you will see the little preview box like normal.

> Can we contact you?

You may, but I will not be picking up emails OR approving comments from April 3 - April 13. So if you leave a comment and it doesn’t show, don’t be alarmed, I do those manually, and I’ll get them when I come back. I’ll also check my email then, too.

> Will you take pictures of Cali?

Oh yes.

So we’ll see you guys in a few weeks!

Jen

Alright, we’re back from California, and everything is copacetic. Hope all the readers are hangin’ in there too.

Number one, I have to say, is that stepping off the plane from sunny Palo Alto and into the wonderfully gray Pittsburgh weather was not the most pleasant return. Nor was having our bags lost somewhere in Dallas, nor coming home two hours after we expected to in the wee hours of Easter morning, but we survived, and now we are back in the saddle.

I have no thrilling news for anyone, no updates on anything community or public wise, but as promised, we do have some pictures of San Francisco.

^ At Pier 39 (down along Fisherman’s Wharf) there were some interesting things to see. Here was our buddy, a Sea Gully. We didn’t name him yet, but we are open to suggestions.

^ Anne found a crab topiary and decided to mimic it.

^ And then we found a completely random wooden seal that I made friends with.

So if you are asking: “Did you two really run all over San Francisco taking weird photos of yourself acting like spazoids?” The answer is “Oh definitely.”

- Jen