{"id":3192,"date":"2025-07-01T02:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2025-07-01T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:41:07","slug":"up-to-the-minute-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/up-to-the-minute-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Up-To-The-Minute Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the lowdown on your old pal Matty Boy for this chilly November morning:<\/p>\n<p>1. I&#8217;ve spent many days this month doing construction work to cover rent and expenses since my sites\/artwork\/strips are bringing in nothing currently and selling toys isn&#8217;t making the nut either<br \/>2. Yesterday I returned home after a full demo shift of prying nails out of boards to discover that my beloved desktop computer was no longer functioning<br \/>3. Although exhausted I spent last night cleaning a pound of dust bunnies out of my computer and trying to start it up, to no avail, while readying my laptop to be the primary workstation<br \/>4. This morning I did a &#8220;Hail Mary&#8221; boot and the old girl breathed life again, meaning thankfully I can use my old Photoshop, Debut, and VideoPad without having to BUY THEM ALL AGAIN<br \/>5. The regularly scheduled domestic abuse incident just concluded in my apartment parking lot, after around a half-hour of screaming and profanity, and now there is assorted detritus scattered about like wine bottles, video game console periphery, and a denuded Playstation that someone in a black SUV deliberately ran over<br \/>6. Neither I nor anyone else called the police because why bother<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening and for your support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the lowdown on your old pal Matty Boy for this chilly November morning: 1. I&#8217;ve spent many days this month doing construction work to cover rent and expenses since my sites\/artwork\/strips are bringing in nothing currently and selling toys isn&#8217;t making the nut either2. Yesterday I returned home after a full demo shift of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/up-to-the-minute-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Up-To-The-Minute Updates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Bl7P-Pu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3287,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/t-s-a-i-g\/","url_meta":{"origin":3192,"position":0},"title":"T. S. A. I. G.","author":"Matty Boy","date":"July 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"What does that title mean? Read on! I'll teach you what it means!!!The hard drive of my beloved venerable gifted-to-me desktop computer has begun to make loud clicking sounds and you know what that\u00a0means. You know, my computer that runs the cracked copy of Photoshop I've been using for the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3268,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/heres-where-im-at-folks\/","url_meta":{"origin":3192,"position":1},"title":"Here&#8217;s Where I&#8217;m At Folks","author":"Matty Boy","date":"July 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a general public update to let everyone know where things are at in my life right now. I hope this makes things a little easier to grasp when dealing with me. Thanks in advance.1. Today my computer monitor finally croaked. For the time being I have no way\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1425,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2018\/03\/07\/66\/","url_meta":{"origin":3192,"position":2},"title":"#66","author":"Matty Boy","date":"March 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"NOTES First appearance (exposed) of Norris Bundt, designer of the\u00a0Dark House computer game, and original owner of the \"Mr. Blindy\" laser pointer Radish-Hoof and Norris have a past (however brief)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Notations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Notations","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/category\/pages\/notations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_66.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_66.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_66.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_66.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1811,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2018\/08\/18\/229\/","url_meta":{"origin":3192,"position":3},"title":"#229","author":"Matty Boy","date":"August 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"June 21, 2015 NOTES In Fortress Refusaleth, Quiatas suggests to his \"lord\" that they should cross the ocean to take Midiria\"Holocough,\u00a0Obsolesmus,\u00a0Abysma,\u00a0Xenihilo\"In panel 6, Refusaleth alludes to the origin of the unicornsNorris Bundt (creator of the\u00a0Dark House computer game) has been almost completely transformed into a besmurchin, due to his actions;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Notations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Notations","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/category\/pages\/notations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3317,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/january-underestimates\/","url_meta":{"origin":3192,"position":4},"title":"January Underestimates","author":"Matty Boy","date":"July 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, whoops, I didn't mean to go dark on everyone, mea culpa. The short explanation is: I've been working on commissions and I cut out all distractions to get them properly fulfilled. Do not interpret this as labeling you good people as \"distractions\". That is not my intent. However I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1789,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2018\/08\/09\/220\/","url_meta":{"origin":3192,"position":5},"title":"#220","author":"Matty Boy","date":"August 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"NOTES This page was briefly \"lost\" due to a computer breakdown; originally it was posted uncolored, so that readers could still keep up Quiatas and Mogrum are riding a control skiff (with tiled floor), as the overt\u00a0Dragonball Z\u00a0references of the Midiria Saga begin If read in succession after the previous\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Notations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Notations","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/category\/pages\/notations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_220.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_220.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_220.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_220.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}