Last week, Aomori witnessed the eye of the storm as it hailed balls of snow the size of walnuts, coupled with incredible wind speeds and the largest recorded snowfall in modern Japanese history.
If you read last week’s comic then it will come as no surprise why the next few weeks will be quite tough with being able to update Crazy Sunshine, as real life priorities need to take place in order for me to, well, not die.
I’m not even being dramatic, it’s true! Wanna see what it’s like living in a tiny, broken down village in northern Japan during winter? Now you can! A small news story was featured on the BBC homepage earlier last week. You can see it by clicking here!
During the report, they showcase the amazing 5 meters of snow that fell recently, and show shots of a small town similar to mine where houses are encased in mountains of snow.
Living alone has its perks, such as being able to stay up all night without the need for headphones while listening to music, but also means in winter I have to battle the snow 1 vs 1, shovel only, final destination.
I mentioned the pain of snow shovelling in a blog entry last year, but this year with the record breaking snowfall it’s gotten even worse! My day-to-day schedule is something like this:
- 5am: Wake up, strech, tea, shovel snow!
- 7am: Finish shovelling a tunnel to my car, dig my car out of the snow.
- 8am: Shower, head to work.
- 8:15am-5pm: Work work work.
- 5pm-7pm: After school activities, English club!
- 7pm-9pm: Return home, and either cook dinner or if it snowed while I was at work, get back to shovelling!
- 9pm-11pm: Draw comics/write scripts/reply to comics/fix the site/social media stuff!
tldr; winter sucks! This is why I am taking the week off to try to get a buffer up and not to let my house collapse underneath the massive amount of snow on my roof. I can already hear it creaking…!
From now on each week will be touch and go with updates and replying to comments. I want to do my very best to keep to the schedule and work especially hard on weekends, but please don’t get all mad if I can’t update on time. I wouldn’t wish this kind of weather on my worst enemy!
I also don’t want to start uploading guest strips as I am uninterested in them. Fan Art always brings a smile to my face, though!
Wish me luck! I hope you enjoy the update that’ll follow, it should be up the following Wednesday, along with a proper schedule change announcement.
That schedule… wow. Best of luck through the coming weeks, I can’t imagine what it’s like having to do that everyday.
There needs to be a “Donate tea” button methinks.
I have loads of tea! Money ain’t the issue, time is. Donate time please, someone marks all these test papers for me. ;-;
Being able to donate time should be a thing that PayPal needs to get in on. I mean really, what am I going to do with the years between 60 and 70 years old anyway? I’d probably just sleep 75% of them away.
Would if I..
Maybe not, you’re on your own marking papers. xD
It took foreverrrrrrrrrrrr….!
Welp…
That’s a kick in the bollucks.
I’m surprised my balls haven’t already frozen and fallen off tbh.
>final destination.
Chuckled. Thought I was the only one who used that saying anymore.
Hang in there sir, and don’t get too sleep deprived! Those hours seem slim.
I love sleep…too much in fact! I’ve only been late for work a few times due to sleeping in, but that’s only because my body is just exhausted from the amount of physical labour I have to do every day or so I guess…!
How does this comments system have a picture of me from maybe 6 years ago? I’d like to amend that…
What Stonefoot said. I had nothin’ to do with it!
Jiggens: As I understand it, the e-mail you enter when you post is used to retrieve an associated image from the Gravatar site, so you must have created an account there at sometime and loaded that picture. If you click the “Get a Gravatar” link next to “NAME” you should be able to replace or remove that picture. (Also, the comment display is dynamic, so it you change the picture any redisplay of previous comments will have the new picture.)
Huh, I figured guest comics would be a good idea at this point. Give you something just in case as well as an excuse to not-die.
Please don’t not-not-die Jkun. Lacie’s fate hangs in the balance.
I’ll accept them for the fan art page but won’t put them in the archive, I want it purely to be comics I make, that’s all.
While I may not even remotely (except a tiny tiny bit like a 6 on a 1to10 scale.) familiar with the frozen weather phenomenon know as snow n hail as I’m from the period weather state known as Texas, but as anyone from Texas would say in this situation “……… (Their mouth along with their face, the rest of their body would be absolutely if not completely frozen.)” That said may your snow shovel be the snow shovel to shovel though the frozen heavens!
You’re Texan? I thought you were Spanish or Brazilian with your kind of English.
Your technically, but not exactly right on the bulleyes about me being Spanish. While I am from the Lone Star State of Texas, my blood is Puerto Rician, thou despite being me Puerto Rician, I was born in Texas. Aaaand well Texas is know for it lazy english, and when ya mix that with a hell of lot of other factors (that I could mention right now, but I wouldn’t, at this moment) results in a ranging intellectual comment with a ranging grammatical error percentage. Translations: 1.Yes 2.I’m to fucking sleepy(-_-) to give ya a straight answers summary why my grammar sucks.
Look at all that cocaine. . . I mean snow
that comment with that picture. perfect.
Cocaine one hell of a drug.
Stay safe J-kun!!! I’ll burn some incense and pray to Kami-sama or whatever deity you believe in for you.