It’s been a long weekend. Enjoy the family repartee.
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I finally FINALLY got the latest Patreon packages sent out- so if you’ve been waiting for the past month… or nearly two? Your Hubris originals are on their way! Enjoy!
And if you’d like to join the ranks of Team Hubris, please feel free to click on the Patreon button down and to the left over there. Or tell a few friends to read the strip. Or click on a few ads. To be honest, it’s not going to pay for a lot of skydiving trips (like the story I’m telling to the current Patrons) but it might keep me in the game long enough to finish this crazy story (currently planned for around the first of 2021) If everyone who reads every day, according to Google Analytics anyhow, donated a dollar a month, Hubris would pay me almost as much as a part time job at Burger Doodle. So maybe telling a few friends to read the strip would be the most awesome thing I can ask for.
…Second most awesome thing. First most awesome is you guys believing in the characters’ stories I’m weaving for you. I do love that feeling.
We don’t all become our parents… but most of us are more like them that we can perceive.
Just don’t point it out to anybody. You’re not out to start a fight nor nothin’.
You see those documentaries about the earliest hot dog skaters, dropping into empty swimming pools and riding crazy up to the edges and all. And you can’t help but think…
That’s not their back yard. Who’s pool is that and when are they gonna come busting out of the house with a shotgun?
I’d like to point out that, aside from meaning to give combustable fuel to an engine, “throttle” can also mean to choke someone.
So, “throttle back” could mean to choke someone who’s been choking you… couldn’t it?
Yikes.
I enjoy watching Big Bang Theory now. I came around to it after being told for years that I should watch it.
But I like the way they write the characters. It feels like they’ve got a handle on each character, and the handle isn’t always spelled out, you know? As time goes on, they tease out the different drives behind everyone’s quirks.
And I get to do that here, too. I won’t bother to bore you with WHY everyone behaves the way they do, but you’ve teased out a little about everyone as we go, haven’t you?
And remember, like Sherlock and Dr. Who, the characters are never above lying about to to themselves.
Fun, right?
We just saw a video of someone cranking a turkey leg off the bird in our kayaking class.
But after that video, man, we were careful to do it right.
Kkkkrrrrrreeegggtttchhhhh!
Grawlix. I’ve told you that word before, haven’t I?
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do anything.
I sit in on my son’s violin lessons and take notes for him, Suzuki Class style. The last two lessons have mostly been about him correcting some posture habits that, if successful, will allow him to relax his left thumb just that little bit and thus result in a bigger, cleaner sound. Who’d have thought that the way you hold your opposite shoulder and bend your opposite elbow would eventually cause you to over-extend your thumb and mess up the tone of your playing?
Likewise with kayaking. Who’d have thought that hanging upside down and banging your head on the rocks as you pass wrong-way-up through a rapid could have an adverse effect on the way you hold your shoulders?
I may have had some elements of that last part transposed.
It’s like playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Your first time, you spend WAY longer than you think you should, just to create a character. Then, after burning an hour or so on that, your character is eaten by, I dunno, a Gelatinous Cube in the first five minutes.
You don’t have to spend another hour making another character, though… so you play the next game, and the next.
… So, if you had to re-outfit your boat and re-learn how to wet-exit every time you kayaked, you wouldn’t do it. But after you got that boat fitted out right, well, why NOT fall out of it a couple more times?
