Here's AGC #444, where Jill's feeling a little 'unloved'.

Winter finally got around to becoming cold, and snowing and such. Shoveled my driveway for the first time... which is odd for a number of reasons, including:

• I don't have a car
  
• I don't own 75% of my driveway
  

Technically, the vaguely triangular lot on one side of my house is owned by the city, and includes around 2/3 to 3/4 of the width of my gravel driveway, but we have a longstanding easement (the property is really useless to the city; a wild wooded inconveniently-sized lot with a telephone pole). If they did decide to randomly repeal the easement (and note that I'm pretty sure they can't legally build anything that close to the house based on building codes), I could always turn my front yard into a parking spot. If I had a car.

Anyhow, walking in the cold sucked, especially since we got up super-early to arrive at the medical testing place before they opened (website says 7:30am). So we get there are 7:20 and it's already open and we're 15th in line. I'm not on crack here - the guy who sat next to me arrived at 7:30, and he was like "Um, what time did they open?" Apparently he believed the website too.

Then afterwards, I saw ads in the hall from the X-ray/ultrasound place including (amongst other things) "Heartbeat bears". Now from the name (and a little thinking), I assume this is a stuffed animal which would loop the recorded heartbeat of the mother to relax newborns. Seems like a solid idea - at least from a commercial perspective. Has some intrinsic logic. May even work. Makes me wonder though, has anybody tested the longterm effects of a couple extra years of mom's heartbeat? Separation anxiety? Shyness? Headbanging? Who knows in what ways this could cause kids to become maladjusted. Oh well...

There are webcomics, and then there are webcomics.

The sad thing is that I get 2x to 5x as many hits as normal whenever somebody links an AGC in the Order of the Stick forums.

Sure, 95% of people who follow the link will take a look at one of my ugly texty comics out of context and immediately hit their back button...

Still good for my (generally trivial) ad revenue though.

That's right, I've just hit my 350th AGC comic (woo), and since it isn't especially exciting, I also posted their brand new 3.5 character sheets in .rtf format for your perusal (download here).

This is also the thread for comments on the characters and generally complaining about how disappointed you are with my character-building and how too much detail ruins the fantasy :P