Maybe Tomorrow

I’d be lying if I said today hasn’t been a bit trying.

It’s been one of those days where you feel like you’re swimming upstream in ass-creek and getting hit by hole-boulders the whole way. I’ve had to interact with some truly incredible people today, and before you think this is a case of Retail Rage, no it’s not customers.

Why do I bring this up? To bum you out? To drag you into a bog of negative blog-pouts? To vent and get something off my chest?

No, I bring this up so that I may remind you of something. I want to remind you of the people in your life who can break the gray shackles of a day like that. Because, you see, I was drowning in ass-creek, but a fun chat with my partner in crime, and a visit from a couple of good friends totally turned it around for me.

It was one of those days where not only did I find it easier to wallow in my own irritability, but I didn’t really want to do anything to make it a better day. With little positivity injected into the day though I was reminded that I’ve got some amazing and wonderful people on my side, and that the best revenge is always to be the one that walks away with a smile, head held high. Every now and again, I need to be reminded of that.

So maybe I’ll be able to remind you of someone in your life who can turn around a gray day. Do yourself a favour and give them a call. You never know when the gray’s going to hit, and it never hurts to get out in front of it.

Also, I got a butt-load of SPAM e-mails today. That’s not really related, but I thought it was strange.

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Due to some kind of hack, this post was sent from an account that was not my own. We apologize for any confusion. The account ‘John’ (JhonnyA) has been removed from our system.

For those of you that subscribe to our RSS feed, you may notice a slight change – the comic is no longer appearing in the feed.

For that we apologize.

Both Jeff Moss (Murph) and myself are men of convenience, so for our RSS subscribers, we understand that we’ve made it slightly more inconvenient to read our comic. And that sucks, we know. But due to the republishing of Dale Zak’s webcomic app, we were forced to take a look at what would be showing up in that feed.

As I stated before, we’re interested in the possible applications of this app, as well as having our strip even more accessible via the web. While I’m assured that some of our stat trackers are able to register the RSS subscriptions, the real issue arises from our advertising revenue streams. Currently, our ads don’t show up in our RSS feed, meaning we don’t receive any ‘hits’ for that stat tracking, which affects the overall value of bids on the ads, and affects overall revenue. Not that it’s much to begin with, but it does help to offset hosting costs. We’re a shoestring operation currently, so every dollar counts. It’s a hobby for both of us, and not our income, so money spent on No Reason is money out of our pockets.

This isn’t a permanent change, nor is it a condemnation of Dale Zak’s app. Quite the contrary. The positive note right now is it has forced us to take a look at our content delivery systems and shown us that we had a huge gap in a delivery method.

Currently we’re working on putting the final touches on the book we’re putting together, “Why are you Naked?!”, our first collection. Once that is off to the printers, I’ll be spending some time analyzing our site, and our currently defunct store site and getting them in order. There will be a few changes to the main site – speeding it up a little more, and getting the RSS feed in shape so that we can happily provide people with an RSS feed that also generates revenue for us.

We appreciate your patience in this matter. We’re targeting mid-August for these changes to be put into effect – along with a relaunch of a fully functioning store with downloadable content, along with a return of a few pre-order merchandise runs – and the book, of course.

Have a good night!

Dan “Jamie_G” Simon

No Reason Comics

Maybe Tomorrow

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