Well today was one of those days where you wake up turn on the computer and find out that you don’t need coffee after all.
So I was checking the page only to find that yesterday’s strip still up. This is usually my fault of my forgetting to put the next day’s strip in the can either because I thought I had loaded all of the strips for the week, was running late… or just plain forgot. When this happens I immediately try to fix the problem as quickly as possible and hope nobody notices.
So imagine my surprise when I started to do this I discovered that not only had I forgot to load it I hadn’t even created the gif to load or made any record of any of the storyline in my comicstrip database, something I distinctly remember doing. THe first thing of course was to create the gif which I did but in the process the Photoshop action I was using was acting all wonky and merged all of the strips layers and saved it as a 72dpi image before it closed everything.
Thank goodness for Apple’s time machine. Most of the time I don’t like it very much. A lot of the time it feels slow, tedious, and more trouble than it’s worth but for all the times you really screw up on your file management you are really glad it is there. So having replaced the ruined file with the retreaved good one I went and updated the database. While I was at I found a duplicate entry of the strip that may have been the original file and the cause of today’s curfluffle was just a case of the final reason to start the day without the current strip not being up entering the wrong date when you put it in in the first place.
On the plus side I’m sure I’m going to stay focused on the strip for the rest of the day.
