Well here I am all on my lonesome working the booth at Supanova (although I do have my very supportive wife alongside). We've bought Olive with us, and she's been a tremendous drawcard. People flock to the booth to see her, and then get New Ground comics thrust at them. I was surprised when we were waved over by Lou Ferrigno this afternoon. He'd seen Olive in her piggy costume, and wanted to see her. Turns out he has two puggies of his own at home, and we got to see photos of his little pugs. Pretty soon, we had Teryl Rothery and Jewel Staite over for cuddles with Olive. It was nice to meet them all, and I think I'll have to go back tomorrow and see if I can get photos with them and Olive. I sold a few sketches today which was always thrilling, but got the most unusual commission I've had yet: draw Master Chief from Halo on the side of an Xbox 360. Took me a few hours, but I was quite pleased with the results, and the Xbox's owner also seemed pretty happy with it. I'll be back there tomorrow all day, so if your in Brisbane, come down and say hi.
Here's Olive, our brand-new family member. She's an eight-week-old female pug. Rob's wanted one forever, and we were missing Coco a lot. She's probably going to be easier going, because she's a much smaller dog than Coco was. Only thing is, we have to house train her, and do obedience training again. She's very well behaved so far, quite an easy-going nature, occasionally playful, but quick to settle. She's wormed her way into everyone's heart's pretty quickly.
So the cats are now settled into their new vastly larger home. We finally picked up the flatpack for the new cat house, and assembled it after work. It's basically a wire mesh house, with some inside shelves and ledges. The instructions left a lot to be desired, and it took us a little while to figure out how everything went together - no diagrams to follow, just a useless video to watch. Does anyone still have a VCR in this century? It's surprisingly heavy so I guess we won't have to worry about the cats blowing away, but it could be a bit of a challenge when we move in to the studio in a week or two to move it again. The cats are much happier now they are able to down on the grass for a run, and can climb up to their ledges where they have their beds. They took to it surprisingly well, and we didn't have any of the fretting that Salem has been showing for a few weeks after the move.
