So, I’d been using an old, old WordPress plugin called ComicsEasel since CheapCaffeine began — so old that it hadn’t been updated in years, and it wasn’t even included anymore in the WordPress plugin directory. The latest update of either WordPress or the Asteroid theme broke it. So I’m testing other plugins and figuring out how to display comics again. Now you know. (While I’m at it, I might finally fix the RSS feed.)

For those who are missing fresh installments of my semi-humorous wit, I’m now contributing a cartoon biweekly (one panel, drawn instead of sourced) at Public Square Magazine.

So here’s what happened: I took November 2020 off from CheapCaffeine to do NaNoWriMo. (I didn’t win, but I wasn’t planning to.) But here’s the thing: I really, really want to get back into fiction-writing. And the only time that my body and brain align to make it possible is for the hour in the morning that I otherwise would be putting together the day’s CheapCaffeine comic. So I think I’m going to hold the comic in abeyance for a while.  Maybe I’ll post a new comic when I get a good idea that can’t wait (instead of staring at public domain drawings thinking, “Could these people be saying anything funny?”).  Maybe I’ll give up the fiction schedule in a couple of weeks. Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future. Anyway. Enjoy further the barrage of blasts from the past.  The future belongs to the caffeinated.

Tomorrow is a state holiday here, so Imma take today and tomorrow off. Summertime!