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2nd August 2008

It's time for a visible update, maybe... I realise that little has happened at the front end here for a little while - I should probably share what's been happening behind the scenes.

For starters, Faith and me are still working on the site behind the scenes - planning strips, scribbling ideas, tweaking site pages and so on - which is undoubtedly less interesting than getting new strips in the short term, but hopefully will smooth the process later. Basically, we're working on this from the foundations up.

Faith has been astounded with how busy her summer has been, with a job building lasers for Bond supervillains - well, a particular Bond supervillain - and part time as an international business magnate. Or was that magnet?...

...Ok, perhaps not quite - she's been having to get prepared for the new year at college starting soon, and is looking ahead a year to applying for university by building up an art portfolio. There's also been the building of websites for other people - these do look very impressive, so the LT3 mk2 site should benefit from the experience of all these, both in appearance and in streamlining under-the-hood. Also, as if that wasn't enough, she's been doing summer work. Worryingly, this really does involve laser guns (of a sort). Really. The involvement of any particular criminal megalomaniacs hasn't been confirmed.

My input is always going to be less noticeable - I tend to be more wordy, or doing little bits of HTML coding here and there. In this, I have been more slack than I should have been; the best I can offer as an explanation is having been working five and six days a week at my old job (professional tap dancer and blancmange maker... Ok, warehouse worker and trouble shooter - strangely at the same university I study at, discovering how disorganised the institutions trying to prepare us for the future really are... Sometimes I think chaos theory has a lot going for it, based on the principle that when you see something that seems ordered, it is that way due to so much random movement behind the scenes that there is a degree of sympathetic resonance. I like the idea of sympathetic resonance, mostly because I want sympathy for having to deal with my job day in and day out...). Erm... Oh yes, so anyway I'm trying to earn enough over the summer to make a student loan last me further than three days after the next term begins at university.

Actually, I get to operate a laser at work, which is kind of cool. However, a small part of me does still go "Do you want me to talk?"/"No, I want you to die!" every time I start it up.

The only other thing I can think to mention here is that Faith and me met face-to-face for the first time a week ago - despite collaborating online for this and other projects for more than a year, we'd never been in the same part of the world until now. Anyway, we skipped the whole "so, um, you're Faith then?" moments, and went straight to "ok, so what are we doing now?". A large part of that was scribbling ideas on a piece of paper, things which will hopefully be revealed in the near future when the update schedule is restored. Hint: wicker squirrels, Sheffieldian autobiographies and antenna relays were all mentioned...

For those of you sticking with us while we organise ourselves, we thank you for your patience.

- Peter