When it comes to getting work done, there are days when I feel like I can do no wrong. These are the days I live for as a writer. I put finger to keyboard and all the worlds fall out onto the screen in a display of sheer perfection.

Today is not one of those days. Today is a day where every word is a battle. Nothing is flowing. There is a dam in my head, blocking the torrent that leads to my successful completion of that task we call work. This last sentence, as purple as anything a sixth former may write in order to try to sound smart, is a fine example of the problems I am having today.

So I have been taking regular breaks from the keyboard. This helps me to relieve what would otherwise be pent-up frustration. I head into Second Life, because even though I don’t have games on my computers now I still need some way to take my mind off things, and decide to see if I can create a computer to work at within the metaverse.

This 'computer' is made up of two boxes and lets me browse the Internet, including watching YouTube

Success has been limited at this point. I have managed to succeed in creating a strange-looking computer. It is something that appears to have been cobbled together from a laptop computer screen and an Amstrad CPC 464 keyboard, because that’s pretty much what it is. The computer can browse the Internet well enough but when I tried to log in to this website to write this very blog post, it threw up an error and went into a sulk.

I am not therefore writing this on a computer that is being rendered by another computer; which was my original plan. I would dearly love for that to work but, alas, it seems that it cannot; at least not for the moment. Recursive computing will have to remain a dream for the time being.

I fully believe there will come a day when I can do all my work from a terminal inside Second Life (I do, after all, do most of my work from inside Google Chrome right now anyway) and I would not be surprised to find that day is not far off. It is not this day however, so it’s back to Chrome for me.

In other news, I am taking Monday off. I shall spend the day drawing comics for All over the house and The Life of Nob T. Mouse. I will then attempt to get Ink Proof Cannon back on track. I have the stories already worked out, at least in part, so all that is really to be done is the actual drawing of them. I estimate that this will take me about eight hours, give or take. It should be fun, too.

If there is any time left over, I will write the second half of the Webcomic Builder article on the use of the Rule of Three in writing, which was supposed to be up last Tuesday but which has been delayed thanks to the amount of time I had to spend sorting out the mortgage.

After that, it’s nose firmly back to the grindstone for me.

The Watermillock, in Bolton.

The weekend has been an interesting, even refreshing time. I feel like I got a reasonable amount of work done – not as much as I would have liked, but enough. I got to see friends as well, which was nice, and spent some time with them today, too. It’s nice when I get the chance to do that.

While my good friends were here today, we all went out to the Watermillock in Bolton. It’s a very nice place that serves very good food; which is why we were there. I’m pretty sure it’s a former stately home that is now a restaurant but Jenny tells me it was a nursing home in between those two states.

That seems to be the fate of some buildings: you are one thing, you become another thing, then you become something completely different. There is probably a philosophical point to be made in that. No doubt it’s one of those points you can put in a book of “thoughts to think while you sit on the loo”. It would be a bestseller, I am sure.

I also got to start bringing my comic projects back up to speed. Three of the four projects restarted today. The fourth will return next week. I want to pace myself and build back up to that one because it’s a big project and if I don’t handle it right, it will topple over again.

With regard to the three that came back today, All over the house returned from hiatus with a joke about the British National Anthem. I was a little nervous about doing this one because it involves the royal family and some people can be touchy about that but it seems to have gone down well. Maybe I just worry unduly?

The Life of Nob T. Mouse is coming to the end of a storyline that, once again, has run for far longer than I wanted it to. When it comes to storytelling on Nob Mouse, it seems I am doomed to repeat the same problems every time, namely the issue of accidentally stopping the comic mid way through a story. I never set out to create an intermission, it just happens. Please rest assured that I am working to prevent this in the future.

Finally, The Webcomic Builder is back from its lengthy stint in the doldrums. With the launch of How ‘N About, I really wanted to get my other informative websites back up and running. With any luck I can keep putting an article up on the Builder every day, Monday to Friday, and thereby get the information up there that I wanted to have available when I first started the project back in January last year.

If I can keep up the pace on the Builder, maybe I can get the UK Law Review running again in a week or two? That would be fantastic. But until then, I will plod on and try not to drop all the projects I’m dealing with right now.

This man is reponsible for a 110% increase in my comic's traffic.

A couple of days ago, Jenny pointed out a sudden and rather dramatic boost on traffic heading to All over the house.

We initially thought this could be due to the fact that our comic about a judge not understanding what Twitter is was going to be in the forthcoming issue of Mensa magazine but, of course, that has not been posted to subscribers yet.

So what was the reason for this sudden and unexpected boost in traffic? Well I just found out after a quick Google search. It’s quite surprising really.

Skepta, a rapper from London, made a new song called All over the house; in which he talks about how he and a girlfriend of his have been getting intimate with one-another in every possible location within his abode. Apparently the sexually explicit video is what has people talking. It has porn stars in it, doing what porn stars do best. Suffice to say it is not safe for work.

I have to admit I was somewhat surprised by this turn of events. It is also quite funny from my point of view because All over the house is about as far from porn as you can get. We hardly touch on the subject of relationships and even when we do, it’s because the characters can’t manage one. They never manage to get anywhere near the subject matter of this music video.

So anyway I have to say thank you to Skepta for sending so much traffic our way. Maybe I’ll draw him a comic to say thanks for the traffic.