This was Austin Staple weekend. It was a cool event. While I did not have a table there I may have one next year. I got to see one of my all-time favorite web cartoonist Samantha Wikan of Life’s a Witch. Samantha and my family have really become real friends not just interweb buddies. We also saw Rebecca Hicks and her husband from Little Vampires and that is always cool. Rebecca hadsome great things to say about my writing and timing on my comic. I was surprised she rememberd me for DWEX and not only that she reads my comic! Win! Of course I got see and talk to Mike Mareno of Death By Bunny and Thomas Overbeck of Times Like This. Mike and Thomas are 2 of the 3 organinizers of DWEX. I was glad to find they knew who I was too. Over all I really liked Staple but maybe because it was my first Expo it made me really want DWEX to come even sooner. I’m really excited about DWEX in August and hope many of you can make it. DWEX is just a few exits off the highway from where I live so it’s great for me.

   While we were in Austin we stayed with my wife’s Aunt Brenda and Uncle Greg. They had a whole lot of activities planned for us around Austin and UT. We got to go to the observation deck of the tower in Austin. I believe they just recently started having people up there again since the horrible incident there in the late 60s. It was fun seeing Greg and Brenda and they have always beensome of my favorite relatives of my wife’s. Yes, there was a little partisan talk as they are Longhorns and my wife is an Aggie but I’m unaffiliated. It was a lot of fun. the inspiration for the cartoon was from my 8 year old who got out her laptop and started asking for the code to the wireless access. I told her they did not have a wireless network. She insisted they did because she saw the signal and tried connecting and now was being asked for an encryption key. I think my uncle-in-law was impressed by her abilities with a laptop. I did have to explain to her that it wasn’t anyone we knew providing the signal. I explained that your should not just try and connect to some one’s network without permission. I told her she could go the day without being online, of course I was saying this as I scanned the networks to see if there was an open and unlocked one via her laptop. Luckily my cell phone can retrieve email and do some surfing or I would have been shaking by the end of the night myself. I do forget how savvy my girls are with technology and I’m not kidding when I say I could send them on some calls here at work and they could be of use. However those pesky child labor laws get in the way, and they work cheap too.

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