You call that a weekend? I've had pieces of Dubble Bubble that lasted longer than that! But I suppose there's no use standing against the wheels of time -- they've ground better men than me into fine paste. Hello, Monday, and enjoy your stay, you rotten booger.

It's been better than six weeks, now, keeping the daily strip going! That's a heck of a record for me, and I plan to keep at it. Hope you're enjoying the coloring jobs -- they take forever to finish, and will probably transition to an occasional phenomena in the future, but for now let your eyeballs feast! Unless you're colorblind, which would, really, be just my luck.

But worse for you, of course.

I've always wondered how colorblind folk kept up with traffic lights. Of course, it's not an insurmountable problem so long as there's a uniform system in place to deal with it -- for the most part, you've got your green, yellow and red lights in a progression from top to bottom. But there are also a number of places, I've noticed -- sometimes in high population centers -- where the traffic lights are set horizontally over the road. What do you do then? Do you just stop and honk your horn until somebody arrives to assist you? Can you simply be forgiven for zipping straight through a red light and into a car driven by an elderly man?

Well, possibly on that last one -- for sheer driving impairment, being colorblind doesn't hold a candle to intense oldness.

It's a good thing nobody reads this stuff -- I'd be getting mail.

I was friends with a colorblind guy, once, back in my Gifted Art days in high school. We were assigned the task of creating... I don't know what they're called, actually, a testament to my ability to retain long-term information. It's like a graph of swatches, moving in gradations through the whole of the color wheel. Busy work, in other words. I started from red, I think, and moved through orange, to yellow, and so on. My friend also set about the task, and, over a course of an hour or so, he produced a large panel of posterboard which had been carefully marked over its entire surface with approximately one-hundred nearly identical squares of blue, each one wavering only minutely in differing shades from the next.

You know who's colorblind? Mike Allred, creator of the "Madman" comic books. One of my favorite artists -- and he did his own coloring in early versions of the book.

I don't know where I'm going with this. Hail Monday!

Norm's Link-o-th'-Moment:

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Now the link actually works!