None too Energetic...

And a hardy good morning to all. It's Sunday, the sun isn't shining and the local little leagues have been up out screaming from about 7:30 or 8 in the morning. I never have to set my alarm for work.

I'M DYING
I'm not sure why, but my body is drained. It's achy all over and I feel like I'm just plain ol' laggin'. It may be due to my recent sleep schedule. Waking up early, then staying up late; sleeping late and staying up late; then getting up early, then getting exhausted at work and falling asleep very early, only to wake up too early in the morning; then fall back asleep again, waking up four hours later - and so on. Lucky for this young-old man, my first student here at web school decided not to show.

NERD ALERT!
Lately, I've been playing Halo 2 on my XBox 360. I have arrived at the opinion that it isn't as good as the original. However, excitedly, I've been playing the Halo 3 beta on X-Box Live with my upstairs neighbor, Norm. There are only three maps/areas, and the players you get are a mixed bag when it comes to skill. In one game, you're rocking the spot. During the next, you're being rocked by girlfriend-less, basement dwellers. It looks pretty at least.

HOMEWARD BOUND
Well, I'm leaving for my hometown for (less-than) a week vacation. I'm going to stop off in Beverly, MA first to see my friend Mark, then head off the next day for homes. I don't have a lot of time. I actually lost a day because everyone who thought it would be better to take their Golden Week vacation on another day has decided to do it on my week! No plane tickets and they are costing me half an arse to get back. Woo hoo! However, as long as I'm not too exhausted from traveling, it should be good to be back home.

Well, my RocketRat Blues cartoons are going to be a little late, as I'm obsessing over re-designing the website from scratch. No small feet as I've never actually coded anything in my life, aside from the little here's and there's on Blogger.

Well, catch you next time!

...> Mike, The RocketRat who's very excited to watch the new episode of Dr. Who!

Enter the Heroes!

Wellity Wellity Wellity...
For some weeks now, I've been working on a comic strip based on all the characters that I've been planning for this site, and now, I'm ready to start putting some of them up, on occassion. In time, however, as some introductions need to be made...

ヒロケンザン!!!

Welcome to the Municipal Laboratory of SuperHero Advanced Research and Employment (S.H.A.R.E.)! This is where anyone can gain a super power and find their place in the exciting, new field of super heroism or villainy. However, super powers are not a canned substance. Each ability is custom-built from scratch to meet the needs of the customer. This requires testing and animals to test upon. Enter our heroes, lab animals who have to deal with the daily rigors of inept scientists and the insanity that is having roommates.

Everyone's favorite RocketRat! He's part rat, part nuclear-powered rocket engine who can reach speeds anywhere from llama-crawl to llama-quick to even the unheard of llama-extreme. As an experiment, the scientists grafted the personalities of both a blues-guitarist and a jet fighter pilot to this little, radioactive mammal. He craves a good chase and can blast out a heart-wrenching sad song on his stringless guitar at the drop of a hat.

WAFFLE!! A once ferocious tiger living in the jungles of - well, she doesn't know...she's just a tiger! At first, the scientists used Waffle as an experiment to see if tigers can be made boring. This was their first, and perhaps only, success. Since then, she's been used to test out new, half-finished super powers. She doesn't really care, though. Why should she even bother...

Next in line is Starfunkle, The Phatasmo-cat! Dreamed up during by the scientists during some substance-abusing tomfoolery, Star - an ordrinary house cat- has been blended with a starfish. He doesn't do much aside from stick to glass and open shellfish with his stomach. But could there be more to this cat-fish than meets the eye?

And last, but never the least...the enigmatic Tom Henderson! A Panda, given the strength of ten pandas, whose brain was replaced by something...else. The scientists forgot what it was. Tom believes that he is an employee of the office next door to the laboratory and is often there, filing or doing some other busy work. He has a short temper, and becomes enranged by mismanaged files or panda cartoons.

Check them out soon! Next time, however, we meet our villians! Hmm HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!! HA HA!!!! HAAAA!!!!!! HAHA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Until then, m'friends...
Laterz...
Mike, the fiendish RocketRat