Shelf Not Found (a dumb autobio comic)

Heh, your cat has a name, you should ask him what it is. It might be Crash.

SO MUCH EASIER than drawing every damn spool of thread!! ;)

Danielle Corsetto

I love this SO much (although I hate what a mess you had to clean up!) and the multimedia aspect of it creates so much deliciousness!!

I got rid of those back-to-school dreams around the time I turned thirty. Haven't really missed them :D Although now that I said that, I just *know* what's going to happen tonight...

Janne Peltonen

For anything that has to carry a load, I either use the anchors or screw into studs. The latter isn't always practical if the studs aren't located in practical and/or aesthetically pleasing locations, but I note that my TV bracket is MOST DEFINITELY screwed into studs with lag bolts. One of the drugs I'm on has a side effect of vivid dreams. Sometimes I take melatonin to sleep; one of the side effects is vivid dreams. Needless to say, it's not uncommon for me to wake up and say "WTF WAS THAT ABOUT?!" Heh. So, more to the point. My last place had a sliver of counter between the fridge and range that I'd put my laptop on to watch/listen to content while I'm pottering about the kitchen. The corner of the laptop would rest on the front left burner, which I rarely used. (Obviously I put the laptop somewhere else if I need it.) But one day I wasn't paying attention and turned on the wrong burner... Fortunately I smelled the burning plastic pretty quickly and got the thing off before it had done more than melted a pattern into the plastic case. Cosmetic damage only. OK, that's not the dream, that's just context. One night I had my tablet lying on the left burner, and accidentally over-heated my iron skillet on the right burner. In a distracted hurry I picked the skillet up and put it on the cool burner -- right on top of my tablet, destroying the display... ...and then I woke up. The dream felt so real that I was SURE I'd destroyed my tablet the previous night. My mind was racing in circles, trying to find some clue to confirm or contradict what I could clearly remember happening. In a panic I ran to my backpack and pulled it out to check. I was fine once I saw it was intact; the dream was suddenly a dream and not a memory, and I had a good long laugh. But until that moment, I wasn't quite sure.

Jeffrey Nonken

Hah! I've had Heart's "Tall Dark Handsome Stranger" stuck in my head since last night, so this was funny to me!

Theadora

The name that occurred to me is right there in the comic: "Crash". "Come here, Crash!" "What did you do this time, Crash?" :D

Douglas Appelt

One suggestion I've been told for naming an animal is to start off by making each sound of the alphabet at them and see how they react. If there's one or two that they seem interested in, then pick a name that starts with that sound. My first cat was a stray I met outside my apartment building, so he got named Handsome Stranger. But the ones I have now just kept the names they came with from the shelter. If they're happy with 'em, I'm fine.

Joanna

Funny enough, my friend Dan's daughter suggested Bobbin this morning and I'm leaning toward it!

Danielle Corsetto

Now that he’s destroyed a sewing shelf his name is Bobbin.

Hawkstone

I failed to mention that this happened before sunup, and the silver lining was that I got to watch a majestic pink-purple-red sunrise while I spent two hours cleaning up the mess. :)

Danielle Corsetto

How am I just now hearing about special anchors for plaster?!?! Thank you, I'll look for those! The bowls were for food & water (they didn't break, but the shelf actually fell into the water bowl, so there was water everywhere because of COURSE there was). Oh my lord, Chaos and Mayhem sound like they keep you on your toes. I'm grateful this guy seems to have no interest in cables, but he LOVES eating my (non-toxic) plants. They got a break from Ellie when she died, but her plant-loving spirit has returned in the shape of a black kitten.

Danielle Corsetto

Oohh interesting concept, that your emotions don't carry over. Every sewing supply was (unraveled, but) perfectly alright, thank you. :)

Danielle Corsetto

I really loved this.

Ben Hatke

Is there anything quite like being awakened by something crashing in the night? There are special wall anchors made for plaster walls. Why did you have bowls with your sewing stuff? I'm looking at that floor register and thinking about how you're going to have to vacuum up the shards of broken dishware from in there. We spent a lot of time thinking up names for our current guys but we knew we'd be going with something anime-based. My cats have always had "people" names, so that made it easier. We got brothers, but they don't look anything alike. We had more than a week between our original meeting and when we got to bring them home so we had time to mull over the names, and would have changed them if the boys didn't like them. We still think that naming them Chaos and Mayhem would have been apt. In addition to all the other things that have been knocked down/over and the places they get into that they shouldn't, they've managed to destroy 6 charging/power cables and have chewed on countless other electrical lines. I'm in the process of covering every damn electrical cable in the house and spraying them with bitter apple spray. I suggest Matrix as a name, like a dot matrix printer.

Ruth Merriam

For me, it's almost universal that as soon as I realize "this doesn't make sense" and start to decide it's a dream, I wake up. :-P And I can tell when I'm really awake, because my emotions don't usually carry over from one dream to another, but if I wake up feeling like I did "the last time", I'm really awake (and usually grumpy). I hope the sewing supplies were still usable. And I don't trust screws without hitting something solid. Good luck!

Theadora