 We're back!
posted by Christopher on 8.28.2004 - 7:18 pm
It's been two months, but we should be finally settled in to our new place and ready to roll again.
Too much stuff to cover in one rant, but the lowdown is this: Jenny and I now live in Rohnert Park, CA. She's going to school at SSU, and I'm working from home full time (yes!). I now have an office in our new place, and without three hours of commute every other day, I should have a lot more time to work on the comic.
I'll post more later, but just wanted to pop in and say "hi", and "no, we haven't given up on the strip". In fact, here's a new one, which ends the first... um "chapter" of the comic, if you will.
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 A level of hell Dante forgot --
posted by Dante on 8.30.2004 - 9:13 am
I speak of IKEA. This is obviously the swedish word for 'stuff it sideways and snap it off'. I don't know how to swear in swedish, but I'm almost positive that if I were to shout IKEA at someone that I'd soon be entering a physical altercation with them. I would wager it to be more effective than slurs about questionable parentage or sexual proclivities.
The store claims that it has all this value that it passes along to the customer, and that is somehow their magical shield to repel all the responsibilities normally hoisted upon a retail outlet. This 'savings transference' is like Scotchguard against customer service. Honestly, charge me another 50 cents/item and use that money to fund a customer service drone that can answer a question. How about an additional 1% mark-up for a realistic inventory management system? Hell, is there a premium I can pay to guarantee that I get the damn piece of furniture that I want? Can I slip some stock monkey a $20 and have him hold something for me? I'm not above bribery here. My desperation has reached that kind of absurd level. Even with all these proposed mark-ups (and the bribe) IKEA would still the cheapest game in town.
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