Calvin & Hobbes

Implicit Assumption

I was busy having fun around here in July because I thought I’d finish the last 23 post offices and take a trip to Cottonwood in August. Unfortunately, the state of Oregon is currently trying to burn everything down east of the Cascades. The post offices needed are in the northeast of the state, and the route to Arizona runs through or very near some serious blazes. Sigh. Maybe early September?

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 74.6%

 

Do You Know What Day It Is?

I’ve been looking back through my Calvin & Hobbes book collection for a couple of giggles in between reading actual books. When I went through the last one, Weirdos From Another Planet!, I earmarked this one strip because I wanted to scan it for here. I edited the fourth panel to be more applicable to my situation.

Of course, I’m fully cognizant that when it comes to the next level change to that last panel, I might not remember to do it.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 7.5%

 

Here Is Proof

High School Drafting Transcript

Over the weekend I decided to clean out the 2-tier file basket that is on a table in the computer room. I’ve been dumping stuff on the top level for quite some time, mostly the monthly, semi-annual and annual statements from State Farm with updates on all of our policies we have with them. The pile had grown taller than the basket and the top forms were sliding out onto the table. Every single one of the Sonata’s 6 month bills were in there, which was 8 documents of 6 pages each. The Miata’s stuff of similar size went a little further back than 2011, plus the homeowners policies and life insurance policies, it was a mess. I keep the most recent of each and shredded the rest.

In the other tier of this basket was a treasure drove of stuff that I had forgotten I even had. Including the copy of my high school transcript proving my post from the other day. I blurred out everything but the Drafting grades as there is some stuff I’m not too proud of there. The grades reading from left to right are the 4 semesters and the fifth is the average grade for the whole year. Where I’m from high school was only three years, so they tacked on my final year of Jr. High in the upper left (no drafting there.)

Another great find was in a business sized envelope were the cardboard templates for the Pigs In Space sweatshirt I made back in the 80’s. I may have to recreate this. I’m going to need a different medium though, the original was made of felt pieces layered on top of each other then sewn on and we don’t have a sewing machine anymore.

I also found a Calvin & Hobbes Time Machine sticker that I didn’t know I had. There used to be one on the rear bumper of the Emperor, but it went away when the back of the car had to be repainted after the Great Dented Trunk Lid Incident of 2006. I must have had two made … took the newly resurfaced sticker out to the garage and applied it on the Emperor’s rear.

Plus my Junior College transcript was there too, so tomorrow’s treat will be a glimpse at further proof my drafting prowess.

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1479

So That’s Where I Got That Idea

A month or so I picked up a well used copy of The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book at a used book sale. It was an interesting read as not only did it have hundreds of C & H comic strips, but it was filled with Bill Waterson’s insights on his making of the strip. About 2/3rds of the way through the book there is a series strips where Calvin kidnaps Susie’s doll (sort of her version of Hobbes):

Kidnapping Binky Betsy 1
Kidnapping Binky Betsy 2
Kidnapping Binky Betsy 3

In that third strip Calvin has his kidnap victim tied to a chair…so that is where I got the idea for the video in Part IV of the Great Roach Kidnapping Caper of 2010

Wiped My Rear End Clean

When the Emperor got tapped last March the whole back end of the car had to be repainted to make sure the metallic paint blended and matched. This meant that the 5″ high vinyl sticker of Calvin & Hobbes that had been on the car since September of ’05 had to come off. I ordered a replacement and when it came in it was 6″ instead of the previous five, but I put it on rather try and deal anymore with the fellow who made it for me (let’s just say he was not the most reliable type.)

Almost ever since the day I put it on I felt it was a little too big and today I couldn’t stand it no more, so I removed it. As a consequence I updated my mod list to show it gone and added the cost of my recent dash statuette purchase. The back bumper of the car is naked again.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 11