Getting back to the business at hand

Now that my part-time job is in the can, I’m working on waking up the right side of my brain. Doing technical work 24-7 suppresses my creative impulse. Today it felt good to wake up from four months of slumber caused by writing technical documents under the pressure of meeting impossible deadlines. That kind of stress is not relieved by anything but sleep, and even then it frequently filters into my dreams.

In this picture — one of the final pages that wrap up the plot — Jimmy and Betty are best friends saying farewell, not knowing if they’ll ever see each other again.