Midnight's Soliloquy, part two

(Dead Piro Halifax Day #6)

Whew. Finally got the second part of this arc done -- only missed one update (though this one is a little late itself) thanks to all the usual settling in stuff when you uproot for a chunk of the year to somewhere else.
Mary and I flew out of Manchester last Wednesday as planned, and, other than an hour's delay due to storms over Albany, we got into New Jersey more or less on time. We didn't, however, even get the computer set up online until the following night, and it was only yesterday that I finally got everything moved over from the laptop to Mary's desktop so I could start doing the comic. Since it's too hard to string together the narrative without going into stupid amounts of detail, here are several reasons for this comic's tardiness:
1. Don Pablo's authentic Mexican restaurant
2. Swarm of wasps who set up home in Mary's car while we were gone and then attacked me
3. Barbecues out on the patio
4. Visiting Mary's relatives to show them holiday pictures
5. Painting the bathroom (two primer coats, two top coats)
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7. Old Windows '98 machine refusing to do more than one thing at once and then crashing PotatoShop about four seconds before finishing the strip

(In anticipation of any questions you might have, here are some answers. Enchiladas and corncake and Dos Equis; just once, and I'm fine; no; they managed to stay awake so I guess they must have; blue; very good like any other Burton/Depp film, though on the whole I liked this one more, there were bits when I couldn't help but think how much better Gene Wilder delivered the line. The kids were better actors in this one and the Oompa Loompas probably won't haunt children's nightmares for decades to come this time around. Though that whole Wonka's father bit was a bit forced.)