My sketch for today was originally going to still be an angry image of Grace, but it wasn't going to be THIS image. I was in the middle of sketching something more elaborate in Photoshop when my computer's video card drivers decided they had tired of life and decided to die horribly.

Attempts to restore my old drivers have failed, and now I'm using the latest and greatest drivers my video card has to offer! Drivers that don't perform as well as the old ones did. I presume I have, at least in part, the additions that allow for 3D glasses to be used with all those computer games I don't play. Yay...

The reason I was going to draw angry Grace was because that's how I've felt the last couple days. I'm not going to claim the days have been horrible. In the big scheme of things, even my video card issues aren't that big. At worst, I'll need a new video card. It sucks, but it's hardly end of the world stuff.

Nonetheless, I've been in a state of near perpetual frustration, and when I decided to vent that frustration by drawing angry Grace, that's when my video card decided to go haywire. I believe trying to do something to relieve stress only to wind up doubling that stress counts as irony. If I'm wrong, don't correct me for a while. I'm still kinda volatile.

This version of angry Grace was drawn less to vent frustration and more to make certain I could still plan to finish the comic for Wednesday on time. I should be able to, but unless I can tune up my graphics performance, I'm going to have to resort to outside help and if it comes to that, I'm just going to get a better and more reliable video card. I'm hoping I can get that done in one trip to the right computer store, but I've never had to upgrade one before, so frankly? I have no idea.

I was expecting to have to upgrade it eventually; my computer is high-end in every regard BUT the graphics card, and I'm a cartoonist. That's just silly. I haven't been eager to do so, but I'm thinking the time has come if I'm putting up with this crap. Gonna try a couple of things before I go that far, but the upgrade is pretty much inevitable and if some cosmic gremlin says it's gonna be now, I guess it's gonna be now.