February 2014 strip

2/6/2014

2013 was a challenging year around here - to put it mildly. So I was really looking forward to closing the door on it, and enjoying a fresh new start in 2014. But what happened instead: on January 5th I was in the hospital being told that I needed to have my appendix removed! Well, that's another story (actually, I wrote a little blog about my surprisingly great experience at the Peter Lougheed Centre, but haven't had time to ink it yet - stay tuned). Anyway, I wasn't really out and about in the neighbourhood much, so here's my brother supplying the story for this month's Ramsay Newsletter comic strip. He just got back from doing a Master's in Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford in Bradford, England. Wow!!! (And what is he going to do next???)

And by the way - 2014's already looking a bit rosier, after the rocky start.

You can read all my Ramsay comics here on my website!

1 Comment

Augustus

2/7/2014 08:25:37 am

Ugh, i am gettin' WAY old, i spent a good 5 minutes trying to remember what Bob song had Double L in it (Double Elle Bakery had loosened that fragment in my head)...

...then remembered it was Double E's....If i had a Bobcat card, it woulda done been revoked by now!

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