This is the big sign in Little Italy in San Diego. This style of font always reminds me of Rapture in BioShock. In Seattle there are quite a few signs that have this type of font too. Little Italy is decidedly different in feel here than in NYC. Of course pedestrian population is far far less dense and also fewer small little restaurants.

I’ve only been to a couple in the area but most of them look like the type of restaurants that you only eat at every once in a while because you’re going to be dropping at least $20-30 and even higher if you get alcohol. The places I’ve been to have been good so far with some new interesting foods I haven’t had before. I had a really great squid ink gnocchi when I was visiting last December.

This is one of the first things I was telling everyone about San Diego. There are free doggie poop bag dispensers on the street! These things would be empty the second they hit the streets of New York, just ’cause hey, free plastic bags. This was definitely one of those “Whoa, I really am in another city” kind of moments.

I decided that to maintain some level of quality it was preferable to take photos with the Dude plush Anna made for me rather than try to draw him with a mouse.

One of the biggest differences between the East and West coast are the local vegetation. This about sums it up.

We made it safely to San Diego last night! Thankfully Anna’s cat made it and does not appear too traumatized. She complained a lot on the way to JFK, but in the plane she was surprisingly chill. Still, the cat carrier was TINY so we were worried. She seems to be pretty comfortable just walking around and lying in various parts of our new apartment.

My computer won’t be here for another week, so I’m probably just going to do photo comics until then. This is one that I took last December when I visited. But judging from the forecast it looks like this photo could easily be taken tomorrow too. Yes, the fire hydrants here are yellow. Just like in the Shelbyville episode of The Simpsons.

It’s going to be up to 80 degrees this weekend. Where the hell am I???

I’m flying to San Diego today!

I had an entire week of vacation a couple weeks ago and I didn’t spend it doing comics like I probably should’ve. I haven’t finished the “leaving New York” comics of which I have numerous ideas for. So even though I’ll be in San Diego from now on, I’m still not going to be done with NYC just yet. I’m not sure when, but I will transition to San Diego at some point which I’m very excited about. Also, it’ll be good to live there for a few weeks to build up ideas before diving fully into it.

The Cablevision worker helping me disconnect my service was very nice and sounded very excited at the idea of being in California in the warmth. Actually, the reaction I get from people when I mention San Diego is probably 80% about the weather and the rest is a mix of various things like “What’s out there?” and “I don’t really know what’s there. The zoo?”

There are a lot of boxes in my apartment right now. I’m pretty confident now that I have enough empty boxes to contain the rest of the stuff in the apartment. And yet, getting that stuff into those boxes is still a huge hassle and seemingly insurmountable challenge. One way or another, the movers are coming on Sunday to load up our stuff and get it going to San Diego. My actions between now and then will just determine how much work they have to do when they come through my door.

I’ve already realized that I’m not going to cook any more food between now and Sunday which was a nice first step. Still though, god damn an apartment can fit a lot of stuff.

I currently have five things I’m trying to get rid of on Craigslist and I’ve been in touch with people for all of them. For some of them I’ve made contact with a couple people, and yet the last time I heard from any of these people was over a day ago. Come on people, I have a bunch of stuff either free or far below its original price. What gives???

Yet on the other side of the coin I had a woman drive to my place yesterday morning just to pick up a small cork bulletin board. It probably originally cost less than the gas and time she spent to get it (I was giving it for free).

My computer is in the living room of my apartment which currently is only illuminated by the built in ceiling light by the door. Yeah, it’s pretty dark in here as I write this. The computer monitor is the only other light in the room. The other light comes from the hallway.

But still, I’m glad I got to give those lamps to someone rather than throw them in the basement and give the building workers to worry about. Now if only those people on Craigslist who said they wanted my other stuff would actually REPLY ALREADY!!!