Hello all, Canterrain here.

Barb mentioned wonderful news in my life, and boy is that ever the case. As anyone who follows my twitter knows, there is a very special and beautiful woman in my life. Someone I deeply admire, respect, and love. She is one of the many people who have helped make me the man that I am. We compliment each other perfectly, in that we have many similarities (we are both geeks at heart, enjoying episodes of Star Trek and Doctor Who together) yet also the differences that really help keep spice in life. (I’m a writer type person, creative in word. She is visually creative, designing websites, lego villages, and crafting art)

So this weekend I decided to show her how much I truly do love her… by presenting something I made with legos for her. It looks like this:

A better view would be this:

Yes that’s right. Canterrain proposed. It didn’t go exactly the way I planned, as plans seldom ever do. But one thing did go as I hoped! Namely..

She said yes! As you can imagine I am quite elated. I would be tempted to count my blessings, but in her they may as well be more numerous than counting the stars. There is no date set yet, and no I don’t plan on going away. CT is here to keep helping with all of Xylia’s advertising needs. But CT is also one happy man.

And to my bride-to-be, who I know will read this. I love you. So very much. Thank you for saying yes,

CT

The majority of technical issues seem to be solved. If you can’t view the comic, please try the following:

1) Change your RSS/Bookmark to XYLIATALES.COM. The subdomain at comic.xyliatales.com is no longer fully functional. The RSS link is in the menu.

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Hello Xyliacs,

Canterrain here to explain the unfortunate news. As many of you who follow Barb’s twitter are aware, she has been having very large computer problems for the last week. First Barb would like to send a shout out and huge thanks to Scascot for working tirelessly to fix these computer problems. Things were almost finally there… but unfortunately as of this night Barb’s computer has finally gone down for the count due to disk failure. Toast.

To add to the unfortunate news, she had finished the page but hadn’t had a chance to move it to her new external harddrive yet. That work is lost.

The ’silver lining’ is this wasn’t hardware failure (cascading failure on the software end) and she is trying once again to get anything out of her mac as I write this post, -but- there is a good chance that her computer will not be up and running tonight. Even if it were, she wouldn’t be able to get the page redone in time for an update on Monday, and probably not even Tuesday.

As of right now, Barb is very very tentatively hoping for a Thursday update if she can once again get her computer to work. You can follow updates at twitter either through myself (canterrain), Kez, or Barb when she gets her computer working again. We’ll do our best to keep everyone in the loop where possible.

Xyliacs are amongst the most amazing people I know, and I know all of you will understand and wish your very best support to Barb. Thank you again,

Canterrain

EDIT by Canterrain: We’ve already had to remove one comment for being for lack of a better description, rude, childish, and falling into the trap of ‘on the internet I can say what I want’ (STUPID). The fact of the matter is, Barb was moving everything off the mac onto an external harddrive and just didn’t managed to get it all done before it died. It happens people.

If you are rude to people who give you free things, we will remove your post. This is Barb’s site, her rules. Please play nice.

Once again though, I am thankful to know that this is the exception not the rule, the vast majority of people who come here fall into the category of Xyliacs and are by and large the most awesome people in the world. Thank you for that.

We are still working on this issue. To help narrow down the cause, everyone visiting through comic.xyliatales.com or the RSS feed from that site, please change your bookmarks! The current site and feed can be found at http://xyliatales.com.

I also just updated the comicpress version tonight, but I have to get up early tomorrow for medical biophysics, so you’ll excuse me please if there’s some dust in the corner I haven’t had a chance to sweep out.

If you can’t view the comic still, please stop pestering Barb about it. You may send your complaints to me. That’s my job, ‘yo. Comment here and I’ll automatically receive them. What wonderful magic.

If you have Norton or MacAfee antivirus installed, you might also try adding http://xyliatales.com* to your safe-viewing list. Those 2 programs have been notorious for blocking keenspot/comicgenesis comics.  I’ll update this post as new facts come to light.

For direct links to the past three comic files, go here:

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