Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      If Tiny Tim was s'pposed to pop out and say, "Cyrios bless us, every one!" then it looks like he's running a little late...      But I will say that a computer with a properly functioning CPU fan makes more noise than I recall, though it's nice to have all the pieces of the vast Daily Grind machine back up and whirring. As for me, I should be done singing by the time you read this: just three Christmas Eve masses for me this year as well as our regular carol service with the trumpets before the 10PM mass. So I've got Christmas Day off!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And that brings us to the last of the pages Roz Gibson drew for the series. If you'd like to continue on and read the story as I originally drew it, these pages will be just the thing.      As for Daily Grind , there'll be more stuff, maybe Monday, maybe earlier.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And now it's apparently all about the importance of proper work ethic...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Once again, we demonstrate the importance of the proper pharmeceuticals.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      A couple more pages next week...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      People always get so touchy whenever the subject of ghosts comes up!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Everybody's always so polite 'round here...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      As I said when I first did my version of these pages over 15 years ago, it had always been a dream of mine to use the phrase "And then there's all that nonsense about the ghost" in a story somewhere...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Ooo! Plot elements!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Investigation!      More next!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Nothing cooler than getting shot with a tranquilizer dart...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      'Cause it's not a story till the spooky little mouse girl shows up!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      That's the spirit, Jo! Get back out there and on the job!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      This is the other page where I insisted on an element of the layout: I just really, really like the four boxes up in the corner where Jo's waking up...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Which brings us to the end of the original "introductory week" of Daily Grind . Monday, we'll move onto the beginning of the reworked version of "The Crossing Guard," the first actual storyline!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And I always feel obliged to mention that Mr. Tharka's first name is pronounced "Da-RYE-us".

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Once again demonstrating the vital importance of medicine in our modern world...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Enter Mrs. Teasdale.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Enter Jolene.      Roz Gibson's take on Daily Grind continues Monday!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Always so helpful, that Mr. Creager!