For those of you who have been following the news this week, Japan is going through some bad shit. First the 8.9 earthquake, then the big tsunami, then the situation at the nuclear power plant which is threatening to go completely to hell and now a volcanic eruption. As things continue to unfold in the country that has provided me with some of my ( Read more... )

It's getting about that time again. As usual, I have no damned clue what to write about this year. Given my current train of mind creative-wise, something fantasy-oriented may end up getting written this year -- perhaps a script adaptation of one of my Alastor stories, something involving some of the other fantasy characters I've created, a story ( Read more... )

I'm on page 10 of my script for Script Frenzy and am woefully behind right now. I started on Day 5, and most people who pursue a four-page-a-day goal from Day One are up to 28 pages right now. I've just introduced most of the major characters of the script, I'm currently hammering out a funeral scene for the father of one of my protagonists (which ( Read more... )

So I did some grocery shopping with Dad yesterday. As usual when I head to La Crosse, my first stop was Barnes and Noble. I was there to snag up the Player's Handbook II, and they only had one copy -- lucky me. I am liking the new classes so far, and the Barbarian in particular kicks ass. I also snagged up the Manual of the Planes, Exemplars of ( Read more... )

So my fucking kitchen lights are not working. Dad and I went shopping yesterday and bought a two-pack of fluorescent bulbs in addition to my usual groceries. Dad thought that the problem was that one of the bulbs ended up burning out, and when one goes out, the other one does too. We replaced the bulbs and tried turning the lights on again. I ( Read more... )