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Shmoo and I play a game called The Long Dark by Hinterland Studio Inc.
It’s still in beta on Steam, and is multi-platform.

Shmoo bought the game for me a few months after he got it, because I used to constantly yell at him while he played that he was going to die because he ( Read more... )

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We went camping at Assateague this past weekend. Didn’t take any photos, but had a relaxing time none the less. It was a good trip, with one exception…

The rental car and the douchebag* at the local Enterprise Car Rental Agency.

First, we got there and he had us sit down at ( Read more... )

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DMB’s new CD is out today and this makes me very happy.
If I had to say why I liked their music so much, I think it’s because they just really get life and all it’s crazy and communicate well in their music.

Not much crafting in general to report. I’ve been poking away at my ( Read more... )

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How many of you wear glasses? Yeah, me too! (Non-glasses wearing people feel free to skip this post.)

So.. one of the WoW-ish related blogs I read happened to mention that she had ordered her glasses online and how she was waiting for them to come in and she hoped they didn’ ( Read more... )

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So there’s a new knitty up. And…. wait for it…. I like it. I added 3 things to my ravelry queue. THREE! And there were other things I considered and then figured “nah, I’ll get around to that” on. In case you are dying of curiosity those three are Posey, Laminaria, and ( Read more... )

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So, after posting Sunday, I decided to go ahead and finish up my scarf. I figured it was just stockinette in the round, I should be able to knock it out quickly and have a fabulous scarf for knitting group on Monday night.

I was so very very wrong.

I finished the scarf, and ( Read more... )

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Shmoo messaged me from work. He said I had a box, and it was big and ugly.

I asked where it was from, and when he said North Carolina, I squealed.

My wheel had arrived. I cannot express my excitement. I was ready for him to come home right then! Luckily it was pretty ( Read more... )

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Today I stumbled across this article.
And went to this website.
And then clicked to see how much money they were charging for this crap, and found that out here.

That’s right folks, you too can have a marvelously super-tacky 9″ pair of straight needles for the low low price of ( Read more... )