"I won't let you let me down so easily."

[greygirlbeast]

Wonderful, booming thunderstorms out there. Lightning. Thunder. Hard rain. The dregs of Isaac, that storm come all the way from West Africa to die above New England.

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Now, COMMENTS!

Yesterday, I spent hours searching for a story for Sirenia Digest #81, and found "Our Lady of Arsia Mons." Then I wrote a mere 596 words. But I'll do better today

Comments

[witchchild]

Ah, you are getting all the good rain stuff which is eluding us here today. meh.

[greygirlbeast]

I hate the murky, dreary days. But actual rain and storms...

[witchchild]

Be glad you are to the east then. And this morning it was damn sticky out.

[pwtucker]

Do those stats capture people reading your journal entries via RSS feeds? Cause that's what I do. I've been following via my Google Reader for ages now. Which... shows that you have 190 subscribers, as far as I can tell.

[greygirlbeast]

Do those stats capture people reading your journal entries via RSS feeds?

No, and to my knowledge I have no way of gathering those. But I would be very surprised if they made much of a difference, as few people take time these days to write or read any but the most prominent and contentious blogs. Which this isn't. Anyway, those 190 subscribers could have long since stopped reading...

[aishabintjamil]

LJ suffers from the problem that there doesn't seem to be a good way to follow someone without friending them, and I don't necessarily want to give people whose work I enjoy, but who I don't have a close personal connection to, access to my locked entries. (This is probably someone's cue to tell me I've missed some wonderful feature, but I don't have a paid account, and don't plan to get one, so there you are.)

That means that most of the author journals I follow on LJ (including yours)I read through RSS feeds. Then I pop over here if I have something to add to the conversation. So I can say with confidence that at least one of those subscribers on Google Reader is actually paying attention...

That comment you requested - Sorry about its lameness

[seph_ski]

I like the sound of the "Outrage Brigade". It makes me think of a Python'esque group of Gumbys with their pants rolled up and hankies tied on their heads. Add in a few twits, some men in drag bashing each other with granny-style purses, and then throw in some Benny Hill style chase music to round it all out. Yes. An accurate portrayal, if I do say so myself.

Ham steaks sound good. I was planning on mac&cheese tonight, but I had planned on serving tuna with it. Now I might dust off the emergency can of Spam and fry it up instead.

Re: That comment you requested - Sorry about its lameness

[greygirlbeast]

I have a soft pink spot in my heart for Spam, disgusting though it may be.

Re: That comment you requested - Sorry about its lameness

[seph_ski]

Me too. My lifemate nixed my plans with his request for tuna though, so maybe spam and eggs in the morning.

[stsisyphus]

I have NOT forgotten about Aunt Beast's Salt Marsh Home Companion, even though we're a month past the projected launch.

Glad to hear it. I wouldn't begrudge you if you decided to stall it in favor of other pressing matters, but I'm still looking forward to this.

And I'm glad GW2 isn't disappointing. I'm not quite ready to try out another fantasy MMO, but you're saying more than anyone else has about the experience other than just generic statements about which keyboard buttons are pushed and whether or not they want to try another NCSoft game. So that's valuable.

[greygirlbeast]

Glad to hear it. I wouldn't begrudge you if you decided to stall it in favor of other pressing matters, but I'm still looking forward to this.

As am I. I think.

And I'm glad GW2 isn't disappointing. I'm not quite ready to try out another fantasy MMO, but you're saying more than anyone else has about the experience other than just generic statements about which keyboard buttons are pushed and whether or not they want to try another NCSoft game. So that's valuable.

Well, as always, actual gameplay is a quaternary concern (after aesthetics and potential for RP and solo-friendliness).

[corucia]

I envy you the thunderstorm - we're getting rather parched out here, and a late-night thunderstorm is one of my favorite bits of the world.

Glad to hear that a Sirenia piece has appeared. I imagine my suggestion yesterday wasn't interesting, then. Does 'Our Lady of Arsia Mons' have any connection to 'Dinosaurs of Mars'? I recall sending you a PDF of a Nature paper on Arsia Mons four or five years ago.

[greygirlbeast]

I imagine my suggestion yesterday wasn't interesting, then. Does 'Our Lady of Arsia Mons' have any connection to 'Dinosaurs of Mars'?

Only in that both are set at the skylights on Arsia Mons.