What better thing to get in the mail than a delivery of books? After seeing my review of her books, the author very kindly offered to send me autographed copies of them. I love them! Now I just need to find the perfect place to display them ( Read more... )

A good weekend, just way too short. (Aren't weekends always too short ( Read more... )

By chance, I found an old LJ of mine. It's an IC account, for a character I used to RP 5+ years ago. haken-the-dk Not only did I forget it existed, I forgot everything I wrote in it, so I get to read it now as if it were totally new to me ( Read more... )

When I'm in the car, I'm listening to NPR. There's always interesting stuff to learn through them.

While driving to lunch, one of their hour-long shows went off-topic to announce an exiting story: Hillary Declares 2016 Run, Files For Divorce. The story had really interesting info on how this would impact her campaign and such. (You can listen to ( Read more... )

While I RP a lot, it's rare to be in a situation where my character and another person's character really "click" -- when the two characters (and perhaps the two writers) work so well together that the sum becomes greater than the parts. There's plenty of good RP without that click, but when it happens and the characters (writers?) really connect, ( Read more... )

I don't like writing about diet/weight nonstop, but it seems the only news I have to share lately. However, I'll make it brief. I lost three pounds this week (WOO). Yesterday my schedule got messed up (had to stay late for work meeting), so I ate a "bad" lunch (not just a deli sandwich with bread, but a large one instead of small -- I bought it ( Read more... )

It's only 8 AM and I already teared up twice today.

Storycorps (a wonderful group that archives family and personal stories from around the country) plays a story every Friday morning on NPR. This was the second one that made me cry. “You feel like being gay is like a virus.”, about a mother and son. The mother sent her gay teenage son to ( Read more... )

It's been quite a nice Sunday. It feels like fall. It's so nice and cool! Our high was 68, and there's a nice very cool breeze blowing. Even better than that, the days are getting shorter. I know I'm the odd man out on this, but I hate it when it doesn't get fully dark until 9:45 PM. I like it dark in the morning when I get up, and I'd love it to ( Read more... )

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I've been playing WoW a few years now, way long enough for FFXI to be out of my brain and WoW fully replacing it. Or should be. So there I was, happily skilling enchanting on Clove, when suddenly it became time to train for a higher skill cap. "Level 75 required." ARG! How do I forget that skill cap is tied to level EVERY SINGLE TIME ( Read more... )