I haven't done maintenance on my friends list in half of forever. That wasn't a problem until yesterday, when I friends-locked a post for the first time. I tried to update by going through the list of people who'd friended me, but had a buffer overload on pseudonyms.

If you're a friend and I've left you out, could you please give me a nudge?

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I died in the Dungeon of Papersky

I was killed in a narrow torture chamber by Pameladean the cockatrice, whilst carrying...

the Crown of Dhole, the Amulet of Gail Godwin, the Dagger of Tea, the Wand of Vernor Vinge, the Wand of Food, a Figurine of Lisajulie, the Armour of Kate Nepveu, the Wand of Angevin2, the Armour of Aireon, the Shield of Marian ( Read more... )

I escaped from the Dungeon of Tnh!

I killed 2muchexposition the orc, Davidlevine the nymph, Norilana the fire elemental and Benyalow the leprechaun.

I looted a Figurine of Gtrout, the Sceptre of Hamsters, the Crown of Gerisullivan, the Sword of Beamjockey, the Sceptre of Citrus, a Figurine of Ceiliog, the Sword of Mplscorwin, the Armour of Epacris ( Read more... )

Two queries.

First, does anyone know where I can find blackberry or raspberry plants? My local store has sold out of them.

Second, does anyone know how to find contact information for a specific doctor, if you don't know where in the country he is these days?

1. Keep track.

You know how sometimes you'll get a reminder about Thing Wanted stuck in your mental queue, and a few shopping trips later you'll be wildly oversupplied with worcestershire sauce, or paper towels, or Campbell's chicken broth? If I had to do that with something for my garden, why did it have to be Colocasia esculenta, a.k.a. ( Read more... )

Angelus wasn't Angelus; he was Liam. Spike was William. "Darla" wasn't a name when Darla was turned. And we have to assume that a pious Catholic family wouldn't have named a daughter Drusilla. What, then, was Drusilla's name ( Read more... )

Did I mention that I made my first pro magazine sale a while back? It's nonfiction, of course -- an essay on cliches in book-length works, for the cliche-themed issue John Scalzi is editing for Subterranean.Today I proofread my galleys. (They may be .pdf files, but they're still galleys.) There are twenty-eight separate items in the corrections I ( Read more... )

Porco Bruno is my new hamster, successor to the much-missed Arthur. PB's young, high-strung, and athletic. Recently while handling him I noticed what may be a scar across his face, running upward diagonally from the outer edge of his right eye (which eyelid droops a bit) past the centerline up between his ears. If so, I'm mildly impressed that he ( Read more... )

My birth date is March 21st, the first day of the astrological year. It's frequently the date of the vernal equinox (or the autumnal equinox, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere).

Let's see, now. Three each, events, births, deaths, and observances ...

Events:1871, Journalist Henry Morton Stanley set out to find missionary-explorer David ( Read more... )

Seeds: Set out a tray of 120 Jiffy-7 peat pellets seeded with perennials: Achillea millefolium, Achillea m. var. Summer Pastels, Viola cornuta, Viola tricolor, Cheiranthus cheiri (one packet mixed colors, one packet all dark red), Centranthus ruber, Campsis radicans, Helenium autumnale, Lychnis coronaria atrosanguinea, Buddleia alternifolia, ( Read more... )