We're having a laid-back Valentine's Day this year, since we're going to the Olympics in four days, and we can spend our nice restaurant meal budget in Vancouver or Seattle.  Of course, we did a little something, anyway.  My sweetie, being the understated shy guy that he is, has his own way of giving gifts.  Yesterday a bowl of chocolate covered ( Read more... )

Kyle: I think the solution to that show is to stake them.  All of them.  The humans, too ( Read more... )

All right, I'm finally doing National Novel Writing Month.  It's about damn time.  Here's my page.  It's just a germ of an idea that's been bouncing around in my head.  I wanted to try writing some fantasy protagonists who could and should be heroes/leaders, but are dealing with mental illness.  Not magical illness or a curse or something brought ( Read more... )

That's right, folks, it's the big time for me!

Seriously, I'm a new newsie for RPGamer.  I'll probably be doing some reviews as well, which will get more attention there than they would on my personal blog.  Slow baby steps towards a paid writing career, but forward is a good direction!

Google Street View just went live for Toronto, and it's INVADING MY PRIVACY!  People on the Internet can see my PANSIES.  MY PAAANSIES!

"Hi sweetie - you left your DS on and I didn't want the battery to run out and have you lose your progress, so I tried to get to the stairs so I could save your game.  I guess you were on the boss level, though.  I defeated the king wolf and it turned into a kid named Yu.  He said he'd been turned into a wolf for trying to take a picture of a ( Read more... )

So we were in the grocery store, and I noticed a bunch of my usual eco-type purchases (natural shampoo, eggs that are both free range and in a cardboard instead of plastic container, etc.) weren't in stock.  I commented jokingly that there must have been come kind of eco-conference nearby and afterwards all the participants swept through the ( Read more... )

Why, I've been getting my ass around to finally publishing a public blog!  I ended up going with Blogger because it's nicely linked in with all my Google crap.  Man, I love Google.  I don't care if they're keeping my private information in a secret bunker to sell to the alien invaders, their web stuff is awesome.

Anyway, go here!  http:// ( Read more... )

While browsing around the Internet to pick up tidbit's on Jennifer Roberson's next Karavans books, I found a review of Karavans, the first novel in the series.  The reviewer mentioned that Ms. Roberson "showed promise".  'Scuse me?  She shows promise?  She's only been a successful published fantasy author since 1984!  Her Tiger and Dell series, in ( Read more... )

It was time for Abby's annual exam today, so I took her in to our excellent veternary office.  They've always been super nice to us; the vet compimented Abby's dental health and her excellent grooming (I groom the kitties every day, because I love my soft kitties and I also love not having many hairballs).

So while I'm waiting for Abby to get her ( Read more... )