I just looked up info on the next book in the Dresden Files series (http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/skin-game-15).
I suspect it will be fine (there are some ways in which it could be pretty awesome, actually), but the premise sounds vaguely like it came out of a tabletop game...

Two things Frozen ( Read more... )

Is there anything happening next weekend? I remember there being a LARP or something, but when I look at the schedule, everything is the following weekend...
Maybe there's an SCA event I'm forgetting?

I had a good time with my family last weekend. Sad I missed the play up here, though.

I have just finished re-reading "Cold Days", and I have a question.

Early in the book, when Dresden is talking to Santa Claus, there is indication that Santa Claus was something/someone else before. Near the end of the book, there is this bit that is clearly supposed to hint at who/what that was:

And for the briefest fraction of a second, the ( Read more... )

Since Caitlin's party, I have been intending to write down a "this is what happened with my mother" reference -- the actual things that happened with her health as well as my reactions to them and my emotional journey since and some of my thoughts about how it has affected my life and blah blah blah. (summary : she died of cancer when I was 19. I ( Read more... )

I started trying to run again. That's my goal this summer. I started on Thursday, so today was my second run. We'll see if I can keep it up. Todays run ended in a pretty spirally light show indicating that I'd probably didn't want to push any harder ( Read more... )

I don't often have to wait in line very long to vote, and today was no exception in that regard. But today, not only did I have no waiting whatsoever - there was no one else there voting at all. The half-dozen volunteers who run the place were there as usual, but nobody else. It was kind of surreal.

In a discussion on the philosophy of Bullshit (no, really), I see this commentary:

Frankfurt asks us to consider an anecdote told about Ludwig Wittgenstein wherein the great philosopher phones a friend named Fania Pascal who's just had her tonsils removed. How are you, Wittgenstein asks. Like a dog that's been run over, Pascal answers. ( Read more... )

Physical Therapy is going well. This weekend I switched from biking to running. Or, really, walking interspersed with 30 second bits of running, since after about 30 seconds my hamstring is pretty much overwhelmed. But it's much stronger today than yesterday, so that's encouraging. My PT goal is to be able to fight at Endgame next weekend. It' ( Read more... )

It gave me three or four more days of uncertainty, but my leg now seems to be healing well. I can go for short walks and I can walk up a single flight of stairs normally now. This week I will start with stretching and seeing what I can do at the gym and maybe trying to do some light yoga.