Granted, I haven't updated the Notepad in five years, so I doubt anyone would miss it, but my current webhosting service has decided to kill their free hosting offer, and I don't plan on spending money keeping ancient fics that generate zero feedback online.

Will keep my local backups of the site, on the slim chance I'll ever resume fanfic writing

"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men bad enough for such treachery." - Treebeard, Lord of the Rings.

The fact that it takes billions of dollars to land a robo-car on Mars tells me I'll never get the chance to leave this planet. It'll probably take a few more centuries before space travel becomes as common - and cheap - as flight is today. By comparison, we're barely at 1492, with Columbus on the Canary Islands, still debating whether or not to ( Read more... )

Got home after a rather 'meh' day at work, 14 hours after I got up and headed for the office. Blasted commute. Wasn't in too good a mood ( Read more... )

Someone shoot me now; I'll probably develop cancer anyway.

Been a while now. Life keeping me busy, not always in ways I'd like. Still at my job. Haven't died of stress yet, but I've been through another few bosses in the last month, and there's some other work-related developments that have led to two things; near permanent telecommute for me (which is good), and not a chance in heck I can take out the two ( Read more... )

The Norwegian final just concluded; we've made our choice, and I believe we made the best one ( Read more... )

...I tend not to when the temperature drops significantly. Today, it was -16 degrees Celsius - about 3 degrees Fahrenheit. I know that's not that cold to some of you, but for my southern, coastal area it's fairly chilly. Usually, winter temperature hovers just below freezing; just enough to sustain a thin blanket of snow ( Read more... )

As you might know, I live in a rural/suburbian area stuck between three small towns. The nearest of them is the one I feel the most ties with. Population about forty thousand people ( Read more... )

My tickets still haven't arrived. *nervous ( Read more... )