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Filling #2 is in. Much more with the drilling this time. Feel like my right cheek has a softball in it. The doc had to drill down to the jawbone - even though my teeth are in great shape, he said, this cavity was down there ( Read more... ) -
Beer geekery
First a brewing update: with my new added capacity (a secondary fermenter), I have my Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout and Arrogant Bastard clones both going right now. The former should be bottled tomorrow, the latter racked to secondary possibly on the weekend. 3 weeks on the Oatmeal Stout, probably 5 out on the AB ( Read more... ) -
I'm Shipping Up to Boston
Well, I've actually already shipped up to Boston. I'm back in my favorite city in the world for a writer's retreat - a follow-up from last summer's conference up this way. I came up yesterday, rented a car, and with the help of harliquinn and jazzmasterson surprised Dad for a pre-Father's Day dinner. It worked out nicely - had some good conversation, and the whole ( Read more... ) -
Grah!
Apparently, God has decided that there are far too many sinners in mid-Michigan and is systematically wiping them out with tornadoes this afternoon. One was spotted on the ground about 5 miles north of here while I was in the car on the way to the airport. I hightailed it back to base, Joe, and hunkered down. It passed well north of here, and my ( Read more... ) -
HB!
Happy jazzmasterson day! -
Today's random observation
My brain seems to have upgraded from the default machine gun to the rocket propelled grenade launcher. My good ideas seem to no longer come in constant yet comparatively small streams, but gigantic explosive events. (Most of these involve frantic flailing of dry erase markers on the nearest convenient surface.) The reload times are long though, ( Read more... ) -
Seriously, we're back around to this? Already?
drdingbat cited the upcoming film Chihuahua as a harbinger of the fall of civilization as we know it. Well, I see your animated dogs and raise you this:
(And not only is the premise recycled, but isn't the mom in the preview from Full House? And after Arrested Development, this was the best that Jessica Walter could do for herself?) -
Music ∩ SciFi geekery
Bear McCreary talks about the operatic piece featured in the recent Battlestar Galactica episode, Guess What's Coming to Dinner. Actor Alessandro Juliani is a trained opera singer, and he and the writing team introduced the notion of his character singing an opera aria every time his recently amputated leg bothered him ( Read more... )
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