I'm sure many of you have read the Dark Tower series. I'm not giving any spoilers of course and don't want any since I've not read the final book. I'm just curious if anyone else found Song of Susannah kind of Blah? I'm curious to read the last book just to see if it makes this book seem a little better, at least in memory. The other 5 books I was ( Read more... )

I feel like a rough stone in one of those polisher tumbler thingies being turned over and over. I wonder if the stones feel as mushy brained as I do? We are sailing on twelve foot seas right now (as I am typing this the keyboard is sliding back and forth, time for new velcro ( Read more... )

Quickies: Yes, the arm-disease is improving daily. Yes, I love Japan ( Read more... )

Ah! The itching!!!!! But the good news is that my arm will stay attatched to my body. After we moored to Yokosuka I was able to be diagnosed by some one who knew a bit more about medical issues and they were worried it was allowed to go as far as it did. However twenty four hours on the correct medication and it seems its already started to recede ( Read more... )

Don't go swimming in Indonesia, or along those same lines, don't handle wet lines(as in ropes, for mooring a ship) without copious amounts of alcohol based hand sanitizer readily available. Or a blow torch ( Read more... )

This is exactly why I can't stand fundamentalists.

( rock music is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people's hearts and minds. )

I'm about to run a game in a system that a friend of mine created, partly in effort to assist him in beta testing and partly because I've recently been really interested in running an RPG that is very miniature intensive ( Read more... )

Once again a long while has passed since my last update. Don't worry though, its okay now, long lapses in presence are EB tradition. Its a trick i do, where i create this little shadow in my head then conceal myself in it, unfortunately existential shadows seem to be much stickier than the simple lack of light real life ones... Takes a bit longer ( Read more... )

To All My Valued Employees ( Read more... )

I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I found it terribly funny ( Read more... )