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Since I'm staring in horrified fascination anyway--
So there's a young man on Tumblr. (For purposes of disclosure I do not have a Tumblr, but I do read about 10 on a regular basis. They're kind of like comics.)
This particular young man has led an interesting existence. Sometimes he tells stories about it. Mostly while drunk, but then he's telling stories of past drunkeness and it pretty much ( Read more... ) -
Took the day off today.
Sunday evening I couldn't turn my head to the left without my upper back spasming, which was all kinds of fun ( Read more... ) -
My mother turned 69 today.
We got together last week (around my dad's 68th birthday) to let her trundle around in Whatcom County to contemplate eventual places to live ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday, in all seriousness, my mother asked me what the difference was between a blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
I live under a rock, culturally speaking. It's a much smaller rock than it used to be, but it's still a rock. It was very bemusing to discover my mother's rock is much, much larger than mine.
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I bought gas today at $1.96/gallon.
What century did I wake up in?
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I finally got my hands on a History of the Turkic Peoples book
(Ah, the joys of short-form wishlists for blood relations)
So far the worldbuilding I've been trying to work into Falcons' Feathers looks like it hasn't been flat-out wrong yet, which is nice. (I've been having to use more Mongol references than I'd prefer; the major reason I'm not using the Mongols is that when the Mongols and the Russians met-- ( Read more... ) -
In today's mildly embarrassing amusement news
I just spent about forty seconds looking for the tab I was reading that long story in.
You know. The Terry Pratchett novel sitting on the side table. Waiting for me to be done with email that needed typed responses.
*facepalm*
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Writer's problems:
Going through* and click/reading a whole table of contexts post . . . . and then running out of story to read ( Read more... ) -
My thoughts on the movie Now You See Me
Spoilers inherent to discussion, I think. Click the cut at your own risk. :)
( I saw this in the theatre and enjoyed it )