And thus continues my running tradition of late-night cramming pre- Queen of Hearts.  The funny thing is that I'm supposed to be on "taking it easy" setting this year (since I'm not really going to compete in anything day of, and I passed on most the non-com stuff I would usually do.)  In a bizzarre sort of way, it may be good though.  Mer isn ( Read more... )

So, as my appointment approached to have the staples removed from the side of my head, I found myself asking a question I hadn't really invested much time on in the past:  How does one remove staples that have been attached to one's anatomy?  They were kinda bent inward, I presume to help keep them in, so I suspected there may be some sort of nifty ( Read more... )

How to improve Realms villains... through the power of song ... :-D

Unto those who have had the opportunity to partake of the strawberry-rhubarb wine that Veros and Bouquette have been kind enough to share...

http://www.nashobawinery.com/where.html

Has a complete listing of places that carry Nashoba valley wine, and what flavors they stock ;-)

So surgery went fairly well.  No bizarre complications.  In fact, I've been much more functional than I thought I would be these last 2 days.  (With the exception that I keep loosing track of what day it is/ how many days it has been since surgery.)  I would have posted sooner, but Mer actually came all the way out Friday and spent the whole ( Read more... )

So, went to a Realms event this weekend... turned out not so hot.  Had a collision with another player, broke my face in a few different places... no really.  Multiple fractures, in particular orbital and zygomatic fractures.   So, in retrospect, I wonder if creating an LJ account explicitly for documenting injury didn't somehow jinx myself a ( Read more... )

Weird things you find while looking up ways to make soda online while one of your students is perseverating, "Yea, and my finger has a needle sticking out of it thiiiis long, and electricity comes out of the needle.  Do you see it right there?  Yea, and it's used for cutting bagels...."  We're only up to fifteen minutes of this so far, and ( Read more... )

So, the kids are all in bad now, and I've got a few minutes before my shift ends, so I thought I'd hop online to kill a few minutes.  What, kids !?!  No, not mine, I've been picking up some extra shifts at work to salve some of my financial woes.
Retrieved the motorcycle from Leominster yesterday, then went to Salem w/ Mer.  It was a good time.  ( Read more... )

So a student stabbed me today. I knew it was going to happen someday, wasn't really surprised. The weird thing is that I was just saying tojaybonci last week that if I got stabbed, it would most likely be with a ballpoint pen. The good news is that it turns out jeans + 2 or 3 years of Realms training does a pretty good job of mitigating ( Read more... )

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