Nov
18

Wordle is Fun. Sorta.

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Whee. Jumping on the Wordle bandwagon this morning. (Lots of NaNo blogs out there doing that, it seems). Hmm…looks like I use “just” and “like” a few too many times.  May have to remedy that on another editing pass one of these days.… Read more
Nov
17

The Trouble with Transformers

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This is sarcasm, you understand. As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing wrong with Transformers at all. Hell, when I found out Chevy was offering a Transformers package I nearly wet myself. I mean, I would be the absolute coolest mom in the world if I could park Bumblebee in my driveway. (And yeah, I know it’s not quite the *right* shade of yellow, but that didn’t stop me from building one online. $40 k later…eh, I’m a tad less likely, but you never know.). Anyway, the point of this mini-rant is that Connor is mildly obsessed with them. Just like he was mildly obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine a few years ago, and Speed Racer after that. And next year, I’m sure it will be something else – Astroboy, maybe. Bakugon. Whatever it is, I’m sure it will be Japanese and plastic. Anyway, obsession being what it is,… Read more
Nov
7

The Remains of the Day

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Several lifetimes ago I read the book The Remains of the Day. It had been suggested to me by a man I’d met and had a brief…something with. I wouldn’t have called it a fling, exactly. It certainly wasn’t an affair. More a case of mistaken time and place, perhaps. One of those things where if circumstances had been different, perhaps the end result would also have been different. Or perhaps it wouldn’t have. It’s hard to say. But I do remember in one of his letters that he had mentioned the book, expressing the fear that perhaps we would meet again in the distant future, only to realize in that one moment that we had made a terrible mistake – that we might have wasted a chance at happiness for the sake of practicality. But that’s the rub, isn’t it? Because you can never know what the end result… Read more
Nov
6

Ehhhh….

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Not burning out. Not yet.  LOL. But that Dragon Age game is kicking my ass. Been up *way* too late trying to play it the last few nights. I’m still ahead of where I need to be in the daily NaNo count, but it’s starting to slip. Gonna have to make up some ground this weekend (like I did last weekend). Writing wise, it’s going okay, though I’ve hit a point or two where if I were just writing normally, I’d stop and take stock of what I’ve put down and where I’m planning on going. Can’t do that here since I just don’t have the time. But still. I can see now that my regular pace of 1000 words a day (on work days) really is about the limit for me, at least as far as decent writing goes. Although that doesn’t count any pbp posts or the side… Read more
Oct
30

Randomness & Swine Flu

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Not much of a post today, I’m afraid. Connor appears to have Swine Flu, and there’s not much to do but ride it out and make sure he doesn’t get too dehydrated. I’m actually more concerned about Lucy – she hasn’t shown any signs of it yet, but being that she’s had so many lung problems in the past and been hospitalized for breathing issues twice, it definitely weighs on my mind. And of course, Halloween is tomorrow – I’m torn about that too. He’s had this Optimus Prime costume sitting in his room for a month now. No parties for him, but I may sneak him out for 15 minutes to do the door to door thing. Otherwise, mr myn will be taking Lucy out to get a couple of pumpkins in a bit and we’ll do some carving tonight. Everything else seems as though it’s in a state… Read more