Typo of the Day

bel dames = bed dames

Prepping for Autumn

Had to wear a jacket to work this morning. Just a tad brisk. Autumn is coming, and then winter. And there's nothing better for the sanity than lots of projects. So I picked up a $25 craft table today!


Pony mods are back!

Have I mentioned how much I've gotten done since that free WoW subscription ran out?

Smoky Halls

"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed."
- Roger Kahn

There are no boxing scenes in Black Desert. How can this book have no boxing scenes? Maybe this is its primary problem with the book.

That and the fact that I'm 10k from the fucking end.

Workadooo

Copywriter vs. print designer SMACKDOWN!!

I now understand the age-old rivalry between the copywriter and the print designer.

Love Notes for a Stressed Out, Sleep Deprived Monday

Workadoo

Dialogue & Debauchery

Hoping to squeeze out a little more tonight. Close enough to fucking taste it, but there's no way I'm going to be able to write my Big Bad Fight Scene Finale and denouement tonight.

It's coming, tho. Oh boy, it's coming.

Quote of the Day

"The radical invents the views. When he was worn them out, the conservative adopts them."
- Mark Twain

One for the Road

And now I have to go get some work done.

Crazy Fuckers

I think what I like so much about climbing (or, the idea of climbing, I haven't even been indoor climbing since Alaska) is that so much of it is a mind game. It's you against yourself.

I've always been my own greatest nemesis.

Muwahaha ahahaah.

That said: here's some crazy fuckers.

Budget Hero!

Get started on your Monday workadoo timewasters today!

Build a better national budget! (my budget was good until 2070+, which is sad, cause I'm bad at math).

Push

Had to stop because there was so much *talking.* Blah, blah, blah, mutant shape shifters blah blah bugs and death and bel dames and untrustworthy magicians and resurrections and blah blah. Need to do some sleeping and sorting tonight of what I kicked out today and yesterday, refocus, connect it, and wrap this fucker up.

I want a fucking draft, and dammit. A reasonably coherent one.

Reasonably.

Tra la.

Non-Fail Cookery

Spinach and ricotta cheese quiche. Full of cheesy goodness and low carb to boot!


You'll need:

Handful of spinach
1 or 2 avocados (you can also try it with artichoke hearts instead)
1 container of ricotta cheese
1 package of garlic-herb spreadable cheese (like Boursin. Mmmm Boursin cheese)
A couple tablespoons of fresh basil (optional. I just so happen to have some growing on my porch)


Add together both kinds of cheese and eggs.


Stir briskly. Mmm briskly.


Add spinach, avo, salt and pepper. Stir some more until it looks like compost. I promise it will taste better than it looks right now.

Pour into greased baking pan and pop into the oven at 375 for 45 minutes. These incredibly good smells will start coming from your kitchen. You have 45 whole minutes to savor this!

When you take the pan out, your quiche should be nice and golden brown on top.


Cheese and cheese! For a truly sinful treat, top with finely shredded mozzarella, because if 2 kinds of cheese are good, 3 is truly fantastic.

Enjoy.

Omnipoddery

Spot the pump!

Dug up this photo from the first day I wore the Omnipod pump to work with a non-frumpy shirt. It's a lot stealthier than it sometimes feels.

Cooking Fail

Minced beef and tofu.

Not as tasty as you might expect.

Twin Peaks, Season 2

OK, seriously, whatever happened to Bob? You're losing the thread of your story now. We went from quirky hijinks in fucked up to town to just plain quirky hijinks, which honestly aren't as interesting.

Oh no, Agent Cooper, no!

Quote of the Day

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

People always think I'm trying to be deliberately rude when I say some snarky offhand remark before connecting the dots. 9 times out of 10, I'm just being socially retarded.

Cheap Thrills

I went out to lunch with the guys at work today, so I decided not to go to a show or bowling or anything tonight (it's all a tradeoff. I really needed to get out of the office, and I like hanging out with the guys, but I spent about $5 more than I wanted to. Water and the daily special next time, no sides).

Headed to the gym right after work, -75% of basal for an hour before and the hour during the workout. Didn't bottom out until the end. Took a lifesaver. Perfect 80 at dinnertime. For next time, -75% of basal an hour and a half before workout and half an hour during. Trial and error. There's no easy way out of it.

Walked over to the craft store across the street to look for a cheap (under $50) craft table, as I turned my pony mod table into my dining room table, and I miss my pony mods.

No luck, so I spent the evening walking among the local hotrod club cars assembled in the parking lot, then went over to The Greene and listened to some live music. It was a gorgeous summer night tonight. Kids dancing at The Greene. The whole fake town lit up. People eating ice cream. Security guys on bikes. A loud Ohio rendition of "Save a horse, ride a cowboy."

Walked home, wrote two or three thousand more words of my version of The Empire Strikes Back (have I mentioned that Empire was my least favorite movie in the series? That explains a lot about my struggle with this book. It's a necessary book for the series arc, but a difficult and sometimes not-fun one), and listened to loud music.

Tomorrow: pancakes, loud music, and a bunch more words.

Now: blessed, lovely, fantastic sleep.

Juicy.

Long Push

90K or finish by Sunday.

Dare me.

You'll Be Seeing a Lot of These This Weekend

Just bear with me.