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| Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | |
| 10:47 am | Sleeeepy. For various reasons, stayed up waaaay too late. I'm also coming down with a cold, probably 'cause I slacked off on taking my vitamins. Blargh. Fireworks were cool. We managed to see them both in Azreoth, and in real life -- we weren't sure the weather would cooperate, but the thunderstorms cleared out, thankfully. We picked a rather far spot from the launch place, a train-station parking lot, but it turned out to have a decent view, and it was both easy to get into, easy to park at, and amazingly easy to leave. We did have to stand, though, which meant the kid was parked on my hip so she'd be up high enough to see best. (Both hips, actually, but only one hip at a time.) So between that and my earlier running around after her on her Big Bike (she's doing quite well on it!), my knees and lower back are rather achey. I am progressing with edits on My Stuff. (Other Project is not going to go anywhere whilst I have a cold, at a minimum, but I can edit My Stuff while sick.) I am at the point where I once decided "this book too long; split book in two" -- and am just below 129K still (rather than the full, er, ~200K that it originally ran). I am, however, debating whether I need to re-insert a previously-cut chapter, or if it's actually just layering a complication on more heavily than it needs to be right now. The thing's too long for conventional first-work stuff. So I have to make sure that each word is necessary and dragging the reader's eyeballs across the page by force, basically. Makes for a lot of trimming anyway, to reduce to the necessary words. INwatch: Core Rules: 414, Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 219, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 112, GURPS In Nomine: 67. Adventures: City On Fire: 111, Feast of Blades: 91, Strange Bedfellows: 85, The Rats' Revenge: 84. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4119, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2678. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 143.          ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | |
| 11:05 pm | *yawn* Getting a little punch-drunk on editing. (Will be going back to chapter... R, I think it is? I have some other edits to process on one of them.) Lots of running around today; spouse's car had to go in for its usual checkup. Need to get a taillight for my car, darnit! Last night was much fun, running around slaughtering spiders in Teldrassil. INwatch: Core Rules: 414, Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 219, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 112, GURPS In Nomine: 67. Adventures: City On Fire: 111, Feast of Blades: 91, Strange Bedfellows: 85, The Rats' Revenge: 84. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4119, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2678. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 141.  ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | |
| 7:02 pm | Spouse is taking vacation... This does tend to mean I'm doing stuff that interacts with him. Instead of other stuff. Also kid. And stuff. And yesterday was Long Drive. And, y'know, stuff. I have gone through another chapter, gotten maybe another 200-300 words off, so it's holding steady at somewhat above 129K. INwatch: Core Rules: 414, Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 219, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 112, GURPS In Nomine: 67. Adventures: City On Fire: 111, Feast of Blades: 91, Strange Bedfellows: 85, The Rats' Revenge: 84. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4119, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2678. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 140.      ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | |
| 9:48 am | A little morning filk, with apologies to Leslie Fish... I don't like this paragraph Pare it down, pare it down. This joke fails to get a laugh. Pare it down, pare it down. This chapter has some decent stuff But it's three times long enough. I need a chainsaw; this is tough... Pare it down, pare it down, Pare it down, pare it down. (Again, apologies to Leslie Fish.) The headache still seeks to linger, but it's pretty faint at the moment. Cross fingers it gets no worse. Also cross fingers that I can pare this chapter down by at least another 1000 words. Blarg. INwatch: Core Rules: 414 (yay!), Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 219, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 112, GURPS In Nomine: 67. Adventures: City On Fire: 111, Feast of Blades: 91, Strange Bedfellows: 85, The Rats' Revenge: 84. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4118, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2677. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 138.    ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | |
| 5:54 pm | Head still hurts Blarg. Kid is chattering to herself behind the couch. Meh. INwatch: Core Rules: 413, Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 219, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 112, GURPS In Nomine: 67. Adventures: City On Fire: 111, Feast of Blades: 91, Strange Bedfellows: 85, The Rats' Revenge: 84. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4118, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2677. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 137.   ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 | |
| 8:16 pm | Oh dear gods my head Headache. Perhaps I should have eaten sometime before noon. Or was it 1? I forget. Gods, I hate these headaches. I have updated Safari. I am annoyed at where they put the reload button. Yeah, it matches the iPhone reload button placement now. I want it with the OTHER things I click, dangit. INwatch: Core Rules: 413 (yay!), Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 219 (yay!), Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 112 (finally rescued from its divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 67 (yay!). Adventures: City On Fire: 111 (Divine Intervention!), Feast of Blades: 91 (yay!), Strange Bedfellows: 85 (yay!), The Rats' Revenge: 84 (yay!). Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4118, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2677. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 136.   ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | |
| 10:45 pm | An update, woohoo. Brain. Dead. Bah. INwatch: Core Rules: 412, Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 218, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4117, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 134.    ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | |
| 10:55 pm | More pathetic semi-posting... Will probably rework chapter O [not zero, O] +1 sometime when I can figure out how to spread the infodump around. Am working on chapter P now. Yes, alphabetical chapters. It's only for this edit. INwatch: Core Rules: 412, Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 218 (yay!), Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4117, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 71. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 129 ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Friday, June 26th, 2009 | |
| 10:59 pm | QUick dragons I'm worried about slightly (I only posted a couple of revised chapters. So and thus. My mom only commented on one of them. Sob, sob.)    |
| Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | |
| 6:44 pm | First day of Summer Break. Did not get to sleep in much. First, alarm went off 'cause spouse had teleconference with some people in England. Got back to sleep. Then kid came knocking at door because Spore wanted to run an update, and wouldn't take "cancel" for an answer. So I had to remind her how to force-quit. (She does not have admin abilities on her account, so patches have to be installed by a parent.) We have bought Stuff Spouse Needs. It is still in car in my crochet bag, bah. Went out to eat for late lunch/early dinner. Was good. Need to go shopping, though, and replenish food stores. Flame Warden Marie did her final juggling and whatnot. DaLAGran is LAG. Did heal through one of the other dungeons -- much easier to keep a 74 paladin alive than a 70 DK tank. Aforementioned DK is now 73, though! Being a tree is interesting (though boom is my true love), even if my tree gear is absolute crud, really. Only one death, at the final boss -- was about to get a heal off and got turned into a skeleton again. Bleah. A nice necklace dropped, but I greeded it and someone else won it with a higher greed roll. Ah, well. Probably won't be the only time I'm in there, if all goes well. I'm tired. My knees hurt. (Biking on a slightly-too-small bike exacerbates this, I think, even though I've been suckering the kid into doing the current load of laundry because going up and down the basement stairs hurts.) Nothing of writing value has been produced thus far today. Blah. INwatch: Core Rules: 412, Lilith: 367, Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4117, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 122   ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | |
| 7:22 pm | Exhaustion. Last day of school. Whee. I am working on rewriting... probably two chapters, still. To take the place of four. At the moment, it's at barely 127K. Gahhh! I look forward to sleeping in tomorrow. I think I can? I really want to. I'm so tired right now. We found a most delicious Mexican restaurant down near the kid's social skills class-location. (Which, I note, is about an hour away as the Ofanite drives. So this is... not what you'd call conveniently located. Yummy, though.) Did I mention the tired? INwatch: Core Rules: 412, Lilith: 367 (yay!), Eli: 343, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4117, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 119 ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | |
| 11:26 am | I Survived Mr. Thirsty Or, in other words... No dentist has the rinse-and-spit basins anymore. They all have the little suction thingies that my kid hates. It's more hygienic. Ah, well. I have a cavity. Sadness. I have an appointment to get it filled, and at the same appointment, get my root-canal'ed tooth capped (especially since it's starting to crack and if it sheared badly, it could be a pain to deal with, could lose the tooth, etc.). Whee. Aside from that, though, and some brushing tips, the teeth are doing okay, yay! Yesterday, I did Tree-spec stuff with my druid, woo! I did not do the worst tree-job in the world, either. Our group took down the Midsummer Boss (and I got his pet, WOO!), and then I healed through Utgard Keep, though I could not keep the 70 DK tank alive for the last boss. I could, however, keep a 73 paladin alive. So I am not a total failtree. INwatch: Core Rules: 412, Lilith: 366 (yay!), Eli: 343 (yay!), Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 175 (yay!), Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4117, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 118         ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | |
| 7:29 am | Today, may or may not be field trip. We shall see what they decide when I get there. Father's day was nice. The nightmare last night was not. But I think I just got a plot for a long-stalled bit of fanfic. Don't scare it, though. It may be fragile. INwatch: Core Rules: 412 (yay!), Lilith: 365, Eli: 342, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 174, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4117, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 113 ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | |
| 7:16 pm | Um. thingy? I don't have a brain. Have some dragons and INwatch and whatnot. *insert obligatory gripe for realizing that there are some very important bits in a LA chapter that I'd hoped to be able to cut entirely, and the irritation at having to wade through the thing to see what I can trim so that Every Word Has A Purpose* *insert obligatory gripe about Other Project* INwatch: Core Rules: 411, Lilith: 365, Eli: 342, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 174, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4116, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 107  ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Friday, June 19th, 2009 | |
| 6:45 pm | WoW crossovers: my weakness http://snowlight.livejournal.com/65 It is highly amusing fic. INwatch: Core Rules: 411, Lilith: 365, Eli: 342, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 174, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4116, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 107      ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | |
| 6:10 pm | At skip=475, I am caught up, kinda, on LJ... Yeaaaaaah... Blarg. Some minor things... Talent show. Kid sang Eidelveiss (or however that's spelt), whilst doing Interpretive Made-up Dance. Was cute. Another kid was... Well, let me put it this way. He sang. If he'd been born, and sung, some few/several hundred years earlier, he'd probably have been snabbled up and made castrati. Wow, he sang good, he did. Today was a field trip to the Works, which had some meltdowns on the part of my kid, which I think were patched, and there was swimming, and I'd brought an extra towel. Then I went, after we all got back and had lunch, and got ze spouse his Father's Day Gift (muwhahahaha, I remembered what to get and FOUND IT!), then I went back at 2:30, and watched all the 4th graders get cake and mill about having people sign their yearbooks. Edit for meme! If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. INwatch: Core Rules: 411, Lilith: 365, Eli: 342, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 174, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4116, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 50, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 101   ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | |
| 7:15 pm | Blaaaaargh. I am exhausted. I stayed all day at school for Field Day, and then drove an hour to the social skills thing (which was more a birthday minievent at a paint-pottery-place, since one of the girls in it was having, well, a birthday), and now I am exhausted. You should see all the typos that I'm backspacing. |
| 7:12 am | Bleah I do hate it when ze spouse has to travel, as he did last night. On the other hand, http://cereta.livejournal.com/652008.ht A summary, for those who don't have the spoons to dive in: the author calls for stories about men not only behaving decently in the sense of "not raping even when it might've been easy," but also "stopping other men from behaving badly." Calls for men to tell these stories to each other, and to step up in men-only situations where there are sexist and/or rape jokes to say, "Hey, that's not funny." Reinforce the notion that consent is not an absence of "no" but is instead a free and willing (and preferably enthusiastic) "Yes!" Make "the good guy" the baseline, taught to sons along with potty-training. One of the threads... I've lost which one, drat it. Anyway, a campus had put out a bunch of "Women: don't walk alone, don't be out after dark, don't, don't, don't yadda" posters as a response to some recent assaults. A group of students put up counter-posters, aimed at men, such as... "Walk with a woman so other women know you're safe; don't walk alone at night; if you're walking near where a woman is, cross the street so you're not walking behind her." The list quoted was, honestly, not bad advice on how to make female students feel safer. (Or any woman or girl alone.) But, according to the post/thread, the male students were all "WTF?" and either getting angry or going, "This is a joke, right?" Because it restricted how they behaved. It's slow going. I've been at this post for 2-3 days now. But it sure seems useful. There are a lot of stories both about men behaving very, very badly, and behaving not-badly, and preventing badness. Which is reassuring. INwatch: Core Rules: 411 (yay!), Lilith: 365, Eli: 342, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 174 (yay!), Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4116, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 49, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 97      ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 | |
| 12:58 pm | Fic-recs! Okay, so I've gotten a subscription from... http://the-rck.dreamwidth.org/profi I found a Bleach one. It's an AU. Her face in the light of the fire was that of one who has seen eternity, and liked the look of it. That is a most delightful turn of phrase, don't you think? INwatch: Core Rules: 409 (yay!), Lilith: 365, Eli: 342, Liber Umbrarum: 217, Litheroy: 204, Asmodeus: 173, Infernal Player's Guide: 111 (poor IPG, a divine intervention!), GURPS In Nomine: 66. Adventures: City On Fire: 110, Feast of Blades: 90, Strange Bedfellows: 84, The Rats' Revenge: 83. Free Adventures: A Very Nybbas Christmas: 4116, The Sorcerer's Impediments: 2676. Not IN: GURPS Classic All-Star Jam 2004: 49, Sahudese Fire Drill: 70. Not IN or mine: Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG: 81     ( Eggs and hatchlings... ) |
| Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | |
| 11:10 pm | |
