Dreamed it was the holidays and at first it seemed to be Swift Court because parents and sisters and sisters' friends were around. Recurring themes within the dream were trying to keep track of clothes and a blanket that kept migrating around the house, and trying to cook myself a burrito and some eggs. Dad asked, with a sly and knowing look, if I'd been approached by an admirer. But I hadn't - had I? and his expression changed to pensive. There was a cat. There were tablet computers and I needed to ... (...more)

You have earned 250,004 Battle Points and achieved the Battle Rank of Slayer!

Made a couple new CDs of TSR DJ sets to listen to in the car.

Really? Nowhere else on the internets?

ahem

Hallo Spacedicks

... as in David Bowie's "Hallo Spaceboy" vs. Reddit's r/spacedicks

don't thank me, consider it a public service

Went to bed early-ish with alarm set for Triple Tuesday guild battle collect. I guess I killed the alarm in my sleep, but an esepcially close thunderbolt woke me ~5AM in time to collect anyway. Dropped 10FP to double my guild coin take for a total of 780 coins. (720? Whatever. 6x normal collect at any rate.) Close call - battle timer cleared and Jenna called a new one within 15 minutes.

Caught the 10:40AM showing of Pacific Rim yesterday. Can't think of any real flaw in the whole movie. The action is frequently so furious that it's just impossible to follow, but then this is endemic in action movies over the past decade or so. Broke the blender pureeing the great northern beans with spinach. Fortunately I was just about done when the blender cut out. Unfortunately I have no leads on economical repair options, a more reliable model, or a workable manual-powered option under $90. Conk... (...more)