A Connoisseur of Requiems
A Requiem for Angels [?...but not and dogs]
Garden of the Last Requiem

Was wound up into the wee hours for no apparent reason. Dragging today. I wanted a new FB profile pic and had decided I would model one after the "golden earring" 'shop job parodying Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Turns out Vermeer chose a very strained, unnatural pose for his model. Striking the basic pose was nontrivial, holding the camera to emulate the 'shopped version was even harder, and I lost some of the semblance with my other arm getting in-frame to click the mouse to snap the shot. Go... (...more)

Was nice to sleep in without the impending dread of having to leave the house. Coffee and vitamins, scramble wrap with the last of the pepper jack.

Leveled up in CA, and refilled stam a couple times to get my damage tallies in early on a final BAM Kess and my first Ambrosia in that slow kill group. This was a shortsighted impulse, as I will now have to wait the better part of the week for that Ambrosia to fall down, and find other uses for my stam ration.

I went to bed at a fairly sane hour to be ready for church, woke around dawn from a mild nightmare where there was a rat loose in the house, but my brain could not come up with a convincing rat image so it was actually a white and orange/brown striped kitten. But in the dream, that was a feral rat, so I levitated up away from it anyway. Rolled over and went back to sleep, and eventually the alarm woke me from a dream where Mithril had arrived from Tampa ("Golden Isles, actually") because we were going t... (...more)

Understanding the coffee > adrenaline > fat breakdown chain has really changed how I think about coffee. Today I learned that adrenaline is epinephrine, and noradrenaline is norepinephrine. Epinephrine is the term used in the U.S. because Parke-Davis named their concentrated adrenaline product "Adrenalin" and the U.S. medical community decided to change nomenclature rather than risk confusion of the hormone in general with that specific product. So when I was on that SNRI, it was inhibiting reuptake of ... (...more)