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Updates for 2009-04-13

  • Sleepless night punctuated with tearful child moans. This morning: at doc’s for ear infection and lovely fever. Spingtime in parentland. #
  • Mulling over blog post (I have to mull, I’m not allowed to muse). In the meantime, LUNCH. #
  • Adrift: So, the Church whose core message is ‘reject the stars’ hires an interstellar scout t.. http://tinyurl.com/cvhxbu #
  • Omigod, @wilw – trying so hard not to laugh out loud at the final DnD podcast that tears dampen my cheeks. So. Damn. Funny. #
  • I *told* the nurse Kaylee had a fever, but the stupid “wave it over the forehead” thermometer got it wrong, and now she’s at 102. *curses* #

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Updates for 2009-04-12

  • This morning, an egg-hunt, then swimming at the rec center, PANCAKES FOR LUNCH, nap, then movie and #dollhouse. Pretty good day. #
  • Adrift: Amazing holo-nav display – like a planetarium built into a temple. Female voice – unknown languag.. http://tinyurl.com/ctawms #
  • Today, we commemorate the third day of the #zombie attack, when they scattered candy and colored eggs to lure our children from the bunkers. #
  • RT: @angelajames: compilation of links about Amazon removing gay/erotic books from searching & rankings http://bit.ly/GTeJN #amazonfail #
  • Adrift: Half-blind from the holonav ‘explosion’, and I don’t understand the words, but .. http://tinyurl.com/csavyj #

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Updates for 2009-04-10

  • Holy crap, internet; what have you be doing while I was away? What’s with the sheep and the rum? Memo? /What/ memo? #
  • Sharing #followfriday love sent my way: @JohnnyNoble (author of Powerless) @thaumatrope (Twitter microfic mag) @chrishanrahan (gamer kungfu) #
  • RT @chrishanrahan “I am declaring it “Play a game, any game, this weekend!” Weekend. DO IT!” I’m down with this. Now to make it happen… #
  • Adrift: I follow the notes as best I can, rolling down through holograph scrolls and tapping glyphs. On t.. http://tinyurl.com/d2xjov #
  • Random Average: Summed up http://tinyurl.com/cbztul #
  • No offense to any poets out there, but damn I hate reading poetry. #

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Summed up

The tagline on this website is there for a reason.  For a very very long time previous, it said something about Falling Down, and while that Something is still true, it’s not entirely relevant as an introduction (and warning) about what goes on with this site.

For those who know me (and who inexplicably choose not to flee as soon as they figure this out) it’s a familiar joke – wondering aloud about whatever my current obsession might be, or how one of my nigh-on-neverending projects is going.  (My obsessions change often, but I am constant in my affections.)

Paul Tevis (whose podcasts I’ve enjoyed for quite awhile, but whose blog I’ve only just discovered) summed the whole problem up very nicely in this post, in which he inadvertently reveals that we share the same brain.

Time is a problem for a dabbler like me. When I want to do something, I want to do it well. I’ve learned enough to know that if I want to do it well, I need to do it regularly. There are only so many hours in the week, which means that if I want to do something, I need to not do something else. The problem is that I want to do everything. This inevitably means I want to do more things than I can do regularly, and thus I end up clinging to things that I do infrequently, taking time away from things I could do well, and spiraling into an overbooked and yet unproductive schedule.

Yeah… tell you what, Paul: whichever one of us figures out how to deal with this first, we’ll let the other one know, deal?

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Updates for 2009-04-09

  • Great game of Inspectres: extradimensional death metal, tentacles, frog women, zombies, ectoplasmic daiquiris, and the Cockroach Whisperer. #
  • My “who are your experts” post exploded with good comments: http://is.gd/rCrM *happy* #
  • Adrift: Strange. Kaetlyn knew the ins and outs of nano-crystal difference engines when she was six. She w.. http://tinyurl.com/clzhab #
  • Every business is very quiet today. Eerily quiet. “Day after the zombie outbreak” quiet. “Where’s my machete & do I have enough ammo” quiet. #
  • Next game for Wednesday nights will either be Galactic or PTA, with the ‘loser’ to be the game-after. Much @matt_s_wilson love in Denver. #

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Updates for 2009-04-08

  • RT: @cyface: Watching the mouths of the actors on Castle is amazing. Actual acting – heady stuff. #
  • Adrift: Ship’s systems still work. Impossible, according to everything we know. Then again, ‘everything w.. http://tinyurl.com/ddfr4y #
  • Screw it. Decided to write the scenes in anyway and send the revised-revised revision off. Magical word-finder puzzles FTW. #
  • Also: is anyone else’s “delete this post” button suddenly missing? Cuz I need it. #
  • Adrift: What now? I explain Kaetlyn used one of the systems here; question is: which? The old man suggest.. http://tinyurl.com/c96qlv #
  • Breakfast; took one for the team – filled my bowl with sugary dregs of 3 near-finished boxes. Jittery. Why are you all moving s o s l o w ? #
  • Excellent, excellent post on ktliterary.com today: You Are Not Joss Whedon. http://tinyurl.com/cod5lu #
  • Talking tax stuff with bank people. Whoever says this kind of thing isn’t fun is… absolutely dead-on. #
  • Adrift: I want the note to be for me; for Kaetlyn to know I’d try to find her. It isn’t – jus.. http://tinyurl.com/c6ddsy #

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