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Updates for the week of 2009-06-28

  • Spent the afternoon blasting the house and deck with a power washer. Scrubbed so thoroughly it smells more like I cut wood that cleaned it. #
  • Cooking naked pork chops in the cast iron skillet; one part cooking, one part branding livestock with hot iron. Yeehaw. #fathersday #
  • Clarification: the pork chops are naked, not me. #
  • Retweet @TwitterLit “Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity, is a man living on the brink of disaster.” http://is.gd/18Gwn #
  • Why yes, I did forget to put on sunscreen yesterday. Why does everyone keep asking me that? #
  • Adrift: Forgot this is Yoren; he doesn’t give up on bad ideas – it’s a kind of loyalty. Somet.. http://tinyurl.com/lsm3hv #
  • Adrift: He trades up from ‘kill the commander’ to ‘pop out the Captain’s eye with.. http://tinyurl.com/ljm42m #
  • RT: @sethsimonds: Your parents were tempted to off you many times & let you live. The least you can do in [return] is be patient with them. #
  • Thread on storygames has me thinking about RP games via Twitter. Tempting. #
  • Adrift: He can’t quite reach my face, given our position. Unfortunate, that; lacking alternatives, .. http://tinyurl.com/lr7qub #
  • 500 new words within the WIP. Small in number, but mighty; they forced open the story enough to allow many more in their wake. Now then… #
  • Random Average: A Penny for My Thoughts http://tinyurl.com/nq5dt6 #
  • RT @sethsimonds: If you came up with the idea of putting strawberries and rhubarb together in a pie…I’d like to shake your hand. #goodcall #
  • Adrift: The grapple/pummel doesn’t go on as long as it feels like. Probably. Yoren’s enthusia.. http://tinyurl.com/lwe3am #
  • Random Average: LotRO: They can rebuild it. Better, stronger, faster, and dude… way f@*#ing.. http://tinyurl.com/m8tdcz #
  • Rt @namenick Crime pays for ebook publishers | Books | The Guardian http://ow.ly/fNNx #
  • io9 – Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie – http://tinyurl.com/nd7dpl #
  • Gamers, Writers: I draw your attention to SURVIVOR: RELAY (zombie survival fiction-arg, via twitter) http://tinyurl.com/5w73an – wanna? :) #
  • RT @UnclePilot MTV is streaming episodes of The Maxx! Fuck. Yes. Goodbye, Thursday Afternoon. http://is.gd/1dfHb #
  • Just watched a quick, hard rainstorm turn the tiny concrete-lined creek in the park into a raging flashflood-swollen river. Scary and cool. #
  • Adrift: The commander, still holding the stun baton, offers a hand up. Takes me a bit to respond – caught.. http://tinyurl.com/lk6x8f #
  • Creating a green icon unironically; to tell Iranians, despite banal Trending Topics, some still care about their struggle. #IranElection #
  • Pro deck-staining tip: don’t wear open-toed sandals. (I worked that out all. by. my. self!) #
  • The desk soaked up a LOT of stain. A LOT. I suspect that, like all dwarves, I power-washed too greedily and too deep. #
  • Dear Colorado Weather: if you rain on the deck we /just/ stained (in 90+ f sunshine), I will CUT you. #
  • Way way WAY too many snacks at the game table today. So far, failing my willpower checks – gonna need a fort check soon. #
  • Adrift: If this were an adventure vid, I’d knock him out with his own baton and leave. In the real .. http://tinyurl.com/l2tnte #