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Apparently, I’ve got a backlog of these. :)

Here’s a photo set of our Meet the Baby event back on August 4.

I’ve just posted a new video on my YouTube page, entitled Home Video.

More are forthcoming. :)

P.S. – I’m sitting in Theio’s, wearing my chain mail bracelet (from Cindy, the mother-in-law) and have updated GoodReads with my review of the first hardcover graphic novel of Warren Ellis’FreakAngels (from Mom & Dad). I’ve also been browsing MicroCenter‘s site, trying to decide if there’s anything I should pick up with my gift card (from Mom & Dad).

Thoughts from Work

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Got some words down on paper again at lunch.  I don’t like my low output, but with a max of a half an hour spent actually writing, I can’t get too mad at myself.

Hunter’s birthday party went off really well.  All of the kids really seemed to enjoy it.  So, having kids birthday parties at movie theater = win.  The actual movie (Where the Wild Things Are), not so much.  Apparently, it’s nothing like the book (I’ve never read it), and it’s certainly not as visceral and violent as the movie is.  There were some pretty disturbing images, and I’m hoping that none of the kids ended up with nightmares.  It’s pretty much a dark movie centered around the Jungian archetypes of an angry boy with fear of abandonment.

Ha!  I can say that without any spoilers!

My wedding ring needs to be resized.  Downward.  It started slipping over the knuckle today.  Holy wow.

I think I need to start going to bed earlier.  It’s a constant battle between getting things done and satisfying my need for rest.  The chin strap for my CPAP machine has been shipped.  I’m crossing my fingers that this is the last piece to the CPAP puzzle, and that I’ll be able to use it nightly now.  Nothing left to procrastinate on.  I’m knocking on wood with my crossed fingers, for added levels of goodness.

I -really- need to pick up that Flobots CD.

Also need to gather links to the Todd posts from the Carnival and the Susan posts from Nocturnal Ambitions.  WordPress will either present interesting challenges for linking to fiction, or will make it strangely easy.  I won’t be able to decide until further play has been had.  Thinking about making Steven’s universe the same universe as Two Vampires.  Lots of things bouncing around in my brain, pounding the walls into new shapes.

Thoughts from Work

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How real is this?

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad.

Updates:
– Hunter is having his last dose of Tamiflu today. Symptoms seem to be gone, he’s just got his usual fall sniffles.
– Cian has his first ear infection. When it rains…
– has a rotated vertebrae that is attached to a ligament that wraps around her hip. Muscle relaxers and exercises will coax it back into place, we just need to be patient.
– I didn’t vote yesterday. Instead, I took to the doctor. I would make the same choice again, but I still feel like a jackass. Perhaps I need to start getting absentee ballots. Unofficial election results.

Horoscope:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming week, you will have the potential to articulate what has never been spoken before and to name truths that everyone has been avoiding. Uncoincidentally, you may also be able to hear what you’ve never been able to hear up until now and tune in to truths you’ve been oblivious to. As you might imagine, Taurus, you must fully activate both of these capacities in order for either to function at its best.

Stargate Universe continues to intrigue me. In Episode 4, the ship is still pretty much doing all of the work. I like the Ancient-technology-before-they-were-transcendent-beings that’s involved in Destiny. It’s definitely a cross between the Earth tech they’ve used in ships like Prometheus, but with an Ancient design. I still can’t get over how the basic shape is the same as a Wraith hive ship. Also – heartbroken overweight nerd in his early twenties… ack, flashback! Heh.

Oh! I am very, very, very happy with the copious application of actual physics in this series. Gravity used to brake and to accelerate, as well as relative velocity causing smashy smashy. Not to mention the difficulty of finding habitable planets, and how low levels of carbon monoxide in an atmosphere means that it’ll be nearly too cold to live, and have almost no vegetation. SCIENCE! In my Science Fiction! I wonder how much of this is John Scalzi‘s doing. :)

WordPress is still sexy. I’m particularly pleased with its ability to import across blog platforms.

Looks like I will be up late tonight and/or early tomorrow working. It’ll be worth it to finally get this done.

Thoughts from Work

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I will be voting today.

Catching up on Stargate: Universe via Hulu… Up through “Darkness,” the ship seems to be doing most of the work.

Had a rough night last night. Don’t think it was acid refulx, but I remember waking up a lot. Susan is wandering around inside my head this morning. Not sure if these things are related.

is still having severe back pain. We’ll likely be back into a medical institution that we can’t afford tonight or tomorrow.

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Thank you, Mom and , for coming over and helping on Friday. It was greatly appreciated. :) Also, I’m glad that you guys got some grandkid time. I will do my best to keep up the kitchen.

Backlog of Horoscopes

For 7 Oct 2009:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is there anything in your life that you don’t really want but nevertheless find it hard to part with? A situation or experience that gives you a perverse sense of comfort because of its familiarity, even though it has a steep emotional cost and doesn’t serve your higher dreams? If so, the coming week will be an excellent time to change your relationship with it. You will make dramatic progress if you brainstorm about how you could break up the stagnant energy that keeps you entranced and entrapped.

For 14 Oct 2009:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Right now you’re like a sulking cherry tree that hasn’t bloomed for years but then inexplicably erupts with pink flowers in mid-autumn. You’re like a child prodigy who lost her mojo for a while and then suddenly recovers it when her old mentor comes back into her life after a long absence. You’re like a dormant volcano that without any warning spurts out a round of seemingly prophetic smoke signals on the eve of a great victory for the whole world.

For 21 Oct 2009:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My friend Alcea, the pagan priestess who leads group rituals, is a responsible sort who has humble respect for the power of the spirit realms. She thinks there can be value in seeking help from the beings who dwell on the other side of the veil, but you’ve got to be careful. They can be as clueless and misguided as the less evolved characters who live on the material plane. That’s why Alcea is especially impeccable around this time of year, when the veil between the worlds is thinner and our dimension is more accessible to the spirits. Having said all that as a caveat, Taurus, I want to let you know that this would be an excellent time for you to call on the help of your most intelligent, interesting, and loving ancestors.

For 28 Oct 2009:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my ideal version of Halloween, we wouldn’t scare ourselves with images of ghoulish skeletons, eyeballs floating in cauldrons, and hissing, three-headed snakes. Rather, we’d confront more realistic fears, like the possibility that the effects we have on the world are different from our intentions . . . or that we have not yet reached our potential . . . or that people we like might completely misread and misunderstand us. Then Halloween would serve a more spiritually useful purpose. It would bring us face-to-face with actual dangers to our psychic integrity, whereupon we could summon our brilliant courage and exorcize the hell out of them. Costume suggestion: exorcist. (Begin by exorcising yourself.)

We did Trick-or-Treating in Howell again this year. Instead of hoofing around the premanfuactured housing community like last year, we went closer to downtown Howell, where and her sisters lived for a time. I was really proud of Hunter for not complaining about being tired (Mr. Can’t Stop Moving – tired? Nah!), but masks are out for him for next year. That’s two years in a row of insisting on a costume with a mask, and then doffing it within ten minutes of candy-gathering. I have a feeling that will finally get her wish of using makeup to make him something ultra gory. Haul status = minimal. Less than the community from last year. Apparent kid fun status = huge. So, all in all, total success.

Have I mentioned how beautiful some of the houses in Howell are? No? Well, they are.

Got the last bit of Chapter 6 from The Glass Crown typed up on my lunch break. I still think that diners are one of the best places to work on writing projects. It’s now off to the Alpha Readers. Also got the next five pages worth of art from Rick for Fight or Flight, and wow. Just wow. Once again, I have to say how lucky I am to be working with such a talented artist.

I have this unsettling feeling in my stomach. I don’t know if it’s the time of year, and the natural change in the air, or if it’s something I should be paying closer attention to.

I miss my little nemesis.

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Compiled on Friday
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The world is ending. Not only did I find a chin strap for use with my CPAP machine online, but I’ve added info to Cian’s baby book. Commence with the locusts and such.

has started using a cane today, which has increased her mobility greatly. She’s got Peter over, as well as Mom and , so she should have all the help that she needs. That is, if she’ll accept it. Heh. We’re going to be checking out a Chiropractor, to see if they can be of any help while we wait for the medical system to catch up.

Giving serious thought to changing my writery page to a wordpress one, with the blog on a side page, and importing my disparate blogs into one, and then crossposting to both it and LJ and possibly Blogger all at once. It seems cleaner, somehow.

So, is right. I’ve been dragging my feet in getting out of the house. Okay, more like I’ve sealed my feet in a cement block which I’ve then embedded into the house’s foundation. Anyway, I’m thinking of making a weekly or every-other-weekly trip to someplace in Lansing, probably Gone Wired to start. Anybody who wants to join is welcome. In honor of my Grandfather, I’m thinking of calling it the Round Table. Come and catch up, BS, drink coffee, eat food, whatevah.