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Today has been a -good- day.

I haven’t felt this good in a long time. I haven’t felt my spirit this light, the smile on my face, the outlook happy…. I just haven’t had as -good- of a day in a long time. Not even work has brought me down.

I pulled myself out of bed after only hitting the snooze bar once. Only once! I was motivated, let me tell you. After a couple of successful Great Zero runs last night, I had gone to bed a little late, but I still got out of bed without caffeine. I got showered and ready for the day, spent some time with the dog, and ate a cup of Jello. Always room for it, you know.

swung by and picked me up, and we headed to Eastwood Towne Center to meet up with and Scott. What were we doing there? Going to NCG to see the TRANSFORMERS MOVIE. That’s right. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg did NOT eviscerate my childhood. This is an AMAZING movie. Go and see it. Seriously. If you’re a kid at any age, you will enjoy it. It is so very difficult to refrain from spoilers, but I will return the kindness that has been paid to me. :)

I’ll be selling ‘s last 21″ monitor tomorrow, and will be getting rid of one of our 17″ ones on Friday. I have four packages of gaming books ready to ship out to eBay customers. The Stuff Exodus begins again! :)

So, yeah. This has been a really good day. Also, go see the movie. For serious.

I feel like butt.

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I’m slowly recovering from a sinus headache and nausea that I woke up with this morning. After speaking on the phone with last night, I’m fairly certain that I got her hangover again. Gone Wired‘s air conditioning is fixed, and wonderful. Gourmet coffee + blueberry muffin = happy. You know you’re jealous, . ;)

French internet radio (well, this station, anyway) is good. Who knew? “Ah bee eff *indecipherable French phrase*”

While The Sword of Shannara was a typical crappy first novel, The Elfstones of Shannara is a much improved sequel. NOW I know why I got hooked on this series back in Junior High. It also amazes me how different the new covers listed on Amazon are from the used ones that I bought at John King.

I want A/C at home. Grrr. I have no idea how I’m going to refrain from being whiney and petulant in this weather. I must make the effort.

An Amazon.com listing and two ebay auctions get shipped out Tuesday, when the post office opens. Selling stuff that I don’t use any more is smart, and I should have started this long ago. I meant to, I just didn’t. Hey, does anybody know where I can get some money for a new and/or used bowling ball? The new one hasn’t even been drilled yet.

Today’s itinerary:

  • Write
  • Read more Elfstones
  • Server Administration
  • WASH DISHES
  • Pester Progressive
  • List more unused gaming books on Amazon
  • Hang out with friends

When a headache leaves, truly leaves (It’s not the same when you’re getting brief respite… you know it’s coming back), it feels so good.

Various and Sundry

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For X-Men 3, I have one word: disappointing.

Net Neutrality: This video explains a lot of what it’s about. Thanks, .

I still think that all it will take is a company or two (Google? Eh, what?) to purchase a bunch of dark fiber (cheap as hell since telco scandals of a couple years back), hook up to university backbones (mmm, donations), and attach their own DNS and routing servers. Change two numbers in your connection settings, no matter who your ISP is, and whammo. No more privileged internet.

Also thanks to , a former chaplain at Guantanamo talks about abuse and underage prisoners.

The signing for June 17th at Everybody Reads is confirmed! 6pm to 8pm, and they will have copies of the novel at the store, available for purchase. Glee!

My mood has been swinging like a god. damned. pendulum. Likely I need to write more. Also, I think that I had gotten used to having part of my day to myself while was working for the state. We have since spent FAR too much time together. Her trip to WI this weekend will be good for both of us.

Also, I probably need to write more. [Benny voice] Did I mention that? ‘Cuz I do. [/Benny voice]

Not food poisoning. Definitely the flu.

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This post started with the mood “sick.” Since I’m feeling much better now (“She turned me into a newt!”), I figure this mood setting is appropriate.

It’s difficult to think about this weekend without thinking about hating my stomach and all of the things it can goat my digestive tract into doing. This flu seems to have a three- to four-day incubation period, so if you feel a bit light-headed about three days after we hung out, and then hug the toilet, you can feel free to blame me.

, you might want to spread the word to those that were at Grandma’s 80th birthday party to take extra precautions. I’m going to feel REALLY bad if I got anybody sick while I was there. :/

Other than that, I had a wonderful time at Grandma’s 80th b-day party. I hope everybody’s Easter went well. Mine was spent working on the novel and being generally thankful for a restful stomach.

Reminder: The end date for pre-orders for the novel release party in Detroit and the signing in Lansing is Wed., April 19th. We will have extras there for purchase, but are shooting in the dark when it comes to how many extra to order.

The teaser is finished. The final red-pen is finished. The final edit is finished. The text is ready to go. The cover art is ready to go (thanks !). The back cover blurb is ready to go (thanks !). All before the due date. The web page is -almost- done.

Yes, Megatron sucks, and Prime rocks. As it should be. :)

Quotes after V

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“You ever look at a guy walking down the street, and wonder if that’s you from the future?”

Me: “I’ll have this model of the capitol building, and be all like, this is my platform, and pull out a little remote control with a button. I’ll hit the button..”
:”And then the model will be fine, but there’ll be this big boom from far away!”
Me: “And I’ll be like, Uuuh, so! Platform! *makes running motions*”

V for Vendetta was amazing. I highly recommend it.