A truck, by ghod

[rolanni]

DHL has finally delivered. This means that the paperwork from Meisha Merlin is in hand, and kinzel and I can begin packing actual orders tomorrow. We look to get the first batch of books into the mail on Friday, lather-rinse-repeat until we have our living room back.

Alert readers will have notice that a few days ago and announcement that I was about to Change One Thing in the work in progress, and a request for prayers. The One Thing has been Changed, and the prayers were potent for, lo!, the Change has wrought what I had hoped, and things are moving along quite briskly now, thankyouverymuch.

The score, at the end of the rewritten chapters and one-and-a-half more:

29,492 / 98,000 (30.1%)

Fans of Dulsey, rejoice! She has been having increased periods of Supervised Play, and at this moment appears to be back in form. Her injured foot shows a slight bend, but not to impede her, and only adds to her Intrinsic Beauty. Had we known I would've named her Teacup.

And, on the Disturbing side of the street -- yesterday, I needed to know how to set butterfly stitches (for the WIP), and the very first return on my search was a FAQ for people who mutilate themselves, describing the various self-injuries and how to care for them. Which is ...very unsettling...

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The strange twists of research

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Rolani, didn't mean to be anonymous, guess I'll have to look into starting a live journal to be otherwise.

Back when I worked for Bungie Software we did a lovely mailing of out to the press of beta the Myth The Fallen Lords game - and we did a cool wooden box (like the ones that wine comes boxed in) with the game's logo woodburned on the front. I needed to get competitive bids on that project so I turned to the internet. The techical term for that type of woodburning is "branding" and I learned more in that first round of search returns than I ever wanted to know.

Diane Peters

Only if she promises not to try it

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

You might show Dulsey the video of the cat falling 80 feet?

It was on CNN yesterday, and hit the Japanese TV news this morning. I think this article leads to a copy of the video
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-03-22-cat-family_x.htm

Swandiving 24 meters seems extreme for a cat, though. So get Dulsey to promise first.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

And, on the Disturbing side of the street -- yesterday, I needed to know how to set butterfly stitches (for the WIP), and the very first return on my search was a FAQ for people who mutilate themselves, describing the various self-injuries and how to care for them. Which is ...very unsettling...

Nose wrinkling . . .