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Poll Results

Posted in Polls on October 31, 2008 | Comments Off

The NaNoWriMo poll is now closed and the results are in:
67% of you said I couldn’t make you do NaNoWriMo.
17% of you said you were returning veterans.
and
17% of you decided to abuse my pronunciation of NaNoWriMo.

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It’s That Time

Posted in Events, Personal on October 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »

It’s the time of the year Warren Ellis calls Goth Christmas. That time of year when our Christianity-based country does a 180 and celebrates a pagan holiday that is completely incomprehensible to other cultures.
Even Adam is going to dress up this year, but in deference to his humor, his costume is a real groaner. [...]

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Hmm

Posted in Personal on October 31, 2008 | Comments Off

We got word last night that Adam’s grandma is unwell. Hoping for the best.

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FYI

Posted in Facepalm, General, Note to Self, Personal on October 30, 2008 | Comments Off

Tying an obi whist tipsy=very difficult. This might be the worst bow I’ve ever done.

Mental note: Tie obi on Hallowe’en yukata before drinking. Everything will go much easier.
There. That’s a little better.

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Nearly November

Posted in Karate, Kobudo, Martial Arts, Personal on October 30, 2008 | Comments Off

It’s getting to that time. The time where I get to go back to the dojo. I can’t wait to go to class again.
Taking this month was a really interesting experiment. I certainly feel like all my little niggles have knit and my muscles have relaxed, which is what I was hoping for, but a [...]

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Curious and Curiouser

Posted in Politics on October 29, 2008 | Comments Off

Moveon.org, an American political website, is referring people to my blog, according to the WordPress Dashboard.
Sure I think the best birthday present the US can give me is Obama in the White House, but I’m no Daily Kos. So the question remains, why?

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Poll Closing

Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2008 | Comments Off

I’ll be closing the NaNoWriMo poll tomorrow, so if you haven’t clicked and you want to, you’d better do it soon!
To the poll!

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BBC News for Children

Posted in General, News, Personal, Politics, Rants, science on October 29, 2008 | Comments Off

Hello. Today I am here to complain about the news. Not a topic in the news, but about the news itself.
Yeah, I know the economy is crashing, and I know that’s gloomy news. I happen, however, to think that broadcasting the same story nine different ways makes for shoddy reporting. So I’m changing my news [...]

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Bumble Bees and Autumn

Posted in General, Personal on October 28, 2008 | Comments Off

Today was long and hectic at work so instead of my usual routine of come home, blog, drink coffee, blog, make dinner, blog, I went downtown and wandered around in the sun for a while. I spent a lot of time thinking about Katsushiro’s story arc in Samurai 7, and a lot of time thinking [...]

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Sniffly

Posted in Personal, Polls on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Have just finished the first whole Neo Citron (but not the name brand one, the cheap one) in, oh, maybe five years. I have such a paranoia of drugs that I usually mix up the drink and swallow about half of it and dump the rest. Not tonight. Tonight I have the sniffles and tomorrow [...]

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