Got rear ended again Friday. Not my fault again, still lost a day of work and now almost half a day getting the rental. Tweaked my back, so now I’m swimming in a muscle relaxant haze.
Children belong to the future, they do not belong to us. We belong to them.
And after they turn 18, we are responsible for embarrassing them in front of potential offspring-in-law, paying for the wedding, and mercilessly spoiling the grandchildren.
It builds character.
I’ve noticed that if I only use my desk lamp, I let the cleaning slide too long. If I happen to turn on the ceiling fan light, I’m usually cleaning up within an hour or so.
Taking the light bulbs out of the ceiling fan would probably be a bad idea.
Interesting comment on the recent Full Frontal Nerdity:
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural stupidity.
Welcome to my life.
Tomorrow is the big pet adoption day at several rescues here. With any luck, I will be bringing home a furry demigod by tomorrow afternoon.
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I really need an editor to proofread my blog posts.
I’d offer to help, but I am elbows-deep in creating some specialized alien species.
I’ve been looking into editing… If you’re serious, let me know. 
I was half-joking, and am not in a position to pay for the service. I’ve actually started blogging and getting some visibility, but today I discovered multiple stupid errors in a post I published last week.The previous post had at least one similar error.
It’s all stuff that I skim over because I’ve written the material myself and have gone over dozens of times in my head; maybe I should have my computer read it back to me and I’ll pick it up aurally.
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That is one of the tricks I use to polish my own stuff @dakboy. When it comes to editing, what you think is too much is almost never enough.
There are some tricks.
Or simply read it to yourself out loud. That can pick up a lot of mistake or confusing phrasing.
You know that old phrase “I can’t hear myself think”? Your computer can’t either.
@sig, may I post a link to this on my writers’ community Facebook page?
Irony is being called a sheeple by someone who quotes Salon three times in their argument.
Kind of like being called gullible by someone who uses Faux Noise as a source?
(or World Nut Daily, for that matter)
I wouldn’t mind one cite, but when all your evidence is from the same source, and that source is insane, yeah sheeple me.
Fox is really only useful to me as a intro to a story or a corroborator of a story I already read. Which doesn’t work if they refer to each other, but otherwise I usually don’t get burned. That and I try not to react to anything too controversial the first 12 hours, because everyone is full of shit.
Today is informal bring your daughter to work day.
Shortly after getting to work daycare called and someone’s stomach hurt. Which is Spawn’s speak for “I really don’t want to be here doing this.”
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Sorry for late reply; of course. I did slap it on the Internet, after all. =)
Thanks @sig! Posted on The Writers’ Community of Durham Region facebook page.