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Aug. 30th, 2018 10:00 pmFor a few years I've been considering the possibility of logging into World Of Warcraft not so much so I can play (though I might) but so I can chat with family who are there, and recently one of them offered me the login for his account. I've finally got all the software pulled together and am ready to actually figure out how the game works. Today I clicked PLAY and got an existing PC whom I took for a dwarf from the size of everything else. I wandered around for about forty minutes, learning how to move and how to read a map and how to change POV and how to walk your spirit from the graveyard to your corpse to resurrect, and not learning how to talk with anyone or how to even know which people are PCs or to figure out whether anyone else on the account is online to chat with or to pick up objects or to fight back when the drones/bots guarding an armory object to your tourism.
- Fri, 17:52: Hero of Three Faces update: it's like vaccinations, I guess. https://t.co/IY1CSdtqif #dcu
- Fri, 17:55: heroofthreefaces: It’s difficult to comment on my mother-in-law’s Facebook posts about my father-in-law’s... https://t.co/NjVTDt8bOW
- Fri, 21:30: State of Mich.: Delivering Water to Flint Residents is an ‘Unnecessary’ Burden - blackmattersus: After... https://t.co/FKlhG8Nc1c
- Fri, 22:08: The DAPL has no economic justification. https://t.co/7pVJZVgJbY
- Sat, 11:31: Stop with the"give Trump a chance" bullshit - He isn’t even in office yet and he’s already showing how... https://t.co/s22vToxXu4
- Sat, 11:53: The education gap among whites this year wasn’t about education. It was about race. - The right-hand graph... https://t.co/zam6pVzvOh
- Sun, 14:51: achievement-hunter: janedoodles: vintar: ghostoctopusink: black mambas probably have my least favorite... http://t.co/U5o7P30brb
- Sun, 15:43: Photo: karnythia: katblaque: virtualexperiences: katblaque: emmalinespeaks: bakerstreetirregular221b:... http://t.co/NuUWedEnqU
- Sun, 16:04: animate-mush: id-rather-not-gotothatparty: animate-mush replied to your post “You’ve been here before?”... http://t.co/N42YuzJkQ4
- Sun, 16:31: "Once upon a time, when I was quite young, I mentioned to a friend’s father that I was taking a pottery..." http://t.co/gnYAEdh0Xo
- Sun, 16:33: animate-mush: heroofthreefaces: animate-mush: id-rather-not-gotothatparty: animate-mush replied to your... http://t.co/X7vJPZ9m8y
- Mon, 09:09: Ro Laren, Kira Nerys, and how Nana Visitor (probably) changed everything. - trekkiefeminist: sophiagratia:... http://t.co/Wryrf0jQFx
- Mon, 11:01: Yesterday evening I spent three and a half hours writing something I will probably never need.
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Aug. 23rd, 2015 07:35 pmAfter a year and a week, here are some things I think I know.
1. Grief triggers get older and lose potency, and are replaced by fresh ones.
2. I may never get entirely straight which verb tenses no longer take first person plural.
3. We raised good kids who’ve married good people.
1. Grief triggers get older and lose potency, and are replaced by fresh ones.
2. I may never get entirely straight which verb tenses no longer take first person plural.
3. We raised good kids who’ve married good people.
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Aug. 15th, 2015 07:18 pmVisiting my in-laws this weekend. They're getting on in years and not getting around so well. They hobble along after each other, putting dinner on or something, squabbling mildy. I watch them and I'm thinking: this is what my wife was looking forward to for us, that the cancer took away. It's good to see others having it.
Monday it's one year. And, I learned today, my in-laws' 58th wedding anniversary.
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Apr. 1st, 2015 09:11 amThis morning’s Netflix M*A*S*H was White Gold, which means Abyssinia Henry tomorrow I think. That was original broadcast order, and I think it’s what I’ve seen in tv syndication. I remember original broadcast order because the day White Gold first broadcast I was having a bad day at school saved only by the anticipation of M*A*S*H on tv that evening, which was then soured because a friend showed me the People magazine article that spoiled Henry’s death the next week. The whole reason I had got so fond of M*A*S*H was that I thought Henry Blake was the character most like me out of all fiction.
When Abyssina Henry aired the next week I watched it, as I did most of my tv watching in those days, with my sister. Then I went back to my room for a half hour or an hour because that’s what I always did on Tuesday while there was nothing on that we watched, and my sister (I found out later) went to my mom, naturally very upset, and told her what had happened to Henry. My mother was concerned for me and only learned later that I had known beforehand. She asked me why I hadn’t told my sister what was going to happen, but I hadn’t wanted to spoil it for her as it was spoiled for me. Which, it occurs to me today, rather disproves retroactively any concern anyone might have had that adolescent me couldn’t tell the difference between story characters and real people.
When Abyssina Henry aired the next week I watched it, as I did most of my tv watching in those days, with my sister. Then I went back to my room for a half hour or an hour because that’s what I always did on Tuesday while there was nothing on that we watched, and my sister (I found out later) went to my mom, naturally very upset, and told her what had happened to Henry. My mother was concerned for me and only learned later that I had known beforehand. She asked me why I hadn’t told my sister what was going to happen, but I hadn’t wanted to spoil it for her as it was spoiled for me. Which, it occurs to me today, rather disproves retroactively any concern anyone might have had that adolescent me couldn’t tell the difference between story characters and real people.
- Wed, 15:03: Dunno how to break this to you, Rush, but you're not who gets to decide that.
- Wed, 22:45: Hero of Three Faces update: another late addition from my original cartoon site. http://t.co/QcapfqHdzN #firefly
- Thu, 08:44: Almost 300 Twitter followers. Gonna assume almost a sixth of you are bots to celebrate 251 which is how many M*A*S*H episodes there are.
- Thu, 09:43: I love all you guys, even the trolls really. But I’m congested, and short on sleep, and I spent last... http://t.co/LwFpMxl6Qm
- Thu, 11:04: I said I was peopled out but small doses of rambunctious grandchildren were apparently something I needed.
- Sun, 14:26: Living room stereo has no tuning but a scanner, and no antenna. Must scan back & forth across my favorites till one catches.
- Sun, 18:39: neil-gaiman: pandorica-jar: neil-gaiman: Moffat: Gender is Fluid on Gallifrey | Doctor Who TV vbartilucci:... http://t.co/YZnPyYQlzW
- Sun, 20:00: Photoset: marylinj: yesysabella: "It just shows you how important it is to represent everyone in our... http://t.co/DjnX43H9Z9
- Sun, 20:44: Photoset: athelind: im-a-high-functioning-psychopath: allons-ygeronimofuckitybye: captaindumbledore:... http://t.co/bzolPSrMmp
- Sun, 22:57: That first speaker in the Dodge Big Finish ad, with that Rollins guy from the car tv show, sounds just like Gordon Jump.
- Mon, 04:30: Spent the weekend with the kids going through their mom's stuff. Now it's fourin the morning and I can't sleep.
- Mon, 12:00: "To me, the core of that attraction is that she is a better reporter than he is. Think about being..." http://t.co/sI4dOJp4o7
- Thu, 16:00: Uh ... right away? http://t.co/HbYdYQjA81
- Thu, 16:18: I should be doing lotsa apartment hunting but it's depressing. Nothing for half or less of my monthly income prolly means no home internet.
- Thu, 16:24: Anyone in Omaha west-centerish - or anywhere - looking for a roommate and two cats?
- Thu, 16:30: Especially if you're a consulting detective in search of your own frustrated novelist.
- Thu, 17:14: Family called asking if I'm being evicted. No! Just needa get this done before the life insurance money runs out but I'm dragging my feet.
- Thu, 17:19: Got a few months' cushion left at least.
- Thu, 20:00: Seriously, though. - blue-author: Imagine you’re watching a zombie apocalypse movie with a friend of yours.... http://t.co/HHFN9w2L9D
- Thu, 22:29: Hero of Three Faces update: you know what, I miss SG-1. http://t.co/cQhMpPKA7E #stargate #sg1 #timetunnel
- Fri, 06:08: Creative Process update: embrace. http://t.co/HU8zNe2W1D #webcomics #CreativeProcess
- Fri, 08:56: Martin Freeman as Mortimer Brewster y/y
- Fri, 10:05: @trinalin I didn't think the movie was that bad, but you did't see the Mortimer in my high school production.
- Fri, 12:01: THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU FIND OUT ALL THE GREEK GODS CAME FROM AFRICA http://t.co/TDfI95fCpx
- Wed, 16:01: #mcu http://t.co/TeteDlxGYa
- Wed, 21:57: Ran later than I meant visiting my dad & his wife cuz I wanted to stay for part of the ballgame. Cleverly, though, drew a 3Faces at work.
- Wed, 21:58: Hero of Three Faces update: can't stop the sass. http://t.co/srg0Q5vnIr #btvs #wonderwoman #dcu
- Wed, 22:33: Photoset: iwriteaboutfeminism: The police and the media are trying to change the message- and the truth- of... http://t.co/TDh8L5ca71
- Thu, 06:52: RT @WickedGood: Felicia Day says GamerGate isn't nice and gets doxxed instantly. Chris Kluwe calls them every name in the book, NBD. Not about women though.
- Thu, 08:00: "The basic plot, which cannot be ignored even in the films, is that Harry, Hermione and Ron give up..." http://t.co/8FL9YGHcFV
- Sun, 13:11: RT @Lussenpop: #Ferguson police told protesters to "keep moving" so today they've showed up bikes. LOL! via @akacharleswade
- Sun, 14:25: Have done almost nothing for a day and a half on the basis of having slept poorly Friday night. Perhaps now I'll watch tv and draw.
- Sun, 16:00: Everyone gets intitiated. http://t.co/1kwIWo1Mbq
- Sun, 17:12: Hero of Three Faces sketch: still the one. http://t.co/ZDx9wv6Jcl #superman #loislane
- Sun, 21:59: Jesus was a homeless Palestinian anarchist who held protests at op… http://t.co/DQPNsI2ce2
- Sun, 22:37: @GailSimone In my privately-circulated cartoons the secret space program I'm in once learned my dad went to the moon when he was a Jesuit.
- Sun, 15:00: RT @carlreiner: Got a scare this AM. Obit on P 29 of LA Times had photo of me & Polly Bergen holding Emmys.Polly passed on but I'm almost certaiin I didn't
- Sun, 16:00: “OUAT”. French for “wut”? http://t.co/EG68d6lATL
- Sun, 16:41: relationship goals http://t.co/H7Gk5sJdmZ
- Sun, 18:18: Stepstepgrandson got Sonic Lost World for his birthday. Is that the sequel to Sonic Jurassic Park?
- Sun, 21:46: "“You can’t complain when other people have it worse” is a lie that people in power tell because it..." http://t.co/QTQSrtIHv3
- Sun, 21:53: Didn't draw anything this weekend but, hey, got some minor site maintenance done.
- Mon, 06:23: It occurred to me recently that what saved the Malfoys in the end was the same thing that saved Hary in the beginni… http://t.co/EEFOhHnWTk
- Thu, 20:36: Photo: treely3256: hashtag-loser: cloudcuckoolander527: vaspider: doctorblainewilliams: thedoctorsherlock:... http://t.co/20XmHDk0lY
- Thu, 20:47: RT @jaythenerdkid: the discworld's sam vimes is what white people think they are: a person who is actually meticulously fair despite his prejudices
- Thu, 21:10: The memorial service was tonight at 5:00. My father and I each spoke during the service. It was a beautiful... http://t.co/uw6W506wyW
- Thu, 22:03: RT @DragonflyJonez: White people riot when their hockey team loses. Black people riot when we're tired of cops killing us.
- Thu, 22:16: "Far fewer articles describe the other constitutional violations taking place on the streets of..." http://t.co/r1P8w0o8VZ
- Thu, 23:06: Photoset: so much for carrots http://t.co/br4gPcfIZD
- Fri, 00:03: Hero of Three Faces season premiere: my best work is inspired by people named Charles M. http://t.co/sUrOw1mIOu
- Fri, 00:03: excepted from the new About page at the main Hero of Three Faces site - In early 2014 I noticed that my... http://t.co/b2Gza8yGGc
- Fri, 07:38: RT @evanmcmurry: .@foxandfriends is trashing Obama for being on vacation. All three are guest hosts because the main ones are on vacation.
- Fri, 07:42: James Tiberius Kirk; the feminist. http://t.co/VaOUCRk37v
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Aug. 21st, 2014 11:08 pmThe memorial service was tonight at 5:00. My father and I each spoke during the service. It was a beautiful service and I broke down more than I have all week.
Tonight's playlist: Rhapsody in Blue, Rose's Theme, Close Your Eyes, Can You Read My Mind?, Everything I Do, and Still The One.
- Thu, 12:25: So, Deadpool is for the teens what Ambush Bug was for the eighties?
- Thu, 19:54: After three weeks of no wifii in @horseyparalegal's room, a hotspot courtesy my brother.
- Thu, 20:12: Sseems to wshow, the iffy connection on this tablet is is the tabldet's fault.
- Thu, 20:24: Hope her notebook fares well.
- Thu, 20:59: I guess we know which one is the smart one now. #mythbusters
- Fri, 00:42: #affirmation #marthajones #doctorwho http://t.co/aVBpFTDZaH
- Fri, 06:12: Creative Process update: glossary. http://t.co/YwbswP2sH4 #webcomics #CreativeProcess
- Fri, 06:49: Sentiment is how everyone decides what they want. Logic is for rationalizing the decision and figuring out how to g… http://t.co/IvAXelK1Cc
- Tue, 12:04: Educated people know that the mentally disabled are victims of homicide far, far, far more often than they commit it.
- Tue, 17:43: "Educate your own people." http://t.co/2jl7HUK6A7
- Tue, 20:13: jury nullification http://t.co/AsVX1dTR2b
- Tue, 23:06: I should go to sleep but I'm still hungry
- Tue, 23:21: I oughta note, I'm hungry and I'm 500 calories short of 1500 for the day
- Tue, 23:23: I could eat both the Banquet frozen Salisbury steak dinners in the freezer even though my mom reads my tweets
- Tue, 23:30: Seriously, those buggers are only 230 calories each. Look it up.
- Wed, 00:08: Now to sleep, if allowed by the Coke I drank during the 23:00 hour cuz there wasn't enough milk for both dinner and bedtime
- Fri, 16:01: #sleepyhollow http://t.co/4b8jG5VWqF
- Fri, 17:50: New Sailor Moon's Premiere Event Excludes Men — Unless Accompanied by Women - geekykristie: reikaoki:... http://t.co/Ae5jYxqyWT
- Fri, 17:51: "do you remember the first time you were called annoying? how your breath stopped short in your chest..." http://t.co/I0f5kIPmCz
- Fri, 18:25: Grandsons dinner night. Went to Netflix and put Phineas And Ferb on. Suddenly recognized Malcolm McDowell's voice.
- Fri, 19:24: Not minding how much Coke I'm drinking this evening. It cuts the phlegm.
- Fri, 19:27: madblackgirl: "guess since im a white man im not allowed to have opinions" your opinions have shaped the... http://t.co/nA4AAj83TT
- Fri, 19:34: wazerwifles: Friendly reminder that a trans woman has never been reported to have attacked anyone in a... http://t.co/cR8DZ9wtF9
- Fri, 20:07: Video: pers-books: doctorwho: bbcamerica: ANNOUNCING: NEW Season of Doctor Who Coming To BBC America August... http://t.co/jWjrieMgU5
- Fri, 22:18: No one was really in favor of my wife going home this week except the insurance company, which apparently... http://t.co/HDMhjKVOLw
- Fri, 23:02: Photoset: givemesomethinganything: blacksupervillain: bookishandi: jennyquantums: themyskira: Wonder... http://t.co/55RYps4sbk
- Sat, 08:05: RT @Karnythia: Pretty soon you're going to see successful POC majority schools catching flack in the press for not being diverse enough.
- Sat, 08:18: "loving how my old history teacher talked about them like a terrorist group" http://t.co/4TpCcCuH7f
- Sat, 08:31: We could give up this word headcanon. As if there’s any other kind. Even if you want to say, “[Franchise]’s... http://t.co/pa77wFwfx0
- Sat, 08:37: broadlybrazen: genebeanbelcher: kindness is cooler than being a jerk. i like kind people way more than i... http://t.co/yohUejCDEg
- Tue, 21:29: The laundromat that failed to open its doors at 06:00 like it says on the door was open by 17:40 when I next went by.
- Tue, 22:47: Just to Make Things a Bit Worse - strawberrypatty: As of next week on Supernatural, there will be 195... http://t.co/TBW37EAJVx
- Wed, 08:20: Incidentally I no longer think that the noise the dryer's making now is something that fell into the lint trap slot. ...
- Wed, 08:21: ... I think the noise the dryer is making is a fan that's coming apart, perhaps something to do with the power outage. ...
- Wed, 08:21: ... If it's not to do with the power outage, it's an interesting coincidence.
- Wed, 09:40: Today my grandmother would have been 111.
