Ten Tentacles - So many arms, so little time.

My finger is healing. It’s at least well enough now that I can type normally. It’s not well enough, however, that I can apply the kind of pressure needed to set the time on my clock radio. This is an activity I have had to engage in four times in as many days, due to high winds and lightning on my little hill. It’s not swollen or black and blue anymore, so I know it’s well on it’s way, but I’m fairly convinced I fractured the phalange. I didn’t go to a doctor though. I kept an eye on circulation and immobalized it. That’s all they would do. The nail is still growing so I’m certain that’s a good sign.

This weekend I’m tackling our bog. Yes, yes…we have a bog. I’ll put up some pictures soon. It’s our pool. I winterized it so it wouldn’t crack during the freezes and I am just now getting around to cleaning it up for summer. I really let it go. It’s to the point where there is a colony of frogs living in it. I’m going to have to get in there with my rubber boots and get them out. I don’t want any of them getting sucked into the impeller of the pump I’ll be using to drain it. Should be loads of fun! (shaw, right).

Looking forward to the three day weekend. I haven’t had a break from work in a long time. It’ll be nice. I plan to get everything I had slated for this weekend done tomorrow. This way I don’t have to do jack on Monday. We’ll see how well my plan goes. It’s supposed to be a beautiful day tomorrow, so at least the weather won’t hold me back. Wish me luck.

Ganked from eevieivy.

So, I just went out to have a cigarette and I noticed something dark and ominous lurking up on the door jam. It turned out to be this little guy:

He looks like he’s looking at me in the picture, but in reality he has his squishy little amphibian eyeballs on this:

And, as you can see, he’s perfectly positioned for a strike. Man, I love livin’ in the country.

Sorry for not making with the cuts, but the story doesn’t work without the pics.

Still having fun with this being bald thing. I decided to make a new user pic since my wife says it makes me look mean. This will be my ‘hostile’ post pic. Wee! I think I’m going to shave my head clean again this weekend. Got quite a bit of growth in the last couple of days. We’ll see. Wife’s not crazy about the baldness…nothing to hang onto. Hee!

A few months back cadhla did her Iron Poet thing and I submitted three words. Admittedly, it was a bit of a goof because cadhla, in her infinite goofiness (for which we love her dearly), is always on me about my goats and chickens. I was very impressed. Even a little touched. Go her! Here’s the result: Plough.

And the blood on the plow part? Well, I finally finished the chicken house. I drove the last nail in at about 8pm on Monday night. Unfortunately, a half hour before that, I drove the hammer down on my left index finger. GAH! My son was out there with me…and laughed! Little bastard…he’s four, but still. My poor finger is all sore and hurty-hurting and black-and-blue and blood-blistery. Amazingly my nail hasn’t turned black, so hopefully it won’t fall off. The swelling has gone down too, so that’s a bonus.

Here’s to being glad it was the hammer in my hand and not the reciprocating saw…

I just had to share this because it looked so cool. Corrie Ann snapped this on her way back from the neighbor’s last night. Silly goats trying to get a look at the chickens in their new coop, which is somewhere in the dark foreground. There’s something spooky about those backlit shapes in the night.

VASpider ROCKS!! A few days ago she posted her idea for donations for the Kerry Campaign Fund and I jumped at the chance. The result is way beyond my expectations. Here it is:

Clicking the image will get you the full shot of Pall, an Eiluned Sidhe Baron I play on Denver. Thanks again, VASpider. Awesome work.

A very, very dear friend of ours has been diagnosed with cancer. Ugh, the ‘C‘ word. He’s very self conscious about his hair so his wife asked all his friends to find some cool bandanas and take pictures of themselves wearing them. A show of solidarity if you will. My brother and I decided to go a step further…well, for me it was actually three steps, but here’s the end result.

I’ve always wanted to do it and here was my chance. Buddy, our thoughts and prayers are with you even if we can’t be. You’re going to get through this.

I’m still alive, Keith!

So, another week gone by. I swear the older I get the faster time flies. Yeah, yeah. Everybody says that but, damn. God damn, I says, god damn. It was just New Years, wasn’t it?

I’ve been feeling a little stuck in the RP department lately so I’ve been feeling around for something new and different. Well, at least new and different to. Sooo, dandelionoracle turned me on to this game called FiranMUX. I chatted with jklumpp about it before I hopped on (’cause I’m her boitch) and she pointed me towards SNARK. There’s a particularly lengthy thread there decrying the horrors of FiranMUX. I read it. I went to see for myself. Honestly, if I never played on games that had been ripped on SNARK, I’d never play. So far, I’m liking it. It’s very different from your “traditional” WoD game, whatever that means, and yes getting used to all the freakin’ commands is not fun. But, there are tons of people willing to help and I have yet to run across some of the grosser abuses of said code talked about in the aforementioned thread. It’s a nice change of pace. We’ll see how it goes. I’m playing Zakaro Lapis, a Griffon Armorer, over there if any of you happen to be on the game.

Not much else going on. The chickens are getting huge and I’m going to have to finish their coop this weekend. Otherwise I think they will revolt and take over the house. I’ll put some pictures of them up soon.

I’m off for the weekend…

It’s been finished, and it was good. War for the Oaks was awesome. To everyone who tried to get me to read it, thank you. A special thanks to oneminutemonkey who pretty much shoved it into my hand and said, “Buy this, you doof!”. Though, admittedly, he was more eloquent.

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