There is only one person who can get Bluesky working again.

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

"Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

--Time Enough for Love
Robert A. Heinlein

How I arrived on Bluesky:

To be absolutely honest, though it pains me to say this... I got nothin'!

I'm still having fun with rewriting....

A snip from an in-progress story, displaying the following text: Even as Kale charged towards the High Priest a guard stepped into the tent, assessed the situation, and shouted over his shoulder for help. Kale cursed bitterly and charged across the tent, taking a slice at the belly of one of the guards who menaced Nemlis as he passed, reducing that fight to two-to-one odds— which he was sure that Nemlis could handle. “I hear your right hand is blessed by Mysarra,” Terel said as Kale got close to where the thief fought the High Priest. “I’m told she taught it to speak, so that it could ask ‘is it in yet?’ when you stroke yourself.” “Would you just DIE!?” Sithrakenn shouted— and did something that frightened Kale badly. The High Priest of Khartak picked up his massive desk with his left hand, swung it up over his head, and slammed it down on the spot where Terel had been a second before, smashing the heavy wooden desk to kindling. “I think I touched a nerve!” Terel said from a few feet back. He’d rolled backwards and to his feet neatly. “Tell me, High Priest, is it true that the master of the Tailor’s Guild in Geranett makes his needles from a mold cast around your manhood?” “Hey, Terel, don’t be silly,” Kale said. “Who could use a needle that small?”

I once had somebody say to me that coming up with insults for Fantasy stories was difficult.

I never had trouble with it.

Still having fun!

“Maybe when this is over, I can retire and write speeches for the nobility,” Kale said. “There’s probably a few crowns to be made in that market.”
Kale almost fell off his horse laughing a moment later— when Davanek, the God of Honorable Warfare, blew a raspberry in his head.

Sometimes I nail it. From the rewrite in progress:

“Okay,” Kale said. “Plan B.”
He turned to the cleric who seemed to be in charge, and gave that man a smile that would have had any Hollywood producer checking to make sure he still had his wallet.

THAT is excellent!

I'm that guy who hates a cliffhanger, so I wait until all episodes are out-- then, at most, I only have to deal with one cliffhanger at the season's end.

Very, VERY much looking forward to it, though! (And hoping for another "oner," this season.)

Honestly? In the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" theatrical movie.

A life-sized plastic skeleton stands next to a garage, waving at passer-bys. He wears large, sequined bunny ears on his head and carries an Easter basket full of plastic eggs.

He Is Risen

@MetamateDaz - Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer

Back in the day we would have set our computers on fire

From all that I've heard from cat-owning friends, I don't think it's just Theo...!

Made me feel like a kid again. I lived in Florida from 1968 to 1970, and got to see many of the Apollo launches live (one from my naval father's ship-- closer than the VP!). I could count down from 10 before I could count up to it.

And some people actually WONDER why I'm a science fiction fan!?

A text only meme in multiple fonts and clashing colors that reads, "Remember: Today is, in fact, April Fool's Day! Be sure to believe even less than usual of what you see on that joke we call THE INTERNET!"

A bit late in the day, but I got busy adulting... believe it or not!

Made this one myself, a year or two back, when three people I know took a website's joke post seriously:

THAT is on beyond awesome, thanks! I can always use a laugh, and that was a full-on belly laugh!

The older I get, the more convinced I become that cats can either phase out of sync with this universe and thus pass through solid objects, or teleport. It's a fifty-fifty proposition, I believe.

Cover of the audiobook version of God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines

Just finished God’s Junk Drawer by @peterclines.com. It was tons of fun! Science adventure. His novel “14” is still one of my all time favorites.

ALLLLLLL OF THIS!

If anyone cares, I just called and double-checked that my claim went through. Took maybe five minutes. Spoke with a very nice (and very tired-sounding) woman who also let me know, yes, Reference numbers and Confirmation numbers are the same thing, if the terminology had anyone else worried.

I adored this book.

Monty came from the stray colony on Maui, from whence he was sent to the mainland after being badly injured (by a car?); if you’d like to help cats like him get the chance he got… 👇👇👇

Ah, at LAST! The puzzle-solver part of my autistism spectrum can rest now. As usual, I was nowhere NEAR right (closest I came was "the Outside Season, so, NOT CLOSE), but guessing the title your acronyms stands for is fun for me! At least it wasn't "Terms of Service!"

DO NOT:

- Say anything at all in the back of a squad car. There’s a camera + mic up by the rearview mirror.

- Say anything in your holding cell.

- Chitchat with the police. Small talk is a tool they use to get people talking and off their guard.

- Leave your tattoos uncovered when doing crime.

Sharing my daughter's Mayhem Marketplace store. Would appreciate if people check it out and re-post for people who might be interested.

Somehow, given that I was 11 or 12 and when I read "tDiR" set and 13-14 when I discovered Prydain, I suspect that I might well owe the universe the consumption of a can of beans.... But both series were still DELIGHTFUL!

I loved that series, and had previously read Susan Coopers "the Dark is Rising" sequence, which had a Welsh tutorial in book 4, so I *firmly believed* that I was pronouncing things right. I may have been full of beans.... IF I got it right, the bard was Flay-uthur Flam, with a stretched L in each.

I think I'd prefer the second one, but I will say definitely not the first; limits the view of all the characters a bit too much.

Thank you, sir! I'm seven minutes in, and already hooked!