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Not even going to try edit mode. Doing a little link following, it seems our 2011 record for the hottest state record beat the old record set in 1954, by, ah Oklahoma. Keep in mind these records are based on daily average temperature, not highest day time temperature. Even though it did break 110 for several days running in July 2011 here in Tulsa, which is in the cooler part of the state.

Oh, we get that also. Normally starting in the last 2 weeks of July and running to the end of August. Oklahoma does hold the record for the hottest month ever recorded in the US after all. July, 2011

Even when my drugs allow me to drink alcohol I have maybe one drink every three months or so. Normally a craft stout or a cider. I am so over IPA hops bombs. There was a time I liked IPA, but that was before the hops arms race started.

Current project could be described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Firefly/Killjoys with a large helping of Lovecraft on the side.

Freaking edit mode. To be clear, what ever it is is on the other side of the wall, at least right now. Ashley has decided to go hang out on the computer desk, which happens to be the farthest you can get in this apartment from the noise. Don't rightly blame her.

Something, and it's not Ashley, is scrapping at the wall of my closet and dropping what sounds like a marble. I could be wrong but I think my dishwasher summoned a small god instead of an elder one. Also sounds like someone is making very slow saw cuts evey minute or so. TBH it's freaking both me and Ashley out just a hair.

Well it's saying that we have a thunderstorm and it will last 91 minutes, (yes it claims that level of accuracy) AND we get more this afternoon and tonight! The weather service alert says eastern Tulsa. For as far south as I am, I'm about as far west as you can get in the populated parts of town. Granted I am just getting a light rain and the thunderstorm seem to be active more to the east.

Of course when they said afternoon or evening, they meant "around 9:00 this morning". I'm starting to think the "accuweather" app on my tablet isn't so accu.

Hmm. For the next round of pinups, we should do a write in vote of Pandora and Blaike, post, ah, creation, of Adrian.

Hmm. Not quite old enough looking for that, at least to me. But I can see your point. This may be an effect of most of the mother's I know are either Absurdly Youthful Mother or in their mid to late 30s Warning, that is a TVTropes link.

It's 7:45 in the morning. I'm fully rested, awake and alert, with out taking any of my "make me alert" drugs (Adderall). Granted I've had a fairly large amount of caffeine this morning, but this isn't that. This is not normal for me. I suspect that my sleep aid (Restoril AKA temazepam) is doing what it's supposed to. Just need to take it a little later at night. Maybe. Of course this puts me back on the "you don't get to drink alcohol" list, but that's not really all that important. I do miss hard cider, but that's about it.

The non creepy and/or eldritch horror version of Pandora don't look all that bad or old. In fact her "Elvish Sorcerer" mode looks like she's in her late 20s or early 30s. And in My Arrogant Opinion, looks fairly hot. Of course I'm a self confessed pervert, so that may or may not mean any thing. Just for the record, her child form, creep or not, isn't hot.

For a long while, back when my primary machine was a Mac Book Pro, I had done some cute things with symlinks so that Dropbox and Google drive were mirrors of it, with the MBP keeping just one copy of the files, and the MacMini's external 2TB drive having both copies. This sort of ended when the MBP's hard drive died. Then Google did something to the Mac client for G-Drive. It started to be a slug on the MacMini and take up most of the cycles for the first hour or more that the machine was turned on while it thrashed about finding out what, if any thing, had changed. To be fair, Dropbox did the same thing, but only for about 5-10 minutes. I got used to not using the computer for 10 minutes, after a power on and telling G-Drive to just stop. Today it dawned on me. I'm spend 10 bucks a month for squat. So, I'm making sure every thing in 'Google Drive' directory is in the 'Dropbox' directory (all praise Midnight Commander, blessed be it's name), then I'm going to nuke the local copy of the Google Drive, and start the process of deleting the cloud copy and dropping my G-drive subscription down to the 15 G free level. I am becoming less and less gruntled by Google, other than their search engine. Even Google Play on Android is less and less useful. It's search function is weird, to say the least. Dropbox, on the other hand, is still freaking great. For example, on Android, with it's native client, if you select a media file, it will stream it, vs doing an actual down load. That is a cool functionality. It also integrates well with other applications, something that G-drive really does not do well.

Letting a PGT tea bag sit in the hot water until the water is, well, luke warm at best, results in very freaking strong tea. Not that I'm not drinking it, but I think I'm going to skip my morning quad espresso today.

Sleep aid seems to be working as designed. I may have to adjust what time I take my drugs however, as taking them at 20:00 results in the 8-9 hours of sleep ending around 5:00, which is just a tad bit early for me. I'm thinking 23:00 would be a good time. That gives me until 7:00 to 8:00 roughly. Also think I need to adjust all my computer/phone based alarms to reflect this new schedule.

"Mary Sue" in writing is so out of date. It is all about Gnome Ann now.

Giant magical lion bear. /me takes notes for gaming reasons.

82° F Clear right now, Thunderstorms, some severe on deck for this afternoon or evening. In other words early summer in Oklahoma.

Actually not getting up and doing anything seemed to have worked.

You can also go to raw HTML mode, but if it's a long post you are editing the massive amount of cruft in the text of the post might be a problem.

There's a reason why 25 to 40 percent of my post start with "Freaking edit mode". My predictive keyboard supplies edit them mode as choices when ever I "type" freaking now.

The 3rd of a month is when a lot of social security checks get issued. Might have an affect on that statement, given it was a grandmother that said it. Speaking only from personal experience here.

The sleep aid worked. Ironically it was my alarm I set to remind me to go to sleep now that woke me up tonight. Said alarm has been deleted. However this is not my happy face as I'm not quite sure what to do now to return to sleep. About half of my brain is saying take another, but the other half is saying overdosing on strong sleep aids, even by one pill, is historically been a bad idea for a lot of people. I think I going to have a glass of milk and read something boring for a while and see what that does.

I have noticed that when chibi Grace's eyes become effectively truncated acute triangles things are about to turn ugly for who ever is the other side in the video game CG is an avatar of. Today's makes it 4 for 4 going all the way back to May 7th, 2010, in Hammerclordians in the main comic. Granted the main comic example isn't chibi Grace.

Just had some Chicken Tikka from Desi Wok, the "casual" Indian food place in town. Last Saturday I had it at India Palace, the "fine dining" Indian place in town (there are more, but those two are the ones I know the most about). Reading the great wiki's article on Chicken Tikka I find that, in fact, they are not quite the same dish. India Place serves the "sizzler" version, which explains why they don't ask for a "spice" level and Desi Wok does. Learn something new every day.