ProfessorTomoe

That act gets a bit less cute once they grow from kitten to cat. My wife has the battle scars to prove it.

Have you tried the suggested use? HP + a bottle of B&O Baked Beans actually kind of sounds appetizing.

Costa Rican Tarrazu coffee, for starters. Plus my morning allotment of pills, which I forgot to count again. I'm just getting started here, having one of my arguments with the Nest thermostat (it says 73°F, but I'm feeling < 68°F). Not sure what breakfast will be, if I have breakfast at all—depends on whether or not my hydrocodone kicks in and controls my right-side back pain and my left-side pain from my arthritic knee and the Chronic Pain Syndrome from my ankle. Breakfast gets complicated around here.

An extra-cheesy Philly cheesesteak from one of the local shops. They're usually good, but not stellar. Tonight's product was much better than their regular effort.

I'm working on it. In the end, that's where the needle went.

Reported to doctor. He's happy with my progress and wants to speed it up with a steroid shot. (Actually, he wanted to speed it up with steroid pills, but for the upteenth time, I had to remind his office that the pills give me atrial fibrillations, so it's a shot for me instead.) I go there to get it in a couple of hours.

I've got to call my primary doctor today and give him an update on how I'm doing. I'm still coughing, but the tree pollen is so outrageously high that I don't know if I'm coughing from the infection or from the pollen. All I can do is give him the facts and let him do the deducing.

Don't dis the only good version of Windows ever made. I don't know ... the version that came with OS/2 Warp 3.0 worked pretty well ...

I've had this stuck in my head for days:

Remember that the first game I directly wrote music for was Rise of the Triad? It had a "Ludicrous Gibs" mode. As my kid was also sort of an alpha tester, he tried all of the options, which means he did get to see the eyeball fly past onscreen. He went in warned, though.

Buttered flour tortilla. Woke up with a bit of a gastric emergency, and that's the only solid I'm prepared to hold in at the moment (aside from my pills).

Interesting that Arthur says the problem would only be solved for "decades." That's awfully short, given the magnitude of the reset. Still, I don't think he's counting on Tedd's ability as the seer or Box's promise to Sarah to get magic going again. Given those two working in consort, I imagine they could have magic working in a much shorter time—maybe months.

Bingo. That's why I put a serious warning into my son's head back when I started letting him play the games I worked on at Apogee/3D Realms. I told him that he was playing pure fiction, and that If he ever started confusing the game fiction with reality, I would yank his system rights so fast it'd make his nose bleed. Worked well.

I actually believe this to be true. Hear me out. From what I understand, a true creative thought occurs when a neuron (or neurons) in the brain fires in a way that has never happened before. Technically, this could be considered as a malfunction—a form of madness. I further believe that this is why many artists experience issues with mental illness in their lives. In this case, it's not necessarily an illness that needs to be cured. Any thoughts on this?

Someone did this in the Nixon era, too. One version had a cartoon Nixon portrait and was "inflated" to match the inflation of the day. Instead of a signature of the Secretary of the Treasury, it was signed by the "Keeper of the Cookie Jar." (I've kept that line in my repetoire ever since, mainly when referring to my wife who handles household finances.) However, another took a real dollar, accordion-folded it, and encased it in Lucite. The end result was a much smaller looking bill - "The Shrinking Dollar," it was labeled.

No peeling, eh? (BTW, the local place carries Siegi's Weisswurst, too!)

I thought you were supposed to peel weisswurst, with there being about a half dozen methods of peeling it. Do you peel it, or do you cook it another way? (Sorry for taking shots in the dark here, but I really want to try and get as close to the authentic experience as I can.)

No shirt, no shoes, no fanservice.

Yeah, the early years were kind of wonky. One guy put the competition together through (I think) the ninth year, then bailed and disappeared. The Friends of the O. Henry Museum tried to put together the contest in his absence, with little success. So, a group of punsters who knew what the contest needed to become a success got together at the barbecue joint that used to exist across from the museum and held planning sessions (with a punning moratorium in effect during the meetings). We gathered celebrity judges, did PR on local radio, put together topics for what's now called the "Punslingers" contest, set up rules, and got the thing off the ground. Our first attempt turned the event around. Subsequent efforts kept it on track and built it up to what it is today. Trivia: I was the one who suggested the "World Championships" part of the event name, as part of a PR ploy. It worked.

It wouldn't happen to be this stuff, would it? Hela brand? That's what the German import place on the other side of the D/FW airport carries. What kind of wurst do you use to duplicate the experience?

Cooked up some Jacques Pepin-style scrambled eggs (very small curd, almost like custard) with Penzey's Fox Point seasoning. One of my favorite "feel good" dishes when I'm physically able to cook it. I've got a bottle of Daddies sauce in the fridge. I wonder if it'd taste the same with bratwurst. BTW, have you tried Currywurst yet? Good stuff, as long as you get the right curry ketchup.

Lest we forget my documented RL history ... Frankly, I'm surprised my documentation hasn't burst into flames yet.

Thanks. I'm tired of this crap, and my doctor's tired of prescribing hydrocodone while the Topamax kicks in (and I'm tired of going and getting it every five days).

Back from doctor, laden with more pills and a Ventolin inhaler. We'll see if that'll show 'em a thing or two.

Heading off to the doctor to see what can be done about this coughing. Expecting more antibiotics, plus a refill on my hydrocodone for my back.