After three months of not getting a new cooker (at least six weeks of which was my fault, I’ll cop to that), we now have one! Yesterday we had a random inspection (which they did not warn us about, although they said they sent a letter. We didn’t get one. I may not let them in next time, on general principles, if we do not receive advanced warning. anyway.) and the woman wanted to know what needed work, if anything, so I mentioned the cooker, and there was a sudden…
[flocked; whinging]
“Ooh!” I thought to myself, noticing I was at about 28.5K words, “you’re almost at 30K! That means you’re…” Now, what was supposed to happen here was I was to continue this thought with a perky pep-talk cheery kind of thing encouraging myself to forge on and break 30K and then some! It was a fairly deliberate process in my mind. I got as far as the above and reality intruded with big heavy ugly words: “That means you’re nowhere fucking near where you need to be, not even halfway,…
MINDBLOWINGLYGOODNEWSFORAFRIEND!
Ok, the name has been dropped on the Jim Butcher forums so I am damned well taking that as carte blanche to SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Ardian Syaf, the artist I’ve been working with on Chance, is GOING TO BE THE DRESDEN ARTIST! I heard about the Dresden comic early enough to be able to say, “Er, do they have an artist? Because I know this really talented guy…” Jenn sent the Dabel Bros Ardian’s deviantart gallery, and the next thing any of us knew they wanted to talk to him and he…
life with cats :)
Zilli valiently defends us from a neighborhood interloper: Moments later, both cats are at the window, certain they can take ‘im if only I’d let them out: :)
OH THANK GOD I CAN TALK NOW–sort of.
The Dresden Files are going to be a comic book! Except that’s not even the REALLY COOL PART as far as I’m concerned, and while the REALLY COOL PART is contracted and all, Jim hasn’t quite released it yet, so AUGH STILL CANNOT TELL YOU THE MINDBLOWINGLYGOODNEWSFORAFRIEND! *dies in a pit* (But how cool is that for Jim? OMG. Dresden comic. OMG. SQUEE!)