I have been looking forward to some Spooky Month (as my kids call it) for a while now. Gonna try to get a bunch of content up, watch some scary films, obviously take my eldest on a haunted trail or two, and just generally enjoy Halloween. It’s a fun holiday, when you have kids.
Now if I can just get the weather to behave (cool, clear, and breezy at night), that would be perfect.
…That’s it. Happy birthday. The man hit one hundred years old today, and is in hospice. I’m not mean. Besides, Carter set in motion the movement to give Americans drinkable beer again. I was there when the beer renaissance happened, and I’m absolutely grateful for it.
So, you know: fair’s fair, and all that.
The Mets-Braves game got pretty damned real in the last two innings. Dare I even say…
If you are in its path, don’t play games with the weather. Stay dry, stay sane, and above all: stay safe. This one looks like it’s going to go up along the Georgia / Mississippi border instead of along the coast, so keep an eye on the updates. And remember: stuff can be replaced, but nobody’s giving out extra lives.
Had to run a bunch of errands, including stuff for Fright Reads this weekend. Also, kind of funky scheduling stuff going on right now, so pretty distracting (it shouldn’t be, but it isn’t). Worst of all: my head is apparently insisting that I read this very expensive book (Japanism, Pan-Asianism and Terrorism) instead of researching stuff for, you know, BANSHEE BEACH. Which absolutely has to be the next book, and that’s all there is to it. The Siberian detective novel can be the next one after that.
#commissionearned
I hope this isn’t faked somehow, because it’s pretty dang cool.
Nice! pic.twitter.com/kGnFEknZTL
— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) September 24, 2024
Of a sort.
Ladies and gentlemen, only two teams in major league baseball have lost 120 games. One of those teams still has several games left to play. We're setting generational records at this point. Let's enjoy the crapulence because it's all we're gonna get.
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) September 22, 2024
And the Mets are actually playing above .500 ball this year. …What sorcery is this?
Even in these grim, post-blogospheric times Amazon links are a valued income stream for me. It would be a help if you clicked on them when buying things. Or… you could do it for other people, too. Some people need the affiliate income more than I do, admittedly.
I know I’m not supposed to say that last part if I want people to click my links, but I feel bad if I don’t.
#commissionearned
On the bright side, I got some chores done. I also mailed out some comp copies of TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION 2, which is nice because usually I take forever to do that. Anyway, I should take my brain’s hint and get some sleep. But tomorrow I really need to get on with that short story…
Starting by defaulting back to ‘most recent posts from the people you follow.’ The algorithm was showing incredible amounts of crap, and apparently thinks that I am a damned Communist in the bargain (or at least enjoys the idea of orcas eating rich people*), and that was starting to seriously piss me off. Social Fixer isn’t perfect – I will have to go to my group pages (including my own) to post things – but I can live with the next configuration.
Guess I’m not too old yet, after all.
Moe Lane
*I do not. I like orcas, you see. I would thus find it regrettable to have to exterminate an entire pre-sapient species because they have developed a taste for human meat.
