Territan

It's not a particularly thin line either, but it was likely a faint blur as my father blasted from one end of that spectrum to the other.

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I feel just a little strange admitting this, but let me tell you about my weekend.

( Thoroughly gamery talk behind the cut )

I just had one... with my mother!

( And no, it only sounds kinky. More... behind the cut! )

The inspiration for this offing is my parents. <span class="coldly">Naturally.</span>

Sure, it may be prone to some grotesque sampling errors, but I have to assume that in at least some ways, my parents' church is a microcosm of the state of at least a small set of religions out there. And if that's true, then there are more than a few churches out there, if not religions, that are trying to adapt to the modern world in the worst way possible, quite literally.

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It started, as it often does, with a shopping expedition.

Given my sad, simple existence, all I really needed to pick up were cereal and milk. And maybe salad dressing.

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Oh, Starilaskur, how you tease! Through two different editions of the books which mention you, you have received no love. So there you sit, in the middle of the map, a mystery set in a veritable crossroads of intrigue. Why is that? It's not fair. I want to get to know you. I want to use you, inside and out. And since nobody else seems to care about you, I shall take you for my very own.

There are two things about that quote which are hilarious:

1. I used a style attribute to modify that blockquote, and I constructed it purely from memory, so I got that going for my HTML skills, and
2. Of everyone who knows me on LJ, only one person will catch the reference, and it will still sound dirty to him.

Pan's Labyrinth : Grimm's fairytale-fueled paganism :: The Little Match Girl : Christianity.

Of course, that second item could probably be expressed more succinctly. Suggestions?

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Whether due to boredom or a desire to keep on top of stuff, I took advantage of a book deal mentioned previously and have been perusing it with gusto...which I suppose means I've been doing more than perusing. Even if it's just a PDF.

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Company A has a deal where you can buy a book, one of their main products, in softcover for $55 and in hardcover for $60. The book contains 145 full-color pages.

Company B has a deal where you can buy two books, totaling about 800 full-color pages, with PDFs, for $80. I'm not sure if they're softcover or hardcover, but this deal makes Company A's deal look downright shabby.

So why do I pity company A?

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...how do you introduce yourself?

When you're on forums, and you see nicknames you recognize but you don't think they recognize you, is there any good way to introduce yourself?

And what do you think of yourself if you find that you simply can't care, that reacquainting yourself with people you used to know is a waste of time? That old ties are better severed?

So, I just got through a first run of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, and now I'm moving around and trying to pick up the pieces.

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Advertisement seen elsewhere on LJ, with one small correction.

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And the inspiration for this particular rant: Facebook apps.

( G'wan. Click it. You know it'll be saucy. )

Sometimes they're written by people who speak English as a second language.

Ummm..... no?

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The boredom is becoming oppressive.

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Last night, I had trouble sleeping. There was another problem associated with waking up...

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"irregular sleeping".

It's now 1:15 AM, you see, and I feel only a little tired. And it's the form of tired that gets in the way of my attempts to sleep.