'Twas (almost) the Night Before Christmas This cold boomeranged on me Sunday and has laid me low once more. Chills, meds, a pile of tissues and bedrest became my world by nightfall. While I'm doing better now I fear most of the recharge on my batteries may just enough to get me through some final holiday prep while wife and kids are back visiting my in-laws. (I'm not fit for travel and the last thing everyone back there needs is a new source of holiday infection.) I've momentarily mislaid the tracking slips, but odd boxes should have/be arriving in Louisville and Chicago today. Hastily packed, each is an embarassment in its way, but especially one of them as the horribly generic, non-personal card was jammed into a slot in the side of an already packed box... Please, keep in mind I was likely running a fever as I rushed to get a couple things out before the post office closed Saturday. While I'll want to be back on later for some other bits, I've strung
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H o - H o - H o r r o r s Part One: Conditional Santas Crypt Leak was a big fan of a virtually defunct website, Who Would Buy That? , where readers would send in links to online auction oddities. Every so often the lack of an outlet overwhelms him and he gets into a theme of searches and will point some of them out. Around this time of year, especially, he and Abbygal look for yuletide grotesqueries. He's sent me quite a few, including identifying tags, so he's made this fairly easy for me. Here's wave one: Medical Condition Santas. (Note: Hopefully no one will be cruelly offended by these being presented this way. If there's any ire to be directed, point it at the sick minds who created these questionable Clauses.) Pyromaniac Santa Spina Bifida Santa Dipsomaniac Santa Carbon Monoxide Exposure Santa Hypothyroid Santa Tourettes Santa Other holiday horrors and embarrassments coming as the season proceeds. Thanks again, CL !
Act of Will Whew! I see I've been away since November 10th. This may not be much of a re-launch. We'll see. There's certainly no deficit of things to spark entries, just a lack of sufficient interest to do anything with them. A few times in the past few months I ventured past a few blogs but I was immediately bored by the thought of anything I might write, and the ennui drained the puddle of energy that had gotten me that far. Aside from some very light email exchanges the only spot I was writing anything online was over on HCRealms, where the simple fact that it's about something as completely unimportant as a game involving little plastic super-heroes, -villains and monsters kept it inconsequential. The general pace picked up for me as mid-November approached, interest in writing anything diminished, and then I started to physically run down and then become sick. I'm doing better, but there's still a good deal of congestion in the lungs. No solid down-time