I think since I managed to read & review three books between Saturday and Monday, I will take a day to do other things today. I have a special project I’m working on that’s related to our cafepress gamers & geekdom store, but I can’t give you the details of that yet—it’s a surprise! I need to decide before the Hellgate: London game ships whether I’m going to buy the game. Not that I should be buying more games, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun, and you can play the basic game without a subscription fee (which is the only reason, really, why I’m even considering this). Of course there’s the huge list of books to read & review. And I’m behind in catching up with my email and with other folks’ blogs.

Back to the health issues from a couple of weeks ago, I was feeling a lot better until I lost all self-control at the d&d game this weekend and had cupcakes; they’re a weakness of mine. So yesterday I was back to not feeling too well. Anyway, the first set of tests didn’t show anything, so yesterday they took blood (some sort of pancreas-related test) and next week I go in for longer scans with dye contrasts and all that. Hopefully it’ll show something. On the one hand I’m not too worried, since I know that eating an extremely low-fat diet makes me feel better and thus I can control this. On the other hand I’d like to know for sure what it is, so that I’ll know, for example, whether eating something high-fat on occasion is just uncomfortable or actually dangerous to my health. Knowledge is good.

Anyway, off to grab the mail from the mailbox, finish my lovely cup of coffee, and work on that special project. Can’t wait to be able to tell you about it!

I’m discovering just how much work it is to change over your email address after having the same one for… umm, 7 years? 10 years? Something like that. Especially since I’m not nearly as good as I should be about keeping up with my email.
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I hate Windows.

I really do. I’ve used it before on regular PCs, and I don’t understand how so many people can take its rate of bugs, rate of crashes and vulnerability to viruses and the like as “normal” and “okay.” I’ve used a powerbook for five years now. No viruses (just using the standard included firewall, normal security settings on mail and firefox); I never had to buy a separate security program. Only rare, occasional crashes. I can leave it up for literally weeks without turning it off and it won’t die during that time.

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Ah, Valentine’s Day. We never plan anything momentous; we sometimes try to do something nice, like some special chocolates or a nice dinner, but that’s about it. Otherwise we try to avoid the stress of worrying about it. Yesterday… yesterday was interesting.

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Sorry for the lack of output this week. I’ve been off-and-on feeling cruddy, which makes it all too easy to let myself get sucked into falling asleep or playing with the Warcraft expansion. I’m reading my next review book (The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published), and next week hopefully I’ll put together a handful of new shirt designs–certainly we have plenty lined up!

The following obituary is reprinted from the Beckett Funeral Home website. It’s the obituary for my aunt’s husband. Sadly I never got to meet him, as they were only married for a few years when he was struck by brain cancer. Many of the following, quite amazing, details are things we never knew about him, because he was a modest man who didn’t brag of his accomplishments. Most of what I knew was that he made my aunt happy, and really, that’s all that was important. I might not have met him, but for that reason I’ll miss him.
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