Wish You Were Here

Taking advantage of a few days off, me and Doc headed over to Pensacola Beach. We've got a great room at the Marriott, with our own balcony and a clear view of the water. Surf's a little rough today, but it's warm and sunny and peaceful. Lazy has set in.

Our internal clocks are an hour ahead of local time, so we were up pretty early this morning. Gave us the chance to take advantage of the free breakfast. If you've ever stayed at a hotel with a continental breakfast, you know it's not usually anything worth mentioning. Here, though, they gave us real food. I had a very good ham, egg, and cheese biscuit and a bowl of cheesy grits. I love this hotel. My only gripe is that we couldn't find a luggage cart to haul all our stuff upstairs. But the bed and view make up for that.

As a plus, we got to watch the Troy game on local tv last night. Seems over the last week the boys have learned to tackle. They won by a respectable margin. Go Troy!

Weeknight Randomnes

1. Printing Maddness
Doc is on a fanfiction kick again, so we've been really testing out the legs on the new printer. Several hundred pages later, the HP Photosmart C5180 is still going strong. Though the black ink cartridge dies out pretty quick even on the draft setting. No complaints, though. I love this printer/scanner/copier. And I recycle!

2. Mating Maddness
It's love bug season in the south. We don't have these annoying insects up north. At least, not yet. I hear they're traveling. Cars get plastered with them just driving a few blocks to work, and they don't come off easily once they've baked on. I swear you can't go anywhere inside or out without being accosted by these screw-happy black bugs. And I don't know if I should be grossed out or jealous. ^_^

3. Pictures!
I updated the pictures at flikr with the ones we took when we visited Troy a few weeks ago. We're planning on going over for the Homecoming game, so maybe I'll have a few more to post after that.

4. Slow
The word used to describe the pace at which I write.

5. Typing
What Doc is doing in the next room. Her muse is being friendly, which is a good thing for all of us.

6. Updates
What we got a few of up on the website. Added some links and updated Arthkael's e-mail address on the fanart page. If you've enjoyed her artwork, please drop her a line and let her know about it. It's always good to encourage the creative side of people with her kind of talent. That, and it just feels good to know you've given someone else some enjoyment with something you enjoyed doing.

I think that's it for tonight. The second season of Heroes started about 20 mins ago, but I haven't even seen all of the first season yet. I love the series, but I'm taking it as it comes out on dvd rather than watching it as it airs. And I've managed to avoid spoilers, too. I gotta say, that wasn't an easy thing...

Updates!

And for our Sunday update this week, we have a new section from Doc for "Echoes of a Distant Demon." Scoot on over to the Previews page at DocSpace to find it.

Religion in the South

That's right, it's once again football season. Not really having any interest in the game, I only know this because of the flags flying from cars, the store windows painted with the names and colors of the local high school teams, the crush of cars parked around the high school stadium on Friday nights, and all the teenagers driving with their school teams proudly painted onto their car windows. You may have noticed a theme here. Football season in the south isn't about the pro teams, though they do have their place. It's about the high school and college teams. I can do this. And to prove it, I've adopted Doc's team, the Troy University Trojans.

I can see the confusion on your face and hear you asking, "Who?"

Here's a link. They're not a big name player in college football, yet, and they haven't been division one very long. But they play a good game, even if they can't beat the teams from the top ten. Yet. So I've adopted them, after being a fan by association for awhile. And the colors look good on me, I think. Doc drove me over to her alma matta yesterday, and we dropped a goodly amount of money in the bookstore getting both of us geared up for the homecoming game next month. I've got my hat, t-shirt, pull-over windbreaker, and seat cushion all ready to go. And then I realized, between this and the cheesy grits, I've been assimilated. And it's not so bad...

What? You thought I was going to talk about the Baptists or something? ^_~

Paid Holiday

Ah, Labor Day. What a contradictory name for a day when we sit around and do absolutely nothing. I love it. But Doc had to work because the hospital doesn't recognize Labor Day as a holiday and actually thinks people should come in and labor for their paychecks. Sucks for her. Heheh.

For me, this was my first paid day off from a job since I landed in Georgia back in October. So I was doubly happy. So happy, in fact, that I updated "Tangled Web!" It's a small update, but an important one that hopefully won't cause me any continuity issues later on. Setsuna is such a difficult character to get a grasp on sometimes, both her personality and her history. But I'm making the first real attempt here, to be built on later down the line. As always, don't be shy with comments. Just stop by the forum or drop me an e-mail. You can even comment here if you like. ^_^