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Cannibal Halflings - demon worshipping cannibal halflings even
I know its been done before in Dark Sun. But it's just too good of an idea to not pay homage too.

Tentative Moving Date - Jan 8th
Probably going to be moving on January 8th (friday).

I may beg or offer bribes for help moving small stuff the weekend prior to that. Furniture and heavy stuff will be for the actual movers.

:D

Current Mood: excited

Xmas list, early for those of you interested
For starters, here is my Amazon wishlist. Not much there at the moment, but I'll be adding to it.
http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/1VOR8RNH4WONE/ref=cm_sw_em_r_wl

Beyond that, since I'm now a homeowner, I could very much use gift cards for places like Bed Bath & Beyond, home and garden and kitchen type places, etc.

And even though Paizo is awesome enough to give me pdfs, I like physical books even more, so were some folks willing to pool together and get me a Pathfinder Chronicles or Companion subscription for physical books, that would be totally awesome. And this applies to any previously released Pathfinder books in the Chronicles or Companion lines that I didn't contribute to and thus already have a copy of.

And to those of you that this may apply to, I will never turn down arts. :D

The Yummy of Authentic Chinese
35 Chinese Retaurant, Cary NC

Went there tonight of Kyle's birthday party. 15-20 people in all. We ordered from the authentic menu and shared everything for the entire group. Amazingly good. Spicy stir-fried pork intestine, duck tongues, chicken hot pot, tripe and pickled peppers, and all sorts of other stuff not on your normal americanized chinese menu.

Warm glow of hot chilis = me right now.

Current Mood: full
Current Music: Nirvana - Sliver

For Sale: Lone Wolf gamebooks 21-28 (yes, the impossible to find, expensive originals)
So I just bought a house, and being in need of some extra money now for the holidays, I'm considering selling off some of my RPG collection.

Right now I'm sitting on a complete collection of the original Lone Wolf gamebooks number 21-28 (the full new order kai set that was never published in the US). These typically go for in upwards of $70-$100 each on Ebay, and they usually only show up one at a time in various conditions.

All of mine may be available at one time as a complete set, in exceedingly fine condition. When I snagged these originally it took around two years of Ebay auctions to find them all in top condition. So somebody will have the chance to do so while avoiding the difficulty of hunting through Ebay.

I'd like to offer these to folks on Enworld first, off of Ebay. Around a month from now I'll be putting them up on Ebay as auctions for each book rather than a full set.

I don't have a set price for these yet, but I'll consider any reasonable offer given the typical Ebay price range they can go for, and what I paid for them originally.

Current Mood: creative

Hi, I'm Jay Voorhees Atty., and I'll be helping you with your closing today on the 13th
I'm now a homeowner, having closed the deal today on Friday the 13th. :D

Everything worked out great! And my monitor is working again fully, so no worries there. I survived the 13th.

And here's a picture of my new house (I'll be moving sometime end of Dec / early-mid January).

And tonight I'll be writing on my latest Paizo project and going to see the new Milla Jovovich flick The 4th Kind with Sarah and Andy. Fun stuff.

Current Mood: enthralled

Spit in the face of Friday 13th and it bites back :P
So in theory I'm closing on my new house today, and yes I intentionally chose Friday 13th just because I could. One problem. I have to have certified funds for the closing, so I had to move a rather large amount of cash from an online only bank to a checking account at a physical bank so I could go to the counter and have that done. A week later the cash hasn't fully cleared the flaming hoops of the US financial system so it remains in the air if I'll be able to access my own damn money to pay for the 10% down plus lawyers and other associated fees for the closing.

It's finally in the account this morning, but not in the posted balance. We'll see in three hours if I can actually close today.

Secondly, my monitor is less than a year old and it may have just started to die. The pressure sensitive touch buttons on the side to control the on-screen display no longer work. I can't turn the monitor off or control any of the monitor settings like contrast, etc. Lovely. Westinghouse's online support is considerably lacking, so going to have to call them and see if I can get this replaced since it's under a year (not that I can find any confirmation of the registration though I'm positive I did, and God help me if I have to try to find the original receipt).

Current Mood: distressed

Matt Daemon lives a little while longer, but not so for Grapefruit
Been too busy to write up that joke submission fully, but... Curse you furanocoumarin in grapefruit juice! Stupid CYP450 3A4 inhibitor!

...

I bought two sticks of Fresca the other day, and realized today that I can't drink them because I'm on lipitor and the soda has a small amount of grapefruit juice concentrate which will happily interact with the liver enzyme that breaks down lipitor's active compound. So no Fresca for me. >.<

It's probably too low of a concentration to matter, but I drink soda so much and so quickly that I'm just going to give it away rather than risking a fatal drug interaction. Probably wise. ;)

And Prism, you were asleep already so I offered it to Sarah first. You may fight her in the Thunderdome on Saturday if you want dibs on it too.

"Matt Daemon Must Die!" - coming soon from Paizo
You were joking Mr Reynolds, but who will be laughing when I send that submission to you on Monday?

Muahahahaha!

So I ate beaver last night...
...And I have a block of it left in the fridge. ;)

Unique texture to the meat, a little gamey, but not bad at all. Worked really well with a bit of tropical pepper company habanero sauce on top.

Current Mood: giggly

Feeling Inspired Is A Good Feeling
Putting some finishing touches on a project for Paizo tonight before I submit it sometime tommorow, and while I'm not normally enthused when making crunchy bits or new mechanics, I've come up with a few things over the past few days that I'm feeling really good about just because they're dang cool and they're pretty strongly entwined with the Golarion flavor text.

One artifact, two feats, two magic items. Lots of flavor, and hopefully the sort of things that DMs (-and should they encounter them in-game- players alike) will go "COOL!" over. :D

Current Mood: creative

Some artwork of Shylara the Manged
Sayda finally posted a commission of mine from a while back featuring everyone's favorite perpetually manged Oinoloth with ever so questionable sanity, equally questionable fashion, penchant for finger-painting with githyanki innards, and fondness for physically and emotionally damaging relationships.

http://sayda.deviantart.com/art/Shylara-the-Manged-141722253?

Current Mood: amused

For Science!
It's 10pm, I'm hyper, I realize I have not eaten dinner today. Hamburger helper. I have no milk.

But.

I do have cream / half and half. Water it down. We'll see how this goes.

Now imagine me cooking, wearing a lab coat and exclaiming loudly the title of this post as I cook. Because technically I could, but I don't know where the spare lab coat is packed away.

Current Mood: cheerful

They accepted my offer! w00t! *dance dance dance*
Verbally accepted over the phone tonight, and they'll be signing the offer paperwork tommorow most likely. Bargained them for closing costs, fridge, and patio furniture (among other things).

Holy crap. *daze*

Assuming the home inspector doesn't find mutant cannibals under the foundations, an ancient indian burial ground under the yard, or termites nesting in the eaves, I'm going to be owning a house (albeit with 30 years worth of pending debt).

My God. *glee!*

Now I'll be breaking my apartment lease to move in, but part of the bargaining involved giving them December to stay there rent free as they find/build their place to move into. They also will have Jan-March as optional for them to stay at a cost a little above my mortgage payment in rent, which I won't mind at all since it'll save me the issue of moving during the holiday months, and it'll save me having to pay a larger penalty for moving out of my apartment super early.

Current Mood: Ecstatic

Making an offer on a house
I fell in love with one of my prospects today and I'm making an offer on it. So please wish me luck. Hopefully in relatively short order I'll be packing up everything (now that I've finally fully unpacked all my stuff in this apartment, heh).

Current Mood: hopeful

Nom Nom Nom goes me to the Spicy Korean Octopus
:9

Korea Garden has yummy stuff. Nom. Now I sleep because I ate so much it hurts. Kim Chee so good too.

Current Mood: full

Please say a prayer for a friend of mine
Please say a prayer for an old friend of mine, and former member of my gaming group, Shawn Mckown. He moved down to Texas a number of years ago, and I've only talked to him a few times since then, but he's in bad shape. I found out through a mutual friend today that he's got severe pneumonia and currently he's in critical but stable condition. High fever, flooded lungs, and in an induced coma, undergoing rotational bed therapy. Not good at all.

Current Mood: Aghast

About time
Well the Pakistani press is reporting that their government and military have agreed on a green-light to a full-scale operation in South Waziristan, starting tommorow. About.Damn.Time.

If they don't purge the jihadi ranks within the NWFP they'll be looking at the implosion of the modern Pakistani state within a few years, and it's a problem that they've fostered by their own hands by openly supporting the Afghan Taliban pre-911, and with elements of their intelligence services still, against all odds, wanting to keep them around, convinced that they could be used in a putative conflict with India in the future, ignoring the internal threat of armed religious zealots on their doorsteps.

Of course they'll probably ignore North Waziristan, and give a free pass to Nazir and the Haqqanis, and they'll never move into Balochistan for fear of internal rebellion.

We'll see what happens.

Like Creutzfeldt-Jakob or Headcrabs: Disgaea 3 eats your brain
This game is like crack. *lights up the crackpipe and takes a hit*

:D

Yes, I just got a PS3 now that they dropped the price by $100 for the PS3 slim 120. Very nice, but my platforms have now outgrown the space on my entertainment center/3-tier glass table thing/etc. PS3 and PS2 stay, SNES and NES stay, the PS1 is liable to get the boot (since the PS2 can play its games). The Atari 2600 has already been sent into exile to the bedroom with the non-flatscreen TV (because God knows the LCD doesn't support 1970s era connectors that predate me that it needs).

And once I have the Disgaea3 theme music out of my head, time to do some writing.

Current Mood: amused

Alexis Brown, lead singer of "Straight Line Stitch"
Head-banging metal chick with braids

*drool*

That is all, and now I'm going to go listen to her group's first album.

Current Music: Straight Line Stitch - What You Do To Me