(Vegas in 2 days)

[learnedax]

I'm bored, tired, sick, and alone.

Tell me something.

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[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I'm pregnant. And it's yours.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

What?!? You told me you were on the pill!

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I musta rolled off.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Well, sod.

If this sort of thing happens a lot, I can see why you don't talk about dating in your journal.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I don't talk about dating, basically, because it isn't polite to brag.

Besides, I'd wanted you to think you were the only one.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

You're pregnant with someone else's kid too?

Well, I guess two's not such a huge leap after the physiological surprise of the first.

[doozer4200.livejournal.com]

"Wedding Crashers" was a mediocre yet entertaining movie. We just watched it.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Hmm, surprising. From the previews I saw I was expecting something just above American Pie.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

'Stardance' doesn't stand up to rereading as well as I thought it would, but that doesn't change the fact that it was still a phenomenal book the first time.

Also, I'm not going to be home tomorrow night, so my poor hubby will be all alone. If you're feeling better, you should call him and go get dinner together or something.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Haven't read it. Looks like something you would totally enjoy, though.

I may give him a call.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

My feet are cold.

Hey, you didn't specifiy that it had to be something new.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

There aren't enough fireplaces in our lives anymore.

Also, I have some socks rated to like -20. You should get some.

[pisicutsa.livejournal.com]

I'm going to my first LARP ever in April and I'm really excited and nervous. so I'm telling you I need advice - any you have to give in the "things I wish I'd known when I started LARPing" category?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

In my first larp essentially every other character shot me or ordered me shot. So, uh, don't do that. I guess having a character with an obsession for insulting other characters wasn't such a great plan.

More seriously, there are a lot of different kinds of larp out there, so it's a little bit tough to give good general advice, but I think there are really three major things to bear in mind. First, try to take the game on its own terms, because all larps are a bit silly if you don't let yourself get into them. Second, don't be afraid to talk to the GMs if something is unclear, or you are not having fun; that's what they are there for. Third, relax, it's only a game.

[evilnicola.livejournal.com]

I'm short

And sick too

:-P

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I was gonna make a joke, but hey, I'm probably way above quota.

Get better.

From the sick part, that is.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

According to Justin and Aaron, some triple-digit number of people die each winter in Moscow due to being impaled by falling icicles.

This may, of course, be total crap.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

That's the thing we were gonna look up. I couldn't remember.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Snopes does not seem to speak to the issue, but Pravda (http://english.pravda.ru/society/2001/03/19/3042.html) considers it a real problem. Although 'bludgeoned to death' may be more accurate most of the time than 'impaled'.

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

People get killed by falling ice in Chicago with some regularity. But triple digits? No way. In a bad winter, maybe two or three.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

You could come stay here for a few days. We'd be glad to take care of you, and maybe even entertain you until your sweetie got back.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

A pleasant thought, if only it had come earlier. Since I'm leaving tomorrow, it would be rather an abbreviated stay. I should visit you guys more in general, though.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

Next time perhaps - consider it a standing offer. And of course, I can also come visit you, and it please you of course. I always think my place is better for getting together, but a good deal of that is no doubt laziness on my part.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Hero, if you saw my place you would not doubt that yours is better for getting together. Perhaps when I have succeeded in cleaning it we can entertain, but at present we suffer both from an excess of materials and from bad cleaning habits. I typically consider our mess per square foot something like a deci-eclecticmagpie, but that is more than enough.

And next time, I'll drop you a line earlier.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

I used to live with Aelfwyne and Tchippakan. They had an eclecticnmagpie number greater than 1.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know that was possible in Euclidean threespace.

more than you really want to know

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

Harold is pretty good at not letting organic material rot. Also, he has pathways that are often big enough to navigate through where you can see the floor.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

The first three are your own damn fault and you can probably do something about them (whinging in your LJ doesn't really count as doing something about it). Sleeping will probably go a long way to fixing the first three.

You functional enough to come to Axis tonight? No reason I should be the only one of us exhausted tomorrow.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Some of your statements are correct. It is my fault I'm sick because I didn't shun all contact with tpau last week, and tired because it's the kind of sick that makes sleep an intermittent and unpleasant affair. I have been waking up rather more congested than when going to bed, though somewhat less tired, so sleep is a mixed cure. Whinging in my LJ can in fact relieve my boredom, though it's not the only way.

It is possible I will come to Axis, depending in part on how much good tea and DayQuil work. I felt kind of out of place at the last Axis evening I went to, even if some sharp-dressed guy bought me a drink.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Take something like Nyquil which will knock you out. You don't have to be awake -- one of the advantages of this mini vacation.

I'm not surprised you felt out of place at Axis, you don't know a lot of people there -- partially because no one knows a lot of people there. We're a new phenomenom. THe more often you attend, the more people you get to know, the less out of place you feel.

But don't come if you're sick. Tomorrow's vacation is more important.

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

I'm curious. Does Dayquil make you at all drowsy? Can you sleep after taking Nyquil? I haven't tried Dayquil, but four times out of five I've had disrupted, agitated sleep after taking Nyquil.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I haven't really noticed a significant difference between them, but I typically take NyQuil when I'm already tired, and DayQuil when I'm not. Similarly, when I have a cold my sleep is likely to be disrupted anyway, so it's hard to say whether NyQuil has that effect. Having not paid incredibly much attention to it, my impression is that NyQuil has helped me sleep better.

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

Jigsaw puzzles and kittens don't mix.

Or rather, they do mix. Rather dramatically.

What really impressed me was when he climbed up the tablecloth, climbed under the dropcloth that I'd put over the puzzle, picked up the edge of the puzzle with his teeth, and tried to drag it off to his lair. "Impressed me", in this instance, meaning "scored him an impromptu bath."

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAH-I mean, I empathize with the setback in your puzzle, and approve of stern reprimand for the adorable creature that attacked it in such a vicious and entertaining way.

When I was a kid we once decided to put together all of the couple dozen jigsaw puzzles we had at once, a project both lengthy and greedy for flat surfaces. The most our cat did was peer disdainfully at our insanity, but then he was probably 12 at the time, and could hardly be called a kitten. For that matter, as a kitten he was as I recall only an occasional burrower, being more fascinated with jumping; he regularly jumped to the top of the refrigerator, for example, so you can see how a number of surprising height-related incidents occurred.

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

This one is exhausting. He burrows, he jumps, he climbs, he flies... He divebombs my head from the top of the headboard on the bed... One of the most horrifying things he ever did was when he was playing a rousing game of "mousie under the blanket" (i.e., pounce on my foot through the comforter) and he decided he wasn't getting enough traction, or something. He grabbed the comforter in his teeth, peeled it back, and while I was staring in stunned disbelief, he savaged my newly-exposed foot. Clever monster. :)

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

And then there was the year he discovered jelly beans hidden the night before Easter. There's just something about skitter-skitter-bodyslamintodoorway-skitter-pounce-skitter at 3am that is terribly memorable.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Yep, that was a sound much more like bullets ricocheting around the house than one might expect.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I reread "Nightfall" last night, and I really do like it.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Short story, or novel adaptation? I read the latter and thought it might work better as a short, but haven't gotten around to reading the original yet...

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

There's a novel? The short story was quite good for its time (Asimov's writing style now reads a bit hokey to me, but it was enough of an influence that I actually use the word "hokey".)

Anyway, Clarke makes a Nightfall sort of mistake at the end of 2010, if you want to go hunt up something to help you forget how bored you are.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Well, the story is 65 years old at this point, so some dating is expected. The novel was done in 1990 with Robert Silverberg. It's not hokey, but it's also not as tight as I would expect the short story is.

2010? Maybe. The series never really interested me that much, and in truth I have a lot of things to read, I just didn't feel much like reading last night. Commentary on the ill-read state of the youth may be inferred, but I have to be in the right frame of mind to get into a novel, and most things I deem worth reading I don't want to read without delving into them.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I'd recommend it on it own, so I'll tell you the mistake.

Jupiter has been turned into a star the old-fashioned way - mass got added until fusion started taking place. Someone is at the UN building after all this has happened, and noticed that it will never be night again. This is wrong for the parts of the year the Jupiter is not in our night sky.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Short story last night, although I have read both. The novel does provide more 'story' and characters, but I like it more as a short. I've heard the movie version is truly terrifying.

[laurion]

Could come play games with us tonight, Usdan...