Kaymyth

Happily, the latest update has rendered this trick impossible. There's a cooldown period of a few minutes now where only the person who defeated the gym can claim it.

Some of the big changeover levels happen at powers of 2, so sometimes they happen at weird spots. Aww. I got mine in the mail last night. SO MUCH GOOD STUFF. Ookla season starts on Saturday. Because that's Peter's birthday.

As Twi said, you'll be asleep through the entire procedure. I had mine out somewhere around two decades ago; after braces, it was nothing. Also, you will get to subsist on milkshakes for at least a couple of days afterwards, so there's that to look forward to. I...actually do remember a little bit. Mostly hearing the doctor and nurses talking to each other. But I've got that damned redhead gene messing with my anesthesia, so I don't think I was "down" quite as far as a normal person would have been.

Just goes to show how tired I am that I didn't even notice I'd responded to a thread that was spoilery for something I haven't read yet.

Well. I think Scadrial is pretty interesting, and it doesn't have a moon... Edited To Add: Really, when it comes down to it, moons are generally good gravitational stabilizers to naturally formed planets. A lot of Earth's habitability comes from the effect our moon has in stabilizing our axial wobble and rotational speed. Scadrial, of course, is an exception to that because it's not a naturally formed planet; Ruin and Preservation had a pretty heavy hand in putting together that particular solar system.

Oh, I forgot about that! Pug meets niffler. It's great.

Two words: lucid dreaming. (This is how I know what it feels like to fly as a dragon.)

I've never really played any of the other Pokemon games besides Go. I still get a kick out of it, and it's done its job getting me out and about and exercising. The daily rewards they introduced help a lot, too. Extra XP and stardust and items to entice people into playing a little bit every day? Good plan.

Hooray! I contributed!

This is just reminding me that I have yet to stumble upon a single danged Pikachu in Pokemon Go.

Like I need the extra rep. I think my favorite part about the picture is how (probably unintentionally) it looks to me like the Ringwraith has tiny little dainty armored feet and is sitting sidesaddle.

This. This is what a My Little Nazgul looks like.

Sigh. I hate winter. And yet the hard freeze last night means that the oak mite apocalypse has come, which is a thing to be celebrated. I am so torn.

oh no please don't And this reminds me of a problem I'm dealing with in my writing. See, I had to go and be crazy and decide to interweave Eva's story around and amongst the plot threads happening during the Mistborn Era 2 books. It's...complex, but there's an awful lot of stuff in there that's just rife for story ideas. What happened out in the Roughs when three powerful Twinborn lawkeepers just up and left? What are some of the other ripple effects of the Set's dealings? Does Harmony have a back-up plan in case Wax died? There's just so much to play with! But I have to face the high probability that at some point, some decision I have made is going to contradict some future bit of canon. So I can either stick my fingers in my ears and go la la la, or I can throw in a huge canon bomb that clearly delineates that Eva's story is an alternate continuity. What I'm saying is that there's a plotline for a short story just screaming for the Doctor to show up in the TARDIS and I am really, really tempted to do this but it might be terrible.

Irish folk buying vodka? That's just wrong in and of itself. In all seriousness, I'm very much an everything in moderation sort of person. Even sometimes excess in moderation, if that makes any sense. Of course, this is coming from someone who drinks on occasion but has never had a hangover, so...

See, now Hrathen actually kind of grated on me. I think that's because of his super-religiosity; it's a trait that I generally find disturbing, probably because I'm a member of a religious minority that tends to get harsh treatment from such people. Every character in Interview With the Vampire. (Well, probably every character that Anne Rice has ever written, but I never made it past that first book.) Everyone's either whiny and tortured or just plain sociopathic. Zero redeeming qualities in anyone.

The problem is that you think you can beat them with logic and science. You can't. They specifically don't believe the science. (Mostly because they're terrible at it. And at math. Ye gods, their math is so bad...) I've seen this thing out there that's just a list of like 200 things that they think proves the Earth is flat. I read it. It was ridiculous. And I seriously thought about going through and doing the research and debunking every single last one of those things, until a friend talked me down from indulging their madness even that much. Like most conspiracy nuts, they are stuck on a crazy theory that inflates their egos by making them think they know something that others don't. It makes them feel superior. If you go to them with facts, they will call you a liar, a shill, or a sheeple, and they will automatically discount everything you say because you are challenging the very thing that makes them more special than everyone else in their minds. You could literally take them up into space and show them firsthand that the Earth is round and they will still claim that it's a lie. It's a tug of war over a giant pit full of mud and vipers. The only way to win is to drop the rope.

Bleh. I'd rather grab a couple of honey sticks. I'm not actually diabetic (I've been tested), but I've always had this reactive hypoglycemia thing, as far back as my teenage years. I'm at the biggest risk during the first few hours of the day, depending on what I've had for breakfast. Usually the egg I eat with my cereal is enough to keep me steady through till lunch, but sometimes if I get delayed in eating it all just goes crashy.

FLEE. Flee the madness, before it's too late!

Done and eaten. I'm used to eating at 11:30-ish, so waiting until 12:30 was a bit rough. (Though better than when I was on a rigid schedule and it usually hit around 1 - I had to do a morning snack back then.)

GO WATCH LABYRINTH RIGHT NOW

Reactive hypoglycemia and the universe conspiring to push my lunch an hour later than usual. I'm in the middle of devouring a pack of Smarties. I don't even LIKE Smarties.

See, this is my problem right here. I tend to vote one way, but my state consistently goes to the majority of the other. Right now, my presidential* vote literally counts for nothing. It's extremely frustrating. While I'd prefer a change to a straight-up popular vote, I'd take a consistent proportional allocation of Electoral College votes as a reasonable compromise. *Downticket, at least, counts for something. Which, don't get me wrong, is really, really important. But in presidential elections I might as well be writing my vote on a napkin and tossing into the nearest beer glass.

Apparently there are some people who did. I saw the theories popping up last week and said, "Wha? ...naaahhh." Then the moment he said, "What door?" I realized that they were right.

OK, I'm going to make myself very unpopular right now and jump into the devil's advocate role. You all know that I'm generally the first one to jump in and speak up if I think someone on the Shard is being mistreated. This situation is a bit different, though; instead of firsthand accounts, we're getting secondhand information filtered in. And I hate to say it, Silverblade, but she has established a pattern of lying in a manner designed to garner sympathy. I think we're missing a lot of key information here, information that her parents are privy to but none of us are. And Silverblade, there's a lot of stuff that she's said to you that trips major red flags with me. The suicide threats, the exaggerated danger, the fake allergic reactions - these are all things that are designed to get and keep your attention, and it's skirting the realm of emotional abuse. I think it may be worth considering the possibility here that her parents might be trying to protect you - that their concern isn't necessarily that you are a bad influence, but that you are easily drawn into her dramatic narratives and thus feeding the problem itself. At the very least, she's in a very codependent place right now, and they may very well be right in that she needs some extra space in order to re-learn how to stand on her own. I think that if you are to plead your case to them, you need to be honest but diplomatic. You care about their daughter, and you want her to get better, and you are willing to play by their rules in order to maintain your relationship with her. Tell them that you are willing to place all of your interactions with her under their supervision and work with whatever plan they have. And stick to it.