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Rubicon. It wasn't wiz-bang, you had to pay attention to it to keep track of things, there were no polar bears, and I loved it.

I'm reading the Game of Thrones series by George RR Martin.

My head. Everything else is variable.

Hold her ass in place more securely while she licks it.

Forward. It has to be better in the future, right? Not like this?

This question implies that there are points of time when I'm NOT accessing my email account.

Valentine's Day is what you make of it. I got my wife some nice things, that I would have gotten her anyway at some other time. We had lunch. It was nice. And then I went back to work.

Fake it till you make it.

I Am A: Lawful Good Human Fighter/Sorcerer (3rd/3rd Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-12

Dexterity-12

Constitution-15

Intelligence-12

Wisdom-11

Charisma-15


Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment when it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Primary Class:
Fighters can be many things, from soldiers to criminal enforcers. Some see adventure as a way to get rich, while others use their skills to protect the innocent. Fighters have the best all-around fighting capabilities of the PC classes, and they are trained to use all standard weapons and armor. A fighter's rigorous martial training grants him many bonus feats as he progresses, and high-level fighters have access to special melee maneuvers and exotic weapons not available to any other character.


Secondary Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

This guy speaks more truth in two minutes than we get from Obama and many Democratic leaders in months. Yes, the dems are in some ways better than the republicans. But in many ways, they're NOT. And I'm done voting for the lesser of two evils. Done. If that means Obama loses, well, maybe he should have been a better fucking president.

I'll be voting for Anderson, either as a third party candidate on the ballot, or as a write in. Enough is goddamned enough.

Family, friends, all:

Today, Nina Pelletier and Drew Nicholson are proud to announce the very first e-book published by Scriptorum Tantillum, "Letters To My Ten Year Old Self."

If you could write a letter to your 10-year-old self, what advice would you give? Which lessons do you wish you didn’t have to learn the hard way? What message do you feel would have made the greatest impact on your life?

Find out at "Letters To My Ten Year Old Self."

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/95604

To all writers, poets, parents, and people who are over ten years of age:

Nina Pelletier, a friend from G+, and I are starting a new project, and we want your help! Every day, Nina posts a writing prompt for interested people, and today's was particularly evocative.

What would you write if you could write a letter to your ten-year-old self? What encouragements would you give? What would you warn against doing? What nostalgia would you feel?

What are You Doing? Accepting Submissions for a free e-Chapbook

What are You Looking For? 300 word or less letters to your ten year old self. Or stories about people writing a letter to their ten year old self. Or stories in reaction to the letters that others have written to their ten year old selves. Also, we're looking for art that can be used for breaking up pages, or being related to the subject.

When do You Want It? Ideally, as soon as possible. However, we will accept submissions till September 23rd.

How do We Do It? Go here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag53sJnzF2itdGhCUUNfaHZPN21ieHhSVDFhWGY3Z0E&hl=en_US#gid=0 and put in your information. Nina and I will circle you, and update you regularly with information on how, specifically, to submit. Since some people will choose to write stories about other people's letters, we'll be sharing a select group of said letters with the entire group.

What Will You Do With It? When submissions are complete, Nina and I will edit everything. We'll collate everything together into a nice PDF, with a nice cover, and put it up on the internets somewhere for free. People will be encouraged to make a donation, and the money that THEY donate will be donated to a literacy advocacy group. We're taking suggestions on what that group should be.

What if I Have More Questions? Reply to this post, or email us under our profiles! Or email us directly: drewishdrewid AT gmail DOT com and/or ninapowers155 AT gmail DOT com

Let's get started! This could be another really cool collaborative effort!

Looking forward to seeing what you all have to offer:

Nina and Drew

So I don't know if anyone's even still paying attention to this journal; I rarely post here anymore. I'm not entirely sure why that is; I used to go like gangbusters here. But I don't now. One of those things, I guess.

Where -am- I posting a lot? Google Plus. You can find me here: http://gplus.to/dwer and if you need an invitation, let me know in the comments, which I'll screen, because you need to give me an email address to get you there.

The best part about G+? Well, I don't know if the Google exec pushed it, or if it just happened that way, but the number of people I don't know on G+ far exceeds the number of people I do know, and I think I'm interacting with the strangers more than I am my already existing friends. Where do I talk to them? Well, Facebook.

But since I've been on G+, I've joined a Sekrit Arts Project, written 1000 words of an ongoing story, posted a few short blurbs about myself, shared some quite brilliant art and essays, and met about 300 people online. So, in a world where people bemoan the fact that there's no social interaction anymore, G+ is a place where there's MORE interaction than less, because of what we have made of it. Heck, one of the people I met, Christina Trapolino, likes to demure that she's "just" a receptionist, but she's practically running a significant part of the arts community here, and I count myself lucky to have gotten in on the ground floor. Join up, and you'll see what I mean.

And the weirdest thing about it? I've only been on G+ for ten days, which is only slightly less than the most early of non-Google-Employee-early-adopters, and yet it has easily become my favorite website. I'm here more than I'm on GMail, or my favorite Cubs Blog, or Google Reader, or whatever. And I don't know most of the people who will find this in their stream.

G+ isn't facebook. It's not twitter. It's not Deviant Art. It's not Live Journal. It's a combination of parts of all of them, discarding what doesn't work, and shaping what's left into a whole that is greater than the sum of it's parts.

I'm not leaving Live-Journal, and if I can figure out how to post my more unique contributions to it automatically, I'll definitely be doing that. I love LJ for the communities more than anything else. And I'm still on Facebook, here: http://www.facebook.com/drewishdrewid to keep in touch with those who don't convert to G+. But Google+ is taking more and more of my social network time, and I feel like I'm getting more out of it than other places.

Seriously, guys. I've felt more creative in the past ten days than I have for the previous year at least. I'm gonna follow my instincts on this one.

I was going to post this to T_P, but decided I didn't have the energy.

In the past, I have sought donations for various causes, such as donating to the Susan Koman foundation, donating to victims of Hurricane Katrina, and more.

Today, I come with a much more personal request: my wife has family in Joplin, MO, which by now has become a household name as the site of the most deadly tornado since the Weather Service began tracking such things. Several of my inlaws are homeless, living in shelters or with friends as they struggle to recover from the loss of almost all of their possessions. And they are the lucky ones, of course, as 116 people died in the storm.

Laura and I had already planned a trip to the area at the end of June for a family reunion, but now we seek a greater purpose. Right now, the greatest need in the effected areas are for household items like pots and pans, toothpaste and toothbrushes, blankets, shoes, baby food and pet food. I will be collecting these kinds of items for donation at my house in Lombard, IL. Monetary donations are accepted, and will be given to the Red Cross. If you cannot donate, please consider giving blood, since increasing blood supplies all over the country will help deliver blood to those who need it in Joplin and other places that have been hit by these terrible storms.

Donations are accepted at 572 South School Street, Lombard, IL 60148. If you wish to donate money, we can accept cash, checks made out to the Red Cross, or you can pay-pal me the amount (send an email to drewishdrewid@gmail.com) you wish to donate. If you have any questions, please contact me at 708-606-9490 or email me.

Feel free to share this post. I will be driving south on I-55 south to St. Louis, and then west on I-44. Anyone on the way can let me know, and we'll stop and pick up more stuff. Donations will be accepted up through Friday, June 17th.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7359558n%3Ftag%3Dfacebook

Video of the tsunami as it hit. Ponderous, slow, and utterly powerful as it sweeps away nearly everything in its path. You can see everything happen. Michael Bay, take note.

Did you hear? The House voted to bar Planned Parenthood from federal funding. They cut funding for HIV tests, cancer screenings, birth control, and more, putting millions of women and families at risk. We can't let it go unanswered. It's time for you and me to stand with Planned Parenthood. Sign the open letter to the reps who voted for this bill -- and to the senators who still have a chance to stop it.
http://www.istandwithplannedparenthood.org/


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if Obama were really a liberal.

Alan Grayson: The Speech I'd Like to Hear

As it is, I don't think Obama knocked it out of the park, but it was pretty good.

Paul Ryan was mediocre.

Michele Bachmann, sadly, didn't actually go wonko on the screen, but she looked like she'd been punched in the eyes by Tammy Faye Bakker's makeup appliance, and compared the Health Care repeal effort to the war of the Pacific in WWII. Uh, yeah.