This was both an eventful and uneventful period. I probably should have posted a few times in there, but one of the things I'll mention here really ruined my desire to do so. The 21st was a Monday, and marked the start of a bit of drama with a friend. That's been totally worked out to my knowledge, and the matter is settled. However, Monday the 21st was ALSO the start of my latest bout of insomnia. It was one of my longer bouts, and it finally 'broke' yesterday. 14 days of getting 2 to 4 hours of fitful sleep really, really sucks.

The 27th was supposed to be the next Sunday Group meeting, but one of the players was sick so we elected to skip rather than spread the plague.

On the 1st, my dad went into the hospital. He had an intestinal blockage, and was having some pretty severe pain. They checked him out thoroughly, and he went into surgery on the third. It went very well, and while it had been scheduled to last three to four hours he was out in less than one. As it turns out, the blockage was a sort-of skin flap- damage left from when he had a burst appendix as a little kid. So this problem has been around for more than sixty years, and just finally became dangerous.

However, despite the surgery itself going well, the recovery was NOT so good. He had a fairly severe reaction to some of the drugs used, and was disoriented and hallucinating to the point of violence. Now my dad is in his late seventies, but he's STILL a big guy- it took multiple orderlies to restrain him. To make it worse, he couldn't wear his C-Pap machine, so he basically wasn't sleeping for days on end. Fortunately, by Saturday the 5th he was fine, though wobbly. He actually looks better than he has for some time. I expect he'll be released in the next few days.

Saturday was the second run of the Dresden game, and that went well. I think it'll be a fun game, even though I have to agree that the rules at times are overwritten and are badly organized. His comment was that 'they read like stereo instructions!' For the food, I made from-scratch pancakes which were actually pretty good, other than the fact that I made easily twice as much batter as I needed. I think I still have one meal's worth left.

Sunday I saw Dad again in the morning, and other than getting REAL sick of the hospital he was fine. The insomnia finally broke, and I slept pretty well after I got home. Of course, it was also the anniversary of my losing Luna; never a good day for me.

I've got a bunch of writing for the various games to do- two Old West runs and the Horror run for the Sunday Group, and I'm going to try and turn my notes from the Dresden game into something readable as well. On top of that I've started a new series of short stories called 'The Believers'. They're urban fantasy effectively, and I think I might have something publishable in these. :)

That's about it for recent events.

In the wikifur journal I posted a little comment on a group of spammers who were trying to 'flood' the site with spam or something. Below is my post.

"Lessee... I've been a 'furry' for... wow. A long time. (grin) Twenty or more years. I'm not gay. Wonder if these poor mammaboy-basement-dwelling fanboy stereotypes have figgered out that 'gay' and/or 'furry' aren't insults anymore, really, and that they're furries too if they ever enjoyed the following: Rocky & Bullwinkle, the Warner Bros. cartoons, Tom & Jerry and the rest of the Hannah-Barbera characters, the Disney characters, the Chronicles of Narnia, any of a VAST amount of science fiction and fantasy, sports mascots... and the list goes on. Furry doesn't mean porn, thought there certainly is a LOT of furry porn.

Then again, there are a thousand non-furry porn images out there for every furry porn image. And I think a lot of those are MUCH worse than the imagined images in furry.

Furry is also not bestiality and/or zoophilia. Not that these dear children really could fathom that.

Here's a trick- try getting your jollies by doing something NOT aimed at hurting someone else. That MIGHT be a bit more socially acceptable, and a bit less 'worthless nerd'."

I received one supportive comment, then (as I get email when a response is posted) I got THIS gem:


"You think furry is not an insult, only because you yourself don't 'accept' it as one. Think of it as, let's say, Hitler or Stalin - they considered themselves to be completely just and rightful, but did everyone else?

I hope you see my point. Furry."

Some people really don't have a clue. I responded with the below post. We'll see what happens- Personally, I'm kinda amused. ;)

"Interesting. One of those lovelies who I referred to above just posted the following to me:

(Message above quoted here)

Of course, it was posted anonymously. Which kinda makes my point.

And for the dear child who posted this- I'd maybe take you seriously if you had the stones to post it publicly. And comparing me to Hitler and Stalin? You ARE the comedian! Please. I like collecting artwork. NOT porn, for your information. And I like the conventions for socializing with long-distance friends. I really don't see how that makes me 'bad'.

Mostly, you come across pretty much like one of those sheet-wearing loons in the KKK. Bigoted for no reason, and ignorant."

Its his serve.