Happy Thanksgiving

First of all, in accordance with our most ancient and sacred traditions:

And while your family is eating dry turkey and you’re arguing with Aunt Ruth about whether trans people deserve to be able to pee in public or not, my family is doing this:

One day

One day, I will write a coherent and interesting blog post. I was hoping that day would be today, after several days of bleh.

But after driving home from Chicago and spending … what, two? let’s go with two– hours grading, all I want to do is dissolve into a puddle in front of my PS5 right now.

We did go to the Lego store on the way home from Cary and I managed to get out of there without demolishing my bank account, so that’s good. It’s a really neat store. I mean, you can already kinda imagine what’s in there, but still. If I buy much more Lego I’m going to have to invest in a storage and display solution of some sort and that’s not happening, Goddammit, so we aren’t buying any more expensive sets for a while.

(Thank God they didn’t have the huge Star Destroyer set in stock, so I didn’t have to decide not to buy it. I think it’s discontinued by now.)

While I’m kvetching: does anyone think this is legit?

Christmas Eve

The boy is watching the My Little Pony Christmas special, as is traditional.

Outside, all the trees are blooming, as is also trad–

 

Wait.

 

Fuck.

A promo and a pretty

Having accomplished healthy exercise and destruction of wind-downed plant life and a shower and lunch already today, allow me to remind you that 1) You can earn yourself a free copy of my novel SKYLIGHTS once it’s released by buying (and telling me you downloaded) my novella THE BENEVOLENCE ARCHIVES, VOL. 1  for just $2.99 today, or 2) you can wait until tomorrow, at which point it becomes free for the next three days.  Either way, you get something for free!

And now have a flower from my backyard.

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