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I had an amazingly good time, compared to previous trips. My nephews are now old enough to behave themselves and not fight, at least while I'm around. X is just entering High School, and Roo is a little behind him. Roo is in a rock band, and they've actually had public performances; I heard them rehearse a little, and they actually were making music. Not my kind of music, granted, but pretty impressive for twelve-year-olds. X works in a bike shop, is a vegetarian, and I'm pretty sure badger would think he's the cutest thing ever with his nerdy hornrim glasses and mohawk (I didn't get to see it gelled up to its full glory, but he was planning on wearing it that way to school today to see if he could get away with it). As for my mom and grandmother, least said, soonest mended.

The best part of the trip was, as usual, getting to see badger, rook, and russet, and playing rpgs with them. I guested in rook's buffy game as a demonic stockbroker, and that was a complete blast. I think I played his English as a bit more broken than rook intended, but I had fun and the other players seemed to enjoy it. Zamber's amber game on Sunday was also a lot of fun, and I definitely would be up for her running some more of that if we ever get another opportunity.

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Is it evil to wish your aged relatives would hurry up and die? 'Cause after spending some time with my 94-year-old grandmother this trip, that's what I was thinking. She sure doesn't seem to be getting much enjoyment out of life.

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Trying out Adium for my cross-service IM needs on OS X. Now that I've upgraded to Tiger, Fire crashes on startup. There's probably a newer version that doesn't have that problem, but I'm not that fond of Fire, so it seems like a good time to check out the competition.

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Harry Potter Dating Sim

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who's called over a dozen times in the past day, including at around midnight last night, calls again, I asked badger how to say

"This is the wrong number"

No es el numero correcto

"No matter how many times you call, it still won't be the right number"

Usted puede llamar hasta el infierno se congelara, pero ya no estara el numero

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The post I wrote about blogging about blogging being the most boring thing ever still hasn't scrolled of the front page as I write this. But, you know, if I can't be boring on this, my most personal and intimate of blogs, then what's the point of having it? If this is for anything, it's a place for me to jot down things that I may want to remember later; it's notes for my future self, not an attempt to reach an audience. I've got other blogs for presenting ideas to the public, such as it is.

It's not like anyone reading this blog expects to be entertained, you know?

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The results of my experiment in concentrating on one blog are as follows:

It didn't make a difference. The best predictor of whether I post to any of my blogs is whether I posted anywhere in the past twenty-four hours. If I write a blog post, I'm more likely to write another; it doesn't seem to matter whether the post was to the same blog or not.

So it appears that if I want to keep blogging, the best way is to just keep blogging, to keep the momentum, rather than worrying whether the nonexistant readership of any of the blogs is getting any satisfaction.

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