Quote from A.M. Holmes

“He’d see the body on the bed, the plastic tubing, the thin blue water matress that keeps Paul constantly moving.  He’d see Paul, eyes open, looking nowhere, the body twisted, or more untwisted like a pretzel undone.  He’d see it all and drop everything.  He’d run from our house not wanting to take anything, not wanting to hold anything that had been touched by the magic of the living dead.”
Esther in the Night

Demands of a Character

You’ll have to forgive me, I’m about to have a geek moment. Don’t worry, they aren’t contagious.
 
I’ve mentioned before that I play World of Warcraft. I’m on a role-play server, because I’ve been a role-player almost my entire life. (I think I started playing D&D before I was even 10.) Anyway, what I’ve always loved about these games was the creation and development of your character.
 
Recently, I have been forced to acknowledge the fact that my character has hit a wall. She can not develop past one of the fundamental aspects of her character. Which means, I should look at trying to find a way to get around it.
 
Which means, re-creating the character from level one. I would need to start as a different race and class. It’s not necessarily a bad thing.
 
But this is my only level sixty character. Until the expansion comes out, level sixty is the highest there is. And I won’t be able to play her if I leave the original version around, because I just don’t work that way. They’ve introduced paid character transfers, so I won’t have to delete the original character, but it’s still a hard pill to swallow. I will have to stop playing, at the very least for about 6 months, my only level sixty.
 
Not that it matters, I suppose. I’ll do it, because the requirements of the character are important enough to me to make the effort and the sacrifice.
 
Darn.

Quote from Spider Robinson

“My counterpart is, I agree with you, rotten.  I knew him only for the half hour it took him to shanghai me into stepping through his damned Bridge, but in retrospect I don’t believe I’ve ever met a more classic sociopath.  I, on the other hand, like to think of myself as… well, as one of the good guys, and I believe I’ve conducted myself honorably throughout this affair.”
Mirror/rorriM, Off the Wall

Quote from William R. Maples

“I have gazed on the face of death innumerable times, witnessed it in all its grim manifestations.  Death has no power to freeze my heart, jangle my nerves or sway my reason.  Death to me is no terror of the night but a daylit companion, a familiar condition, a process obedient to scientific laws and answerable to scientific inquiry.”
Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Listening: Something to Be by Rob Thomas

Something to Be
by Rob Thomas

Includes:

  • This Is How A Heart Breaks
  • Ever the Same
  • When the Heartache Ends
  • Streetcorner Symphony

( Click to read more at Amazon.ca )

Quote from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be attained by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it.”
A Study in Scarlet

Summer Schedule posted

The Summer Schedule has been posted at Integration Pilates.

Quote from Anne McCaffrey

“Then she was falling into hands, hands that seized her and held her down, down, down, forcing her into the vortex that reached out to envelop her and she descended, unchecked into the awful spinning, mind-wrenching blackness.”
The Rowan