I once saw a bum cooking a leather shoe over a fire. Mmm... sole food.

I am experiencing a larger than normal number of distractions at work today, so I may ramble a bit more than usual in this post.  If I get time later I'm going to lift a meme from funos.

It is a messy, muddy, slushy morning in this prairie town.  It doesn't look like it's going to improve much either; they're calling for snow or freezing sleet today, and snow & flurries right through the weekend.  While I'm enjoying the balmy temperatures (+1 today), the driving conditions should improve by Sunday when it dips into -20 range.  It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas - which is a good thing, since Christmas is less than two weeks away.

[Mental note to self: begin preliminary Christmas shopping.]

We did a run through Scarlet Monastery on the weekend and atara took a group photo at the end.  (I'm the one located bottom-right in the picture.)

atara pointed something out awhile back in the game, and I have since encountered it myself; a set of identical robes looks different when worn by a male character or a female character.  The other day I picked up some robes for my priestess, which are identical to some robes that I found for my warlock on another server.  On him they were traditional wizardly robes (without the prerequisite stars and moons, mind you), but when I put them on my priestess, those selfsame dowdy, floor-length robes turned into a halter top.

Welcome to the fantasy world of chain mail bikinis.

[Another mental note to self: begin work on this year's Plonqmas story.]

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I stole this one from funos

  1. My username is ____ because ____.

My username is plonq because [...]

... because my old moniker (Snowcat) was already claimed by somebody else when I signed up for an account on FurryMuck, and I had to come up with a new name on short notice.  I decided to go with a really stupid name that wasn't likely to be taken, and plonq was the first thing that popped into my head.

  2. My journal is titled _______ because ____.

My journal is titled "and things went downhill from there" because I am a twisted, cynical individual.  The name is actually a little poke at LJ, and at the LJ Community as a whole.  My impression of the community is that the average contributer is an angst-ridden 14-year-old whose average journal entry starts with the sentence, "Today started out awful, and things went downhill from there."

  3. My subtitle is ____ because ____.

My subtitle is "(a desperate plea for fish)" because I felt like adding that as a subtitle.  It is a good subtitle.  I like fish.

  4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

My friends page is called "My favourite stalkers." for the same reasons as outlined above; I like fish.

  5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

My default userpic is from a con badge that I commissioned at CACE a couple of years back because I think it embraces my inner plonq.  He's just a harmless, goofy little snow leopard who doesn't let a lack of talent or coherence stand in the way of his enthusiasm for writing.

"Here you are.  It's my magnum opus."
"Plonq, this is just a badly-drawn picture of that penguin from Bloom County holding a big bottle of wine."
"A magnum, actually."

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