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Lava Lamps

13 Saturday Dec 2014

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music, musings

Music isn’t really about melodies, notes or lyrics.  Sure, those are an important part of the songs.  For some people, they might even be the most important parts.  But music has this remarkable ability to transport you from wherever you are to wherever you first noticed a song.

You could be cleaning the kitchen and suddenly transported back to the dance floor of a wedding, ready to rock the best you can in a white dress.

Or sitting at a computer in the dead of winter, and sent back to a summer campfire, watching the sparks fly.

You might be driving home from work, and find yourself back in your aunt and uncle’s living room, sneaking off to play in the attic.

A misplaced Christmas tune could send you from sunny fall to a frozen lake past midnight.

You might be alone in universe, yet surrounded by a thousand concert goers screaming the same lyrics.

Or you might even end up back in your parent’s basement with kool-aid jammers, sleeping bags and your best friends.

Lava lamps are still good.

The Escape

09 Tuesday Dec 2014

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musings, society

I’ve always wondered if it was possible to just opt out of society. We have all these rules in place, from federal law right down to social etiquette, telling us how to act, what to pay, and what we can and cannot not do. Practically inescapable in this era, really, but these laws were really a recent thing.

Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world, and yet we’re also extremely under-populated. I’ve heard once you get far enough north, you stop even having roads to travel on, and you need planes to get to the towns. The idea fascinates me, that there might just be an edge to the “civilized” world. The backup plan has always been to go find that edge and just start walking.

It shouldn’t take much to start from scratch. If you don’t have bills, you don’t need a job. Money is only good if other people have what you need. A good spot away from prying eyes and it can’t be that hard to build a shelter and grow a garden. All it needs is time.

Really, the whole plan comes down to time. And money, but the two are really interchangeable. Society has built this strange catch 22 for us all. We have a thousand ways to save time, but they all cost money. The only way to get money is to have a job, so that in the end, you’re spending all your money to save time, and spending all your time to make money.

The rest of the world can keep it’s imaginary numbers and squares of coloured paper. I’ll pay for my goods in hours and minutes.

Temporary Hiatus

18 Friday Jul 2014

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Camp NaNoWriMo, NaNoWriMo, Novel writing

So, I’ve been bad about posting new content here lately, thought it was worth it to post a reason. I’ve been busy doing Camp NaNoWriMo this month. NaNoWriMo, for those who don’t know, is a yearly event that happens in November, where writers try to write 50k words in a month. Camp NaNoWriMo is a less serious version of that, where you set your own goal and get cabin mates to help cheer you along.

Which means this month, I’ve been writing stories for a novel! Which is cool, but doesn’t lead itself well to posting it up here. Next month, when I start editing some of these stories, I’ll be sure to start posting them up here!

Organization and schedules and tropes, Oh my!

15 Tuesday Apr 2014

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I’ve had this writing blog for a few weeks now, so it seems like a good time to start formally organizing some details.  First up, I’ve started actually naming some of the ongoing stories I have, under their Category title.  Which means that TropeDay is now chilling under the new title, “Drums of War”.  I’ll probably go back and change older posts to match this title.  In the same vein, “Witching Time” is now also an ongoing story, though I’m not sure how regularly the updates will come.

Secondly, I’ve managed to actually create a buffer for the TropeDay/Drums of War story.  Which means that I’m going to actually set this one aside to regularly update.  Officially, I’m making Trope Day update on Tuesdays at midnight, but since there was already a story posted earlier, this week it’ll actually update tomorrow at midnight (In about 5 hours).  I’ll probably also stop adding commentary to the end of the stories as well.

Still trying to think up a better name for “A Pokemon Story”, but that’s another basket of worms.  I’ve also added the “Odds and Ends” category for stories that are unlikely to be continued.  It’s worth noting though, most of my stories become ongoing when someone tells me they want to hear more.  So if you’re disappointed that something is categorized “Odds and Ends”, well, let me know.

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