Do you? Really? A geek? Or maybe you think you're a mundane, a normy, one of the cool kids.

Well, lets see.

If your house burned down, would you call your insurance company or fight the firefighters holding you back from running into the burning building while you scream, "Lemme go! There's a Frank Miller Dark Knight Returns signed in gold in there!"

If some one said, "Hey, that's a nice Gazebo." Do you reply, "Why yes it is." or "I attack the Gazebo!"

If someone points "A blue canary!" do you instantly sing, "Hidden over by the light switch who watches over you!" or do you say, "Canaries don't come in blue."

If someone says, "Roll a d20" do you roll a 20 sided die or do you say, "Wait, do I get pluses for the bard singing?"

If pie means 3.14159265358979323846, and you knew that off the top of your head, and you're thinking, that's pi, doofus, and at no time did the words, apple, cherry or cobbler pop into your head.

Well? How did you do. Still not sure?
Well, here's the final question.

Are you reading this journal?

Then you are a geek.

Yes, accept it. You're a geek. You may not have your own custom latex Vulcan ears (or think it's funny to have latex Vulcan ears... Get it? Latex vs Vulcanized rubber? Never mind) or your own copy of Bored of the Rings, but you know someone who does and that makes you a geek by default.

A true geek must have the geek accouterments, a copy of Advanced Dungeon's and Dragon's DM guide, a Franklin Mint One Ring to Rule them All, and a Calendar geeks

Here to explain it to you is zephyrofgod

Calender Geeks

So, there you have it. You're a geek, accept it, you'll never be one of the cool kids and deep down inside, you don't want to be. Order your Geek Girls Calender now,
Calender Geeks
And embrace your geekness.

I suggest for 2010, anneheart for literary geek, fallingblossom for grammar geek, abandonada for fan geek, goodkarma75 for D&D chick, st_alix for elvish archer geek, susquehanna for computer geek, moldavite_sofa for library geek, softpaw for fairy geek, h3salthea for crazy dragon lady geek, ladyshrew for Shakespeare geek, kagetsunami for geek girl we all afraid off, and xgreenjudasx for fighter geek.

Current Mood: Tii many martoonies
Current Music: I lost my lucky ball and chain

Thank you all for your suggestions for skunk names. You were all quite clever. kagetsunami has voted and the winner is,

Rikki, Tikki and Tavi.

A tie between lyonessnyc and warriorartist.

Everyone's suggestions were wonderful! Thank you all.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: A boy named Sue.

It was a day to prepare for war. Blankets of stifling heat combined with breath stealing humidity and a turbulent sky that threatened to storm every five minutes, a little thunder off in the distance for good measure.

In the shade of a tree, I met with Gerulf and I proposed to him a challenge. A most difficult and dangerous challenge. Wear my baldric and become my student, learn and train and serve my household (which right now is inclusive of me and that's about it) and I will teach him what humble skills that I have to be a weapon of mass destruction on the battlefield, and a good gentle of his majesties court.

(I'm the one wearing the Viagra hat)

Gerulf has accepted my challenge and has become my squire.

I was going to sign the deal by drinking Sake, but I decided that booze and heat was a bad combination.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: I was born on the list field,

It has been sometime since Kipling brought out her babies for us to see. We named the babies Mougli and Kim.

Well, today, she threw us another curve ball. It was like reality TV without the TV, or reality.

Kipling didn't have two kits.



She has five!



They romped around the yard, playing and galumphing and looking so disgustingly cute that we stood outside, ignoring the swarms of mosquitoes to watch them crawl under the deck, right below our feet. We were filled with joy and fear we were about to get sprayed. Baby Skunks are born fully loaded, don'cha know.

Here's something we've learned: Big fun in the Skunk world is to jump on Mamma's back.



I'm sorry that my poor little camera wasn't up to the job, but p'raps dreamtech can stop by sometime...

So anyway, here's where you come in.

We need three more names. We have Rudyard (Papa, who was also out there, keeping guard. That made 7 skunks on our lawn), Kipling (Mama) Mougli and Kim. See a pattern? We need three more names and you can't use a name of someone who dies (Bad mojo)

Poll #1214017 Let's name some Skunks!
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What would you name three adorable skunks?

kagetsunami will then pick the winnahs!

Thank you.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Come and play! Everything's a okay!

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Current Mood: busy
Current Music: I don't have digital, I don't have diddly squat

As some of you may have heard,
Sir diablu Black Knight of the Eastern Court
has been hospitalized for an onset of Diabetes which very nearly took his life. After a long and harrowing hospital stay, he will be returning home soon and I would like to fill his den with well wishes to help him on his long road to recovery. It is my wish to cross pole arms with this formidable opponent once again. Please send a get well card to this good Knight and help me welcome him home and a very speedy return to the battle field. His address is,

Dwayne Herron
3300 #127 Palmer Ave
Bronx N.Y. 10475

Thank you,
YIS

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Steeleye Span

how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen

Current Mood: crappy
Current Music: Who let the dogs out?

I wonder if he got his two minutes?

Current Mood: bummed
Current Music: Two minutes, get your shit together

This weekend I did a bunch of little things that I usually don't get a chance to do.

I finished putting knocks and points on my new arrows. I've been practicing heavily and I have the blister on my ring finger to prove it. Even through my deer skin glove. Ouch.

I started work on converting Law of Shadows into a Rich File for emt_hawk. Wasn't as easy as I had hoped. But I gave it a good start.

I updated my web page with the latest edition of Shard's Tactics, the first chapter to Shard's Thugs.

It's come to my attention, that some of you on my f-list hasn't read Shard's Tactics. You should. It's only 11 pages long and you will laugh out loud. If you don't laugh out loud at least once, I'll refund your money, no, double back your money. My guarantee. Don't believe me? Ask photodharma. He's been waiting two years for the rest of the story.

Scanned more photos, cleaned up the room, worked on my new novel, title still pending, and beat kagetsunami's high score on Bejeweled.

In about an hour I'm going out to eat with goodkarma74 and kagetsunami. It's an impromptu thing, I don't know where yet, but you can all join us if you like.

It was a good day.

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: So wake up the members of my nation

We named our resident skunk, Kipling. A black and white dust mop patrolled our yard and on occasion, rustled about in the dry leaves blown under the deck. He galumphed through the field, ungainly and silly and happy as could be.

Yesterday, right about dinner time, as we saw the distinct white fuzzy tail make his way from the scrub, I noticed something about Kipling.

He had, in tow, two tiny little dust mops.

So, we discovered that, Kipling was a girl and that girl had babies and that baby skunks are cute! They were climbing on her back and falling off and all in all not paying attention to what she was trying to show them which to us looked like how to properly patrol the yard.

We have named them Mougli and Kim.

Meanwhile, I have sent Shard off to Jim Baen to see what he thinks of it. He uses electronic submissions which I think proves a little easier than U.S. Snail. Let's hope Jim likes it more that Pat did. I suspect that because of new regulations in New York, Pat never got the thing. Sigh.

Current Mood: surprised
Current Music: Dear Sir or madam would you read my book