I forgot to put this up in the last post, sorry for not getting it up sooner. Here's the current list of submissions for the Lizardman Soda Jerk Challenge, listed in the order I received them. The thumbnail thing is a new TheO feature that caught me by surprise, so, here you go.
Since those links aren't my own coding, I doubt they'll open up in a new window, so don't forget to come back here when you're done looking at the pieces. They are all great submissions so far, I'd like to see a few more if anyone out there is interested in trying.
Oh, I'll have something special up in the next day or so, well, two something specials anyway. Look for them when you can.
Comments:
Breakfast Squid
Yeah, I'm making good progress on this draft, I still have two points to cover, but I've wrapped the "hanging" point yesterday and now am only 36 pages away from my draft page goal. Let me tell you, if I go over my goal, or fall short of it, I'll still be happy with it because I've come close to it. The Pixia stuff will get worked in when I'm not feeling up to writing a whole lot.
It got warmer here yesterday actually, close to 50°F which is fine by me. It's not hard to keep a room warm with weather like that, unlike 15° weather when heaters run for hours without kicking off. Later on in winter (Jan-Feb) 30° weather would be average, but for December, I think the average is 40-50°
Yensid:
I'm the freak who says snow is the only thing that makes cold tolerable actually, so no snow, and I don't like the cold. :P The cold wouldn't be so bad if the winds weren't blowing, that's what cuts you to the core, the wind chill. Interesting enough, I've been getting headaches too, and my ear's been itching so I know some weather is on the way toward me, but what, I can't say. The ear just says it's coming.
Yeah, I'm keeping busy. That reminds me I still have to get you that Lily photo so you can work with it. I'll try to have that done as soon as possible.
alphonse13:
Yeah, it is good for me that I'm that close to the page goal anyway, that doesn't necessarily mean I'm close to being done, but it means I'm on track.
Bien, la vérité de la matière est, toute la recette n'est pas que grand ainsi j'ai dû la tordre pour travailler, et toujours fini vers le haut avec trop de tranches de pain pour enduire du mélange. Just routine cooking stuff for me anyway.
Cold and wind with no snow bugs me.
Yep, and there's a lot science doesn't understand about earth's very own "Final Frontier" in terms of the way animals move and so on. Without champions of the sea like Jacques Cousteau around anymore, the seas will unfortunately be neglected, and animals like the shark will continue to be misunderstood.
I read about that eel thing in my search the other day, that's a fascinating story. I should get on the WV angle just to see if anything other than Mothman turns up.
sikaurai
No thanks. Oh, I saw a study the other day saying that Minnesota is the healthiest state, congrats on that.
I'd tell you the "guys stranded in the desert" story, but I don't think you'd laugh. Look at it this way, at least you've got the rest of the car, when I need to get somewhere and no one's around, I have to walk, rain, shine, cold, or hot.
And since it's formatted for the printing size, there won't be any surprises later in terms of page count discrepancies. It's a milestone for me that was a long time in coming. I'd love to see the look on the face of that twit from the Sentor's office when I do get this thing in the publishing phase. Payback's a real b[Censored]h sometimes.
Magnus Lensherr
Maybe, I won't know till I'm done, but I won't discount the possibility.
It's not normal to have warm weather in winter here, I'd just like it to snow for a month (or three) so the cold is worth having around. I'd like to have snow on Christmas for a change too.
I can't really comment on that one, to each his or her own I guess.
No, the lack of visits doesn't get to me, the updates that I can't comment on does. Those video clips are nice and all, but I'd like to see more to a post than that kind of thing since my computer doesn't always want to play those videos. It means I can't comment if I can't get the video to load or play. I don't want to post all the time saying the vid isn't loading, that's a bit rude.
Yeah, there's another one. I'll have to read it just to get to know the story. The only thing is, the book put the three plays in the wrong order, they started with Antigone, then did the other two which is annoying. I don't think they were written in that order, so they should have been put chronologically.
A few reasons actually. Besides being one the the best "creepy" places on the planet, they are England's equivalent to the Pine Barrens of NJ (where the Leeds Devil is said to reside - never really been there myself, but I'm not sure I want to go), and they are the setting of one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes stories of all time The Hound of the Baskervilles too. I have this thing with desolation also, I like to see bits of nature that are devoid of of human life sometimes, it's easier to hear Mother Nature when no human distractions are around.
Poison Fangs
That's all right, you get around when you can. I missed a couple updates a short while back myself. Thanks, it's actually coming along pretty good right now. I have 36 pages to reach my page count goal as of the time I'm writing this, and still two main points to cover, so I'm in no danger of falling overly short, though I may not actually hit 150 in this draft. Oh well, even coming close will make me, and Emeril puts it "Happy happy happy."
