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Eeep! And I'm neglecting my dragons. Does anybody who cares want to click on them so I don't kill them off again? :)



So...I'm still being a twit on Twitter with this The Stand thing. If you don't want to follow all of us-- there are a lot of characters-- you can follow the feed here. I got yet another direct message from a reader today pretty much saying wow you guys are good and asking how we were doing it. He wanted to know if we were sending emails to one another off-line (aka back channeling) or if we lived close and knew one another. I told him that we didn't know one another and we've sent maybe two or three direct messages, but most of it was improvised. We take our cues from the other players. Personally, I don't think it's as hard as what it looks. You read the relevant parts of the novel, try to get a sense of what that character is like, and then you attempt to react how they would react. It's also easy to bullshit in 140 characters or less. And even then, I'm not always taking things seriously. I've thrown in a bunch of song references, Buffy references, Ghostbusters quotes, and even a Dollhouse reference just for giggles. (Too bad I couldn't work in a Star Wars one on Monday, huh?) One tweet that a few people seemed to like was, "Am I crazy? Am I dreamin'? Am I marrying a demon? We could really raise the beam in makin' marriage a hell...." For those of you unfamiliar with the story, Nadine Cross eventually ends up shacking up with the Anti-Christ, and let's just say that things don't turn out so hot for her. I was listening to the Buffy musical on the way to the grocery store and thought, "Oh my God! I can totally use this and it will be very very silly."

Other than that, not much has been going on. I got a ton of work done today because this weekend is going to be pretty busy. doomsey and I are going to see a play tomorrow, and we're spending Sunday at my folk's house. Today, I also took doomsey's car in for an oil change, and waited around for the plumber to come and do the last inspection of the sewer line.

Hmm...one of these days I need to figure out what plants I'm putting in my garden, and get them in there. Maybe Monday? I think forestdruid has some tomato plants he was planning to give us too.

Hey! I've been neglecting LJ a bit over the past couple of days because I was busy playing on Twitter and doing real life stuff. (By the way, I love whoever made this feed. It makes things so much easier to keep track of...And I still think it's hysterical that they posted about us on Wired). I finally caught up on LJ this evening.

Yesterday, we had the sewer line re-lined, and had to stay elsewhere overnight while it set. Yesterday afternoon, doomsey found out that the plumbers we hired laid twenty-two feet of the liner under the patio and only two feet under the tree. We bought thirty feet of liner, but they only used twenty-six. This was not what we had agreed upon when we signed the contract. The contract states that they would put fifteen feet of liner under the patio and another fifteen feet by the tree. doomsey was uncomfortable with the fact that they only put two feet of liner by the tree. He's afraid that the tree roots can get in around the section they reinforced and create more havoc with the sewer line. doomsey talked with the person organizing everything, and he agreed to knock a couple hundred dollars of the price and give us a ten year warranty on the work back there.

And last, but not least, I wandered over to Dragon Cave and picked up new eggs. Please click!

Ding! You have new mail.
"So-and-so is now following you on Twitter."
Ding! You have new mail.
"So-and-so is now following you on Twitter."
Ding! You have new mail.
"So-and-so is now following you on Twitter."

Heh heh. That's what I get for creating an account called @Nadine_Cross and trolling @VegasWalkinDude (Randall Flagg) on Twitter. This is fun actually, kind of like role playing. Oh...and I now have @glenbateman, @LeadDealer (Roland Deschain), @Nick_Andros, @motherabigail (Abigail Freemantle), and @VegasWalkinDude all following me on Twitter. I think there's also a Tom Cullen floating around out there. Now, we could really use a Frannie Goldsmith and a TrashCanMan. And let's not forget Larry "Baby, can you dig your man?" Underwood. Hey, it's The Stand, Twitter style! What can I say? It's certainly better than constantly refreshing the news to find out how many cases of Captain Trips swine flu are in the Chicago area.

By the way, did I mention that, after my pulmonary embolism, I was telling jokes to the nurses on my way up to the ICU? I guess that's just how I roll, take something serious and turn it into a joke.



Ding! You have new mail.
"Harold Lauder is now following you on Twitter."