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I was briefly the #1 Google result for "email tarot" today. But a few hours later that "Tarot by Jeanne" was back on top and I sunk down to my usual position around the #8 range. I did get a screencap of my short-lived conquerie though!

Other news, I reduced the prices on a couple of my books, because they weren't selling. I...
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Happy New Year! Here's hoping the twenty-teens go (even) better than the twenty-zeros.

I think my resolution for the year is that I will finish making that translation of Sullivan.

Christmas didn't go too badly, yaay! We did the usual trip to my aunt's house, which is kind of unpleasant (to explain that she lives in a trailer that has a chandelier hanging from the ceiling tells the kind of place this is.) But, this year my dad had to work on Christmas night, so we didn't get stuck there for hours on end --...
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Almost all of my Christmas shopping is now done. I just need to think of something to get for my grandmother's 34 year old non-English-speaking husband, which is a chore as you can imagine. He likes, as far as I can tell, beer and cigarettes. Unfortunately I do not think there is time before Christmas for me to brew for him cigarette flavored beer (I...
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Today I ate acetone bread. God knows how acetone got into the bread, but my dad made some sandwiches for lunch and both my mom and I began eating them, and went "Eww! These taste like nail polish remover!" My dad couldn't sense it and seemed to think we were just being gripers and overreacting (perhaps because he is less familiar with nail polish remover...
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I don't think I'm going to be able to make the new book. The computer has taken up an unfortunate habit of not saving the changes I make to the file, and not saving the file either -- I have to do one of those "search all files" to find it and can only seem to find it in the 'autosave' cache with the stupid...
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I am working on a new book. I was trying to pick something easy, but then I got the idea to add illustrations. That's always a pain -- they take forever, you have to scan them or (slower still) draw them on the computer. It's much faster to slap down a coat of paint than to use that "fill" option and then have to go...
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Well, my dreams of being finished with the dentist are dashed. Today that filling I got in about 6 months ago when one of my molars disintegrated went and broke. I wonder if the dentist fucked it up on purpose when I was there 3 days ago to make sure I'd have to go back.

My fillings are fulfilled! Hopefully no more worrying about dentists for a long time after this. Yaaaay!

Other news:

- Have most of my Xmas shopping already done. Got to buy presents for my cousin, niece, and maybe my grandmother's husband who is about 10 years older than I am and doesn't speak much English (gee, wonder why he's hard to shop for?) The companies...
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UPDATES:

Finally got more dentist money together, will be going in early December hopefully to get those fillings I've been needing.

Added new section to Amazon Associates store in which I improvised as best I could some occult supplies out of the standard stock. Managed to actually find some neat stuff -- makes me wish I could buy from my own store. Link: http://astore.amazon.com/talstar-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=4

Sending...
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