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I'm excited to participate in the cover reveal for Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope. This is an adult fantasy romance. Song of Blood and Stone officially releases January 13, 2015.
The cover of Song of Blood and Stone was designed by James T. Egan at Bookfly Design.
About the Book:
Between love and duty lies destiny
Orphaned and alone, Jasminda is an outcast in her homeland of Elsira, where she is feared for both the shade of her skin and her magical abilities. When ruthless soldiers seek refuge in her isolated cabin, they bring with them a captive – an injured spy who steals her heart.
Jack's mission behind enemy lines nearly cost him his life but he is saved by the healing power of a mysterious young woman. Together they embark on a perilous journey straight into the heart of a centuries-old conflict.
Thrust into a hostile society, Jasminda and Jack must rely on one another even as secrets jeopardize their bond. As an ancient evil gains power, Jasminda races to unlock a mystery that promises salvation.
The fates of two nations hang in the balance as Jasminda and Jack must choose between love and duty to fulfill their destinies and end the war.
Guest Post: Respecting the Muse
People frequently ask authors where their ideas come from. The muse, that creative force responsible for inspiring artists, is oftensaid to be fickle. Mine can sometimes be an outright jerk. Like a toddler who can't decide which toy to play with, my muse throws fits and tantrums, and just might have ADD.
When she's on her good behavior, she tends to show up in the most unexpected ways. I got the idea for one manuscript frommy husband who challenged me to write a "black, female, Napoleon Dynamite." The result bore no resemblance to that film or character, but it was a great starting point.
Another story features a character whose psychic ability manifests via smell. The idea for this one came from my own life. I sometimes smell things that don't belong, but are recognizable. Like the scent of my late grandmother's closets, or my late father's cologne, or ––even stranger–– mothballs. The scents are fleeting, but I wonder if they could be messages of some kind. In that story, my character can tell that something bad is going to happen to the person she smells, but she doesn't know what or when.
The idea for Song of Blood & Stone was born late one night as I was binge-watching movies on Netflix. I was in my Jamie Bell period, watching and re-watching anything I could with him in it. My stroke of inspiration came during the movie The Eaglewhen his character, Esca, first appears on screen. He's a slave in ancient Rome, entering a fight against a much larger and well-armed gladiator. Esca doesn't look scared even though he's outmatched. He looks pissed. http://makeagif.com/i/GEscaw This is the exact expression that Jack wears the second time he and Jasminda meet in Song of Blood & Stone. About six seconds of film was enough to set my imagination on fire. The next day I started writing.
So, what inspires you? How does your muse behave? My muse definitely has a mind of her own. And even when she's erratic, I'm always grateful for the sparks of inspiration no matter how they come.
Guest Post: Reality Bites
When people think of fantasy, many immediately bring to mindto a medieval setting - castles and dragons, wizards and elves. While that time period and those archetypes are certainly very common, thanks in large part to the influence of Tolkien, there are so many other options for creating a fantasy world.
Worldbuilding is my favorite part of fantasy, both as a reader and a writer. I love to see how an author has conceived of the political, economic, social and religious systems in their world and how those structures link with the characters and plot. As a reader, I'm hungry for new and different backdrops, societies and mythologies. With an entire planet full of cultures to draw from and thousands of years of human history in which to place stories, sometimes it's hard to understand why diverse settings are not more frequently created.
Song of Blood & Stone takes place in what I like to call an alternate 1920's-esque world. The technology of that time period is present: cars, phones, and electricity; but there is also magic, called Earthsong, which is possessed by one group. This world has undergone centuries of war, and there is a deep divide filled with mistrust and fear between those who wield magic and those who don't.
The story could really take place in any era, the technology is not the focus, but the early twentieth-century type time periodjust felt right for these events and characters. It wasn't really a conscious decision, but it's one of the few aspects of the story that's been the same since the very first draft.
I love escaping to another place and time and experiencing the very real magic of losing yourself in an alternate world. What's your favorite part about fantasy worlds? What time periods or places would you like to see more of?
Song of Blood & Stone
by L. Penelope
Excerpt #1
The girl looming above Jack looked like a mirage. She'd marched directly to his hiding place behind a cluster of coarse shrubbery and stood, peering down, head cocked at an angle. He went to stand, years of breeding kicking in, his muscle memory offended at the idea of not standing in the presence of a lady, but apparently, his muscles had forgotten the bullet currently lodged within them. And the girl was Lagrimari—not strictly a lady, but a woman nonetheless—and a beautiful one, he noticed as he squinted into the dying light. Wild, midnight curls floated carelessly around her head and piercing dark eyes regarded him. Her smooth skin was a confectioner's delight. His stomach growled. When was the last time he'd eaten?
Her presence meant he was still on the Lagrimari side of the mountain range bordering the two lands and had yet to cross the other, more powerful barrier keeping him from his home of Elsira: the Mantle.
The girl frowned down at him, taking in his bedraggled appearance. From his position lying on the ground, he tried his best to smooth his ripped uniform, the green fatigues of the Lagrimari army. Her confusion was apparent. Jack was obviously Elsiran; aside from his skin tone, the ginger hair and honey-colored eyes were a dead giveaway. And yet he wore the uniform of his enemy.
"Please don't be scared," he said in Lagrimari. Her brows rose toward her hairline as she scanned his prone and bloodied body. Well, that was rather a ridiculous thing to say. "I only meant that I mean you no harm. I . . ." He struggled with how to explain himself.
There were two possibilities. She could be a nationalist who would turn him in to the squad of soldiers currently combing the mountain for him, perhaps to gain favor with the government, or she could be like so many Lagrimari citizens, beaten down by the war with no real loyalty to their dictator or his thugs. If she was the former, he was already dead, so he took a chance with the truth.
"You see, I was undercover, spying from within the Lagrimari army. But now there are men looking for me, they're not far, but—" He paused to take a breath; the effort of speaking was draining. He suspected he had several cracked or broken ribs in addition to the gunshot wound. His vision swam, and the girl turned into two. Two beautiful girls. If these were his last moments before traveling to the World After, then perhaps he was not as unlucky as he'd always thought.
He blinked rapidly and took another strained breath. His mission was not complete; he could not die yet. "Can you help me? Please. I've got to get back to Elsira."
She stole an anxious glance skyward before kneeling next to him. Her cool hand moved to his forehead. The simple touch was soothing and a wave of tension rolled off him.
"You must be delirious." Her voice was rich, deeper than he'd expected. It eased the harsh consonants of the Lagrimarilanguage, for the first time making it sound like something he could imagine being pleasant to listen to. She carefully worked at the remaining buttons of his shirt, pulling the fabric apart to reveal his ruined chest. Her expression was appraising as she viewed the damage then sat back on her haunches, pensive.
"It probably looks worse than it is," he said.
"I doubt that."
Jack's chuckle sounded deranged to his own ears, so it was no surprise that the girl looked at him askance. He winced—laughing was a bad idea at this point—and struggled for breath again. "The soldiers . . . they're after me. I have to get back through the Mantle."
"Shh," she said, digging into her bag. "Hush all that foolishness; you're not in your right mind. Though I'll admit, you speak Lagrimari very well. I'm not sure what happened to you, but you should save your strength."
She retrieved a jar filled with a sweet-smelling substance and began spreading it over his wounds. The constant, throbbing pain eased a notch making it easier for him to breathe.
"What is that?"
"Just a balm. Helps with burns, cuts. Can't do any more for you right now, but you can't stay here. Storm's coming."
He laid his head back on the ground, closing his eyes to savor the slight reduction in pain. "A quick rest and I'll be back on my way. Need to keep moving, though. Need to get back."
She shook her head. "Back through the Mantle?" Her voice was skeptical.
He nodded.
"And away from the Lagrimari soldiers chasing you?"
"Yes." Her palm met his forehead again. She thought he was delusional. He wished he was. Wished the last few weeks had been nothing but the imaginings of an impaired mind.
"The Seventh Breach ended almost five years ago." Her voice flowed over him, as cool and comforting as the balm she'd used. "We've had peace since then. No way to cross the Mantle from either side."
He shook his head, aggravating the hole in his upper chest, inches from his heart where an inconvenient bit of metal was still lodged. "There are ways."
A crunch of boots in the distance set him on alert. He grabbed the girl's wrist to halt her while he listened. The soldiers were near.
He opened his eyes and looked into her startled ones. "Shh, they're coming."
Song of Blood & Stone
by L. Penelope
Excerpt #2
"Untie him," Jasminda said, staring at Jack's lashed wrists. "I need to check his wounds."
Ginko pulled a knife from his boot to cut the rope. The sharp edges of the pain had been bound by whatever spell she'd sung a few moments before, but the weakness in his limbs couldn't be ignored. The lack of food and water, the days of walking and hiding, had all left him teetering on the edge of his endurance. She too had deep circles under eyes, and he wondered what she'd been doing up on the mountain.
As she settled next to him, his awareness of her pulsed like an extra sense. She smelled of cool mountain air, pine, and something light and feminine that he couldn't place. He closed his eyes and inhaled her nearness, allowing it to soothe and calm him. He imagined himself far away, in the barracks he'd called home since childhood or maybe even farther away, floating on his back in the Delaveen Ocean, the sun warming his face.
The vision faded when her fingertips grazed his forehead.
"Does that hurt?" she whispered, her voice gentle. He opened his eyes to find her closer than he'd expected. Unable to find his voice, he shook his head.
"Take that off," she said, pointing to his shirt. He had the absurd desire to chuckle. How many times had he longed to hear a woman ordering him to take off his shirt? What he'd felt of her touch so far had been very soft . . . She must be soft all over. He'd never imagined a Lagrimari girl could be so lovely. The coils of her hair called to his fingertips and—
Tensyn's oily voice broke through Jack's musings. "Has your tribute day been scheduled?" He and Ginko stood in the doorway behind him, and Jack hated having anyone at his back. That kind of sloppiness had literally been beaten out of him. He blamed the pain and the fatigue.
His bruised fingers faltered on the tiny buttons as he shrugged awkwardly out of his shirt. Once again, she assessed his injuries impassively, though he suspected things were quite a bit worse than yesterday when she'd seen him.
"No," she said, answering Tensyn.
"And your family?"
"Dead." The unexpressive mask of her face slipped for an instant, and he glimpsed a cavernous well of grief in her eyes.
"May they find serenity in the World After," Tensyn intoned.
Jasminda repeated the blessing. Jack's eyes met hers briefly before she looked away. "Lie back," she told him.
She dipped a cloth in the water and ran it across his chest, cleaning away the blood and grime. He suppressed a groan at the incredible coolness of the water on his skin, relishing in it until she stopped suddenly. He craned his neck down to see what had caught her attention. The bullet wound was far worse today, the skin black with infection, blood and pus seeping out.
The screen door slammed. He looked up to find the two of them on the porch alone.
"What is your name?" She pitched her voice low, speaking directly into his ear in perfect Elsiran as she continued cleaning his chest.
He took hold of her wrist, stilling her hand. Even the former POWs spoke only a broken version of Elsiran. How had she been able to learn it when no one in Lagrimar spoke the language? She shook free of his grip and continued cleaning his chest and face. Inside, the soldiers chortled, ensuring they would not be overheard.
"Jack," he whispered, scanning her face desperately. "Are you a Keeper of the Promise?"
She frowned, darting a look at the door. "No. I don't know what that is."
"How can you—"
"This is not Lagrimar." The door opened again, and Ginko emerged, taking a stance with his arms folded while he chewed on a stick of jerky.
Jasminda switched back to Lagrimari, speaking quietly. "I need to cut away the dead flesh from the wound. Otherwise the infection will kill you."
He nodded faintly, still trying to process her last words. If they weren't in Lagrimar, that meant they had all passed through the Mantle without knowing it. He'd been on home soil the whole time. That must be why she'd acted as if he were deranged.
Escape was so close. The despair threatening to pull him under faded away like mist in the sun.
Song of Blood & Stone
by L. Penelope
Excerpt #3
Jasminda led the way, the light from her lantern reflecting off the snow, now knee-deep but swallowed up by the surrounding darkness. Jack leaned heavily on the walking stick as each step became more difficult than the last. Pausing to catch his breath, a coughing fit struck him, leaving red splatters on the pristine white.
When he straightened, he found her staring at the blood on the ground. Almost immediately, the warm hum of Earthsong rippled through him.
"Save it," he advised. "I'm all right."
She scowled. "You are not all right. You are worse than when you arrived. Stop being such a fool." The buzz of Earthsong continued for a few moments before she turned and stomped away.
For hours they battled the storm, their progress arduous. Strong gusts of wind blew against them, sometimes knocking them on their backs and forcing them to stop until the gale calmed some. Icy blasts whipped through Jack's coat, freezing his fingers until he could no longer grip the walking stick and had to leave it behind.
"Let's stop here for a moment," Jasminda shouted, pointing to a notch in the rock wall just big enough for two people. Underneath the rocky overhang, the snow stood only ankle high, and the sidewalls protected them from the worst of the wind. They crouched down together, shaking from the cold. She took his hands in hers and rubbed, bringing some feeling back into them. In the flickering lantern light, worry etched a frown on her face.
Jack rallied, drawing whatever inner strength he could into his depleted limbs. A small hum of Earthsong tickled at his wounds, but he could sense her weakening. He cracked his knuckles and tried to fashion his frozen face into a grin.
"Now's not the time to grow lazy." He wasn't sure she could understand him over the chattering of his teeth, but she nodded and they stood. At a groaning rumble overhead, they looked up. Something large shifted and slid. He moved forward to see what was happening, but she grabbed him by his coat and pulled him back. Her eyes were huge circles of fear as everything around them started to shake.
With a violent boom, an avalanche of snow slid down the mountain obliterating the path that they were on. The motion pushed them back against the wall as sheets of snow and ice crumbled away and slid off the mountain in front of them. Beneath their feet, the ground convulsed, knocking them off-balance. Jack fell forward into the rioting rush of snow.
Where he'd expected his hands to hit the ground, they hit nothing. He reached out frantically, grasping for purchase as his weightless body plummeted into the darkness blanketed by the cold wet pressure all around him.
About the Author:
Leslye Penelope has been writing since she could hold a pen and loves getting lost in the worlds in her head. She's a romance junkie who self-medicates with happily-ever-afters and steaming mugs of green tea. She lives in Maryland with her husband, an eighty-pound lap dog, and an attack cat. Visit her online at http://www.lpenelope.com.
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Dear Prospective Residency Applicant,
Welcome to our departmental website, where you will find information about our history, people, research, divisions, and the plethora of education programs and resources available to our residents, from residency didactics to simulations, to courses to atlases, to our online text.
Our residency is supported by a fully-staffed team that is dedicated to providing the highest quality educational experiences , including evidenced-backed innovations to provide the best training possible for our residents.
We have 23 residents currently. The total will expand to 27 by the year 2021. Specific information about our residency is detailed on this page, including the two distinct tracks that we offer: traditional five-year clinical track and T32-funded seven-year clinician scientist track.
Our Annual Chair Letter details the past year's developments within the department.
We are delighted to share with you the abundant goings-on of Stanford OHNS. Thank you for your interest in our program.
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Global Health
Currently our faculty and trainees make routine trips to Zimbabwe and Cambodia.
Simulated Learning
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dr. Jennifer Lee, talks about the simulation program for residents.
State-of-the-Art Facilities
The Perkins Lab is a dedicated lab within OHNS. Our researchers have additional lab space throughout the medical school campus.
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OHNS residents featured in this airway course video by the Department of Anesthesiology.
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Our residents participate in educational opportunities throughout the School of Medicine, Stanford University, the California Bay Area, and beyond.
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Welcome to the final part in a 3 part series of articles about routers and routing . Previously I wrote about how routers work and the routing table in parts 1 and 2 respectively. I am now going to talk about IP routing and how you can manipulate routes to "direct" traffic. Read More →
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The Routing Table
Welcome to part 2 in a 3 part series of articles about routers and routing . If you have arrived here directly through a search engine you may wish to read Part 1 – How Does a Router Work? first. Here we are going to look at the routing table.
All network devices that use the TCP/IP protocol have a routing table, even your Windows PC has one. ALL devices use their routing table to determine where to send packets. Without a routing table your PC wouldn't even be able to communicate with computers on the same subnet. Here is a screenshot of the routing table of my PC. To see your own routing table open a command prompt by typing CMD in the run or search box. Then at the command prompt type ""route print" and press enter. Read More →
How Does A Router Work?
Welcome to part 1 in a 3 part series of articles about routers and routing. In part 1 we will cover how routers works, part 2 talks about the routing table and part 3 covers IP routing.
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All matter is full of meaning and its place in the world is what gives it meaning. Chema Madoz works with the meaning of things as if it actually takes physical form. He uses objects and their graphic representation as if they were words from a precise vocabulary.
Converted into signs, objects now literally speak, or rather are images that literally speak; based on the aesthetics of the similarity or variety of references, Madoz shifts the natural meaning of concepts into other interpretations, exploiting his symbolic skills to the fullest and addressing his discourse with figures and tropes deeply related to language: visual analogies, paradoxes, metaphors and metonymy offer viewers a play on poetic perception and require their active collaboration.
But his precise photographic resolution is also decisive. This means photographing an idea. The mere materiality of the idea is not the final object of his work, but rather its frame, its portrait. Like the classic snapshots: its precise moment in time.
This collection of photographs by Chema Madoz thus proposes a play on perception. The images speak to us and suggest a journey through understanding. But the purpose here is not to discover the meaning of a hieroglyph. The mystery is solved. It was solved before the artist discovered its visual resolution, found in the power of the unfathomable sense of things which, silent and motionless in the place we assign them, are constantly speaking.
This exhibition presents an extensive selection of photographs taken by the artist between 2008 and 2014, in which Chema Madoz provides yet another example of his masterful ability to observe the world of things around us and use them to articulate visual messages, delving deeper into the sensory language of objects by manipulating their latent meanings.
This collection of 124 photographs in black and white on baryta paper belongs to the latest phase of Madoz's work, which received the Community of Madrid Photography Award in 2012 and are largely presented to the public for the first time.
The exhibition is divided into four major areas that facilitate the walk through the photographs with the least interference possible, as the multiplication of ideas and the resonance between different and also distant images proposed by Madoz requires the viewer's active participation. Borja Casani.
Musée de Gajac. 2 rue des Jardins. 47300 Villeneuve-sur-Lot
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This is the story of one family's 35 year experience with a profound developmental disability. This extraordinary journey has changed their view of the world, rearranged priorities and transformed their lives.
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It's almost as if Atlanta's housing market has been taking a ride on The Goliath over the past few years. Atlanta's housing market typically marches to a seasonal drum, rarely seeing dramatic price swings. Nevertheless, like a rollercoaster ride, home prices in Atlanta made the steady climb north in the mid-2000s, plunged to startling depths between 2007 and 2010, and then soared back up. The real question on everyone's mind: Can prices continue to climb? Multiple signs suggest no.
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I recently spoke to a client with a very interesting story worth sharing. Rose Financial Services is a finance and accounting outsourcing firm that recently became a customer of NetSuite's services resource planning (SRP) solution. SRP customers use NetSuite SRP for financials, resource and project management, and time and expense tracking, enabling them to have a 360 degree view of their business.
NetSuite SRP is the professional services industry's first end-to-end services resource planning (SRP) solution and is designed specifically to meet the unique needs of services businesses, like Rose Financial's. Including customer relationship management (CRM), professional services automation (PSA), and accounting/enterprise resource planning (ERP), NetSuite SRP supports the complete services lifecycle from bid to bill, enabling services organizations to realize benefits such as faster project completion, more accurate and efficient invoice generations, lower accounts receivable cycles, and greater profitability,
Rose Financial's story is particularly intriguing for several reasons. Ranked the world's #1 finance and accounting outsourcing firm in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by Datamonitor, Rose Financial:
1) Reaps the benefits of a fully integrated solution in driving the success of their services business
2) Handles accounting for hundreds of organizations, gaining a unique perspective on effective financial management
3) Has upgraded hundreds of accounting and ERP systems over the past 17 years and has a great overview of the financial systems world
4) Documented their implementation and use of NetSuite both via a blog and a Twitter feed for their first 90 to 120 days.
Because Ted Rose, President and CEO of Rose Financial, shared his experiences regularly as he proceeded through the implementation process, you can see how his firm decided to break the project into phases and also read about specific steps they took. I encourage you to take a look at the Rose Financial blog and read their tweets on the project http://twitter.com/rosefinancial.
Prior to their NetSuite SRP implementation, Rose Financial had about 10 separate applications. As the company was growing rapidly, they wanted a financial and accounting system that would facilitate that success. After a market assessment, they decided that cloud-based NetSuite ERP and PSA integrated solutions would best meet their needs. Here are some of the main benefits they realized:
While Ted told me that implementing NetSuite ERP was as easy as implementing QuickBooks, I smiled when he gave the warning similar to "don't try this at home" for the NetSuite ERP / OpenAir integration. While Rose Financial managed their own integration due to their expertise as accounting system implementers, Ted recommends using NetSuite's professional services organization or a partner for a sophisticated SRP implementation like theirs.
I thought this was a compelling story of SRP benefits and an interesting first-hand account of an accounting implementation. Don't take my word for it though. Take Rose Financial's!
Ed Marshall - General Manager, Services Vertical


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MK Dons 2 Brentford 2
MK Dons fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with second-placed Brentford on Easter Monday.
Karl Robinson's side fell behind in first-half stoppage time courtesy of James Tarkowski's strike before Clayton Donaldson doubled the Bees' advantage with a composed close-range finish.
However, an 80th penalty from Stephen Gleeson and a last-minute header from Izale McLeod ensured the Dons would come away from their penultimate home game with a point.
Having lost Dele Alli and Sanmi Odelusi to injuries at Port Vale, Dons boss Robinson was forced into making two changes to his already thin side, one of which was 17-year-old Giorgio Rasulo, who came in to make his first career League start.
Brentford, having already won promotion to the Sky Bet Championship, had the game's first chance in the 3rd minute through Adam Forshaw, who produced a smart save out of David Martin with a low 25-yard curler.
Rasulo then had the opportunity to open his Dons account on his first Dons start when David Button's clearance fell straight to him but, after driving towards the edge of the box, the 17-year-old saw his shot blocked by Tony Craig.
Both teams enjoyed spells of possession in the ten minutes that followed but neither side, bar Brentford from a Douglas header which wouldn't have counted anyway due to an offside, really threatened to break the deadlock.
In the 22nd minute, McLeod drove to the by-line and cut back for Powell who fired wide of the near post with a first-time shot, before Martin did well to race off his line and prevent Will Grigg from shooting after the Bees striker had beaten the offside trap.
Although there were no clear goal-scoring opportunities in the first half an hour, McLeod did have a decent penalty appeal waved away by referee Tim Robinson - the Dons striker appeared to be tripped by Brentford's James Tarkowski after getting goal-side of the towering defender but Mr Robinson was unmoved despite strong protests.
Brentford then had the ball in the net in the 35th minute but the linesman on the near touchline deemed Clayton Donaldson to be offside when he tapped home from close-range following a Martin parry.
The Dons came into the game with seven first-team players out injured and an eighth was added to that total just before half-time when Powell was forced off and replaced by Ryan Hall.
And things got even worse for the Dons in the second minute of added on time when Martin failed to hold onto Alan Judge's corner and Tarkowski found himself in the right place at the right time to prod home an opening goal for the hosts.
Eager not to lose a sixth straight home game, Robinson's men went in search of an early equaliser after the re-start and Hall shot wide with their first chance, a 25-yard free-kick in the centre of the goal.
McLeod then had a second penalty appeal turned down by Robinson before Lewington went close to latching onto Gleeson's teasing cross.
In the 56th minute, Judge went close to finding the top left-hand corner with a free-kick but the midfielder, on loan from Blackburn Rovers, put a little too much on it and it flew over.
Then, with a little under an hour on the clock, Brentford doubled their advantage through their leading goalscorer Donaldson, who latched onto Forshaw's through-ball and finished confidently past Martin from close-range.
In response, Robinson brought on James Loveridge in place of Rasulo but they almost fell even further behind just four minutes later when Dallas broke free inside the box but his left-footed shot hit the side netting.
The men from MK1 hadn't found the back of the net at stadiummk in seven previous attempts but in the 80th minute the home faithful were finally able to celebrate when McLeod was fouled in the box by Button and Stephen Gleeson fired his spot-kick under the Bees 'keeper.
The goal set up an interesting final 10 minutes, as the Dons looked to cap off their penultimate home game with a dramatic late finish.
Randall sent a long-range effort agonisingly high of the crossbar in the 82nd minute before Loveridge produced a smart near-post save out of Button with a drilled effort.
Then, with less 60 seconds left on the clock, winger Hall picked out McLeod with an inch-perfect cross and the Dons forward headed home his 10th goal of the season to earn the Dons a share of the spoils.
MK Dons (4-2-3-1): Martin; Baldock, Spence, Lewington (c), Galloway; Smith (Randall 73), Gleeson; Kennedy, Rasulo (Loveridge 67), Powell (Hall 45); McLeod.
Subs not used: Burns (GK)
Goal: Gleeson (pen) 80, McLeod 90
Booked: Baldock
Brentford (4-3-3): Button; Yennaris, Tarkowski (O'Connor 65), Craig (c), Bidwell; Judge (Saville 66), Douglas (Diagouraga 77), Forshaw; Dallas, Grigg, Donaldson.
Subs not used: Lee (GK), Reeves, Trotta, Adams.
Goal: Tarkowski 45, Donaldson 59
Booked: Button, Yennaris
Referee: T Robinson (West Sussex)
Attendance: 10,549 (3,368 away)
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Drinking this straight after a cold third steep of Verdant's Mi Lan Xiang Honey Phoenix.
I'm noticing that this tastes much softer. The flavors blend and meld into each other. The autumnal taste is more like leaf litter while the other is more like the crisp air of a forest. Yet, in both the honeyed note is clear. Clear but so different. Fascinating.
Today's been an oolong-y day. Had three different teas, all dark oolongs. I suppose it's just what I'm in the mood for. I hope it helps my tummy because I feel kinda crappy there. Must sleep soon. Tired. blargh. Long day.


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Thu, 22 February 2018
My confusion at the beginning of the month - the RSS feed was supposed to get episode 3, not 4.
too much cold medication.
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Tue, 20 February 2018
When we forget what it does, we can still use technology for something....
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Sun, 18 February 2018
While Gerald decides to meddle in police business, Jane and Annie take the back way in.
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Sat, 17 February 2018
And so it plays out - weakness on both sides, and nothing realistic.
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Tue, 13 February 2018
What might women do if they got any sort of control over men? Treat men the way women have been treated - as sex toys and bartering chips, valued fro nothing but their appearance? Or even less?
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Sun, 11 February 2018
Jane has company, Gerald examines one...
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Sat, 10 February 2018
Another take on a possible future....
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Wed, 7 February 2018
Gerald seeks excitement, Jane finds a mess on her doorstep...
Many thanks to everyone who's come to the livestream where this is being put together. Every evening 6-7 PST, twitch.tv/crazyauntjulie
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Mon, 5 February 2018
You know what they say - beware earthmen bearing anything.
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Sat, 3 February 2018
An alien's-eye view of a weird ass annoying world.
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Thu, 1 February 2018
What happened that night? and why doesn't Mark remember?
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So everybody uses it. Pity the poor sods who live on it.
I was pulling around this corner when an ambulance passed going the opposite way, into Swissvale or Swisshelm Park. A glimpse of two twenty something guys in reflective gear blipping their lights and siren.
And I thought, it's possible, anywhere among the thousand some homes and apartments behind me in this old working class, old too white neighborhood, there's a decent chance somebody's watching the last moments of their life tick by. Somebody's dying.
As I'm driving on a pointless errand, glancing up at steps and storefronts I haven't let register for 47 years, passing facades I've insisted over the decades will be unimportant to me, clotted with exhaust, and worn down by endless traffic, somebody's staring at the last thing they'll ever see: the side of a bed stand their parents gave them, the underside of a lamp they thought to but never replaced, the sliver of a windowed view into a backyard anyone could have and not appreciate.
I asked someone to say it for me, this zanulych type word, and it fit, the sound. The last syllable like a drop of blood, or a slavic version of the "pfft" we make when we draw a finger across our necks. The silent piff which accompanies someone breathing their last, leaving us to transform the non-event into our own catharsis- to tear our clothes, strike something, sing, pray, scream - basic human instincts- reaching for some kind of form to wrap around the spongy madness left after a death in the family.
I drive my car through a neighborhood I grew up next to and all this is happening again. To someone else. As it always does. Till you're the someone else.
Think of the casual trauma all these someones carry thru their daily lives. Even if a death is expected. A person's of a certain age or contracted a known disease, it's accepted, this is the way it goes. You lose people.
And then it happens and the threads in your psyche fray and your behavior changes and your friends suffer, if not your lovers and your family, tearing and taking a toll wherever you go. Of course there's the covalent decency, the new empathy you have learned as well, but I can't help but think the damage is worse than the good when you feel you've had something torn from you. Or when you may be responsible for the tearing.
You go out every day into the daily world and you potentially bring discord. You fray the fabric.
And I thought if that's what I bring….what the Hell do people bring who've seen vast terrors and murder on a military scale? What do they bring with them if they did those things? Felt responsible for them? What aura trails in their daily wake?
I don't mention this in terms of blame, well not for individual soldiers, nor do I say this as some sort of practical warning- I simply feel that I now have the slightest grasp on, the tiniest understanding of why people completely forswear violence as a tactic to achieve justice.
I think of reading Tolstoy and his 1400 page mantra against War, his simple insistence that murder rends the fabric of creation, allowing the demons of our nature to emerge.
If someone who feels cheated by the death of his brother trails a dark spirit or two through his day what possibly happens to daily life in Sarajevo, or Gaza, or Baghdad when hundreds and thousands and then millions of people collide who at one extreme or another are suffering some kind of traumatic shock? Think of the waves of paranoia coming off these people. Ever amplifying. Yes some of them will cancel each other out but by the simple laws of propagation, some of those waves are going to double and triple. Rogue waves of terror. A perfect storm of fear.
What cruelty could be unleashed? What madness?
What could possibly be worth that reality?
What about the US?
As we acculturate violence further into our culture how much have we changed? As the very air around us is more and more colored by the off gassing of the worser parts of our selves what do we become?
It just strikes me now. I used to mock the sayings of Ghandi and MLK - what was Malcolm X's riposte, "If I respond to someone trying to do me and my family harm I don't call it violence I call it common sense." I still agree with that- but I can see how the price of violence, of murder, or assault is written down in the hearts of those who pull the trigger. They pay, if they're sane. And so do we.
This again is in no way me saying "Oh all those violent people in our midst! We're not safe!"
This is me saying governments that send men and women to die and kill for any reason below the Holy or the necessary, reap the whirlwind. Or we do. It comes back, with its own vengeance and again the people pay the price.


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- 5-speed Sequential SportShift automatic transmission w/Grade Logic Control & lockup torque converter
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- 17" x 7.0" 7-spoke alloy wheels
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- 17.1 gallon fuel tank
- Dual-outlet exhaust
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- High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlights w/auto-off
- Dual body-colored pwr-operated exterior mirrors
- Heat-rejecting green-tinted glass
- Speed-sensing intermittent windshield wipers
- Body-colored door handles w/chrome trim
- Perforated leather sport seats
- Drivers 8-way pwr seat w/lumbar support adjustment
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- Front center console w/adjustable armrest
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(CNN) – When Rep. Michele Bachmann heads to Iowa later this month, she just might have a potential presidential campaign on her mind.
"She's not taking anything off the table, her focus remains on Minnesota's 6th District, but she hasn't ruled anything out," Doug Sachtleben, Bachmann's communications director, told CNN.
Bachmann, who is beginning her third term, will head to the Hawkeye State on January 21 to deliver a keynote address in Des Moines at an event sponsored by the Iowans for Tax Relief. It's also expected the Tea Party darling will meet privately with Iowa political operatives to discuss a potential presidential bid.
News that Bachmann is considering an Oval Office run was first reported by ABC.
The outspoken congresswoman was among the first conservatives to embrace the Tea Party movement and has remained one of its staunchest allies in Congress. Last year she formed the House Tea Party Caucus and is usually a staple at Tea Party-backed events throughout the country. Bachmann is also a political ally of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, herself a Tea Party favorite who is mulling a presidential bid.
While little known to the broader electorate, Bachmann would enter the presidential race as a relatively familiar face to the Republican base. Her constant presence at conservative conferences in Washington and her at-times eyebrow-raising comments have all but made her a national figure among many Republican stalwarts - as well as a constant target of Democrats.
Most recently, Bachmann took heat for falsely claiming on CNN that President Obama's India trip in November was costing taxpayers $200 million a day. In another controversial comment, she called on the media in 2008 to investigate congressmen to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America."
It's previously been speculated that Bachmann is mulling a 2012 Senate bid in Minnesota to challenge the incumbent Democrat, Amy Klobuchar. Either way, a trip to Iowa is a surefire way to raise any politician's profile – whatever the ambitions may be.
Pay attention to her... because CNN said you should...
Oh man, I needed a good laugh today. HAHAHA!!!! Thank you Bachmann.
Other than being able to read political myths on the internet and regurgitate them what skills does she have?
team her up with Sarah Palin and that can be the BEST ticket the Democrats can hope for in the history of politics. Of course if they were to win it would show our nation has really gone off the deep and further prove why we have fallen to about 25th in the world in education.
What a joke. She is completely unelectable at any level higher than district. She couldn't win a Senate seat in Minnesota, and sure as heck can't win the republican nomination. Romney or Palin would kick her b#tt. (not a Palin fan, but she would stomp Bachmann) Bachmann's made so many fruit loop comments over the years. And she's filled with hate. Hate does good at the local/district level, it fails at State or national levels.
People get ready for some of the dirtiest and 'smear mode in full' campaign adds ever seen in the world!!!
April fools early The only candidate who could possibly be worse than her is oops I can't think of anyone worse than her. My opinion of people friom Minnesota keeps dropping, first Pawlenty what a bore, then the constant pursuit of a has been quarterback so their pro team can be losers, and now keepin on electing this woman to office. She makes up 90% of that which she says to go along with her agenda. She is truly scary because their are actually people who believe what she says.Justin Beiber would perobably make a much better president.
Will these people PLEASE STOP SMELLING THEMSELVES!!?!!.....Are you kidding me? I guess she figures, well if Sarah Palin can do it, so can I"....OMG, someone please put me out of my misery. I'm suffering from a "Tea" overdose, tea-poisoning or something....ugh.
And the dolts keep rising to the top of the Republicans' ballots.
Does any sane person really trust this woman or have faith in her sanity and ability to be a GROWN-UP?
Good Lord. If clowns like Palin and Bachmann are considered presidential material, then I may as well announce MY candidacy today. Sure, I don't have any qualifications, but I'm good at making things up and sticking to them even when they're proven false. I also like to use the word "constitution" a lot.
Or, a more succinct response to a Bachmann presidential bid..."Ahahahahahahahahahaha"
What is it with these crazy bimbos that they thirst for the White House? Oh, I forgot, the right-wing loonies have convinced them that they are actually worthwhile human beings rather than rather dim trailer trash housewives.
Michele says she hopes that the Blacks in Minnesota would leave, for the South.
Now CNN has a new GOP fantasy babe to promote. Will the insanity never end?
Please have a Bachman/ Palin ticket for 2012. That would guarantee another four years for our President.
Palin/Bachman 2012 would be a dream ticket. The entertainment value would be a Mastercard moment: priceless. In addition, Obama wouldn't have to spend any money or time on campaining and could simple work to get things done. Please, if there really a sky daddy, make it happen please.
Its too early in the morning for jokes.
Another right wing nut I wont be voting for
Sarah Palin's prayers have been answered. Now there is someone in the potential candidate field that will make her look educated and reasonable by comparison
Bachman and Palin – Dumb and Dumber! Has the world gone mad? For either of these women to think they have what it takes to be President just proves how delusional they are. The Republican Party doesn't have any solutions (eight years they prevailed and ran the country in to the ground). Now their focus is reversing health care, instead of creating jobs like they promised!
Because Obama won, everybody thinks they can be president. A gross underestimation of who Obama really is.
I'm sorry...she's not that bright. She's offensive to women who use their brains. Not someone I would ever vote for.
Truly a great human being who values honesty, real compassion, and fairness. I sure wish that more women in the blue areas of the nation would realize that all the money in the world spent on plastic surgery and other bs wont make them pretty, its whats inside that does that, and that is why conservative women are so beautiful.
Please compare conservative women like Michelle Bauchman to the Democrat women you find on Houswives of NJ/DC/NY and the Jersey Shore. It speaks volumes about just how telling ideology really is in defining our moral character.
that would be great. You have Palin as loony running and with Bachman now you will have nutty running......
there is simply nobody more frightening in Washington.


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DeLong Middle School - Volleyball
- 2000 Vine St., Eau Claire, WI 54703
- (715) 852-4900
- Website
DeLong Middle School offers two gyms when the center gym divider is closed. There are wooden bleachers on one side of the gym and when pulled out and the divider opened, makes for one large playing court.
Number of Courts: 2
Seating Capacity: 575
Locker/Changing Rooms: Yes
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Do We Change When We Kiss?
The trio of Ash, Misty and Tracey, had just witnessed Ralph and Emily's Nidorans evolve after battling Team Rocket and sharing their first kiss. Pokémon and people alike stood there with expressions of awe, shock and dreaminess; the last being from Misty and the romantic she is. Misty was practically swooning at the display in front of her; it was true love and love meant to be. She was such a sap for things like that and she absolutely loved it. From the start she wanted to see those two little Pokémon together; she had tried valiantly to make it happen and she was ecstatic to see that it finally had. Too bad their trainers were always arguing because to Misty, they'd make an adorable couple. That thought then got Misty thinking of what the nosy Pokémon watcher, Tracey Sketchit, had said earlier about how Ralph and Emily were like her and Ash.
-Flash Back-
"Ralph and Emily like each other, they're just too stubborn to admit it." Misty said with a knowing smile and Ash just looked at her.
"You know," Tracey suddenly burst out with a mischievous smile, "those two are just like you!" Misty and Ash both shared an expression of shock which quickly turned to embarrassment, accompanied by crimson blushed, which then turned to anger; at that point the release their wrath on the poor Pokémon watcher, who in their view, deserved it very much.
-End Flash Back-
Huh. She and Ash- like each other? No way! That's completely ridiculous! All though a lot of people seem to think that about us…hmmm…. Misty thought and she couldn't also help feeling that she wouldn't mind if it were true either. She was snapped out of her distrait and wishful thoughts by a conversation between Ralph and Emily.
"Uhhh, well, I guess this means we'll be seeing more of each other then…" Ralph observed awkwardly.
"Yeah, I definitely want Maria to be happy, same goes for Tony." Emily answered with a cheery smile and Ralph laughed and sighed.
"I guess we probably should try to get along more…" Ralph suggested and Emily nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I think it would be best for Maria and Tony, plus it might stop our life long rivalry." Emily exclaimed with a giggle.
"Maybe, we could, erm, go out to lunch our something. Maybe train together? Plus, it'd give Tony and Maria time together." Ralph ended with a blush and Emily ended up having a blush of her own by the time her finished. Misty's eyes sparkled and she clasped her hands to her chest, true love at its finest…her mind sighed.
"I'd like that very much." The group got distracted as, once again, Nidorina and Nidorino shared a kiss. Misty and Ash stood a little ways, watching the scene in front of them unfold.
"Gee Misty; do you really think a kiss can change someone like that?" Ash suddenly pondered, directing the question at her and Misty could feel a slight blush creep up on her face before she answered.
"I guess we'll have to see."
"Huh?" Ash sounded confused but Misty did notice a light blush stain his cheeks and across the bridge of his nose.
"Whaddaya mean, Mist?" Ash asked and Misty felt slightly annoyed by his thick headedness.
"I mean, we'll have to wait and see what happens when we kiss someone. You know, to see if anything changes in us. Obviously we won't evolve or anything but maybe something about us would change."
Ash seemed to be pondering what she had just said and from what Misty could tell, he was either thinking to hard or having an inner debate; for Ash it was more than likely both because he doesn't often think and when he does, he struggles.
"Misty," Ash began quietly; tugging his hat down so it shadowed his face a bit and Misty looked at him expectantly, "have you ever, you know, kissed anyone?"
This took Misty by surprise and her response showed it, "Ah! Wh-what no! No…I haven't kissed anyone, Ash. At least not yet." Ash nodded looking slightly… pleased? Don't kid yourself, Misty, he probably doesn't even know how to kiss. Misty thought bitterly.
"Besides, why so you even care?" Misty asked, sounding more annoyed than she wanted too.
"Uhhh, no reason!" Ash answered a little too quickly and she wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing, so, she decided to turn the tables on him.
"Well, Ashy boy, tell me, have you ever kissed anyone?" Part of her didn't want to hear the answer if it was a yes and part of her wanted to hear what she was dying to hear- the answer being no.
"What! Of course I haven't. Maybe on the cheek but that doesn't count." Misty was relieved though she fumed at the memory of Melody kissing Ash on the cheek. She was still a bit sour from that, even though she and Melody had become friends.
"I guess we're in the same boat then." Misty sighed and Ash looked over at her with a questioning glance and Misty sighed and mused, "I wonder what it's like to be kissed." Ash seemed to squirm a bit and he had acquired a painting of red across his face and he tried to hide his blush by yanking on his hat again.
"You and your romance-y stuff." Ash chuckled a bit but he also seemed thoughtful.
"What, you've never thought about kissing someone and what it'd be like?" Misty questioned skeptically, "Come on, you're sixteen, I don't believe that."
"Uhhh," Ash rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "well, I guess I have…" He ended uncomfortably and glanced over at Misty, "Have you?"
"Ash, it's me we're talking about, of course I have! I can't help but be a romantic…" She sighed dreamily but then was rudely interrupted by the boy standing next to her.
"I bet it's Rudy." Ash muttered bitterly and Misty gave him an amused yet confused look, why was he getting jealous?
"Nah, it's not Rudy. He was nice but a bit too impulsive." Misty giggled at the memory of the boy they had met some short time ago and how he wanted her to stay on the island with him. It was a sweet gesture but…she just couldn't leave Ash… Her answer seemed to brighten Ash and wondered why he seemed so happy.
"Hey, Mr. Pokémon Master, who have you thought about kissing, huh?" Probably Melody or Bianca or someone else we met along the way… Misty thought sadly but she was distracted as Ash fell over onto his head dramatically, only to scramble up to answer.
"Well, uh, that's, heh, that's private."
"Oh, come on, Ash! I thought we were best friends!"
"You didn't tell me who you would kiss! Why should I tell you?" Ash huffed, "And we are best friends but that doesn't mean I have to tell you!"
"Ash…" Misty whined, "I'll tell you mine."
"Really?" Ash looked hopeful and leant in to listen.
"Alright," she took a deep breath, "It's Gary. I'd love to kiss Gary Oak."
"WHAT? GARY OAK!" Ash screamed and he looked devastated, but Misty was rolling on the ground laughing hysterically.
"WHAT'S SO FUNNY? THIS IS HORRIBLE!" Ash belted out, his face turning redder from anger.
"I-I'm," Misty giggled and Ash glared at her, "I'm kidding, whew, I definitely don't want to kiss Gary!"'
"You don't?" Ash breathed out and sighed, sinking to the ground next to Misty.
"Well, uh, th-that's good."
"And even if I did want to kiss Gary, why would you care so much?"
"Because, because, Gary, I-he's my rival and you-you're my best friend." Ash spluttered trying to figure out a good answer and Misty just laughed.
"Believe me Ash, the guy that I want to kiss is a lot better than shallow ol' Gary Oak." Misty assured and Ash seemed to relax a little.
"But really though, Mist, who do you want to kiss? Do I know him?" Ash's brow furrowed and Misty nodded, maybe he'll understand….understand how I feel…maybe he feels the same way, he's acting so weird. Misty contemplated.
"Well, wh-what does he look like?"
"Hmm, he's kind of tall; he used to be shorter than me." Misty let on but Ash still had a strained and confused look on his face, "Hey, if I'm telling you stuff about who I want to kiss, then you have to tell me about the girl you want to kiss."
Ash sweat dropped but answered with a shaky breath, "O-okay, what do you want to know?"
"Hmmm…Is she pretty?"
"She's prettier than anyone I've ever met." Ash shrugged and smiled sweetly.
"Huh, probably Melody…" Misty muttered miserably but surprisingly Ash shook his head vigorously 'no'.
"Definitely not Melody. She's way too showy and kind of bratty. But hey, you're turn, what's this guy like?" He sneered at the last part.
"Well, he's a Pokémon trainer, one of the best I've ever seen actually and he's also one of the sweetest and most caring people I've ever met." Misty answered truthfully; she noted that the two of them had gradually gotten closer together on the ground where they sat.
"Oh, great, so I've probably battled him before." Ash answered glumly and Misty chuckled at the situation.
"I guess you could say that, in a way. Now tell me about this girl." She practically growled the last part of her sentence out.
"She has this temper like I've never seen before; it's actually kind of funny. She also has these great eyes… I can never tell if they're blue or green…" Ash trailed of and Misty's breath hitched.
"So, you'd say she's kind of like me?" Ash blushed wildly at that and Misty hoped that her earlier thoughts were true.
"Heh, yeah she's a lot like you, Mist." Misty leant in a little closer and whispered, "Well, I guess you could say my guy's a little like you, Ash."
"Really?" Ash asked sounding a little hopeful; they were close enough to each other that Misty could have reached a hand up and touched Ash's face.
"Well, you know what Misty; she's a lot-lot like you." He moved a little more closer.
"You know what Ash? He's just like you." Misty whispered moving even closer and shortening the distance between them. She could feel Ash's soft breath on her cheeks.
"You know," he smiled an impish smile, enunciating his boyish features; "you look an awful lot like her."
"Come to think of it, you look very much like him." Misty smiled and after that last sentence was uttered, the gap between them vanished. Misty's lips met Ash's and both their worlds exploded; kissing Ash was just as fantastic as she always imagined it, only an infinite amount of times better. Her fingers explored the side of his face, his unruly and adorable hair, the back of his neck, pretty much anywhere she could. She felt his arms wrap around her waist and pull her as close as she could be to his body. When they finally broke apart for air Ash said, "Guess what? You're her Misty and something did change when I kissed you. Only by a little but it made me love you even more." Misty confirmed her mutual feelings with a tender yet passionate kiss. I guess people do change after being kissed; to Misty it was the best change she had ever been through, she loved him and he loved her, just like Tony and Maria.
A/N: Did you like it? I just finished this, it's like 12:30 in the morning 0_o hahah well read and review! It's a bit fluffy but I'm learning to love the fluff!
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Squid Pro Quo is going to San Francisco! Er-is in San Francisco I should say, for the Asian Man Records 15th anniversary festival! As I'm typing this, I'm 36,000 feet above sea level and Chicago is a distant anthill. I awoke sharply at 3 a.m., and got a ride from my roommate's dad to O'Hare International Airport, where we parted ways, and I headed to security with my essentials on my back. As I made my way to the place where they touch you, then yell at you for ejaculating, I ran into Katie Hovland – Chicago concert acquaintance and Jaded In Chicago photographer. We reveled in excitement to see Slapstick before the sun awoke in a sleepless, exhausting state, and then we passed through security. The other half of Jaded In Chicago, Bill, met us on the other side, as he actually works at O'Hare. The three of us trekked over to the food court near our C gates, and I got the cheese danish. I walked back to their gate with them, as their flight was scheduled to take off an hour prior to mine, and we talked music, travel, work, all the while crossing our fingers as the rain fell, the lightning flashed and the thunder rumbled. Katie and Bill's flight began boarding, and they got their two standby seats. I began heading across the way to my gate, when I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask if their flight was one-way or if it had layovers. The ladies said it was one-way, and I asked if they knew if the weather was going to improve. The one woman said it was supposed to get worse and that last week, they had a line all the way down the corridor. "Really?" I said, "Because mine's supposed to take off in an hour." I asked if it was possible to hop on this one, as I already had a ticket for the 7 a.m. flight. She typed a bit and told me there was a $75 charge. "Ah, OK. No thanks," I said. I began walking to my gate, and I hear the woman yell something. I wasn't even sure if it was at me, but I turned around and she waved me back over to the desk. She said she'd waive the fee because they want to get as many people out of the airport and on their flights as possible, and seated me next to my friends, Katie and Bill.
What luck! I stepped on the airplane, waited until the lightning cleared the area, and here we are, chugging along to San Francisco, California! Now I don't want to make this too rambling and off-putting, but I haven't seen a whole lot west of the Mississippi River, especially as far west as one could get. So the last couple of weeks have been nerve-wracking. Don't get me wrong – I'm super excited to get there and go to these shows, but I'm just as excited to see San Francisco and be as much of a tourist as I possibly can. I looked at the surrounding area via Google and noticed the Anchor Brewery is right by the venues I'll be frequenting all week. Being a homebrewer and avid beer connoisseur (so I pretend, anyway), I am excited if not to take the brewery tour, then to try a few fresh, tap beers. The weather's supposed to get up to 73 degrees today, so I am excited for that. I'm excited to be near the ocean. I'm excited to fill my lungs with slightly salted air. I'm excited to not be at work this week. I'm excited to get out of the Midwest. I'm excited to cross off a few more bands on my list of "Bands I Thought I Would Never See."
I'm excited to meet and spend some time with Mike Park and my friend Mike Yannich and my roommate and his brother. I miss my other half, Susanne, already and know I will until I return, but I have her with me in spirit. That doesn't make me miss her less, but makes me feel better about getting to explore without her with me. I can't wait to tell her all about everything. I'm going to try to add to the hour and a half/two hours of sleep I accumulated last night. Stay tuned to us and Jaded In Chicago as well. They have some KILLER material coming and I can't say I'm not a bit envious. Westward!


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Corroborated smackdown is now coming in confirming Kimbo Slice has made the move to WWF wrestling and has lost in his first match up involving Tiger Woods' wife.
The WWE Entertainment group apparently felt setting Kimbo up for an easy victory against women in his first match would increase his marketability after several dismal appearances in UFC competition.
Unfortunately, Kimbo ran into a new tag team pair comprised of Elin Woods and Amanda Knox, a diva duo of deadly combinations if there ever was. With two seconds gone in the first, Elin wheeled and dealt ol' Kimbo a Nike one iron to the noggin Tiger style while Knox gave Kimbo a home boy treatment and sliced off a piece of the family history. Kimbo went down whimpering and never recovered. Elin Woods is currently sponsored by Crown Royale and took home Kimbo's slice while Knox, sponsored by the Pentagon, has been invited to a big dollar match up against the salt & pepper team of Hillary "Nuke 'Em Clinton and Condaleeza "Take a Hike" Rice.
Tiger, appearing with an open fly and several bandages on his face, was in the audience supporting his wife's efforts to become the new bread winner since being TKO'd in a home bout. Tiger at one point had to be manacled to his seat due to repeated attempts to snorkel several WWF Blond Diva Babes surrounding the ring.
While Tiger's dissed and pissed wife tries to work her way up the political ladder, Tiger's agents have stated he intends to rejoin his comrades on tour at the Tournament of Crumballs to be held at the Sanford Golf & Strip Club in North Carolina. Outside of this appearance it looks like surfacing at PGA events where Jesper Parnivik plays is not on Tiger's plan book. His only other scheduled appearance is at the Upskirt Bigeye & Bust'em Championship in Brazil.
Until Next Week - that's it, so stay tuned for updates
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