• Coming up with an interesting writing prompt each day for 30 days is challenging.
• The internet has more shitty writing prompts then interesting ones.

For serious. Let’s look at some of the ones that I decided not to use:

Describe your dream vacation.

You only get three crayons to make your picture. Which do you choose?

Animal face-off! Who would win in a fight between a wild turkey and a small pig?

Write a brief piece of fiction using the prompt “Yo-yo.”

I guess that, if you’re a talented writer, you could take any prompt asking for your favorite place to get a cup of coffee or a story about when you had to return a purchase and turn it into something entertaining. But I have nothing worth saying when told to discuss what color I feel like today. So please stop asking.

So now I’m just a few days out from playtesting it before the con next week, and I’m not ready. You’d think I would have learned my lesson. But suddenly I have PDFs to fix and photos to print out and things to hole-punch…

But it’s gonna be great. I hope.

Unless you stop doing them for a while. Then they’re pretty hard to go back to.

It’s a good thing that I don’t get cable at home.

L-tryptophan needs to be taken on an empty stomach and without any other amino acids or protein in order to make you drowsy. There’s lots of protein in a serving of turkey and it’s probably not the only food on the table.

It’s worth noting that other foods contain as much or more tryptophan than turkey (0.333 g of tryptophan per 100 gram edible portion), including chicken (0.292 g of tryptophan per 100 gram edible portion), pork, and cheese. As with turkey, other amino acids are present in these foods besides tryptophan, so they don’t make you sleepy.

Maybe it’s the fact that you just had three servings of everything with extra gravy plus a few glasses of wine that’s making you a little sleepy, hm?

Happy Turkey Day. I am so full.

What holiday traditions does your family celebrate?

She doesn’t seem to care if others join in or not, but my mother always has a slice of pumpkin pie for breakfast the day after Thanksgiving. I follow this tradition as well, but then again I’d have pie for breakfast every damn day if I thought I could get away with it.

But! Now I have a shiny new laptop and a lot less stress. Sometimes, money does actually buy happiness.

Except now of course I’m thinking of how I can afford a desktop computer.

Here’s the thing–I already have the keyboard and monitor. Because when I got my laptop, I was honestly pretty damn disappointed by the letterbox screen. For reals, who is really all that bothered by the lines of black above and below the older style when you full-screen a movie? What it means is that I had to edit photos on a much smaller scale, and some programs have so many toolbars, etc (that unlike in Firefox can’t be hidden) that it limited my viewing space considerably.

Because I have amazing friends, I was gifted a lovely large monitor so I could have a super-cool two-screen system, and also got a free keyboard. And it all more or less fits on my tiny desk.

But it’s a lot of wires. For one, I hate the touchpad mouse that a laptop has. Touchscreens in general never work for me. So I’ve got a mouse attached. And a keyboard. And the monitor. And my speakers.

But I wanted a laptop because I often take it into the living room so I can putter around there while, say, watching 3 or 4 hours straight of Criminal Minds. What? Don’t judge me, I only have so many channels that come in clear (thanks digital cable for taking away “kinda fuzzy but still viewable” channels!) and ION seems to show nothing but Criminal Minds, Ghost Whisperer, and now Monk. And here’s a major White Whine, I know, but gosh it’s annoying to unplug all my external accessories from my laptop so I can use it while watching TV!

So, perhaps a computer tower is something to start saving for. Although in comparison to the immense peace of mind that finally buying a laptop gave me, having peace from wires is really not as important.