thistlechaser | What's better than a zombie? A zombie in a penguin suit.

I really, really liked this video. I'd suggest you watch it at the highest resolution for most spiffiness.

I can sort of handle the slow moving zombies, but the faster ones? Eeek, no.

And speaking of zombies, I still haven't watched the first ep of this season's The Walking Dead yet. D: I think tomorrow will be Homeland's new ep, then tomorrow Walking Dead.

I haven't been backing up my IC writings to LJ lately, mostly because I haven't really been writing much. (And now, with all the new IC posts on

my friends list I'm all EEEK because it's all so good.) But anyway, I
wanted to save a copy of this one.

For those who don't know,
Dandelion is a worgen (werewolf), but he's special Special-special. He's one part Down syndrome kid (so he loves everyone, loves giving hugs), one part puppy (friendly, happy, outgoing) and one part 60s hippie (dreamy, "stoned out of his mind" 24/7). The reasons for that aren't important to this writing.

wheatonwra* started a thread on our Alliance guild board: Character Prompt: Your Death ("How is your character going to die (or how would you like for it to happen)?")

Ball ball ball.

The best thing about the ball was that it was never still. Always ahead of him, moving this way or that, sometimes running fast, sometimes bouncing slowly around.

Chasing it downhill was best, Dandelion had found. It ran so fast! He could barely keep up with it.

Over a branch it went, faster and faster as it neared the bottom of the hill. All of his focus on it, the bushes and grasses around him a blur.

Almost! Almost got it!

He never saw the truck coming.

Speaking
of Dande, I've used the same icon for him on the guild board for nearly
a year now, but it still amuses me every time I see it:

Hm, it's under 100x100, I really could save it as a LJ icon, too.

I have no idea how the formatting of this post is going to look. I switched to Rich Text for ease of making bullet point list (I thought maybe that would make my hodgepodge of subject matters in one post easier to follow), but it makes my post look very odd. WYSIWYG editing = NO THANKS. Next time I'll just look up the code for a bullet list and do it myself. Grr, I know this is going to look odd. My line lengths look all wrong on the above point. Mumble mutter.
Doctor appointment was today, and it was almost all good news. She said I've made the more progress this time than any other time I saw her (many years). I lost... not as much weight as I'd like to, but an amount that probably counts as reasonable/rational. My blood sugar is in control. My other numbers are either better in line now or are headed that way. Which, on one hand, is great news. On the other, it means that exercising seven days a week and eating boneless skinless chicken breasts for dinner all the time is working and I'll have to stick to that. :P
I'm starting to think that atheists need to become a protected group. Oh what the hell, how in the world do you make links with text in fricking rich text format. My kingdom for HTML use! (When I switch back to HTML, the post becomes an unfixable mess.) Well, google or copy and paste or something. http://www.examiner.com/humanist-in-national/american-cancer-society-refuses-500-000-from-atheists American Cancer Society refuses to let atheists work to donate money. Repeated cries that "only Christians should hold public office". And of course the whole "you can't be a moral person if you're not religious!" thing.

Usually I wait until the end of the night to post, so I can add things as needed, but I'm going to send this through now so I can be less grumpy about it. Hopefully it'll come out looking right!

Edit: I see an error in my schedule on watching things (two 'tomorrow's), but rich text doesn't permit me to edit that, the video is in the way. Mumble. And line break issues. D: MY POST SUCKS AND I CAN'T FIX IT.