Miscellaneous notes now that things are up again.

First of all: lstone, you must come visit and play jikharra's new game. Ninja Bowl. Be a ninja and compete in ninjitude. I'd be more coherent on the subject except I'm really, really, really, really tired right now. Good game. Much fun. Thingy.

Second of all: Insecurity sucks slugs.

Third of all: I am confirmed to have kidneys. Fascinating, testable kidneys, because they're entirely normal except for that one thing. I do not have lupus. Nor do I have other stuff. And the ultrasound is also normal.

Fourth of all: I got nowhere near enough sleep. I become one with the couch.

Born-Men Like Fractal Patterns

Spending many bleary hours prowling through message board posts, assimilating random bits of data. I'm being a bit scattershot at the moment, but I suspect I'll go back and be more thorough later when I'm feeling more coherent and expanding my realms of focus. And eventually I'll have assimilated enough information that I won't feel like an idiot asking questions.

One of the things I've been pondering as a long-term goal has been a turtle tank. I like turtles. Having a turtle enclosure would please me massively.

Now I want to grow lotuses and dwarf papyrus, too. Possibly in a different thing; I'm not sure how likely turtles would be to eat the associated foliage.

The major thing that's spinning around my utterly sleep-deprived brain as a result of this is a horrible fear of moving. If I were to dig a large hole to put lotuses in, I'd potentially go away and leave it. Container water gardens are nifty, but I suspect they're harder to maintain. Not to mention move!

But still. Lotuses. And dwarf papyrus. (It'd have to be dwarf; undwarf papyrus grows to something like six feet tall. But a bunch of places give dwarf papyrus at an order of mag of six bucks. Dwarf lotus is more like thirty. It would all be happy.) I went and found a book on container water gardens and added it to My List.