Small Thoughts

A few small thoughts, and some actual stuff posted up that isn't videogame related...

Raining today, on Halloween. Seems like from my memories of growing up in Oregon that there are only a few times in the year in which you are guaranteed rain. During Halloween, the Rose Parade during the Rose Festival in June, and Thanksgiving. You didn't necessarily get rain on all three of those each year, usually if it rained on the 4th of July you'd get decent weather on one of those other days as a trade-off. But I woke up this morning to the sound of the wind ripping through the trees in the neighborhood and the rain coming down in buckets.

Tomorrow starts NaNoWriMo. Wacky Lexicon'ish writing thing that I will be doing with some other cool people this year. Also got a head full of ideas that I hope to at least turn into something, maybe a handful of connected short-stories on my own. No clue. Will see how the writing goes when the sun comes up tomorrow.

I remember reading an article about this a long time ago, well before the December 2000 date on this page. I remember it mostly because the Oregonian's headline about it read "Largest Living Being Found In Oregon" and several of my friends who saw that wrote me to ask if someone had managed to capture my father on film. An apt comparison, him and fungus, though they were more focusing on the fact that he was a rather large ( almost, but not quite, corpulent ) man.