This is the little boy we brought down from the barn. Needless to say, he is adjusting very well to being a house cat. He's a loverboy. Right now he still has the sniffles though. His name at the moment is Boogie. We haven't thought of any other names that would fit. The ones we had were way too serious for him. :)
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Maybe I should move my laptop from the couch and go sit in the dining room when I know I need to work on something and do it there. Grah! it's frustrating. Seriously frustrating. I've been doing flash pieces but nothing really big and the big pieces, I need to find someone to read and go crazy with the redpen.
Of course I have to finish those as well. >< Bleh.
In other news, we have a new resident in Casa el W-Q. Up at the barn where the roomie and I board our horses, there are some barn cats (all they need to do is catch the wild momma and maybe there won't be so many kittens every spring.). Anyway, there is this loverboy that is always following us around and just wants lovings. The Roomie brought him home. He is an orange tiger and his fur is fluff ball soft and when he's not roaming around, he just wants to cuddle. And all the other cats are all "Hiiiiiss. Interloper!" My one cat just runs away. He was the youngest and now he's the older brother now. :) He's not sure how to handle it. I'll have to post a picture
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jadedissola at I think I love Judd Nelson a little more...Also, that guy who played Red on That 70s Show, Nick Offeman, Tim Meadows, and just every man who did this video.
ETA: Okay, video embed is not working, so have the link to a very funny video of men making fun of conservative men who want to control women's choices.
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ETA: Okay, video embed is not working, so have the link to a very funny video of men making fun of conservative men who want to control women's choices.
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jadedissola at Hey Pennsylvanians: Get this douchebag out of office now!Everyone, meet Harry Readshaw, a (supposed) Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (36th District). Mr. Readshaw recently co-sponsored Pennsylvania's HB1077, a bill that would require women seeking abortions to undergo endovaginal ultrasounds (something that's becoming a disturbing trend of late). One of his pro-choice constituents decided to email Mr. Readshaw and let him know in no uncertain terms that not only is he terribly misguided when it comes to women and their reproductive rights, but that he has also lost her vote.
So far this sounds pretty much what probably happens with any piece of legislation to pass through any state house, right? There's a bill or a proposed bill, voters either like it or hate it, and they then decide to let their representatives know how much they like it or hate it. Oh, but that's not enough for Mr. Readshaw. He apparently was so terribly affronted that a voter--a female voter told him women are intelligent competent people capable of making their own medical choices that he personally sent her a hand-written letter. Not only that, he pulled up her name, address, and voting record and made mention of it in the letter.
I know you're thinking, "Jade, that's some real bullshit. You can't possibly be for real." And I'll tell you I wish that it wasn't real, but it happened to Amadi of Amaditalks (a pretty awesome lady I follow on Twitter).
As if that weren't enough in and of itself, Mr. Readshaw also discloses private medical information about his own daughter's reproductive status in a particularly heinous way of saying, "If she can't have babies, why should other women get to kill them?" (I shit you not.)
Seriously, this guy needs to be kicked out of office post-haste, like yesterday. And if you're in PA and are one of his constituents, you too can email him and tell him what a douchebag he is. Or, write to him.
And if anyone knows who Amadi should contact or where to report this to, please visit her Tumblr and let her know.
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So far this sounds pretty much what probably happens with any piece of legislation to pass through any state house, right? There's a bill or a proposed bill, voters either like it or hate it, and they then decide to let their representatives know how much they like it or hate it. Oh, but that's not enough for Mr. Readshaw. He apparently was so terribly affronted that a voter--a female voter told him women are intelligent competent people capable of making their own medical choices that he personally sent her a hand-written letter. Not only that, he pulled up her name, address, and voting record and made mention of it in the letter.
I know you're thinking, "Jade, that's some real bullshit. You can't possibly be for real." And I'll tell you I wish that it wasn't real, but it happened to Amadi of Amaditalks (a pretty awesome lady I follow on Twitter).
On Tuesday, after liveblogging my read-through of Pennsylvania’s HB1077, the bill which would force unwanted endovaginal ultrasounds on most persons seeking an abortion in the state, I sent a scathing email to my state representative, Harry Readshaw, who is a co-sponsor of the bill. To be entirely fair, I dislike my representative a great deal. He’s nominally a democrat, yet he’s entirely anti-choice, he also introduced a copy of the Arizona “papers please” anti-immigrant bill in this legislative session. I don’t know why he calls himself a democrat, but he does, and I hold him accountable.
[...]
Today, I received an oversized manilla envelope from Rep. Readshaw. Inside was a printout of HB 1077, a printout of some database’s information about me, indicating where I live, that I’m not the head of the household (why/how it knows this I do not know) and a few other things about me, like ethnicity, that no elected official should or needs to know. I’m going to have to get to the bottom of that.
As if that weren't enough in and of itself, Mr. Readshaw also discloses private medical information about his own daughter's reproductive status in a particularly heinous way of saying, "If she can't have babies, why should other women get to kill them?" (I shit you not.)
Seriously, this guy needs to be kicked out of office post-haste, like yesterday. And if you're in PA and are one of his constituents, you too can email him and tell him what a douchebag he is. Or, write to him.
Representative Harry A. Readshaw
1917 Brownsville Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15210
or
Room 122 Irvis Office Building
House Box 202020
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2020
If you’re inclined to call or fax:
Call: 412-881-4208 or 717-783-0411
Fax: 412-886-2077 or 717-705-2007
And if anyone knows who Amadi should contact or where to report this to, please visit her Tumblr and let her know.
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- Mood:
Seriously Annoyed
It's mid-February. When did that happen?
I need to figure out a way to work out some plot for the stories in a way that I feel is comfortable for me. I'm never good at plottng things out. I've been a pantser.
Pleh.
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I need to work on some
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origfic_bingo prompts today and a musemuggers one around this headache I've had for about four days now.So much fun.
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origfic_bingo card.Didn't really do much writing yesterday except for a flash piece and then we went to the Farm Show and wandered around. I'm so tired and my legs aren't happy with me when it was all over. As usual, the food was fantastic. Even though we only got the fried cheese cubes and a roast beef sandiwch. (OH MY GOD! SO FRESH! SO GOOOOOD!!!!) It was fun as usual and there was even a local winery there that had some REALLY good fruit wines and they aren't expensive at all. The Peach and Strawberry wines were divine. They were out of the black raspberry. Have to check them out when we're done at the barn and get a few bottles or see if they are in the state store 2 1/2 blocks from the house.
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jimhines at Striking a Pose (Women and Fantasy Covers)A while back, we had a discussion on the blog about the cover art for my princess novels. For the most part, I really like these covers, but they’re not perfect.
Now I could talk about the way women are posed in cover art … or I could show you. I opted for the latter, in part because it helped me to understand it better. I expected posing like Danielle to feel a little weird and unnatural. I did not expect immediate, physical pain from trying (rather unsuccessfully) to do the hip thing she’s got going on.
I recruited my wife to take the pictures, which she kindly did with a minimum of laughter.
Being me, I naturally couldn’t stop there. I headed over to Amazon and grabbed a sampling of book covers, primarily urban fantasy, and spent the evening doing a photoshoot. Click on if you want to see the results (or if you just really want to see a shot of topless Jim).
Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.
origfic_bingo a try.If you want to be on this filter to see what I drabble out, let me know and I'll add you.
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- Mood:
Too tired
I could list all the different projects that I have started that need work on but I was completely slacking the past two days when I could have doing a list.
1. Complete my Camp NaNo story
2. Do world building for my steampunk world
3. Work on two short stories that are due the end of April
4. Get more organized and get all my short stories in digital format to work with better
5. Be more active on the blogs that I’ve seen through the Write Campaign Group and those that I’ve seen that I found through doing flash fiction
To help with this all, I’m be doing the #WIP500 challenge for the entire year so hopefully that will keep me going. I’ll also be doing the #Nightgale flash fiction during January. Both badges are too the right on my writing journal that are linked to their respective leaders, Cara Michaels and Stevie McCoy.
And hopefully 2012 is a little easier on me financially. We’ll see how THAT works out as well.
Have a safe and Happy New Years! See you in 2012.
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