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While getting dressed I find myself pondering a video game where you are a shoulder dragon with shoulder dragon sized problems. Sure, the wizard whose shoulder you ride on has some complex world-in-peril narrative to deal with, and every now and then she makes you do some weird mission that can only be accomplished by a tiny dragon, but mostly you're concerned with lazing around the place while she does research, stealing cookies from the cabinet, chasing the local rats and birds, accumulating a shoulder dragon sized hoard of shiny things, and so on.

It would be the most relaxing thing ever.

work 

well, I got up, got dressed, and made it into the office this morning. let’s see if I can manage to re-engage my brain.

it's official: i'm playing Coachella this year. please view me on the Vermillion Stage Sponsored By T-Mobile where i'll be whacking a pair of wooden rulers against various objects rhythmically as i try to remember the words to as many Talking Heads songs as i can remember

me: *at the beach wading around in the shore with my eyes closed* macro
you: *the ground shakes as your immense bellow seems to tear apart the sky with its force* P O L O

You did it!

You made it through 2017!!

It was hard and it was rough and it hurt sometimes, but you made it! It's 2018 now!

I'm proud of you! ^.=.^

Let's see what we can make of this year together, shall we? ♥️

Aha! In a feat of brilliance, past-me saved some extra cookie dough.

Time for present-me to bake cookies.

remembrance (-) [alc] 

As a token for our friend who didn't make it, I bought a bottle of the only beer he ever found that he liked: a funky stout called "Dragon's Milk". Dude loved dragons as much as I did.

I'm going to open it up in a little bit in his honor.

We miss you, John.

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end-of-2017 reflection (-) 

There was also some not good parts:

- I watched a good friend's life crumble apart, and finally be taken by depression. That one still stings. A lot.

- Our local social circles have felt increasingly strained, not least because of the above.

- workstress & overall mood have completely destroyed the gym routine I'd built up over years. I miss swimming & weightlifting, they were doing a lot for me.

- & of course, all of the grand What The Fuck 2017 that happened.

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end-of-2017 reflection (+) 

There was definitely still some good parts:

- I finally dived into the furry thing after a full decade of being furry-adjacent! It's been super fun being a dragon, I'm glad I did it :)

- I had several relationships develop very positively, and they're continuing to go well!

- I met a bunch of really neat people (including all y'all over here!)

- I had a great time at quite a few cons.

- I got to visit Vancouver!

- and my hair was purple all year!

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end-of-2017 reflection 

2017 was a year of treading water for me, I think. Just...letting the time pass until I can change things.

I held down this job the whole time, because I knew that I needed to financially. I sat and watched uspolitics do all the shit they've done this past year.

And I kept going, and now we're here.

happy GNU/year, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus year

Super wolf moon on the 1st and it’s going to be year of the dog 2018 get here already

AWOO
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in 2019 the main type of fashion will be a dakimakura with a picture of yourself on it, which has holes for your arms and your legs (no neck hole)

It’s really surprising that even though they call her a shapeshifter, she doesn’t have a human form and is just a dragon all the time.

Oh well. It’s probably for the better. I bet if she did they’d find some way to make it weird.

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