This is a first -- more than a snippet of writing about a WoW character. Verali wanted to recount the events that led Lion to become Arjuna, so here they are.

( It's silly to have a lion named Lion. )

No, iliadawry, poking the gnat that has landed on your monitor with the mouse pointer will not make it go away. The mouse pointer is not really poking the gnat.

In other news, ( my BPAL wish list is probably boring to you. )

With thanks to enrobso, we present...

Poll #485570 A Ringer for Ratzinger
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Pope Benedict XVI looks most like he should be named:

If other, who?

Technical wizards, I call upon you.

My access to iTunes music store has died. Every time I try and download a song or access my account, the program crashes. What could be causing this? How do I fix it?

It was pretty quiet and nondescript. There weren't huge lines -- I went at about 3:30, after I got off work. Hell, there wasn't really any line, but I took some time to sit down with a section of the paper about local candidates and make informed decisions. Once I made my cheat sheet, I checked in and got my ballot and thanked the nice old lady and went to a boothlet and voted. I was sad that there was no lever -- we had a bubble-sheet type thing and used a state-issued pencil. I fed my ballot to the machine when I was done and grinned a big dumb grin.

I live in a red state. Hell, I usually live in a red house. And my whole damn house went blue this year. Maybe my state will too.

(ETA: This is in part in response to Chuck Tryon's request to blog our votes, found here.)

PSA: ( This has had me assing my laugh off for like an hour. )