solarbird | assorted animal noises

newmoon upgrade went all pear-shaped and the installer deleted half our configuration. MY DATA BASE IS PAESTED ON YAY! But I got the article I was writing sent in, so they can roll the money scooter over me, baby, yeah. Or something like that.

Thursday's miles: 11.5
Miles out of Hobbiton: 301.25
Miles to Rivendell: 157.05
Trail speed to murksouth: 12.0mph (approx.)
Total speed, door to door: 10.3mph (approx.)

Entire trail in 2,6; I was in 2,6 or better until the hill up to Murkworks South. That's actually pretty good - this is the more difficult direction, the one that's mostly a long, slow, uphill slog (slow uphill, flat, slow uphill, flat) for the first 80% of it. So an extra 17% transit time is about to be expected. This is, regardless, the first time I've gotten that distance in 2,6 the whole way, so yay. ^_^ Unfortunately, I think my chain is stretching or something. It keeps slipping when I ramp up speed, particularly in higher gears. :(

Here's my entry for today's Free Idea Fridays, which are

nihilistic_kid's idea. Basically, you throw crap story ideas out into the world for no particularly good reason. Here's my contribution:

In the world of yesterday's tomorrow, prohibitionist-bucking skateboard punks revolt against the nominally-democratic but actually computer-controlled elected council government of their city-slowship flying long-haul trading missions through deep space. Paranoid twists abound as intrepid drunken sk8er detectives discover that the real reason for alcohol prohibition isn't moralistic - it's because the ship is alcohol driven and has reached peak alcohol production from their synthesisers, and reactor efficiency just keeps dropping! The shock ending? What they've been drinking isn't alcohol - but what is it?

And also, have MurkMUSH dumbness:

solarbird BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS
Thanatos doesn't have any.

solarbird BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS GODDAMMIT

solarbird sends openly ** SCOTTY WE'VE GOT TO HAVE BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS IN FIFTEEN MINUTES OR WE'RE ALL DEAD! **

annathepiper .oO (Zombie Dara = Kirk?)

solarbird ew

solarbird sends openly ** BUT CAPTAIN I DONNA CARE I'M ALREADY DEAD! **

solarbird sends openly ** Zombie Doctor McCoy says, "Hell, so're half the rest of us. It's turning into quite the party down here!" **
Thanatos says "It's worse than that."

solarbird sends openly ** I'M DEAD JIM DEAD JIM DEAD JIM DEAD JIM **

annathepiper says "Scotty, beam me up!"

solarbird sends openly ** ZOMBIE SCOTTY CANNA DO IT! **
Thanatos says "You're all fired. Go home."
Zombie Spock says, "Fascinating." Oddly, he looks little different than Living Spock, except maybe a little greener.

solarbird sends openly ** ZOMBIE SCOTTY SINGS, 'MY BRAINS ARE ON THE STARBOARD BOW, STARBOARD BOW, STARBOARD BOW, MY BRAINS ARE ON THE STARBOARD BOW, MMMMMMMMMM BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS **

annathepiper says "SCRAPE 'EM OFF, JIM!"

solarbird sends openly ** LICK 'EM OFF, JIM! **

annathepiper EEEEEW

solarbird sends openly ** THEY'VE DONE BEEN FREEZE DRIED! **

annathepiper giggles helplessly

annathepiper says "HI we're very tired! Does it show?"
Thanatos says "Only when I look."

And finally, today's flower picture, found and photographed across the road from La Hacienda: