Twelve years ago...

...I had some kind of post-Christmas breakdown and started writing.

http://sleepingnotthinkingold.blogspot.com.au/2000/12/smitten-book-i-genesis.html

Proud

Of the world. This doesn't happen often.

News of the discovery of a new elementary particle that could be the Higgs boson is on the front page of Sydney newspaper websites (which normally would be plastered top to bottom with the State of Origin). #Higgs is trending high all over the world, even in the US where it's Independence Day.

It's nice to have the cynic in me get a beating once in a while.

Nintendo Game & Watch

Update: http://handheld.remakes.org/online.php

How THAT Taken speech would have actually happened

" I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; Ski.."

"What? Like a baker?"

"Uh, no...skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skil..."

"Do you fix iPhone screens, 'cause mine has a  crack right down..."

"Please, listen to me...I have skills that make me a nightmare for people li..."

"What the fuck are you talking about? Spit it out, man. If there's something you need me to know?"

"Well, look, I'm trying to be somewhat enigmatic here...So, if you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it..."

"What are you saying? That you're some kind of super CIA assassin or something?"

"...I will not look for you, I will not pursue you..."

"So that is it? You're a dick-down-to-your-knees certified badass muthafucka?"

"...But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you..."

"Yes, I get that. Why didn't you just say 'Oh hai, there seems to be some mistake, you're attempting to kidnap the daughter of a goddamned CIA serial killer'? 

I'll let her go immediately."

"What?"

"Look, man. I run a business and the last thing I need is a pissed off cold-blooded, psycho, karate, ninja, assassin soccer-dad after me and my boys. There's no need. Hundreds of fuckable teen girls come to Paris every day. We'll nab a couple of Australians or something. Better yet, some Kiwis. They haven't got any ninja assassins working for them, they don't even have an airforce."

"Now, hang on a second. Did I mention my skills? My long career. You know I've been retired for a bit. I've kinda missed it all, a bit..."

"What? Now you want me to kidnap her? Listen up.  I wouldn't even have picked her and her friend if I'd known they were American. I'm not a moron. I know you fucks in the USA think we Eastern Europeans are a bunch of two tooth yokels, but we do have education systems in our countries. Hell, I'll bet my English is better than your Khazakfuckingstani!"

"Well, my Khazakstani isn't too bad..."

"Shut the fuck up. As I was saying , I'm no fool. Stealing a young, BLOND, American girl is just about the dumbest thing imaginable. Even if their father wasn't Chuck fucking Norris.It's not going to be only you out to get me. Her picture will be blasted on every fucking news channel on the planet. I mean look at her, she's a fucking super model. I could steal ten thousand Arab children and it wouldn't even make it to the little scrolling bar at the bottom of the screen. You'd be reading about finding the Higgs boson before ever knowing ten thousand dark kids were kidnapped. But your daughter would be on the screen 24 fucking 7.  And I'd have every single US agent, soldier and mercenary, not to mention pissed off ex-mass murderer fathers, on my arse. I wouldn't be able to take a shit without worrying some drone will nuke me through the fucking sewers.

So, please, with my blessings, have your daughter back. Good day."

 "...and I will kill you."

What have I done?

Google+ and Blogger integration?!?!Interrobang‽


What does it mean?


Did I mention I'm like 20 scenes away from finishing the first draft (well, second attempt at a first draft) of my first novel? 112,000 words down, 10-20,000 left to go.


I think I'll savour the run in and take a couple of years to finish it.

Update

Goals still on track. Which is still spectacularly unbelievable.

The trip to France was fantastic and proof that a month off a year is absolutely needed.

Health is good. Teeth are good. Fitness is good.

Despite the demons in my mind trying to tell me otherwise, life is good. If I were to list everything I wanted out of life, I'd have most of it.