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Remember When The Future Involved Rollerblades?

Remember when the future involved Rollerblades?

I haven’t seen Rollerblades so often anymore, so maybe this one isn’t going to come true. Too bad though. I liked that movie.

Congrats To The 2017/2018 Winter University Of Nebraska MFA In Writing Graduates!

Congrats to the 2017/2018 Winter University of Nebraska MFA in Writing Graduates!

Yeah, I know not everyone would have picked a Rick and Morty animated gif for this. So what?

2017 Both Was And Was Not A Record Setting Reading Year

Well, 2017 both was and was not a record setting reading year. Without a doubt, it was a big year at 333 books. That beats out the 303 in 2014, the 313 in 2013, and the 318 in 2011 (my other 3 over 200 years). However, those 333 books only added up to 84,557 pages.

By way of contrast, the 303 in 2014 added up to 86,028, the 313 in 2013 added up to 87,439, and the 318 in 2011 added up to 89,826. Thus, by the more accurate page count, it was only my fourth highest year (none of my other years broke 80K, the highest being the 243 books in 2012 that added up to 73,216). Even if a bunch of books didn’t list any pages and this didn’t add any to the page count, which happens sometimes, I doubt there’d be anywhere near that many. I read a lot, just not a record on total amount, and the difference is in the size of the books I read.

I just didn’t read as big of books in 2017.

Granted, it’s still a record for total number. 2017 just comes down to 254 pages per book whereas 2014 was 284 pages per book, 2013 was 279 pages per book, and 2011 was 282 pages per book. Thus, 2017 for most books read, 2011 for most pages read, and 2014 for largest average page count per book.

Regardless, it isn’t as if I was reading chapbooks the whole year and I did end up reading quite a bit, just perhaps not as much of a record reading year as it appeared it might be. It all probably means I’m not writing enough anyway.

Notice That We’ve Heard No More From McDonald’s About The Rick And Morty Szechuan Sauce?

Notice that we’ve heard no more from McDonald’s about the Rick And Morty Szechuan sauce? After the debacle, they said they’d bring out better supplies sometime in winter. I know winter has just begun a week or so ago, but I imagined that we’d have heard more about what those plans were shaping up to be.

McDonald’s is a bit suspect at this point. It’s funny, because I know the sauce is going to be garbage anyway.

Let’s Start 2018 Out Right

Let’s start 2018 out right.

Yup, hot dog screaming in a microwave. This was definitely the way to go.

A Final Message To 2017

Here is a final message to 2017:

On to 2018.

One More Day To Enter The Apocalypse All the Time Goodreads Giveaway!

One more day to enter the Goodreads giveaway for Apocalypse All the Time ! One more time, I’m giving away 6 signed copies to commemorate the one year anniversary of the release date. Ends when December 31 ends.

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Apocalypse All the Time
by David S. Atkinson

Giveaway ends January 01, 2018.

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Apocalypse All the Time is post-post-apocalypticism. The apocalypse happens on a weekly (if not daily) basis and Marshall is sick of it. Life is constantly in peril, constantly disrupted, but nothing significant every really happens as a result. It’s always handled. Marshall wants out; he wants it all to end. In short, the book explores what about the end times holds such fascination for humanity and what impact such a fascination has on the way we live our lives.

I Have A Cheap Las Vegas Snow Globe On My Desk At Work

I have a cheap Las Vegas snow globe on my desk at work. I don’t know why. I got it 7 or 8 years ago and just keep it there, shaking it once in a while when I feel like I need to make the day better. I don’t know why I do that either.

It’s pretty cheap. I intentionally got one of the crappiest ones I could find. It isn’t this one, but it’s close:

Mine is pretty much this one in blue. Took me three seconds on Google Images to find one pretty much identical, even if the color was off.

Does That Hair Tie Belong To My Wife Or The Cat?

I was in the bathroom getting ready this morning and I noticed a hair tie sitting on the floor near the door to the bedroom. At that moment, I was unsure if the hair tie belonged to my wife or the kitten.

Note, we call this cat “the kitten,” but that is neither her name nor her age status. I believe she is almost two, and her name is technically Quarter. I told my wife when she wanted the cat that we had too many and she insisted this one, due to only being about two months old, was only a quarter. I said yes if we could make that the cat’s name, and my wife agreed…and then subsequently tried to back out of. She wanted Fluffykins. I talked her into Suzie Quarter, Suzie Q being the shortened version, and then we just ended up calling the cat “the kitten,” usually in reference to her still high level kittenish need to play and get into/destroy things constantly.

Regardless, due to her habits, the kitten is not allowed in the bathroom. We keep the door shut. She is fond of playing with hair ties and my wife has provided many for the kitten to use. My wife also wants to be able to use hair ties though and has retained some for her own, separate use. Sometimes, due to the fact that someone is closed in the bathroom away from her, the kitten will shove a hair tie under the door in an attempt to get them to come out and play with her. Seeing the hair tie there I didn’t know if it was one of my wife’s she had accidentally dropped there or one the kitten had shoved under in an attempt to talk me into coming out and paying attention to her.

What to do? Give the hair tie to the kitten and risk it being one my wife had saved for herself? Leave it there and take a toy away from the kitten?

There was no way to be sure.

Depression Over!

Okay, depression is over! Time to start looking forward to New Year’s!

(This is why we have so many holidays, so you can start looking forward to the next soon after the depression sets in that one is over.)