Number one with a bullet I'm a power pack

Well folks, the Humble Bundle promo is over - so if you missed it, my apologies. On the upshot, you won't hear me natter about it anymore, so there's that! Seriously, though: it was a pleasure and a privilege to be included, and I can't thank the organizers enough for inviting me.
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Can't remember if I mentioned this here or not, or only on FB/Twitter ... but the "cemetery kittens" (as I'd come to think of them) have both moved on to their forever homes. One is right here in my neighborhood, and one is out by Signal Mountain ... so three cheers for that, eh? Many thanks to the fine folks at the McKamey Animal Center for doing right by those little guys.
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Had a most excellent visit this past week with one of my very dearest friends in the world. I don't see her nearly often enough, now that we no longer live in the same town. (We both used to live in Chattanooga, and now she lives elsewhere.) It was a wonderful time, if too brief; but epic shopping marathons did verily occur - and much good booze went down the hatch. Until next time!

[:: toasts in her general direction ::]

(I don't mean to be coy about her identity, though people routinely ask me to SPILL THE BEANS in case she's someone famous or something. She's not. She just likes her privacy, and I respect that.)
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Next up: my cousin Chelsea is coming into town Tuesday for a round of job interviews. (Same cousin who graduated in May, and is now an RN.) She won't be here but a few days before she goes back to Florida for the rest of the summer, but they'll be jam-packed days - and I may or may not get around to any word metrics or posting.

I'll try to keep up my end of the internet bargain, but not long after Chelsea leaves, my mom is passing through as well. So it's Guest City up in here, as of late. So I hope you'll forgive me if I'm a bit more scarce than I typically prefer to be.
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Did a 90-minute chat with the kind folks from the Social Media Alliance of Chattanooga, as previously mentioned. I talked too fast and rambled too much, and probably digressed in excess. But by and large, I said what I meant to say - and met a bunch of lovely people while I was at it. Bonus: reconnected with an old friend, and made vows of dog playdates in the future. No regrets, man.
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I mentioned before that I very much enjoyed Pacific Rim. It's still sticking with me a bit - prompting a late-night musing. I once had a professor tell me that one key to suspense giving the protagonists an impossible time frame in which to complete a task ... and then cutting it in half. PR is a master class in this, I swear.

Without going into spoilers or anything, our heroes are up against impossible odds when things get underway - and still their time and their resources are cut in half, and cut in half once more, and cut in half again. And all the while, their enemies' resources double exponentially - like some weird, warped, reverse Fibonacci sequence.

Anyway. The more I think about it, the more I'm impressed with the craft of the thing.
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Okay. That's all the recap I've got for now. I'll be around tomorrow, probably - with dog pictures if nothing else. Greyson's going to the groomer, for a very badly needed bath and foot/teeth/butt clean-up; and he always comes back looking and smelling like a little prince, so there will be pictures. Especially if they give him a kicky little bandanna, and he doesn't yank it off and eat it. Like last time.

But it's starting to thunder over here, so I'm going to log off and wait out the afternoon thundershower. Have a good one, everybody.