Happy New Year!

We have already passed the first week of 2022, and here is hoping that so far it’s going better than the last two years for everyone.

Banished, the first book of my fantasy series The Riddled Stone, has been available to read in its entirety for free on my blog since early 2017. However, I don’t think anyone would say blog posts are their preferred format for reading a novel. The best way is probably snuggled up with a physical book next to a fireplace, wrapped in a blanket while a snowstorm blows outside, with a cat in one’s lap and a preferred hot beverage at hand (or maybe that’s just me).

But an e-reader or phone can also be pretty nice, which is why I am pleased to announce that Banished is now free as an ebook most places. This includes my publisher’s store and even several of the Amazon sites. (Though I don’t know how long the latter will stay free. Because Amazon.)

So, now is the perfect time to grab Banished for your digital device and encourage anyone else you think would like the story to do the same. You can see everywhere it’s sold and check out the rest of the series on my Books page.

So how is everyone? End of the world and all, tons of fun, right? Yup, I have everything set up for the zombie apocalypse already.

Unfortunately, my throat is rebelling. It’s been sore most of the morning… I REFUSE TO BE SICK AT THE END OF THE WORLD!!! Honestly, who would want to be sick at the end of the world?

Also, I finished writing The Riddle Stone Book 2 yesterday. *sigh* One day short of 12, 12, 12. If only I’d realized that yesterday and stopped myself. On a brighter note, while the zombies are busy dying in my piranha trap, I can be editing! Ho, ho ho, Merry Christmas… Yeah, I really don’t look forward to editing that much, actually…

Anyway, why is 12:12:12:12:12:12 so special? I mean, besides the end of the world and all. Last year there was an 11:11:11:11:11:11. And the year before that a 10:10:10:10:10:10. You get the picture? There’s even two 12:12:etc. in a day: one AM, one PM. Of course, this will be the last megarepetitive date for a while… *pause while I calculate*… The next one will be in just over 88 years, and 88 is a repeat number, too. Lol. But it is sadly not 88.8 years — that’d be just too hilarious.

But you realize, in 88 years (roughly) there will be a set of 12 years that all have repeat digits like today. That’s actually exactly 100 years per cycle… Lol. All the interesting things we can discover and then be like “OH! That makes total sense because…”

So yeah, end of the world, big explosion, piranhas, zombies… Why is it always zombies? There are way too many games and movies and songs and books and EVERYTHING about zombies. Maybe it’s just an apocalypse thing. Maybe next year it’ll be hippogryphs. That would be cool.

By the way, while I can’t schedule this post down to the second, I can schedule it so it’ll be posted at 12:12:12:12. So that’s cool, right?

Anyway, happy 12:12:12:12:12:12, end of the world, Merry Christmas, and all that jazz!

The weather is chilling (sorta), the juncos are back, and the blog is a-snowing.

Literally, there is snow on the blog. I love that feature.

But the point is, it’s starting to feel a bit like winter over here in rural Illinois, so I’m asking you: What things make it winter for you?

Winter winds blowing,
It’s freezing, it’s snowing,
Next year is coming so fast.
Together we’re laughing,
Everyone ‘s shopping,
Remembering Christmases past.

So that poem was a bit rough around the edges, but hey, I’m out of practice — and poems were never my forte anyway.

Anyway, in case I don’t get a chance to say this later: Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to you — wherever you are, and regardless of what holiday you celebrate this month.

Cheers,
P. Kitten

P.S. You can make the snow go different ways by moving your mouse.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo, it’s November now, Nano time. Unfortunately I haven’t done anything. My word count is none, zilch, nada, 0. 0o0o0o0o Okay, the o looks more like a 0 than the 0, the 0 is just too round. Weird. And why was my cat crouched over and sniffing behind and possibly under my computer lap thingy, whatever it’s called. It’s like a yellow thingy that sits on your lap, that you can put your computer on. Or use as a clipboard without a clip and with a pencil holder, or whatever that thing is supposed to hold.

Anyway, completely off topic that. Let’s see if I can’t update you on some stuff. The day before yesterday was Halloween, CANDY. But I couldn’t eat some of the things I got because I have braces, that I got in like, September, and don’t think I’ve told you about yet. Hmm. But I traded that stuff away, because I was with Builder‘s family, and a couple of their friends, and people. And then I got to thinking, if I sold all the candy that I got for even just a penny, I’d be making a profit, cool huh?

Yeah, sooooooooooo. And yesterday started November, and NANOWRIMO!!! *lights flashing and opera singing*. Yeah, but right now my word count is nil, like I told you before, because I was at a friend’s house until around 2, and when we got home I fell asleep until around suppertime, and then we watched a movie. And all of this means I should really be working on my novel, but instead I’m writing this. That just goes to show how much I care about you guys, right? Or at least it shows what a procrastinator I am. Heh.

Anyway, on the subject of Nano, I might be adding some text in my sidebar that shows where I stand in comparison with my goal. So, right now it would look like this:

Nano goal: 15,000

Word count: 00,000

:P, I’d probably update it weekly or so. Maybe. You’re probably thinking I must be pretty confident to be so sure of everything and to hardly ever have any phrases like ‘maybe’ or ‘if I ever get around to it’ *that last sentence must be read with playful sarcasms, if you have any idea what I mean by that*.

Also, me and Gecko have started a new way for you to get content from us. But I’m not going say anything more, so watch Coll. Rand. for more details coming soon… maybe, sorta. Anyway, if we ever decide to announce it, you’ll hear it there first. Hmm, yay for teasers! Not really. Anyway, I guess I’ll talk to you later. Buh bye!

How many people here have heard of Pokémon? If you haven’t, you’re amazing, and go look it up :P. Anyway, there’s a certain Pokémon called Eevee that can evolve into seven different Pokémon: Flareoon, Vaporeon, Volteon, etc. etc. etc… all ending in “eon”.

Now the other month or so (XD yeah, a while back), I was chatting with Dancer Girl, I forget what about, and she accidentally typed “duneon” instead of whatever she meant to type. We both agreed that it sounded like the name of something an Eevee would evolve into (an Eeveelution).

For whatever reason, I decided right then and there that I wanted to create a Duneon. So here it is (yes, I know it’s not shaded, and that it would looked five times better if it was shaded, but I didn’t feel like shading it, and I think it came out pretty good for being done on a computer (even with a tablet) and not being shaded):

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Okay, so I really should have written and posted this on Monday, however I was tired then. And as for the time in between . . . well never mind that. Anyway, Monday. So this spring it rained so much all we wanted was sunshine, then this summer it’s been hot, dry and humid. No rain at all, and what rain there was to quick to do anything except maybe make it more humid.

Monday however, there was rain. It was wonderful, of course there was some lightning, and I was outside and got wet (which is why I was tired), but oh well.

Anyway, rain came, and lately it has felt more cold than hot (yesterday I got up really early for a change, and went outside for a few minutes and it felt nice and cool. In winter it might have felt slightly warm, but after the heat we’ve been having, it felt cool.

Anyway, I’m a lot happier with the weather now. In fact if it stays like that, I think I might go take a walk tomorrow. Anyway, I need to stop rambling or I’ll get entirely off topic. Buh-bye for now! (Might write more later.)

I’ve changed my theme (as you have probably noticed) to show that my blog is officially ready for summer.

Here’s some goals for my summer:

• Draw a lot.
• Write a lot, on novels and blog.
• Probably read a lot, but that’s not really a goal. . . *cough cough*.
• Be better at doing school work.
• Be better at doing chores.
• Be better at not sleeping my mornings away *heh heh*.
• Improve riding skills.
• Be more active and outdoorsish.
• Swim a lot.
• Those sort of things.

Of course, some of these things you’ve already seen to be on my to-do list from my Spring. . . Or Summer/Oddities of  me post, still this is a more official list. Let’s see how long this lasts *heh heh*.

Okay, not very imaginative title. . . anyway, so my sim is a sculptor, and she made this sculpture, and its name is funny. Why? Well, wouldn’t you find it funny if your sim’s first masterpiece sculpture (I’m pretty sure it’s her first) is a “You’ve Got a Big Head” sculpture? XD.

P.S.: It’s a sculpture of a big head, in stone ._.

Because when you do, everything explodes. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
But if everything is exploded, then you have nothing left. So divided by zero stuff is zero, because everything’s incinerated and there is nothing left, and nothing = 0 (or 0 = nothing).

For a more serious explanation, looked around Gecko’s blog, but I’m too tired to bother searching for it. Cya.

[This is Gecko, and I divided by zero, and the world’s still here. HA!]

That’s just because someone (probably to CIA or government or something) decided to hide those type of explosions. IT STILL HAPPENED! IT STILL EXPLODED! They just hid it from you!!

[Um. You said that if you divided by zero, there would be nothing left. Everything is still here. I HAVE PROOF BECAUSE IF YOU’RE READING THIS, READER, YOU ARE HERE, THUS DISPROVING IT! ):< ]

BUT I DIDN’T MEAN EVERYTHING IN THAT WAY! D<<<< The numbers would explode, whatever you divided by 0, the 0, and the division sign, and possibly the = sign, too, is what exploded. Therefore, there is nothing left of the math problem, so the answer is zero.

[I can still write 8/0=???. The numbers are still here. Now, uhm, er… cheeeeseeee]

BUT DID YOU ACTUALLY DO THE EQUATION? No, you just wrote it; it didn’t actually do the equation. You just wrote it. Therefore, it didn’t explode. If I just write 1+1=??? Have I actually done the equation? NO!

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AH! LIKE I SAID! PROOF THAT WHAT I SAID IS RIGHT! THEY’RE HIDING IT! IT’S ALL A LIE! IT’S ALL IN THE BACKGROUND! THEY’RE ALL LIARS! WHOEVER MADE THIS CALCULATOR IS A LIAR.

[Wait… WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?? OH RIGHT ABOUT DIVISION BY ZERO!!! I SHALL NOW REFER TO MY PREVIOUS POST ABOUT… (hold on…) http://climbinggecko.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/why-anything-%C3%B7-zero-is-impossible/ HA HA HA MY LOGIC BEATS YOUR LOGIC! THERE ARE NO CONSPIRACIES, THE GOVERNMENT IS GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOOD]

THANK YOU FOR PROVING MY POINT!! *points to drawing with all the squiggly lines* IT EXPLODED! IT EXPLODED! AND THE CONSPIRACY COULDN’T HIDE IT BECAUSE. . . Uh. . . erm. . . because. . . because . . . BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW YOUR BLOG EXISTS! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[I is robot. BEEP BEEP HUMANS HAVE NO GOOD LOGIC beep beep]

IT’S ALL A BIG CONSPIRACY! THEY’RE PLACING ROBOTS AMONG US!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!! ALL A GIANT CONSPIRACY! . . . wait, you’re a robot? o.o nooo! YOU CAN’T BE A ROBOT! YOU’RE MY FRIEND! MY FRIEND IS A ROBOT! THE CONSPIRISTS HATE ME! YES YES THEY HATE ME (my alternate personality: No wonder — you’re trying prove they exist and expose them. . .) THEY REPLACED MY FRIEND WITH A ROBOT THEY HATE ME!!! I WILL AVENGE YOU (my alternate personality: But if he was always a robot, why do you need to avenge him, and how can you prove he wasn’t always a robot?) I WILL DESTROY YOU CONSPIRIST PEOPLEZ!!! IT’S ALL A GIANT CONSPIRACY!

{Around then, everyone concerned with this post (besides the conspirators that there is actually no proof of their existence and probably don’t really exists) were dragged off to an insane asylum. . . So yeah, but they allowed them to continue to post under close supervision. Also I’d like to give thanks to–}

THE INSANE ASYLUM IS ALL IN ON THE PLOT!!!!!! THEY’RE ALL PART OF IT! THEY’RE ALL PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!!!!

{As I was saying–}

[*runs around beeping* BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BINARY SYSTEM OVERLOAD BEEP BEEP]

{WOULD SOMEONE CLOSE THOSE DOORS ALREADY? Anyway, this post was brought to you by Panera and Sushi Cat. . . Oh, and Gecko really was here.}

One of my favorite songs is Stand In The Rain, by Superchick.

Also there’s Beauty From Pain, which I feel represents how even when times seem bad, it’s all working towards a glorious end, and it’s all part of God’s plan, that there’s some purpose in it all (similar to Stand In The Rain):

Yeah, so I like Superchick. Though, they’re like one of the few artists that I can keep sort straight, so that might be part of it 😛 Yeah, I fail at keeping musics and songs and artists straight.

I also enjoy songs from Chris Rice, Johnny Cash, and others. Most I think are Christian artists because those are the ones I can keep straight, more or less. Mostly Less 😛