Great Free Online Fantasy Novel

I love to read, and I really love to read good fantasy.  The Cleansing of Darnuth Keep really has held my attention.  This is top quality fantasy, and you can't beat the price - free!  Obviously a lot of work has gone into this work, I just wish I could find it in print somewhere, though of course then I would have to pay for it. 

Here is a link to the novel.  The action is good, but the plot is very well done.  Colter, the main character, really develops throughout the story.  The world is a rich environment rife with details and lots of sparks for the imagination.

Entrecard's Ability to Drive Traffic

There are a lot of things to say about Entrecard, but one thing that I have noticed is that it will actually get you traffic and free traffic at that.

Now, depending on your luck and which friends you make you can actually get a LOT of traffic through Entrecard. If, for example you manage to get yourself onto one of these lists that are floating around the net where people drop on you then you have it made. You will get hundreds, if not thousands of visits each month just from people doing their drops and you won't have to do any advertising.

On the other hand, if you don't have the time to go out and do a bunch of dropping, and your site isn't the greatest and you haven't gotten onto a magic drop list scheme then you won't be seeing much traffic from Entrecard or anywhere else.

Flowers

Flowers are pretty darn awesome - especially when the wife is pissed at you because you forgot something.

Luncheon Cake

1 lb. butter
1 lb. sugar
10 eggs
1 1/4 lbs. all purpose flour
1 1/2 lbs. raisins
1/2 lb. mixed candied fruit peel

Cream butter until fluffy, add surgar and beat 5 minutes. Break eggs in two at a time until six are in, beating each two for 5 minutes, then 1 at a time, beating each 5 minutes. Add flour and fruit which has been lightly floured with some of the flour. Pour into 2 greased loaf pans, 9x5x3. Bake for 1 1/2 hours in the 300 degree oven or until done.

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Now, that looks like a lot of fat to me and a heck of a lot of egg beating. Count it up, thats 35 minutes of beating eggs. Of course its probably pretty light and fluffy as well. If any of y'all feel like beating eggs for 35 minutes let me know how the cake turns out.

Blogging For Blogging’s Sake

Is blogging for the sake of making blogs a good reason to blog?

I’m not 100% sure why I blog. There are certainly more profitable things I could be doing. I guess I like to write. I know I like to create. I like to leave my mark and maybe this is the only way I can do it. A virtual mark on the internet where whoever happens to come across it gets some random bit of me.

But that is not the question. The question is: Is it morally correct to write a blog simply for the sake of writing a blog?

Please, discuss amongst yourselves and then return in an hour.

Hag's End.

I Loves Me Some Pistachios

I really do like to sit and crack on some pistachios. They are green salty bits of goodness that I just can’t seem to get enough of.

Often when I sit down to write I have a bag or bowl, or even just a pile of them close by. Then when I reach a juncture where I have to come up with my next thought I reach over and grabs me one and start crackin’ away. What a life.

If our ancestors had it so good they could sit around and sew all day then I think I’ve found the next best thing. I can sit at my computer for hours just writing and browsing the web and cracking nuts.

The only drawback is that I seem to be getting fatter by the minute. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just die one fat, happy, web surfin’ nut cracker.

I Bought and Embroidery Book

So I like to do crafty little things now and again. Hey, there is nothing wrong with doing crafts. I watch sports too, and I also play video games.

But I wanted to understand embroidery a little bit better and I happened to be where they were selling books and fate slapped me on the face and I went home with an embroidery book.

I had no idea of the amazingly complex things that can be done with embroidery. Some of it seems utterly pointless to me, like the super complex stitches where they make this pattern and then undo the weave of the original material. But then it does look cool when it is all finished.

But I had to ask myself. Who thought to do this stuff first? I mean who in their right mind sat down and thought up doing stitches that complicated? Somebody had a lot of time on their hands. Somebody had nothing to do but sit and embroider.

Which brings me to think that we are really losing ourselves if thousands of years ago there were people out there who had it so good that they could afford to sit on their buts for months on end doing nothing more than pulling a needle and a thread. We work ourselves to death but they had it figured out millennia ago. What chumps we must be.