my carrots are rotten

A brand new bag of carrots, opened only to discover that slimy texture that tells you "this is not for eating." I'm sure they wouldn't hurt me, but when the only reason I'm eating is for my own entertainment, vegetables covered in suspicious mucus-y film are not what I ordered from culinary netflix.

I am making a game. A storytelling game. The king of the Beowulf-era mead hall is dead, and all would-be successors need to boast of their heroics to prove their worthiness to assume the crown. It's building itself into a hybrid of Munchkin and Once Upon a Time with a side of Liar's Dice, as whether you are mighty enough to do the things you say you've done is never really certain.

When this game is complete, I will launch a site where all the materials from all the games I've ever made will be downloadable. There will be The Jungle, Zombies vs Elves, Fishin' With Cthulhu, Time Machine Junkyard, Tiki God, and the as-yet untitled forthcoming creation. There will also be a Paypal button on the off chance that someone feels like buying me a sandwich, or perhaps a bottle of Snake Peel shower gel. Hopefully Ricky, Ashlyn, Tim, and I will keep making new things too.

and you make a neat gun for the people who are

...STILL ALIVE

and how. Alright, my little internet captchalogue. Here we are again.

As I type this, I am endlessly refreshing the login screen and/or server status of League of Legends. The talons of Maripongides, Lord of Video Games, remain lodged firmly in my tender mortal flesh. I spent the better part of a week in Canada doing A Different Spin shows (and being put up in the Hilton, which sounds swanky and pleasant until you realize that nothing is complimentary in classy establishments and you'd be better off with the Holiday Inn) and spent much of my downtime staring glassily into the screen of the Nintendo DS that I bought on an impulse to try Scribblenauts. This is why I'm bad at making friends.

F5. Server unavailable. F5. Server unavailable.

Going to try to swim back to this little boat of mine and turn it upright from its prolonged capsize of many moons. It's just hard to get leverage when you're neck deep in ocean.