"...the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."

(see, I said I'd get to it)

( brief whine )

But-- I really wanted to post the thing I've been thinking about for a while now, about music. lagged_variable started it, actually, with his list of "slightly inappropriate baby songs" for baby E. He has the whole list of songs that are baby-appropriate sound-wise but not in content, and was asking for suggestions.

My first thought (which was totally not the sort of thing he was looking for) was "Whisky Lullaby." (ok, yes, you're probably all going to throw things at me now, but I don't see why one should discriminate against a perfectly good depressing song just because someone labled it "country") Which brings up the playlist that's been kind of forming in the back of my brain since I used to do mix tapes. Because I want a collection of deviant lullabies.

( the list so far... )

Anyway, I know there's stuff out there that I've never heard or heard of. Anybody know what it is? :)

24.5k/39.0 and this is getting long again

Chapter 13 has metamorphosed from 2.4k to 3.5, and I had to go back and change the title because I didn't get to the gaming hell after all. Which I can't remember if I did last time too, or not... it's not in my notes if I did, but it's not a bad stopping place; the original chapter break was either here or on the steamer to India.

In any case, at least another 500 words, preferably another thousand, should still happen tonight, and I am on to Duban, who is entirely self-contained, except for the final (chronologically-- Argent still meets him in the Inferno in a later chapter) appearance of Charon. Only... I can't quite remember where it is that Duban gets his wisdom from. Because it's his little brothers who go to see the Norns and the mouse-Pythia at Delphi.

Right. More tea, & stuff. (if good coffee=code and bad coffee=poetry (more or less), then warm tea=productivity, and cold tea=daydreaming. Although sometimes it's cranberry juice instead of tea, and then the temperature goes the other way around.)