PixlBit

My favorite independant book store is a little place in South Portland, ME called Nonesuch Books. Second favorite is a tie between Longfellow Books in Portland and Sherman's Books in Freeport. My absolute favorite bookstore in all the world is unfortunately no more, a victim of rental price gouging by their landlord and big box bookstores like Borders.

As for Boneshaker, very well-written. I read the first half in practically one sitting. And Seattle is so very cool in real life, not so much in the book. Full of zombies and killer gas.

Cary, it's not that spectacular of a costume. I thought there was going to be more to it.

Have you ever had honest to goodness real maple syrup and not that crap most people think is syrup? Big difference! But if you're not really into sweet stuff, I can see where you might not be all that into it.

ALB is a horrible, nasty invasive beetle with an appetite for maple trees. Not a good thing if you like syrup.

That's just the sap. It'll only be 5.5 gallons of actual syrup.

Yep, 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. Explains why it goes for about $65 a gallon, doesn't it?

I go through phases where I just do other stuff for a while. I usually have a gaming lull about this time every year, I'm thinking about spring and spending more time outside.

It's nice after dealing with the trolls and immaturity on a lot of other sites, isn't it? But yes, I know what you're saying.

Preaching to the choir, Blake. I know that, but that old fart doesn't.

But one of them won't get you arrested on assault charges 

My pops never did get my older brother's and my interest in games. And he'd say so, loudly and annoyingly sometimes. My mom doesn't get it either, but she accepts it.