Or Southern Missouri. (mizz er ruh!) Versailles, Vichy, Vienna, Cuba, Lebanon, all fairly close around there.

I do about one convention a month as a pro. I steer clear of the huge ones, like Dragon, because the hotel alone gives me vertigo. I love conventions that have their own Guidebook module. What I've learned over the years:

ADHD runs in my family. My mother (age 68) copes by endless routine. She structures her day the same way every day, so that she can get showered and dressed and eat breakfast and clean up without getting distracted. All her basic chores are like that. I cope by heavy amounts of caffeine (200-400 mg/day).

They all take typing, and sometimes that is challenge enough. Good books, the ones you're supposed to write at that time and place, come deceptively easily. The words flow out of you like water, sometimes so fast it's hard to keep up, and it's only after they've been typed that you realize how deeply you're bleeding…

Jesus is ethnic white, like a blond Swede or a red-headed Celt. If Italians are white, and Greeks are white, Turks and Lebanese are white. Diogo Mordalo is a pretty good choice, IMO. (After all, if Spaniard Francisco Bosch can look Persian...)

The first documented occurrence of the Joker laugh is in The Big Red One. Watch it to the end.

When I have $250 budgeted for a hotel room, based on the reservations, I don't want to be told it's now $300 because debit card, and you'd better have $600 in your checking account, because we're holding $300 more until next week. I don't operate with that kind of cushion.

With the Debit, I know where I spent my money because the receipts go in our check register. With cash, it flows through my fingers. Credit card is as easy as debit on that regard.

I've been required to pay anything from $50 to a doubled bill as a security hold, when using a debit card. They refund it about a week later. This is the case everywhere from Atlanta to Chicago.

I use a credit card for one thing: reserving hotel rooms. Hotels shaft you on debit cards.

Alternate. An alcoholic drink, a glass of water. I have never had a hangover. Gatorade or pedialyte before bed helps too.

If she likes the boys, I have a fair number. The only really kinky het I have is Hard Reboot, and it's fantasykink, not realitykink. http://www.brooksandsparrow (and if she leaves a comment on this livejournal post, telling what she wants and where to send it, I'll send along free book.)

of course my next line is "I want the pattern to that!"

For the right recipient, that is awesome.

Tell her "Honey, this is terrible. Let me get you some GOOD kinky books." And go find some. (I do give recs. I know a lot of small press erotica authors)

Not really. i have teens who are VERY hard to shop for, and parents who don't see a lot of them. A Hot Topic Gift Card saves a lot of grief, especially when the kid has a two inch growth spurt between the shopping and the receiving.

I have an English degree. I worked as a library paraprofessional for 5 years. I walked off the job and went to truck driving school.

I have an English degree and have worked ever crap job around. I totally am behind trade school. Going to truck driving school earned me more than double what using my degree as a library paraprofessional did.

Germophobe.

Also, remember, most semis are governed at 60-70 MPH, with most of the biggest, Schneider, JB Hunt, Werner and Swift, governed at 62.