Silas Kaiser

Word count: 8,318, characters without spaces: 40,586, characters with spaces: 48,646, estimated reading time: 33 minutes 16 seconds

Hello! The Clone Wars/The Great War Volume II Chapter 10 is finally done! Ahsoka and Barriss have destroyed the Geonosis factory and have been rescued after being buried alive. Next up, we meet the Queen of Geonosis!

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Word count: 10,053, characters without spaces: 48,801, characters with spaces: 58,594, estimated reading time: 40 minutes 12 seconds

It's taken a while with all the time I've had to dedicate to training new employees, but the Clone Wars/The Great War Volume II Chapter 9 is finally done! The Second Battle of Geonosis has begun! Next up, Ahsoka and Barriss take down Poggle's factory!

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Having spent a lot of time thinking about how to best torment the bastards who ruin existence, one of the best for this cluster is also actually accessible. Nothing would annoy these chuds more than facing a European court.

A quick addendum:
I got my chronology out of order. This completed chapter should be 11. I am currently working on 9 and 10.

Word count: 5,475, characters without spaces: 25,930, characters with spaces: 31,335, estimated reading time: 21 minutes 53 seconds

Despite everything that's been going on lately, The Clone Wars/The Great War Volume II Chapter 9 is done! Mace has destroyed the seismic hammer and Dantooine has been saved! Up next is the Second Battle of Geonosis!

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Word count: 7465, characters without spaces: 35,104, characters with spaces: 42,295, estimated reading time: 29 minutes 51 seconds

My goal was to finish this chapter today and by the Force I did! The Clone Wars/The Great War Volume II Chapter 8 is done! Padmé has discovered an old fling is a traitor and has stolen plans for a factory.
Next up is Tartakovsky's Battle of Dantooine!

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Word count: 7318, characters without spaces: 36,160, characters with spaces: 43,259, estimated reading time: 29 minutes 16 seconds

The Clone Wars/The Great War Volume II Chapter 7 is done. The Zillo Beast's rampage in Coruscant has come to a tragic end. Up next, the Jedi investigate reports of a spy in the Senate.

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Word count: 7,525, characters without spaces: 36,295 characters with spaces: 43,613, estimated reading time: 30 minutes 6 seconds

I forgot to post this Wednesday but The Clone Wars/The Great War Volume II Chapter 6 is done! The Zillo Beast has appeared, been subdued, and is on its way to Coruscant. Next time we see how bad an idea that is!

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Word count: 10,239, characters without spaces: 48,538, characters with spaces: 58,498, estimated reading time: 40 minutes 57 seconds

The Great War Volume II Chapter 5 is done! The Felucians of Akira have defeated Hondo's pirates with the help of the Jedi and the mercenaries.

Up next we see the Zillo beast!

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Word count: 7,769, characters without spaces: 37,637, characters with spaces: 45,129, estimated reading time: 31 minutes 4 seconds

Huzzah, Volume II Chapter 4 of The Great War/The Clone Wars is done! The holocron and children have been reclaimed, Bane has escaped Jedi custody, and the Mustafar lab has been destroyed.

Up next is a tribute to Akira Kurosawa and the return of Hondo Ohnaka!

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an owl with the words look how calm she is on the bottom ALT: an owl with the words look how calm she is on the bottom

Today's mood:

Still from the television show M*A*S*H showing Hawkeye in the infirmary speaking to someone offscreen most likely a patient on a cot based on the angle. Text reads "joking about it is the only way of opening my mouth without screaming."

Toddlers are cool but man oh man am i sick of being sick

Watching Yu Yu Hakusho with the 3 year old and she is pronouncing Kuwabara as Kookaburra

See, in Australia, we have drills for this.

Word count: 6,990, characters without spaces: 33,184, characters with spaces: 39,995, estimated reading time colon 27 minutes 57 seconds

The Great War Volume II Chapter 3 is done! Anakin has opened the holocron for Bane in order to save Ahsoka, but the bounty hunter appears to have gone down with his ship.
Next up, Bane reappears to kidnap Force sensitive children.
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It feels like March 2020 outside today. Like it’s a really nice sunny, warm, almost spring day and you know that things are very wrong in the world and you want to milk a little bit of joy from your immediate surroundings but there’s a restlessness and it’s not hitting.

Turkey vulture playing in the wind over the river in Hopewell, Virginia

I found it relaxing and thought I'd share.

Yes, actually. My dad had a coworker from Philadelphia back when Jaws originally hit theaters and that is exactly how he pronounced it.

Word count: 6,963, characters without spaces: 33,344, characters with spaces: 40,027, estimated reading time: 27 minutes 51 seconds

It may have gotten delayed by life, but Vol II Chapter 2 of The Great War/The Clone Wars is done! The Battle of Felucia is for the time being lost and Cad Bane has stolen a holocron.

Up next, Anakin and Ahsoka seek to stop Bane before the holocron is opened.

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sketchbook spread with sketches of toads and a colored illustration of a toad art by chetom

a friendly lad 🐸

Austrian Steyr Pistol c.WWI

Borchardt C-93 Pistol

Lever-action volcanic pistol

Mars Pistol, maybe the dumbest and worst gun ever made

Just thinking about dumb olde timey pistols, because it's who I am.

A slightly blurry overview of the standing desk terrarium. It is L-shaped and painted a blue green with navy blue edging. Through the two plexiglass doors it is possible to see the dirt and various decorations of the terrarium. The back walls are a sky blue with agate veining through them.

A slightly blurry different view of the interior showing more of the decorations. Among them are cork bark and mosses. A fake log hide is visible on the right side as is the edge of a large black water dish.

Slightly blurry picture of a monitor lizard investigating his home. There are various dried leaves on the soil around him and various pieces of cork bark against the walls.

Less blurry picture of Toffee the monitor lizard looking out a porthole in the side of the terrarium.

Not for a beardie, but my wife and I did custom build this for her Savannah monitor, Toffee. It doubles as her standing desk. It's made from PVC board and wood sourced from someone remodeling their kitchen.
(I apologize for the image quality, iPhone to Android compression sucks)

I drive my Kia Soul faster than this through an unpaved lot that looks like the Somme on a daily basis just to reach my company van.

Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat by Caitlin Seida Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most. Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that's seen some shit. It's what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in. It's the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as optimism, persistence, Perseverance and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and bites you in the ass. Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily. It's a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear.

Hope is Not a Bird, Emily, It’s a Sewer Rat by Caitlin Seida

There is just not enough coffee…

Thursday’s child is full of coffee

Me opening the news every fucking morning

Ken Watanabe's portrayal of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima is honestly a big reason why it's my favorite war movie.