So a Crab, a Crane and a Spider walk into a bar...

[daidoji_gisei]

First of all, if you are at all familiar with L5R (and maybe even if you are not), you need to hie yourself over to helen_keeble and read Playing Possum, Being a True Tale of War, Love, and Explosions.

The opening paragraph:

The series of events that would later be referred to variously as the Season of Teeth (by the Crane), the War of Dire Beasts (by the Lion), or That Thing With The Possums (by everyone else) started, as so many wars do, with a party.

Tee hee.

When I'm not giggling madly over cracktastic fanfic, I'm madly scurrying around the bakery. The time I spent this past two weeks training a new night baker was time I didn't spend in the day bakery, and so we are now out of a lot of things. And one of our coffee-house clients has placed their biggest order yet. And the lumbering doom known as Thanksgiving is heaving up over the time-horizon. Thanksgiving is to the grocery trade what Gencon is to gaming: there are other holidays, but none of them quite compare in magnitude.

So naturally I'm planning to leave work early on Friday so that I can go down to the L5R tournament (and bachelor party) in KC. At first I didn't think I'd be able to go, but Bob "Hida Yagamaki" Yager and Mason "Daigotsu Usharo" Crawford are coming down from Sioux Falls, and since Lincoln is right on the way to KC (for Great Plains values of "right on the way" they agreed to pick me up and split a room with me. South Dakota boys are so sweet. <3

Things to do before I go: Build deck, do laundry, BAKE CAKE. I might give into temptation and buy the frosting, but the cake will be from scratch. I suppose I should check to see if the co-op in Lawrence makes our cake: I know they have access to the recipe. So much to do, so little time!

Comments

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

I am amused that traffic to my blog has tripled since you and Yoon linked this. Fear the power of the cracktastic fanfic! *grin*

[daidoji-gisei.livejournal.com]

Whoa. LJ tracks traffic? Where do I find this?

Also, why are surprised? The number of people who wish I was you must be staggering. ;-)

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

Third-party tool: ljtoys

You basically "tag" a post with a hidden one-pixel graphic that links back to the ljtoys server, which looks at IP addresses to work out how many hits a post gets, and even funky things like ljusername, whether the person was looking at their friendslist or directly clicked on the post, and what country they were in at the time. It's surreptitious data gathering, which bothers some people, but I admit I just find it kinda nifty.

(it can be blocked/fooled, by people paranoid enough to configure their browsers to block such things. Personally, I work on the assumption that if I'm online, I have no privacy; someone somewhere will always be able to track what I'm looking at if they really want to).

[daidoji-gisei.livejournal.com]

I'll have to think about this. I know I'm on some people's flist because I'm on the Story Team, and I've presumed that a number of people wander by in curiosity (and then wander out, having discovered that my LJ is pretty boring) but I've never thought about exact numbers. Do I in fact want to know? Must ponder this.