I'm glad Betsy explained the ship stuff, 'cuz for someone who's read all 20 of the Aubrey/Maturin books, I'm still awfully fuzzy on naval tactics. Land combat is much easier on the brain.
So of course I'm planning to set my next book on a ship, unless my werewolf story acquires more of a plot in the next six months than "there's this guy, probably an officer this time, but maybe still in the 95th, since I've done so much research on them, who gets bit by a werewolf, and there's this girl, probably wolfy herself and probably Spanish, and her name is Isabel." Not exactly a 100K novel there yet, y'know. While my navy story only has a few gaps, notable among them my Stephen Maturin-like ignorance of how ships work.
notable among them my Stephen Maturin-like ignorance of how ships work.
Heh. I really loved the movie. Haven't gotten around to reading the copy of Master and Commander you sent me yet, but the pile it's under is slowly working down that way.
Loved the music in the movie. Really need to get this soundtrack.
They break easily/cleanly or you get a pill cutter thingy.
The pill cutter thingy is called a guillotine. That alone makes it cool.
I just recieved an e-mail about my 10 year high school reunion. I am so not going.
I LOVED my 10 year reunion.
The Earth had tilted off its axis and I was suddenly the cool one. People who were horrible to me before actually apologized and I had a way, way more interesting life than they did.
The sad bit was how the popular kids peaked in high school and had never left town.
Haven't been to one since.
If sj isn't cool, then I never want to be.
Awww. Thanks, Sean. How's life been treating you?
It's had it's ups and downs. I got screwed over by another temp assignment, which in turn screwed me over as far as getting an on-set job (I passed on the on-set job in order to not screw over the temp assignment, who then screwed me over).
Then my clutch went out, turning my car into a giant paperweight.
But other than that, things are fine.
