Shinerdrinker: Blog

Woo hoo! I have taken a bit of a break from writing for today since I've been up all night and I'm still functioning. Not well, but functioning.

But for my treat to myself, I took a gander over at the Most Popular list on the front page. (Look for it, y'all will find it!)

Guess who's on the top of the list? Go ahead, guess.
No. Try again.

Hey, wait a sec, are you trying to be funny?

To be on the top of the list is a great thing, and for being away soooo long. It is awesome, and I thank every person for reading. I know it's been going on for a while, and I know there is a lot. But I do thank you. And I promise not to have y'all wait for so long.

I am working on it.

Trust me.

--Shinerdrinker

I guess I can let the cat outta the bag.

The next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill has been submitted for posting and should soon be available for all you little animals to enjoy.

Now. If you'd all excuse me, I'm on a good run with the next chapter. I shall return to that one.

Sleep? Who needs that?

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

So, how's it going, y'all?

I've been kind of out of it for a while now. I do apologize, but I got hit with a hard case of the lazy. It was a pretty big case, and I'm still in the middle of it, but I reached the end of the latest chapter. I was quite surprised when I realized I had reached the end of the chapter.

So it is what it is. I have sent the chapter to the first editor, and when it returns, I'll send it to the next one.

I'm guessing about a week or so before y'all can read it for yourselves.

Just letting y'all know.

--Shinerdrinker

I was a little bored after I had just finished a few more pages of Mayhem in a Pill, and I decided to give myself a present and continue my umpteenth reading of Refusenik's "Island Mine." I had just reached the part of the story where Waylon was selling his first batch of gold mined by the aliens inhabiting his body when he went over the numbers for his first cashing in.

Seeing as how this story was originally posted in April of 2013. Oh damn, has it been that long already? I wondered what it would be as of today.

Hello Google!

So Waylon handed over 48.895 kg of gold to Whitestar Metals, pocketing $2.65 million in the story.

But in today's prices, that 48.895 kg of gold would bring home about $7.37 million.

Whew!

To paraphrase a line from one of my personal favorite movies, "That's a huge Twinkie."

Okay, back to work I go!

--Shinerdrinker

So I find myself slowly rising from the beauty of draft slumber, and I wonder if I missed anything while I was paying all attention to the NFL Draft.

It is my thing. I love every single aspect of it. I love the minutia of waiting between picks. I love the picks. I love the reaction of the picks. I love the analysis of the picks. I love the reactions to the analysis of the picks.

I even have a first draft ready for next NFL Draft season, right after the draft finishes.

I even love the process of straight-up trying to purchase players who weren't picked to join your team. It is all a grand time to me. So much so, I do nothing else during this time.

So I find myself looking at other hobbies and find a need to get them back into shape. And that brings me here, back to "Mayhem in a Pill."

I can now put my spare time back into this world. I find myself longing for it, so we should all see an update coming soon.

So allow me to apologize for the pause. I think I'll have to remember next season to apologize ahead of time for the coming pause. Because if I'm alive around draft time, it has my full attention.

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker