http://www.xandragregory.com/blog exotic. exciting. extraordinary erotic romance. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Taser MP3 Player I also want that killer song list. But one question--how long before the RIAA demands a piece of the action so they can remotely shock you for ripping mp3s from your CDs? Edited to add: The only drawback is if you load "Electric Slide"... IT shocks YOU! http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/06/20/okay-yeahi-kinda-want-one/ Ha ha. You all thought I was dead, didn't you?  Well, I'm not that easy to get rid of.  Ask my kids.  It is now officially Summer Break and Mean Mommy is in town.  Mean Mommy makes them pick up their toys, and makes them leave the video games and ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/06/06/wheres-wald-er-xandra/ Normally, I'm not a huge plotter.  I will have a scene focused in my mind, or sometimes a character, or more often, a setting (heavens help me then because I have to figure out what kinds of characters will fit in that setting, and who they are.  If I have ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/04/10/false-starts-and-good-starts/ I admit it. I'm bad news as far as being an e-author goes. I write slow. Well, that's not quite entirely true. I draft fast, but I revise and rewrite slow. I have to think about it, ponder themes and subtexts, and weed out all ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/03/31/word-gardening/ see more crazy cat pics Springtime Greetings to you and yours. May your chocolate bunnies not come to life and attempt to eat you before you bite their little heads off. May your peeps become appropriately and deliciously stale with a modest passage of time http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/03/21/going-straight-to-hell-for-this-one/ I live in an area where the roads are relatively flat and wide, and the weather is considered overall to be "temperate." What this means in a Darwinian sense is that our traffic patterns have not yet evolved the necessary characteristics to cope with conditions that provide challenges to ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/03/07/zomg-white-death-is-coming-for-you/ I admit it. I'm bad news as far as being an e-author goes. I write slow. Well, that's not quite entirely true. I draft fast, but I revise and rewrite slow. I have to think and noodle and re-think and brainstorm...writing for me is a ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/02/27/writing-update/ That's the verdict. 4-6 weeks of twice-a-week therapy and adjustments, then PT until I'm no longer bent and I can feel again. Yeesh. All this from having Zoolander Syndrome (I can't turn left, although it's actually right, so maybe it's reverse-Zoolander syndrome). Or maybe Mister Spock ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/01/20/soim-a-pretzel-and-a-rock-gawd/ Doesn't everybody have one? The little motivator that prompts people to buy bowflexes and sign up for gym memberships and eat chopped celery for lunch. The same little motivators that tend to have a shelf life that expires anywhere from a week to a month after the champagne ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2008/01/01/new-years-resolution/ I'm a technerd. I admit it. I don't have many of the trappings of overt technerdity as one might expect, but rather, I'm more of a ninja technerd type--I prowl and stalk the gadgets until I can no longer resist their siren call...and then I haunt the sales ... http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2007/12/05/nerdgasm/