Vacation!

My much belated vacation is starting tomorrow. I didn't know this in advance, so you get to know now. I'll be gone for a week. As a result, I will not be doing any work on Overwhored while I'm gone and I will not be updating the site on Monday. My artists will still be arting and my mapper will still be mapping however, so work isn't really going to stop.

Please continue to leave bug reports and feedback and I'll get to them when I come back.


I'm going from a place that has been 110 degrees and having 80mph thunderstorms (and thanks to said storms, about 100 degrees during the night) to a place that is a wonderfully frigid 85 degrees and has delightfully mild weather. It's quite likely I won't even be attacked by bears or mountain lions there! That'll be a nice break for a week or so. There's also much less in the way of roving packs of coyotes up there. Though I will admit that's a bit of a disappointment, as it's pretty fun to sneak up on a pack of Coyotes in the middle of the night and scare the hell out of them. I don't shoot 'em like most people do around here but I do like messing with them. Just don't try it with bears.

While I'm up there I think I'll do some hunting and fishing. Ought to be fun. Well, not fishing, because it's horribly fucking boring. But fish ARE tasty, so it's worth the time. I don't think I'll arrive early enough for the fireworks but hey - if I do, there's always good food at those celebrations. Not that it matters. If I really wanted 4th of July fun I'd stay here to watch the crash derby. That's a sporting event where a bunch of elaborately painted cars are in a mud pit surrounded by big logs and a chain link fence and slam into each other repeatedly until only one is still "working". You sit about four feet away from the ring and get splashed with mud and occasionally almost crushed by a car that goes over the logs and through the fence. When I was young I wouldn't have missed it for anything in the world but they've made it too safe and boring these days. (I used to collect autographed car parts that were shredded in the ring, in fact.) Plus I can't watch it with friends and family any longer so I can't be told who to boo and hiss at and who to root for because I don't know any of the drivers. Besides; when I was a kid they played all kinds of music but these days they just play really bad country music during the whole thing. I hate country music.  Ah well. They still have tasty tiger's blood snow cones and Chorizos, but those alone aren't worth going for. I can get those anywhere.


In any event I'll see you in a week!