Today I lost my best friend of eleven, nearly twelve years.

He'd been sick the last couple weeks. He'd been having joint trouble. The vet prescribed something that let him run around like a puppy again.

I took him to the vet when he stopped eating and they gave me some pills for him. He seemed to be doing better. His appetite wasn't much better, but he wasn't ignoring everything.

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I walked four+ miles today! O__o

But I caught a shiny Zapdos!

And 18 regular Zapdos. Zapdoses? Zapdosi?

I need to add more friends. I ran out of eggs to hatch today with all that walking... o__O

I know there are probably others out there, but the more the better, right? The best way to make sure everypony sees something when they need it is to have that something show up all over the place.

Too many ponies mix up a thing or two when they put in the effort to write.

But together, we can set them right!

There are some common things they're all too likely to typo when their muse is in full flow. I've done it myself.

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<Minor venting for personal therapeutic reasons. Probably best to ignore this.>
<have a random googlebat to keep your feeds happy>

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I just spent almost a whole month reading a nearly two million word (and still counting!) epic.

Now I have over 100 new chapters to catch up on.

I don't know whether to be excited (I can reeeaaaaaad!) or dismayed (oh my god I am sooooo far behind on everything!)

Thanks for all the pony words.

*cracks shoulders*

Time to get a-readin'!

So. It technically is and isn't midnight right now.

Is, because I've set my clocks forward for Daylight Stupid Time before going to bed.

Isn't, because it doesn't technically happen for another three hours.

Can we get with the 21st Century already and stop with this stupid temporal shuffle? We aren't lighting shops by candlelight and oil lamp anymore!

So, if you haven't been paying attention to the feature box—where it's been basically every day for the last almost-month!—and haven't read it yet, get your plots over to Georg's page and read Her Royal Morning Coffee.

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Over the holidays, my grandmother was waxing nostalgic about old family stories, and started relating some of the family history with the Oregon Trail. One surname caught my ear. Specifically, the Applegates.

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So I finally gave in and watched the leaked finale.

It was awesome. Liquid pride may have attempted to make an appearance. Don't tell anypony.

About 5 minutes into the first half of it, I noticed something awesome. This is that moment of geek.

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Sooooo

A couple nights ago I totally had too much caffeine or something, because I Did Not Sleep.

I got real intrigued by a website I found recently, thuum.org, and took a stab at learning how Dovahzul works. That's the dragon language from the Elder Scrolls series, for you non-gaming philistines out there!

While my memorized vocabulary may be nonexistent, with a dictionary, I can muddle by. I think?

Anyway, the point is, my insomniac night produced something.

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