If you haven't heard of the Humble Bundle before, well, now you have. A great way to get great deals on books, games, comics and other swag, the Humble Bundle also helps out various charities with your hard-earned cash.

And right now, the book bundle features some characters we all know and love... personal diminutive equines!

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Since a whole two(2) people have asked for it, here's the official out and about in the equestrian kingdom "ask me stuff and I'll try answer it" blog about anything you don't understand, didn't get, want to know about or what have you to do with the aforementioned story. Meta-questions also welcome. Stuff that happened off screen is welcome. Wild mass guessing is totally okay.

To start, let's see:

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Why the hell are you reading this? Why aren't you reading Out and About in the Equestrian Kingdom? Chapter 10 in particular?

Yeah, that's right. Come back here and discuss after. Bring your friends*

EDIT: and lo, he said to me, "it is done".

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I'm alive, and I'm relatively hale and hearty. I've also been incredibly busy... writing the last chapter(s) of out and about.

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I've been sick for the last three weeks. Frelling magnificent.

Told you I was scatterbrained... I finally remembered what that third thing was that I've been doing. It's called 'c25k'.

C25K stands for 'couch to 5k', as in 'couch potato to 5 kilometer runner'. It's supposed to lead you from being a fat slob sitting in front of the television to be able to run for 30 minutes - or roughly five kilometers - in about nine weeks.

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Yah yah, I know: long time no see.

Well, I thought I should kind of fix that. 'Kind of' because I'm kind of scatterbrained at the moment, don't really have the time to dedicate to a proper entry and a third reason which totally helps explain things. I have been busy in life. The good sort of busy, I guess, which leads to not much writing but doesn't lead to horrible depression and ennui. I've not really had much time to interact here, so... I'm alive. And writing - slowly.

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So I woke up bright and early Friday morning for the ride of my life. And by "bright and early" I mean I was horribly late as I went around and around looking for the elusive single affordable (i.e. free) parking spot in the ghetto of Helsinki known as itäkeskus before hoofing it to the venue.

On the way, however, I had a magical, mystical, life-changing meeting with a unicorn:

Yes, that's right, I spotted a google maps car.

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So: Thursday was the first day of the con for me, same as it was for everyone on staff who wasn't actively involved in any real pre-setup.

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I have just got back from an awesome, awesome experience as one of the guest team managers for crystal fair 2014, where we had the honour and privilege of hosting uber-awesome special guest stars Anneli Heed (Spitfire), Tabitha St Germain (Rarity) and Daniel Ingram (pony by association), a whole buttload of super-awesome community guests (including Fimfic's very own Knighty) and an as-yet unknown number of attendees.

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