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Fluffy Puppy Start to your Week

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Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Monday!

Now, I understand that Mondays are sometimes not the best days of the week. But I may have a solution for today: a really cute puppy video.

I’d recommend turning and keeping your sound on.

Well that was sickeningly “adorable.”

…You put quotes around “adorable”?

Yes. That puppy has a serious need for WD-40 for the squeaks.

You can’t use oil on a dog!

Not that type of WD-40. “White-Dog-40.”

It is a special concoction we have back in my home for dealing with white dogs that will not quiet down. It primarily consists of our equivalent of peanut butter (to make their mouths stick a bit and prevent whining) and a touch of magic to make them sleepy again.

Ah. That’s a lot more humane that I thought.

I am not actually an unpleasant person, Webmaster.

I never said that you were, Fluffy. I never said that you were.

Well, Fluffsters, I hope that makes your Monday a bit brighter! Have a great week!

New Doors!

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Hi, Fluffsters! Happy Sunday!

So, I just saw something really cool. Someone has REINVENTED THE DOOR!

I had not realized that the current version needed to be reinvented.

Well, it’s not that it needed to be reinvented, but this one is just so much cooler!

…I am really not understanding how the “reinvented” door is cooler than normal doors.

It’s a reinvented door! It’s artsy, and it folds to open and close!

And it has soft edges. I can’t think of a thing wrong with it! In fact, I guess that it’ll replace old-style doors fairly soon!

Well, I can. I guess that is one of the differences between me and you.

Oh really, Fluffy? Name one.

I shall gladly name multiple.

1) It is either fully open or fully closed. Sometimes, it is useful to open a door only part way. For example, if you are checking on whether or not someone is asleep, it is not the best idea to open a door all the way and to allow a flood of light to enter. If such a thing happens, then the person who should be asleep will wake up due to the light.

Alternatively, if you were to desire to open the door only part way from the inside, in order to check who is outside your door, it defeats the purpose of having a door if it is either fully open or fully closed.

2) It can only be closed from one side. The video demonstrates a person closing the door as he enters, but only from the front. There is no indication that the door can be closed from the inside, thus implying that anyone desiring to use the door must reach around to the front in order to close the door. Although that is not particularly inconvenient, it is not convenient either.

3) Locking the “reinvented” door. How would one add a lock to this? I would guess that it would have to be a strong electromagnet, or something similar to prevent the door from opening without permission. All the same, that seems like it would be an easy lock to override. And I do not see an easy way to add a different type of lock to the door.

I also don’t see any reason why the foldable door is any better than the original door.

So, Webmaster, have a sufficiently satisfied your request for explanations?

Hmpf. Yes.

Well, Fluffsters, I hope you still have a good day. Despite the fact that there might, in fact, be some issues with the “reinvented” door that’s making the rounds.

But what do you think? Are the reinvented doors cool? Not cool? None of the above? Leave a comment below!

It’s “Snow” Exciting!

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Hi, Fluffsters! Happy Tuesday!

I hope today is a good day for you, wherever you are.

Where I am, right now we’re dealing with a lot of snow, and salt-melt-stuff shortages. It’s making life a bit interesting.

It’s also gorgeous, though! And I got some pictures.

Enjoy.

Snowflakes on knit red hand warmers

Snowflakes on my mitten-thingies.

There's a LOT of snow!!

There’s a LOT of snow!!

Blue looking snow with a red-brick building

I hadn’t realized how blue snow truly was until about then

A Favorite Scene from a Favorite Book Has Happened!

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Hi, Fluffsters!

Last night, I read something that made me so happy. Like, you have no idea.

Basically, a scene from one of my favorite series came as close to coming true as possible. In the scene from Enchanter’s Endgame from David Eddings’s Belgariad series, a sorcerer forges a steel rose for his love, and brings it to life, with the thought that steel roses will never die.

In this article, a man forges a steel rose for his lady love. He didn’t bring the rose to life, of course, but this is still basically the closest anything can ever come, and it’s amazing.

Have any of you seen or heard of anything like that?

Have a great week!

Second Scene of a Story

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Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Sunday!

Are any of you watching the Olympics? I know I’m enjoying them. Possibly a bit too much, since their eating into time I could be spending working on Fluff for you, but that’s life. Besides, this means that you get to read the next part of my story a lot earlier than I had originally anticipated!

If you haven’t already done so, you can read the first scene of my story.

Once you’ve finished that, here’s Scene 2 of The Lost Prince of hadanelle. (Working title, subject to change, yadda yadda, copyright whatever year it currently is, to the author and owner of this website, etc., etc., and so on and so forth.)

Once again, feedback is appreciated. I realize that this is not the most stimulating of all scenes, but it might add something useful to the story. It might not, but it might.

Well, have a great week!

Russian Music Is Awesome

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Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Saturday!

So, I’m really excited about the Winter Olympics. And they’re happening in Sochi, Russia! I’m expecting to be very musically pleased for the next while.

…I am guessing that you enjoy Russian music?

That puts in mildly. So much Russian music is just so delightfully dark and somber!

Sarcasm?

Actually, no. The music genuinely is. I mean, this (I think) is their national anthem:

Yes, it has its positive, upbeat moments. But at least half of it is grand, serious, and in a minor key. The version at the Olympics opening ceremony was even better, from what I could tell from broadcasts. After all there are no basses like Russian basses.

Here’s a video I found of singers in St. Basil’s cathedral. My apologies for the low quality of the sound and footage, but it was one of the better versions I could find.

Those are a bit… dark.

I know, right? And the Soviet era certainly wasn’t “better”. After all, one of their army’s marching songs was this:

Polyushka Polye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXE-m_yPH_s

And with their history, and given that they invented Tetris, I guess this movie also makes sense both musically and in other ways.

Seriously, isn’t that just so delightfully Russian?

Anywho, do you have any favorite Russian pieces? I also enjoy classical pieces. (Firebird is one of my favorites. Ask me about that sometime, by the way- there’s some fun with that piece of music, too.) Well, I hope you have a great weekend!

PIES!! AND CHOCOLATE!!

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Hello, Fluffsters!

Yesterday, I made a PIE! Ok, I had some help. I went to a friend’s house to get some practice making pie crust. She made the filling, but I made the crust and spread out the filling and stuff.

It was a brownie-cheesecake pie, and it turned out beautifully, if I do say so myself.

And the crust (which I basically did myself, but with a bit of supervision) was a lot better than I was expecting!

A beautiful chocolate creamcheese pie.

The entire pie. So my crust decorations need work…

And the inside also looked (and tasted!) really good. (Again, if I do say so myself…)

A slice of brownie cheesecake pie.

Slice of Brownie Pie

Anywho, happy Friday! I hope you have a great weekend!

In fairness, I should post this

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Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Thursday! I hope you’re having a great day!

I realized that I have been a bit unfair to the place I normally eat. I’ve recently only uploaded pictures of their… “questionable” material. (I’m looking at you, “Lemon Dessert” and the dessert responsible for killing the Great Pumpkin…)

However, they actually do serve decent stuff sometimes!

Recently, for example, they served an amazing thing they’re calling “Monkey Bread.”

Now, I’ve had traditional monkey bread, I really like it, and this was not quite the traditional Monkey Bread. Even so, though, it was still really good!

It was nice and bready, and raisin-y, and had an excellent consistency and flavor.

It even looked appealing!

Monkey Bread on a blue plate

It looked better in real life… It tasted even better than it looked.

So, I can now say that I’ve done my duty, and fully disclosed that the place I go to does sometimes serve good stuff.

Have a great day!

Responses to Annoyances

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Hello, Fluffsters!

Have you ever been annoyed? Or how about… annoyed when paper & pencil are readily convenient? I think I more or less qualified last night. Okay, so I’m not entirely sure if annoyed or some other adjective is best for describing me last night. But regardless, here’s an image representation of some of my favorite responses for responding to annoyances.

stick figures illustrating responses to annoyances

Yes, that’s on paper I could have used to take notes…

The responses are as follows:

1) Facepalm. This is always useful. If anyone asks, you can either tell the truth, or indicate that you’re just tired, and resting your head in your hand. Not that I condone dishonesty per say. But yeah.

2) Bang Head Here. This, alas, cannot be done as easily in a group of people, as it attracts attention. (It sometimes is a great way of venting, though!)

3) Flail. The others are basically variations of flailing wildly. Like the Bang Head Here, this is not always the least obvious response, so use it wisely.

4) Illustrate each of the responses that you want to do. That’s not illustrated above, except insofar as it’s an illustration of responses that I want to do. Or something like that. The illustrating part is really useful, since you can then pretend that you’re the one doing it, and therefore not actually need to do it in real life.

Yeah.

So, what are your responses to annoyances?