Who else is happy that they finally fixed the BZP server? I know I am. The main reason I stopped coming here frequently is that a third of the time when I tried to go on the boards it told me to pop bubble wrap and wait. Bubble wrap is fun for a little while, but it gets really, really old rather quickly. So yeah, thank you BZP staff for giving us a working server.

Anyways, I am here today to talk about wood. I am sure this will interest you all… not. Oh well, you’ll live. The last week or so, I have been spending approximately two hours per day splitting logs (closer to four or five hours on the weekend). If you think that's cool, you're a nature geek. I live in Alberta, Canada, and over here winter consumes close to one third of the year. Over that period of time, a lot of money would be spent on heat... if we didn't have a wood-burning furnace, that is. It is the opinion of me and the rest of my family that every dollar spent on heat during the winter is a wasted dollar, so every year around mid-summer we go hunting for dead trees around our beautiful little twenty-six acre property. My job is to split the logs so that they burn better (not fun) and carry the logs up to the house with a quad (quite fun). The not-fun part of it (splitting logs) is very physically gruelling if you do it for a long time non-stop (like three to five hours). It stiffens a person's back to the point of not being able to bend over and blisters the hands. But oh well, painful stuff is fun, like removing duct tape from your hair. The slightly funner part (carrying wood up to the house with the quad) is quite enjoyable, aside from listening to Davin (Doovin) and Loray (Lavra) scrap over whose turn it is to go with me. Really, they’re not much different in real life than they are in the comics. Eventually I have to pick one of the two to go with me, and if I don’t take Loray, she threatens to send me to my room, or even to jail. If it’s Davin that I leave behind, he threatens to cut me with his toy chainsaw. Quite frightening, isn’t it?