DTED: Birthdays and Materialism

So, um, I’m 25 now.  I’ve been 25 for over a week now.  Hooray?

Let’s quiet my quarter-century existential crisis with material goods.

The lovely Gen of Psyche Corp has released a music video for her newest single “Oh” and it’s delightfully spooky and gorgeous.  Check it out:

And as a thank you for donating to her Kickstarter, she sent me a poster!  It’s not up on my wall because of apartment regulations (blergh) but hopefully that’ll change at some point in the near future.

I also picked up the latest offering from Aaron Diaz of Dresden Codak, the so-titled “Distinctly Essential Dresden Codak Primer“  It’s chock full of sketches and a look into his process of character design, which I always enjoy.

And to finish things off, I bought myself some new boots for classy zombie stomping.

That’s about it, unless you want to hear about my new dish soap as well.  It’s orange scented and makes every after-dinner dishwashing smell like an orchard!

On a less materialistic slant, the first of my zombie trilogy is approaching 140 pages and not really slowing down.  I’m really gunning to have the draft complete by Christmas, which would be the third book (if you count Ascend as a book) that I’ve said that about.  Something about autumn and winter really makes me want to finish manuscripts apparently.  If you want more frequent, if obscure, updates on how it’s progressing, check out my LiveJournal, specifically the entries tagged Darkland (my terribly uncreative working title).  I often sketch out scenes there, and while it jumps around and goes over things that don’t even happen in this book, you can get a general idea of what’s happening.  Or at least I think you can.  I don’t actually know, seeing as I’m the one who’s writing the dang thing.

That’s all for now, kids.