Goddamn bloody abject COLD

Winter is not my favorite season. The fact that it gets cold, icy, snowy, and downright uncomfortable doesn't help its image. It's bad enough that the cold air comes down south out of Canada, but then when Canada has more than enough, it overflows from further north out of the Arctic, and it's not done even then! Oh hell no. Coldness then comes from Siberia. Really? Russia, we don't hate you anymore. Stop figuring out new ways to send your coldness to us, OK? Sure blows out the theories of Glowball Warming. But then they'll just tell you this is one of the numerous symptoms of it. More badass storms. Yeah, yeah, whatever. I think before we humans as a species consider sending some of our useless population to another world (as has been done before), we need to figure out how to control the weather.

At any rate, I managed to make it through last night's severe, over 10 below cold. It got as low as 65 F inside here, while upstairs in my room it was no lower than 75. If only I had more room upstairs for everything.

But anywho, let's try to get away from that for a moment. Let me stipulate a set of rules for subtitle scripts.

1. ARIAL with Bold by default. Color 001FFCFF. 2 pixel outline, 2 pixel drop shadow for main default dialogue.

2. Don't confuse WAS for WERE, or WERE when you mean HAD BEEN. WAS is past tense singular, WERE is past tense plural.

3. Learn how to use ONLY. And use JUST when ONLY really doesn't work.

4. SPELL CHECK.

5. AVOID APOSTROPHE S PLURALS - in general, learn how to use the Apostrophe correctly.

6. Don't use plural verbs with singular collective nouns.

7. Shorten "all of a sudden" to just the word "Suddenly."

8. Don't use spelled out numbers when the simpler actual numbers looks better.

9. In case of Japanese names, keep honorifics, and put names Japanese order meaning Japanese family name first, given name(s) last. That's how your ear will hear them.

10. Do Not Translate Nya as "meow" and don't make puns with it, nor use stupid squid puns.

At some point, I may include examples of usage for the ones that need it.

And oh yeah, Gan-chan was evicted a few weeks ago. Some halapeno-cheese flavored crunchy cheese curls were enough to lure him out again, presumably weakened by hunger, and got stuck to one of the glue traps in the drawer. So I sandwiched that little shit with another glue trap and flung it all outside and on the other side of the train tracks. I would imagine that since then with the cold and snow, he finally succumbed.

Negi tells me the recent crop of free-range mice taste well with a Catnip Port with its fruity undertones.