Posted 3:44 PM
I've never won anything in a draw in my life.

Well, I can't really say that; I won a game once from gamewinners by submitting a hint. It was a crappy game, but it was something. They do a weekly draw of all the hint submitters and send them a game, but my odds were pretty good - there were 3 games being given and there were only the 3 of us who submitted hints that week. It was a very, very slow week.

Posted 1:35 PM
There's this book I've been thumbing through, Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. To cut a long description short, it's a collection of Gaiman's short stories, all of them can be called a sort of adult fairy tale. Most of them are dark and quite scary...definitely not a bedtime story read.

I reread Murder Mysteries again last night and realized how much I missed them. When I was young I loved those books. I read the Wesley series by the most famous Hong Kong SF writer, even though they were forbidden for me and yes they brought me nightmares. I went through my aunts' collections of ghost and mystery novels translated from Japanese faster than they did.

For those of you who are interested in picking up a good mystery, Gaiman's Murder Mysteries is most definitely recommended by me. I like the way he put it - "I tried to be fair with the detective part of the story. There are clues everywhere. There's even one in the title."