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The vernal equinox is occurring right…now! Is everybody ready?

*Or autumn, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, of course.

Robert speaketh:

Attention, all cephalo-fans! The domain name www.squidfanpage.com, which I’ve owned for a few years but never used, has just expired. I bought it for Squidblog but wound up using www.squidblog.org instead. So if you’d like it for your very own, any domain registrar will be happy to turn it over to you for $10 to $20 a year.

Speaking of which, April Fools’ Day is coming up. I haven’t had time to cook up anything for MuseBlog this year, so I’m planning to rev up SquidBlog again unless some of you newly empowered Authors can hatch something else between now and then.

A place to post things you’ve written and to talk about writing in general.

Continued from v. 2013.

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We owe both of you so much.

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

02-01 Keiffer’s birthday (1997)
02-02 Groundhog22’s birthday (1989)
02-06 Choklit Orange’s 6K Day
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996)
02-09 Drama Llama’s 5K Day
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-19 Castle’s 6K Day
02-26 KaiYves’s birthday (1993)
02-26 Kai D.’s birthday (2001)
02-26 Zinc’s 6K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 22, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 4 and December 31, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between March 9 and April 5, 1992.

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And slightly zoomed in:

Kai writes:

I drew this picture this weekend, “Forecast”. It’s inspired by the idea that a change as small as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings alters the state of the atmosphere enough to make the weather difficult to predict.

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992)
01-03 Armada’s 6K Day
01-03 Lady Bunniful’s birthday
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday (1993)
01-25 Cinnamoon’s 7K Day
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between November 3 and December 3, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between February 7 and March 8, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

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The long-dreaded WordPress upgrade went as planned. So far, everything seems to be working normally. Let us know if you notice anything off-kilter.

Robert writes:

It’s no secret that MuseBlog is more leisurely than it used to be. Just for fun, I took our traffic data for 2009 through 2012, pasted it into a spreadsheet, and graphed it to see what story it might tell. Behold the fruits of my labors:

According to the trend line on the second graph, the number of posts here should reach zero any day now. And then what?!

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Jade turns 22 on January 1 — the most memorable birthday of any MuseBlogger. The January birthday thread isn’t up yet, so please feel free to post your felicitations here.

Friday the Thirteenth, as we all know (or ought to) (or at any rate ought to agree to pretend to), is a lucky day for the inveterate contrarians on MuseBlog. We eagerly await your tales of outrageous [good] fortune.

Some of you have requested a Yule Ball. We’re not sure that busy, increasingly overworked MBers have enough time or energy to carry one off this year. But Piggy has been relaxing at the still-open 2009 MA holiday party. We’ll move his post onto this thread to set the stage for some quiet times while the bleak Nordic weather lowers outside.

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Known Muser birthdays this month*:

12-01 bluefire27’s 6K Day
12-26 SudoRandom’s birthday (1996)
12-28 Areohawk’s birthday (1997)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between October 3 and November 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between January 7 and February 6, 1992.

You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in June.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

The first and second “Quick Reads” threads were a lot of fun, but we’ve all done a lot of reading and listening since then. Let’s do a little catching up.

Part 4 of the old Demigod RPG appeared in September 2010. Now some nostalgic MBers think it’s time for a reboot. Good luck, godlings!

We know, we’re hideous. The latest update to the blog’s theme did strange things to its appearance. We’ll probably look like this for a while, so please bear with us. Everybody has bad-hair days. Or weeks…

–The GAPAs

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Is anyone taking part this year? If so, keep us posted, please.

*National Novel Writing Month

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

11-04 ZNZ’s 6K Day
11-12 fireandhemlock1996’s birthday (1996)
11-15 muselover’s 6K Day
11-16 Kiwimuncher’s birthday (1992)
11-18 Cello-Playing Mathematician’s birthday (1993)
11-18 Enceladus’s birthday (1996)
11-25 Jadestone’s 8K Day
11-26 starr’s birthday (1996)
11-27 Purple Panda’s birthday (1991)
11-27 Dodecahedron’s birthday (1993)
11-27 Cinnamoon’s birthday (1994)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between February 24 and March 24, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between May 30 and June 28, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between September 3 and October 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between December 8, 1991, and January 6, 1992.

You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in May.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.