Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi → The Sorcerer's Progress
Vitamin K takes about 12-24 hours to reverse an abnormal INR (the lab used to determine how thin the blood is). Plasma is used when there is time to reverse people in the short term. They have a new med called KCentra that crashes an INR back to normal by the time it finishes infusing-usually about an hour. We use that on people who are bleeding into their brain so it is worth the price tag (you don't want to know)
And don't tell me Aus doesn't have venemous critters!
Not the furry fluffy kind ... But yeah, 6 of the top 10 deadliest snakes are from Downunder, so rattlesnakes, with a dab of vegemite, are what we call breakfast. *not really, but why not I ask*
I liked baseball - White Sox in Chicago once. I also managed a NFL game - Chicago Bears. (I have no idea who they played against!) I now believe my new team is the Seahawks - who bungled the final? In any case, I'm also nuts over ice-hockey. And to see us whoop some Canadian ass. hehehehe
StubHub - duly noted, we're going to need it! You guys are really handy - by the time we set foot on US soil, we'd be locals! 
Don't know what this has to do with cats and skunks, but it seemed pertinent as I read your comments.
It was probably the road-kill reference that done it?! LOL
Yeah, the Seahawks blew the Superbowl. (Don't say 'final'. Finals are for basketball and hockey.)
Amy, I thought vitamin K could be administered intravenously?
Anyhow, someone asked how the flasher project is doing. Here's the mods I'm working on with the detector circuit. This isn't final yet.
If you go up the page from the drain ('D' terminal) of Q5, the first shorthand outline is "Shogran's" (or "Shograns").
Alcohol, wearing clothes, food. Sounds like my type of gig! LOL I'll check it out!
But K is IV. That is correct. Warfarin depletes the Vit K dependent factors. Flood the body w Vit K and the body can make more. It still takes time. We usually give it once a day for three days.
I’ve edited Wiki and changed Super Bowl to Grand Final. It’s easier than me having to remember all these technical terms. 
njc, as long as you know what you're doing, you're fine, because I sure as hell won't be able to help!
ps - K isn’t IV or 2, it’s potassium.
Shearluck, I have your review. I'll respond properly later.
I hope it suits, not for nothing, I am slightly intimidated by all your big words. Including the fancy small ones.
"Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all." ---Winston Churchill
Just wait till NJC and Janet start talking about diodes and circuit boards. Too big for my brain. We can chat about grain while the smart people light up about their transistors. Don't worry, they come back to the conversation eventually.
And no knowledge is useless. I still read the stuff and hope that some will rub off.
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Amy, okay, okay, I won't give your wine to njc! So you can stop using my name and "smart" in the same sentence (google is the smart one!) and lavishing praise on my reviews ... I'm beetroot red on this side, and it's (thankfully to give the firefighters a bit of a breather) not hot enough to blame sunburn and not cold enough to blame a foot of snow ....
But glad you liked my humble suggestion! *hop-skip-and-jump*
I don't lie. Sorry. It's not in me. Therefore, it's true. Deal with it :-)
Cleveland is in the middle of the state on the northern side. Toledo is at the western part of the state. Both border Lake Erie. 200 miles. One hour and forty minutes by car.
200 miles. 100 minutes. Garn, you guys drive fast. Sure it's not 2 hours, forty? That works at 75 mph. As I recall, you folks have some stretches posted at 70, as well as triple-trailer lashups on the Tollway.
Triple-trailer lashups are also part of life in Australia, I believe, but I don't think you find them west of the Rockies or east of the Appalachians in the US. I'm trying to recall if I've seen them on the western miles of the Pennsy Turnpike. Not sure.
Crap. 100 miles. 1 hr, 45 minutes from door to door.
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Triple-trailer lashups are also part of life in Australia, I believe, but I don't think you find them west of the Rockies or east of the Appalachians in the US. I'm trying to recall if I've seen them on the western miles of the Pennsy Turnpike. Not sure.
Called road trains over here. Usually triple trailers, have seen a couple with four on road trips into the bush. You get longer in the northern territory, but haven't seen them yet in person.
We call them wiggle-worms. (3 full semi trailers hitched to one vehicle. We have them in Ohio on the turnpike but I think they unhitch just outside the turnpike (UPS package delivery) so that they don't create a hazard on city streets.
Even Google can't explain to me what you guys are talking about
If google doesn't work, the wiki it. If google doesn't work, and wiki doesn't work, you're screwed ...
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That's because Canada doesn't have enough commerce to need this type of trailer.
The Wikipedia article says that Canada does use some tandems,
Janet, in the USA pintle arrangements are by far the most common. Fifth-wheel-on-trailer is reserved for specialty traffic bacause you can't break them down rapidly into singles, and the biggest users are parcel and LCL shippers.
Okay, you haven't seen any new work from me in a while. I've been wrestling with Erevain, and with some plot shaping. I need a better sense of where he found his tinfoil hat and what style he prefers.
They don't generally let tandems or larger near the city limits. It's hard enough to get a single-articulation around a streetcorner. I never saw a triple until I drove in Ohio.
And I think I can do the Erevain chapters now, with some loose ends created.
This is for CJ Driftwood, a proper reply to his two reviews.
On Temporary Reprieve/The Long and the Short Cut
Great chapter. Feels like an embarkment of a grand adventure and the pace was perfect. I like that you use heroines rather than heroes and Merran is getting more depth as a character. I feel the captain to be an ally as well, agains the (evil) Royals.
There will be both male and female protagonists. And they will make a lot of mistakes. Some will be arguable.
Regarding "Mother Hem"--I've already changed the preceding chapters, so there are continuity problems.
I'll have to work over the conversations that follow, and your notes will be helpful.
The 'because I have to' for adventuring: that opens an interesting point. There are adventures of discovery and adventures of adversity. It would be good to hint at the point without making it.
I'm attached to my commas, generally. I stand between the modern usage and the usage I was taught in high school.
Merran felt a sharp pang of—what?—[loss]?>> I think you mean “dubiety”>> loss doesn’t really fit.
It's possible that your square brackets won't show up here because the BBCode interpreter refuses to ignore what it doesn't understand.
I think loss is the right feeling. You have a young woman leaving home behind. Yes, she's leaving responsibilities as well, but she has no idea when she can come back, and thus no concrete expectation of return. She's leaving her life behind, and, as you correctly note on the next chapter, her mother makes things worse by slipping away in silence--and I should play that up more.
There's a lot of detail stuff to think about. I'm not as averse as most to repetition of words.
On Arrival at the Home of Harsan and Glasias:
First, I should tinker with the chapter name.
Beginning of chapter is confusing without a rundown on who these people are.
Well, yes, I'm trying to introduce the whole household in short order, and I use Merran's confusion as an excuse to repeat things.
Some structural issues. I had some trouble with the beginning and during the Merran’s REM cycle. Might consider tightening those up some. Otherwise, great chapter. I do wonder why Merran is having so much trouble relating to Glaselle. I do remember that at the beginning Mellaen was concerned that Merran had trouble making friends- that she was bookish and stand-offish- perhaps shy?
Yeah. That dream sequence is a nightmare (so to speak) and I have to cut it. I don't want to get rid of it, but it's at least six times too long.
Merran's troubles come from unfamiliarity, at least as I see it, leading to a very reasonable insecurity. And Glaselle did make a mistake, too. Sorcerous families tend to be socially isolated. You might look ahead to the last part of Chapter 35.
I have to completely redesign this whole training sequence and cut it better with Melayne's journey.
Jamen and pack--good point. I have to go back and look this over. He should have had time to pack something.
Glasias was their mother. She was>> Their mother, Glasias was a little heavier…
I'm trying here to carry us along with Merran's experience as she learns all these people at once. Maybe I need to do a better job of cueing the reader?
They called for Jamen(, who)[; he ] explained how the Royal soldiers had
At the time they called for Jamen, he had not yet explained, so the use of a relative clause, whether restrictive or not, is inaccurate here. Only after the explanation was given could it be accurate--but he was called first.
Yes, people often write without regard for this nicety. Since I'm carrying the reader along with the experience of the characters, I don't think I can or should get away wth it.
It seemed to be wrapped in an almost infinite depth>> over use of appear and seemed, suggest : It gave the impression of having an almost infinite depth.
As before, I'm not afraid of repetition. And here I want to stay close in with Merran's experience, especially her experience of the Gem.
You're right about 'College'. I don't want to go conspicuouly to Latin, but I do need to use another word.
Her father looked down at her from the claw of the lurymant and Shogran's spinning power. He said "What would I do?">> this feel like some sort of premonition- or foreshadowing.
I had wanted to have Merran asking herself this question often, and haven't done so. It occurs to me as I write now that I could use that question to indicate a step in the improvement of her judgement.
She took her pack and went silently downstairs and out the door.>> I have a feeling Merran's going to be angry about this.
More cast adrift, and she doesn't come fully to terms with it until she's about to leave. Again, see later parts of Chapter 35.
I'm still working on Erevain.
In one of the ADVENTure-inspired text interface games, a certain action in a certain place results in the message "Nothing happens." If the action is repeated, the new message is "Twice as much nothing happens."
Well, I'm trying to work scenes that are based not on what happens but on what is implied, indicated, and hinted. And I want it to feel at least a little real.
So I need to put twice as much nothing in the scenes, and keep them interesting.
Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi → The Sorcerer's Progress
