FirstWizardBaraccus

My favorite thing you've done is Ain't The Way To Die, honestly one of the most moving things I've ever listened to, tears every time.

I carried my grandmother in my arms, into her house from the hospice car with a terrified look on her face. When I put her into the bed, she pulled my uncle to her without breaking her horrified gaze and asked him "Who is that man"? Stage IV lung cancer that hit hard and fast, whacked from drugs.

I sat in her house and listened to her death rattle for hours, pulled my dad into the other room eventually and told him to get everyone out of the house and have the nurse leave the morphine on the table. He told me "You know you can't do that"...

Everyone justified it by the fact that when she did happen to pass after hours of that, my uncle was rubbing her feet. She stopped gasping, looked up, smiled, and went.

And I fucking hate it. Nothing beautiful about it, no final peace moment can erase that.

So this is less of an AMA question and more just an opportunity to thank you for giving me some catharsis for my sorrow and anger.

Actual question would be, how the hell do you manage to not only have the time to produce such fantastic quality, but the time to learn how to have done all the things you do on top of being an MD?

That's sad.

Go the route of Terry Goodkind and start self-publishing your books on E-reader format. Cut that nasty middleman out, retain your rights! It would be the fastest turnaround from final draft to hitting the readers' hands, you'd keep a larger cut, and the price itself would be lower for those to buy it.

I mean at this point you'd have to add a couple extra Z's and drop an apostrophe, so something like Drizzet, and the setting would have to be something like Overlooked Planes rather than Forgotten Realms...

I just couldn't imagine being the creator of a vast epic and having no rights to it just because you have to pony up to a publisher or a corporation.

It's really hard for damages in transit to be the driver's fault, if it was a properly loaded truck using e-trak bars and restraints. Of course UPS isn't a 53' dry van so no loadbars.

Used to work for ABX Air's sort center in highschool and I've seen guys fork whole pallets of fresh PS3's and Xboxs just because they could.