Only a day to go if things happen on schedule. Anyone else getting pumped to hear the results? Though I hear the judge is a tough one this time.

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Clew - Blew

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did the marshmallow delivery arrive Ape?

Meant to quote this line. My brain is a bit out of sorts today.

Now we must go home.

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A large hot chocolate with a handful of mini marshmallows from my stash

He called and said he's at the Tilbury service center having a Timmy's. Should be here in a couple hours. 😋

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But I'll wager she's the boss. Although she allows you to think that you are.

Nah, she doesn't even pretend. 😋 But are things where I am allowed to be in charge (computers, yardwork). 😎

So I was just sitting at my desk after wishing Mrs. M a Happy Valentine's Day and suddenly clued in what year it was. 30 years ago on Valentine's Day I put a ring on it. 😊 It was another year and a half until we actually tied the knot, but from that point on, it became inevitable.

Oh, and in honour of valentine's day, there's dishes of cinnamon hearts scattered on tables about the room.

I has a sad. Ivan Reitman, the director of Stripes, Meatballs, Ghostbusters, and so many more movies that made me laugh has left the world at 75. Great director and he left the best possible legacy: his son Jason has followed in his footsteps, with Up in the Air that he wrote and directed and his father produced getting six Oscar nominations and winning a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay.

Sunny, cold day here again but the coffee is hot. Got a pot of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe for the coffee crowd, Irish Breakfast and Peach for the tea drinker, and hot chocolate on standby for those what likes it. There's rumours that the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge stopped a shipment of mini marshmallows but that was cleared yesterday so all should be well. watches nervously for the truck

If sunny but cold enough to freeze the b***s off a brass monkey is beautiful, I guess it was beautiful here. I'd prefer it a bit warmer, esp. since we had to give the driveway a pass with the shovels after getting snow on and off yesterday.

I'll take an envelope. There's some jasmine green tea ready if others would like some.

Injury can require medical care.

Okay folks, there's coffee in the coffee pot, Red Rose and Earl Grey in the teapots, hot water in the hot water urn. Hot chocolate has been topped up as have the assorted other teas. We are entering a new week and there may a comp announcement coming. crosses fingers

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I probably owe my love and the site a suitable poem but not sure I have it in me this year. We shall see. Anyone got cool plans for the special day? We had our V-day dinner early since restaurants around here are going to be insane tomorrow. They are still not running at full capacity yet due to COVID restrictions.

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I will always be proud to call Stories Space my home and all of you my family... even if some are those dysfunctional sheep who keep you rolling your eyes.

Every family has one or two of those, I think. 😉 It's a nice place and I wish we could grow it a bit. Seems a bit too quiet sometimes, esp. when there's no comp on.

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Good morning. No Super Bowl here, though I usually end up watching the commercials on YouTube. Who is in the halftime show?

Coffee is a Costa Rican dark roast. Teas are Irish Breakfast and Earl Grey. Hot water is there for the hot chocolate crowd or other teas.

Nursing a headache today so writing may or may not happen. Also have work to do setting up a new feature over on Wondercafe2. One of the ministers on the site has a book on the go and will be sharing it on the site chapter by chapter. It's theology/religion, of course.

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Not to get political, but what's up in Canada with the truckers?

So I'll try to keep this brief:

Canada and US both brought in a vaccine mandate for trucks crossing the border.

Truckers who were opposed to the mandate, started a cross-country protest that ended on Parliament Hill, tying up highways and now clogging downtown Ottawa and disrupting the lives of residents there. For a while they were constantly blowing their horns but a group of residents lawyered up and got an injunction against the horn blowing.

A second protest has now disrupted the Ambassador bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit (one of the busiest land crossings and a PITA to use at the best of times), creating havoc in supply chains, esp. auto parts. For instance, most of Toyota's plants in North America are on temporary shutdowns (Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario, and one in Kentucky). They have also disrupted the Bluewater bridge between Sarnia and Port Huron at times, which is the usual alternate to the Ambassador and my preferred route to Detroit.

The problem now is that other anti-mandate and anti-government groups have more or less taken control, pushing for more than just the lifting of the border vaccine mandate. They are trying to get all vaccine and other pandemic mandates lifted and even trying to get the government to resign (which would just trigger an election, not a new government as they seem to think).

As of today, the province of Ontario has made it illegal to interfere with commercial traffic on major bridges and highways with severe penalties. Hopefully the f-ing OPP and other agencies will actually act on that and deal with the Windsor protest.

Then there's the funding issue. Police got GoFundMe to shut down a campaign to raise funds for the protest that way and return the money to donors, choking off resources. They moved the campaign to another funding site and the Ontario government got a court order yesterday against that money being disbursed within the province of Ontario, again trying to choke off resources.

And there's another whole mess at a border crossing in Alberta which Ping would probably know more about than me were he around.

Smartypants ape chuckles

Good morning! Bit snowy here, but I've seen worse. Hope all is well with the rest of you.

Coffee this morning is Blue Mountain. Teas are Sunday Tea (black with vanilla) and Scottish Breakfast. Hot water is ready for hot chocolate and other teas.

Anyone got exciting plans for the weekend? I'll probably write and maybe watch some TV or movies. Nothing much, in other words.

Quills of porcupine are dangerous.

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Pen is mightier than sword.

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5pounds of marshmallows

That'll last maybe a week? If we are lucky.😊

Good that you're negative. But are you positive that you're negative?🤣

Picked up a couple new readers today. I was talking about my writing on a site for fans of my current favorite singer and a couple of them asked for links. One had some kind words about The Bat.

Interesting. I looked at Smashwords at one point when I was considering self-publishing some stories but not familiar with Draft2Digital. Acquisitions are often a mixed blessing. They can fill gaps in a company's line and improve things for both but can also just be removing an option from the market. That release makes it sound like positive for all but its from D2D so not exactly lacking in bias. Wonder what the buzz on the street is saying.

My condolences, Red. Pets are family as much as kids are, eh.

Ape wanders in looking a bit out of sorts

Coffee, eh. How about some of this here Jamaican stuff?

Oh, and tea. Hmm. Russian Caravan (black blend including some nice smoky Lapsang Souchang) and Irish Breakfast.

Hot chocolate? Got lots. Marshmallows? Got ... SARA!

Ape digs out another five pound bag and put the whole thing in Sara's stash

So how's things, folks?

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It's happened, so yeah.

WYE use a ski-doo to get around?

Letters used to be popular.

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NOT looking forward to this

What about those who ARE NOT FAMILIAR with iMessage or ?

Guess they get left out in the cold when it comes to chatting with friends.

Taking away the ability to chat with friends sucks rocks

Anything is an improvement over the current messaging and PM systems in this software. I hardly use private messages here for that reason. Frankly, this sounds rather like conversations in the Xenforo software I use so likely to be better.

And I don't see how this system will make it harder to chat with friends. It's basically impossible in the current system and this one sounds like it will enable it again.