Long before I ever heard of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish and their amazing writer Tuomas Holopainen, my favourite Finnish composer was Jean Sibelius. Finlandia is probably his best known piece.
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Crazy old ape
Coffee time!!!
Oh the hey, it's always coffee time in a cafe, eh.
Got some Deathwish Dark roast in the coffee pot. Teas du jour are Earl Grey and Scottish Breakfast. Fresh lemonade and iced tea are in the fridge. Stocks of hot chocolate and other teas are looking good, as are the marshmallows and sundry condiments.
Getting a chance to write during the week is tricky so not much progress on my new stories. One needs some serious changes to make my planned direction make sense. Just not sure what exactly those changes need to be. It's mostly about avoiding the problem of the "big revelation" being a total deus ex machina. The other is just chugging along and I kind of have the direction worked out, though some tweaking might be in order since I've changed the future direction of things.
Crazy old ape
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I was shot down in Sudbury when I asked the museum tour guide out. But she was really nice about it!
Yeah, those Northern Ontarians can be pretty nice folks, actually. Never been there myself but my employer has an office there (a company we acquired pre-pandemic) so maybe I can come up with an excuse someday.
Crazy old ape
Good day! Hi, Elyse. The world needs more Petty, even if he was a ... bad dum ... Heartbreaker.
Coffee is brewing. Went with Tobermory Grotto for today. Teas are Assam and Russian Caravan. Everything else seems well-stocked and ready.
Here's an interesting performance of "The Waiting". Grunge meets 70s rock. Eddie is my second favourite of the Seattle grunge crowd after the late Chris Cornell.
Crazy old ape
With response times of a few days to a couple weeks, the pubs here from a variety of formats and genres will let you know soon if they are interested. Many, not surprisingly, specialize in poetry and flash which are shorter and take less time to review. See if there's anything of use to you.
https://authorspublish.com/25-journals-with-fast-response-times/
Crazy old ape
Four-day work week! Yay!
OTOH, this long weekend sees the biggest upgrade of our core corporate system that we've done in probably the last 6 or so years. I'm not the guy doing it anymore and the guy who is makes miracles happen (kind of the IT version of Scotty but without the accent) but still, a lot is riding on this project.
"She canna take it, boss. Any more and she'll blow!" is not what I want to hear on Easter Sunday, let's put it that way.
It's evening here so I'll put on some camomile and Canadian blueberry herbal teas. Suitable for bedtime drinking.
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In what Canadian city did I ask a girl out and get shot down?
Somewhere in Quebec and your French pickup lines didn't pass muster? 🤣
Crazy old ape
I tend to not show myself online (except LinkedIn and I have largely left that site now) so likely not, though I keep meditating on the possibilities of vlogging or doing reaction videos or something so never say never.
WYE buy a product purely based on a celebrity endorsement?
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From their new Album released on Friday, Myths of Fate, here are Leaves Eyes with In Eternity
Good album. I listened to it on the weekend. The one review I saw trashed it and I am not sure why. It's not likely to be my favourite album of the year or anything, but I enjoyed it.
Crazy old ape
Several nice new metal releases this week and hard to pick a favourite, but this one was not expected (at least by me). Symphonic pirate metal seems to be the stock in trade of Visions of Atlantis now after the success of their 2022 album Pirates. The sequel is coming in July under the title Pirates II Armada and the first single/video is the title track.