Cask - Bask

Lives of cats are nine.

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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.

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.

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/

Oo. Fries are more filling but onion rings taste better (at least if done right). Guess I'll take onion rings since I have not had them in a while.

With a beef burger or with chicken?

Mash - Cash

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? 🤣

Over there lies our home.

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.

I have a bit of a nudist streak that I have never really indulged so I might in the right circumstances.

WYE be a moderator on a web forum?

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.

Train. Even the drive to Ottawa (6-8 hours depending on traffic) to see my son is getting rough for my aging body.

Write spontaneously or plan everything out?

Male - Malt

Roses will bloom come June.

A year ago tomorrow, the wonderful Dutch rock singer Floor Jansen took a new direction in her long career by releasing her first ever solo album, entitled Paragon. All her previous work was done as part of various bands so having an album with just her name on the cover was a new thing, celebrated joyously by us fans. The first track, and the last of the myriad singles from the album, is My Paragon.

The chorus "Look at me now, my paragon. My dream is now, my paragon." in this song is actually a response to another song she wrote called just "Paragon" where she asked, "And when shall I be my paragon?" That song was one of a bunch she wrote with Norwegian guitarist Jorn Viggo Lofstad for their one-off band and album Northward.

Good morning. Sunny but cold here. Snow seems to have stopped coming, though, and we might start losing it later today. Right now, though, it looks more like January or February should have.

25 years ago today, I was hanging out in a hospital waiting for my slacker Gen Z kid to get off his ass and be born. Except he turned out to be very much not a slacker and now makes big bucks designing computer chips.

Coffee is Kicking Horse 454 Horse Power. Teas are Assam and Earl Grey Cream. Cold drink pitchers are washed and refilled with lemonade and unsweet iced tea. Hot chocolate, other teas, and various condiments all stocked up, including the much loved marshmallows.

Sorry for the rant last night, but it does kind of reflect my current feelings so it is staying up.

Good evening. Thought I would pop by. I am writing again. Two stories on the go, both promising to be long and involved. And, to be honest, I'm not sure they're coming here. This place just does not seem to be the place for long, involved stories anymore. Other than Red's story (BTW, I have read the first two chapters and it is very good. It's just not my cuppa genre-wise so the going is a bit slow) and Verb's memoir, it's all micros and poems it seems. One of my stories is at 3300 words and counting. The other is lagging a bit behind but will definitely be a longer work as well.

Anyhow, that's where I am at. Will be around from time to time like this but probably less regular, at least for a while. Need to cut back the other place, too, really. Not going to be writing for there for a while.

And then some Can-con (Canadian content). Power metal band Unleash the Archers is based out of BC here in Canada and fronted by the powerhouse vocals of Brittany Hayes.

New songs from a couple artists I follow, both with new albums coming up later this spring.

We had Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's first vocalist, recently. Here's her successor Anette Olzon with the second release from her upcoming third solo album.

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I am pretty sick of getting sick with Covid.

I've had it twice, the second time only a month after getting my shot of the XBB vaccine in December 2023. I was on a cruise and got sick almost as soon as I got home so must have been exposed on the ship.

Good evening. Put on a pot of Vanilla Rooibos for evening drinking.

Not much happening here. Winter is trying for a last gasp after basically not happening in February.

pine - wine

Bald eagle soars through sky.

No snow here. They are calling for possible flurries early next week but it will be relatively warm and could be showers as well so not expecting anything to actually stick.

And it's Saturday so those of us who are workin' folks are taking it easy. Sunny here right now but supposed to be mostly cloudy. No water, liquid or frozen, falling from the sky today, though.

Coffee is Deathwish Dark. Teas are Original Earl Grey (mix of orange and bergamot instead of just bergamot) and English Breakfast. Washed and refilled the cold drinks (iced tea and lemonade). Hot chocolate, other teas, and the marshmallows for the former all stocked up.

Welcome to the weekend, folks!!

(and for JustAnotherSapphic, more Petty, this time with a few of his musical friends)

Sad that of this great supergroup, only Dylan and Lynne remain.

Lucassen & Soeterboek's Plan Nine began decades ago with guitarist/songwriter Arjen Lucassen and singer Robert Soeterboek recording demos on an old 8-track. They finally put together a band recently, mostly of regular members of Lucassen's other projects, and started recording them properly with an album due in May. This is the second release from Plan Nine.

Maple syrup. Not sure I have ever actually put honey on them but now I am wondering.

Fast car or comfortable car?

tint - pint

Highlights gleamed in her hair.

While writing a great story can be its own reward, there's no harm in making a bit of dough off the fruits of our labours, right? So here's some markets of varying sizes that will pay you for your work. It ranges from big names like Analog and Asimov's (both major sf and fantasy markets) or The New Yorker (more general fiction) to regional ones like The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead (both, like me, Canadian) to smaller markets. Have a look and see if there's something of interest to you.

https://authorspublish.com/56-literary-journals-that-pay-their-authors/