Some hot coffee is brewing. Red Rose and Earl Grey teas are steeped and in the pots. Iced tea, lemonade, and sodas are all in the fridge. Add'ins like lemon, sugar, and milk/cream are all checked and stocked.
Working on a story for another site (guess who) but I do have ideas for here.
Brrrrr. Quite chilly here this morning. Had to go out first thing to install our bike carrier on our SUV so wife can take her bike in for spring service.
However, the coffee is hot, as are the English Breakfast and Russian Caravan teas. There's hot water for other beverages and fresh pitchers of iced tea and lemonade.
Later.
Time for coffee, time for tea, lots to drink for you and me! (sung in an irritatingly chipper voice)
I've put on a pot of Costa Rican medium roast for the coffee crowd. There's English Breakfast and Wakoucha (Japanese Black Tea) in the teapots. Iced tea and lemonade are refreshed and I've checked stock on the condiments and sodas.
Have a nice one!
Coffee coffee toil and trouble
Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble
Yeah, that's going to be some right strong coffee. Tea is Russian Caravan and Scottish Breakfast. Hot water is ready for other hot beverages. Unsweet iced tea and lemonade are fresh and ready. Soda stock is check and replenished.
Good morning, inspirators!
Winter is officially over. Meaning my cars are now both running on all season tires and no more ice or snow is hence allowed. In fact, the weather here in Southwestern Ontario is downright summer-y.
My home Internet is down. Thank heaven for phones with hotspots. I think cable layers working on our street likely buggered it up but we won't have a tech on site until tomorrow to find out (this started c. 2pm yesterday). 😠
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There have been a few things running in the background. Mine did it too a few times, but it seems to be doing just fine now.
Login seems better but 4 of the 5 images are broken on my desktop (but not on mobile, interestingly). I am using Edge on desktop so maybe that's somehow a factor???
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I've been taking long wandering walks on these beautiful last few days, and I'm sure I have another one ahead of me today.
Ditto here in Ontario. Should last until Sunday, it appears from the forecast.
To the hot beverages verbs got going (thanks, man) I have refreshed the lemonade and iced tea (unsweet, there's lemon and sugar available if you need 'em) in the fridge.
Writing is very haphazard right now. Got stuff going but just not having the energy or motivation to stick to it. Trying, though.
Have there been any updates recently (like the past week or so)? I am having problems with the "Remember Me" switch on login not working again (I will try dumping cache since that sometimes fixes this) and the images for the Top Categories on the home page are broken. Just wondering if something borked something. And if it is just me or if these are happening to others.
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Deceiver of Fools - Within Temptation and the Metropole Orchestra
From Black Symphony, I guess? Love that performance.
I was listening to a contemporary of theirs on my walk today. My Winter Storm was Tarja Turunen's second solo album after she parted ways with Nightwish. This song also made its way on to her "best of" compilation last year.
Good morning! Sunny here and warming up as we move through the Easter weekend.
Coffee is hot and in the pot. There's Red Rose and Lemon tea. Hot water is on for other teas or hot chocolate. Sodas, lemonade, and iced tea await you in the fridge.
And look what the bunny left. 😊
So I've started a new story about my priestly adventure party, this one moving the action far from the part of the world where I started into an older Southern region that draws heavily on Mesopotamia and Egypt. So the story opens in a city called Al'risa where the ancient emperors are buried in tombs around the city, which itself was created to house the workers, priests, etc. needed for the funerary and tomb industry. I am trying to make it a bit strange and exotic relative to the Iron Age and later European sheen of the Tana stories and the first story about the new characters.
I think Anna? posted about Natalia Tsarikova upthread a while ago. She's a Russian soprano who trained in Italy and now resides in Finland. Excellent voice. She is probably best known for covers of bands like Nightwish but this is an original song by Finnish songwriter Juha Alanampa who also produced.
Ape wanders in. Ape sees brownies. Ape starts swiping.😊
Good morning, all. Here's some nice hot java to go with those brownies. Tea, too, Assam and English Breakfast.
I've put both lemonade and iced tea in the fridge. Help yourselves.
Bright and sunny here and looking good for the whole weekend.
Good morning! Ape here. Worked until 10pm last night (grumble). Oh well, last day of work before a long weekend.
Coffee is a Blue Mountain from Jamaica. For teas we have English Breakfast and Wakoucha (Japanese red/black). Hot water is one for other hot bevvies. Iced tea is in the fridge for those in need of something cool. Restocked the sodas, too.
Even as I work on my fantasy tales, I am meditating on doing some space s-f. There's a whole bunch of different world-building questions with that genre. Like,
Is there faster-than-light travel? (the answer to this one affects the answer to the rest, since if there is no FTL, travel is confined to one system unless another system is quite close by)
Are civilizations common or rare?
Are there multiple civilizations, an overarching galactic "Federation" or "Empire", individual systems?
Are the aliens "alien" or just humans with pointy ears and extra bumps on their heads?
Is there lots of unknown space so that exploring that space is important (Star Trek) or is it a well-settled, well-traveled galaxy where conflicts, politics, etc. are more important (Star Wars)?
Probably more, but that's a start.
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saying goodbye to Talia, who will be leaving tomorrow for a little while.
Been there, done that. But I had a kid to look after, too, when she was travelling for her academic conferences and such.
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Mets lost last night, and lost first place to the Braves.
Oh well, Sara will be happy, at least.
It's the usual mixed bag. Seaside gothic, women and werewolves (open only to women), mysteries with a twist, superheroes saving the planet, and so much more. Got a story idea? Have a look and see if it fits any of them.
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I just listened to the whole album. I have a feeling it may just be getting ordered! 👌
Visions are amazing. They do have a bit of a revolving door lineup, unfortunately. Clementine (female singer) has been around a while now but I think Pirates last year was Michele's (male singer) first studio album with them. I am hoping he sticks around a while. I like how his voice works with Clementine's. Rather like Marko Hietala's work with the female leads in Nightwish.
In much different vein, English choral group Voces8 do a range of music from Renaissance through to modern. Here they team up with American composer Eric Whitacre for one of his works with Whitacre himself conducting.
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A day in the life...
LOL. Maybe it's not his cat. Maybe it's the cop's cat. 🤣
Good morning, fellow writers, readers, and literati. The coffee is hot and ready. There's a couple pots of tea, Russian Caravan and English Breakfast. Hot water is on for other teas and hot beverages. And there's a pitcher of iced tea chilling in the fridge.
Had a hellish day at work yesterday and other things are bothering me, too. Events at another site I am on are making me rather glad this place is quiet. Still, we need some more life and oomph around here, I think. Maybe I'll try posting here more to see if I can draw some folks out of the woodwork.
