Thanks for the treats Cora! I’ll have a watermelon cookie.
James, I didn’t realize it until after you posted, but the Jays have the best record in baseball! The Mets, sadly, appear to be beginning their late summer swoon.
I am knee deep in a second draft of the novel - currently heavily reworking the last five chapters. Then, well, I guess a third draft begins. This is hard work.
Hoping we would see comp results today!
Coffee!
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I had the hots for Gillian Anderson when the X-Files came out. (Along with 50% of the viewers)
I watched 'Major League' (1989) last night. It was not as good as I remembered it, but Bob Uecker was still great.
If you have the hots for Gillian you will LOVE The Fall.
About to start The Institute (Stephen King). It's a good book. The Following, with Kevin Bacon, looks interesting too. I think it's old, but we just discovered it.
Heya everyone.
The game was Big Fun. Not exactly a crisp, well-played game, but the Rockies won, with a 17-16 final score. It was fun to watch. 40 hits, 3.5 hours (and that doesn’t include the concert). The Dead cover band was reasonably good, good enough to get us dancing. Anyway, fun night.
Hot and sunny here. Coffee please!
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Read it… and… although I liked your comp piece a lot, I LOVED this one, but happy you didn’t cut it down to size. You love metal so much, you should write more stories around it.
I haven't read the story yet, but HEAVILY agree about writing about what you love (he said, having never written about baseball) (I do have a small but about my love of playing catch in the novel).
Slowly getting caught up on comp entries. Strong field, but that's often true lately.
We're packing for Denver and Coor's Field and Grateful Dead night. I've never been a Deadhead, but have had many Deadhead friends, and as I result I've seen the original Dead (with Jerry) in concert five times: Iowa City, Minneapolis, and three times at Madison Square Garden (I had a friend who always bought out the full week, every year they came).
Of course, tomorrow is just a baseball game and a cover band. Still, should be fun - it's kind of a birthday celebrstion as well.
Seize the coffee cup!
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Happy Birthday!!!!
Sounds like you had a fantastic trip and a great time!
The Mets are playing well and had a great chance to make the playoffs. With Judge out, the Mets are the best team in NYC.
Darn straight the best team in NYC is the Mets! Thanks for the props Roland!
Had a great birthday, though it says something that among my greatest gifts is getting a good night's sleep.
Not up to much today. I will try to write that cat scene though!
Coffee please.
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Welcome back. Sounds like a fun trip. Fossil redwoods sounds cool.
You've got lots of reading to do. 15 entries in the comp and 5 days left. And, of course, an entry from you is always welcome but I know you're just back so we'll excuse you this time if you don't.
And Happy Birthday!! Steak and cake sounds pretty good for a celebration (and rhymes nicely).
Okay, okay. I just read two. My writing is for crap today, so I'm taking the day off. I doubt I'll enter. Too busy trying to describe what a cat with tentacles coming out of her mouth would look like.
(ppst. It's my birthday)
Hey all! Haven't been around much, I hope everyone is well. We drove up into the mountains with Talia/daughter/grandson/significant other. It was big fun. It was hot as f here in town, almost 100, but up in the mountains it was cool and lovely. Took a hike, looked at some giant fossilized redwoods (Florissant Fossil Beds Park). Came home tired and watched the Mets win their 7th in a row.
Going out for steak tonight, coming home for cake. I'll write and chill til then.
Coffee please!
The second book cover, WG. I like the letters a little smaller, so we are more taken by all the imagery. It seems a little lighter too. The cat on the head is key to both versions!
Broke out the grill finally! It's usually up and running my May, but it has been a BUSY summer.
Really proud of my Heaven's Gate story. I hope it gets picked up. If not I will post it here.
Roland, I've been in therapy for a decade and it really helps me on an everyday basis.
I deserve a cold beer for all my hard work today. I will settle for an ice water.
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Oo, Bear brought goodies. All is well here. A bit fatigued for some reason. Didn't sleep the greatest last night so that's likely part of it. Heard that the contractors might be out to start on my driveway next week so there's that. I have a new idea for the comp but haven't had time to take a crack at it yet. Cats are involved (the one I have in hand involves cellos and headbanging).
Cats! Yay!
Nothing new here. Editing the novel, which is mostly boring, interrupted by periods of sheer terror at all I have to change.
Still. Coffee is hot, cats are purring, and my wife is ever-patient. And I get to walk today! Sadly, no baseball.
Coffee!
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Woohoo!
SEVEN entries in the competition!
Come on in, Verbal and Mr Ape, the water’s warm…
Life is busy, DubyaGee. I will read the entries, but I doubt I'll enter.
My Heaven's Gate shoe story has turned into a love story, almost against my will. It's like, the characters decided to fall in love, regardless of what I wanted to write. I'm about to send it off to an anthology. Wish me luck!
Coffee!
Went to a poetry reading last night! Talia read a bunch of poems (some probably from this site). It was big fun. I read a story, but I was mostly there for Talia.
Same old day today, though without a walk - the heat is just too brutal today.
Mets had a great win last night.
A brownie and a coffee please!
Morning all.
Hot and sunny here. I am trying to write a story about the guy delivering Nikes to the Heavens Gate suicide cult, back in the late 90s. Anyone remember Hale-Bopp?
Things are fine here. I have some relatives in Texas hill country, but everyone seems to be fine. My prayers go out to all those families. Devastating.
Coffee would rock.
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Thought that a different version passed the House and reconciliation would be needed? So it may not yet be over. Keep fighting. I was a bit po'd at the revocation of the Digital Service Tax. Giving Trump his way make ape grumpy. I am not a big fan of some of the regulatory moves Canada has made around digital services (like enforcing Can-con on services like YouTube), but using a tax to keep some of the profits in Canada was one I could handle.
The Senate was our last, best chance. It's a sad day.
My apologies for being political. I will attempt to be chill from now on.
Happy Canada Day!
Here in the US it’s “we stopped that nation-destroying bill from being passed” day. They voted all night long but thus far, they are unable to throw 11 million people off of health care to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Stay tuned.
Hot and sunny here. Write and walk today. I haven’t done that in awhile.
Sieze the coffee cup!
EDIT: The bill passed the Senate. The billionaires are in charge now.
Cool and rainy and the good kind of gloomy today. It’s been hot as a tin roof here, so the cool-off and rain are welcome.
My garbage disposal story got kind of ripped up in critique group last night. Showed me the way to fix it though, so it’s a win.
Your play was cool WG!
Started the rewrite of the novel in earnest. I’m about 20 pages in.
Coffee and a cookie please!
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I am glad she made it home. Air travel these days is at best inconvenient and uncomfortable.
We're going to go to Newfoundland in August this year. I haven't seen all of my husband's family in years. I didn't want to go that far away with my parents' issues. Thankfully, now that my father is being cared for, I can leave. We will drive, which is daunting, but flying is not great either. You must take two or three flights to get there, and they frequently lose our luggage. And for some reason, they now route you through Detroit. We'll take it slow and visit some sites on the way up. It's a three-day trip, two days to Nova Scotia, an eight-hour ferry ride, and five hours across the island. We'll be gone for about two weeks to make that journey worthwhile.
The heat has settled in, and it will be here for a while. It was 96 today, but it will be over 100 for several days this coming week. Above 90, it all feels the same: hazy, hot, and humid. Ugh! I'll take a lemonade and some cookies and find a cool spot to read.
I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. Take care. Cheers.
That sounds like a fun road trip. The 8 hour ferry ride sounds like a trip. Glad you have regained your freedom, Gill.
Still very hot here. We may brave the heat in order to go to IHOP. But then we’ll go right back home.
Coffee, please. And peace. And a cookie.
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Well, that's a bleeping mess. I think our domestic air system sucks but that's mostly expense. I can fly to Europe for less than it costs to fly to the West Coast of my own country.
She's home. Life is slowly returning to normal.
It's a hot one here today, with no rain in sight. We're gonna go work in the yard until the sun forces us back inside. We're watching the 28 Days/Months/Years later movies. I've seen the first two, Talia has not. The first movie is SO GOOD.
Coffee please.
