Morning everyone.
Slept well, and it’s a beautiful day out.
Slowly preparing for the drive east to the eclipse. We’re getting a little worried by all the hubbub about crowds - there are some counties in Texas declaring themselves disaster areas because they are expecting so many people. We’re going to rural Oklahoma, but still. Worrying.
Today, though, same ol thang. Write, walk, baseball, repeat.
The Mets have yet to win a game. Sigh.
Seize the carp!
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The Dark magazine has now twice rejected me within a matter of hours. Fast but picky!
Busy day today! Watching the Mets game while I pack for Denver and the Mike Birbiglia concert (he's very funny, you should check him out on Netflix). We'll leave an hour or so after the game.
And next week...the ECLIPSE!!!
Top of the first, no score. Double play, the Mets are out of the inning!
Enjoy the weekend everyone.
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Roger would actually have made a good Wilbury. Right style of music, bit of a sense of humour, well-connected in the industry so some of them would already have known him.
My Back Pages. Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton & George Harrison. I was there!
I was so much older then, I'm younger then than now.
So nice to see a little action here. Hi everyone! Welcome back Cora!
Petty was my fave Willbury. I once saw him AND George Harrison AND Roger McGuinn play Dylan's songs - Mr. Tamborine Man gave me chills.
It's not even baseball season yet and the Mets game is already canceled. Wah! Still, I'll watch a few games. But I'm bummed.
We're off to Denver tomorrow to see Mike Burbiglia. You should check him out on Netflix. Half comedian, half one man show, but he's VERY funny.
Seize the carp everyone!
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Well yeah...I guess that's true.
Oh god. My mom basically described him as 'okie music' today after I tried to explain heartland rock to her.
Ha! Okie music made me laugh (both my parents are native Okies).
Scott, maybe try posting what you have here and asking for suggestions. I've improved stories by posting them here first for reactions. Anyway, just a thought.
BASEBALL SEASON STARTS TOMORROW!
Same old thang here. Talia seems to be taking to retirement well. She's taken up painting! Okay, paint by numbers, but the results are spectacular. Paint by numbers has come a long way.
A coffee ad a cookie and I am out of here!
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I've woken up with Tommy's songs stuck in my head for the past few days. Today it's 'The Waiting.'
Also my PT says him has a whiskey sounding voice but I'm not sure what that means.
There's a fine quiet acoustic version of that song on a live album somewhere.
Not much up today. Warmer and sunnier. Writing memoirs.
Answer to my trivia: I was shot down in Sudbury when I asked the museum tour guide out. But she was really nice about it!
MORE VERBAL TRIVIA: What lake was I at where the family added weed to their cigarette tobacco the entire time?
Coffee and cookies please!
Good morning all.
Nothing much going on here. The expected snowstorm didn't materialize, so it's merely cold.
But...baseball on THURSDAY! (Sorry Red.) (Sorry for saying I'm sorry Red.) And too many words to write between now and then.
A free donut for anyone who can name: In what Canadian city did I ask a girl out and get shot down? You'll have to read Continental Drift to find out!
I'll have a coffee and an Easter cookie!
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Please stick with it, Ape. You'll find that genre-wise it becomes much more horse-driven with romance taking a back seat.
Time for a Sunday hot chocolate, I believe.
I agree the momentum really starts to build.
Between me and Red there's like 22,000 new-ish words to be read over here. Anyone game?
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You're the second person to tell me they've been lucky enough to see him in concert (the first being my PT) within the last week or so and I envy both of you so bad it's kinda ridiculous.
...also your daughters have great taste. My personal favorites are Hometown Blues and Strangered in the Night, although you really can't go wrong with him's music.
Honestly, I like listening to him more than I like most of the people I know irl.
Glad Gill and I can help. He really was a special talent. I remember buying Damn the Torpedoes (his first big album) and putting it on the turntable and being utterly blown away. The concert to see would have been when he was touring with Bob Dylan, and they were Dylan's BACK-UP BAND!
Lazy Sunday. We had breakfast at IHOP and are now back home, waiting for the NEXT snowstorm to appear.
Coffee and one of those delish cookies!
Hope everyone is well. We're heading down to Pueblo, to visit with family. Of course, since Pueblo has the best Mexican food in all the land, we will be porking out.
Same ol same ol here. Still editing this damn story. Gorgeous day out.
May I have a coffee and a cookie (just one)?
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It's dumb but Tom Pretty has become my comfort artist even more over the last week or so.
I was having a bad night last Thursday and, as soon as I'd shoved in my earbuds and started listening to him, my mood was lifted.
I - I don't know what I'd do without him's music.
I saw him in concert, back in the day. Lenny Kravitz opened. GOOD concert.
My daughters turn the radio up to 11 and sing along top volume whenever American Girl comes on the radio.
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Rain has certainly interfered with the walking out. It hasn't stopped for two days. Now comes the news of colder weather on the way. Health and bad weather certainly bug with life. Jeff, I realise it is a virtual cafe but my imagination thrives on the glorious image of you plundering countless cookies and becoming increasingly obese!
BTW and more seriously, have you heard anything about Cora , very regular but the last report she forwarded suggested that she was confined to her bed. It's been a number of weeks now and this site needs the input of somepne of her caring personality.
17 cookies a day, keeps the doctor away. Or something like that.
Sorry about the rain, Red. Spring is imminent! Summer is just behind it. It's sunny but cool here.
Editing today. Feeling nervous about it. Afterward I might get a haircut. Heck, I might get them all cut. (Sorry for the Dad joke).
Coffee and 17 more cookies please. I'm getting so FAT!
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Enjoying progress as the world goes back. Yesterday I managed a walk from the back garden to the front, and thence down the drive an across to the other side of the road. A walking stick ensured balance. My good lady and my sister tracked close behind me, each convinced that I'm due to fall at any minute. I didn't, and haven't yet. Wiil repeat the exercise today--if the rain stops! But it was definitely progress.
Hot chocolate to celebrate and an Irish cookie if Verbal as left some. Hope phone chat with Mayo and the visit to your neuro both raised your spirits, Jeff. Health can be an ever-present shadow on the brightness of life, can't it?
Thank goodness for that walking stick, and for your cautious companions! We're really happy you didn't fall.
And yeah, my neuro troubles are a shadow, but they aren't slowing me down. Just making the journey more annoying. I've got too much to do to slow down.
Tough edit today - just got back a TON on notes on a thing getting published in May. It's a little overwhelming.
Red, the joy of a virtual cafe is that there are ALWAYS more cookies! Ha! I'll have 17 more! And a coffee please!
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It was a good weekend. My middle son, his girlfriend, and their adorable, goofy pug all came up for a visit. We all ended up with Covid a few weeks ago and couldn't get together as planned. It was a pleasant, calm visit; none of us have a lot of strength back yet. I am pretty sick of getting sick with Covid. It seems to make a reappearance every Feb, despite everyone being vaccinated.
I'm looking forward to an uneventful week. I'll take a few cookies to go. Have a great week, everyone. Cheers.
I can see the comfort of sitting around with fam, no one at full energy.
I have a phone call with the Mayo Clinic (!!!) this morning, followed by a visit to my neuro here in town. Big day, folks. Fingers crossed.
Other than that, same ol, same ol. Trying to learn how to write a "pitch." Erg.
Coffee and a cookie please.
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Happy St Patrick's Day
I have fresh cookies...st Patrick's Day themed
putting out the pot of gold cookie jar and filling it to the tippy top
moving the old cookies to the emergency cookie tins behind the counter
brewing some Cafe du Monde Coffee and Earl Grey and lucky leprechaun teas
Today's cookies are pots of gold ,shanrocks,top hats,leprechauns, gold coins and rainbows
It's chilly here but supposed to warm up tomorrow
Stay warm today
Those are some good looking cookies Sara! I’ll have a large handful.
Therapist today, which is a good thing generally. That and some writing, maybe a walk.
Baseball is imminent! 10 days away! Things are about to get busy. Denver in a couple of weeks, and then the eclipse - we’re going to Oklahoma.
Time to get up and at it. Coffee would be swell to go with all those cookies!
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Got the self-publish version of complete HIGH/HUMBLE tale out on Kindle yesterday. Story seems to read okay but I made a mess of intro information ( damn technology!). Will have a brief go at correct it . But I have to decide whether to start a crime story that has been bubbling around in my mixed-up head. That stroke has left me with uncertain spelling problems. Just last week I struggled when wanting to write the simple word 'one' and lingered over my brain wanting to start with a 'w'. It's becoming less bothersome. (See that word came easily).
I'll have a hot chocolate and one of Sara's short bread cookies---which flavour though?
Maybe spell check or Grammerly could be helpful with that pesky spelling issue, Red.
We are socked in with a foot of snow. After this second cup of coffee kicks in, I've got to go out an attempt to shovel us out. Might take a few sessions.
It's absolutely beautiful out. Like a postcard. It's supposed to snow again this afternoon!
Enjoy the day everyone.
As always (well, nearly always), the snowstorm was not as fierce as predicted. We did get several inches, but no blowy blizzard craziness.
Fire is on, snow is blanketing the ground, and I was able to make my doc appointment a virtual one, so all is calm. It's a day to put on the headphones and disappear into writing for a few hours.
Coffee and tea sale! Cookie sale! Pie sale! Everything is free! Come on in!
