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| I'm terribly disappointed in myself or circumstances, one 'r t'other. Life is keeping me hopping like a first-time fire-walker. So, I've only been able to come home to WdC for short visits each day. Today, most of my time has been spent deleting emails (totalling about 1% of my email alottment) regarding an apparently former member who seems to me to have been filling up the Newsfeed with garbage. Meanwhile, I want to answer emails from some of my WdC friends, and update some items in my port. I think I need to switch to a week with 8 36-hour days! My greatest disappointment perhaps, involves my intent to enter the Dark & Twisted Romance Contest. I started writing a short(-sh) story for that contest, but things continue popping up and keeping me from getting any writing done. Hopefully, life will settle down soon. |
| I just opened a previously "Private" item, "Why I Can't Be"  , to Preferred Authors and higher. It has been in my port for some time. I've nae clew to why I decided to let anyone read it, nor to why I just chose to do so. I'm in an unusual mood this morn, I guess. I might make it "Private" again, maybe soon. Perhaps I need a black zigzag on my orange shirt? |
To what extent do you ask your family and friends outside of WdC for their thoughts about your writing? How supportive and helpful are they? Do they seem pleased that you ask their opinions or do you think they feel imposed upon? |
| I should have done some writing rather than housework while Bren was at the library today. I doubt I'll be remembered a hundred years from now as a clever and skillful dishwasher. Then again, I might be more revered for my dishwashing than for my writing. |
| I have a condition related to ceraunophilia. My condition is saranophobia, an extreme hatred of cling wrap. That stuff tangles up so easily --- and completely --- that using it makes me bellow like thunder and makes my angry eyes flash like lightning. |
| Watching fish swimming slowly in an aquarium can help normalize your blood pressure. Watching fish darting about the aquarium to avoid your cat's paws as it fishes for a snack can get you and your blood pressure up! This is especially true if you're at the vet's office and the fish are expensive ones!   |
| If you have hypertension, spending time with a cat can lower your blood pressure. If you're hypotensive, spending time with a cat can get your blood racing and your blood pressure up. If you're overwrought and anxious, spending time with a cat can calm you. If you're bored, spending time with a cat can make the time more interesting. If things get dull, spending time with a cat can liven them up. If things get too hectic, spending time with a cat can slow them and help put them into perspective. If you're wonderfully happy, spending time with a cat can give you a wonderful friend with whom to share your happiness. If you're terribly sad, spending time with a cat can be a terrific comfort. If you sit too much, spending time with a cat can give you a great reason to get up and about. If you run too much, spending time with a cat can give you a great reason to stop and sit a while. When life seems too hard to bear, spending time with a cat can be a reminder that life has its soft comforts. When life seems too soft and cushy to be true, a cat can be a reminder that life is not without responsibilities. Perhaps, cats are one earthly perfection. |
| "Half the world spends its time laughing at the other half --- and both are fools." Quoting the character, Mr. Moto from the movie, Think Fast, Mr. Moto. |
I just added an item to my portfolio.
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I've been given a number of names over the course of my life. Some are even repeatable in polite company. One of my favourites was given to me by one of our best friends. She calls me "uniqUE," (pronouncing the normally silent ue. She says that it means I'm a "unique you." There's simply no one else in the world quite like me. (That's a fact for which a great many people are extremely grateful.) Should I ever refute my descriptor 'PNG', I will certainly suffix my name with 'UniqUE.' |
| Bren & I were just discussing all the things which require a great deal of money, such as traveling, experiencing the wonders of the world, being able to sample the wide variety of cuisine from all around the world, and much more. The one activity that is most dependent on money is being wealthy. Fortunately, my wealth doesn't reside in a bank or in an investment company. It isn't in my wallet. MY wealth just wished me a good morning and is about to start a pot o' coffee. My wealth sends me cards and letters, and joins us for dinner at times. My wealth shares their amazing talents and experiences with me by posting their work in this community and by emailing me. My wealth shines brilliantly as they laugh at my corny jokes and share theirs with me. My wealth also shines brilliantly in my darker moments when they send me wishes for a better future. Wealth? I have it in great abundance, and it will last long beyond my time in this existence. Money? The buck stops at the cash register or the tax office or in the pocket of a thief. The only place money never stays is in one's own hand. |
| Giving humanlike qualities to animals or inanimate objects is anthropomorphism. What is the term for the act of ascribing animal-like qualities to humans or to inanimate objects? Many comic book characters have such qualities. Notably, Spiderman, Wolverine, and the Birdmen of Flash Gordon. I oft refer to the telephones of a few recades ago as "devices like curled up cats which sit on desks with their tails plugged into the wall." (IMHO phones, in any form, are utilitarian, whereas cats are useful and pleasant. Mr. Data in the Star Trek world presents another interesting question. He is an elaborate machine which/who(?) has humanlike characteristics. Is this anthropomorphism or some developing new element? I must also ask why in the world we humans would create words which take longer to type than wolfing down a doughnut & coffee on the way to work.  |
| Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind. Meditations 17 - John Donne I just discovered and looked into the White Case Memorial. John Donne expresses my feelings almost precisely, and that quote represents my purple iris expression of respect for those who have laid aside their quills and pens for the last time in this existence. It expresses, also, the joining of my sympathies with those of the families, loved ones, and friends whose loss has been even greater than ours. |
| I love the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray and Andi McDowell. I could watch that movie over and over and over... |
| I'm hoping the novel I'm writing for my wife will be a torment for her and all who read it. It's (hopefully) an amusing tale about an avid reader whose reading habit turns her into a witch. I'm trying to make it a "can't put it down" book. The chapters so far vary widely in length. (Is that a good thing or a bad one?) I'm striving to make each one tell exactly what it needs to tell --- nothing more nor less. Plus, I'm trying to end every chapter with a cliffhanger, or at least a lead-in to the next chapter. That's why I say I want it to be a misery. I want the reader to reach the end of each chapter thinking, "I can't possibly keep reading right now, and I'm at the end of this chapter, but I absolutely must find out why this character just did [such-n-such and how the protagonist is going to handle this new development. Maybe I'll read just a few more lines to find out." |
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(Thought: "Yeah. I don't have the energy or focus for anything creative like working with finger spinners or fidgits.")