Random thoughts

[MineOwnKing]

Today is a special day.

Today my family celebrates my Grandmother's 100th birthday.

I am very close with my Grandmother and she lived an amazing life.

Always loving and supportive, like a well of endless hope she was a positive force in raising all the cousins.

She became a one room school house teacher in 1934. She had to ride on her skis to get to the school house and start a fire in the furnace to warm up the building.

Five years later when she got married, she was forced to quit teaching. Women were expected to take care of their husbands and so she was not allowed to work.

After the war she returned to teaching and retired in 1978.

She made life worth living in a multitude of ways.

I love her.

Happy Birthday Grandma.

 

[Stephyn Blackwood]

So... Well...

The new Star Wars is Brilliant, in case anyone was wondering. Just putting it out there

 

[CupofJoe]

Happy Birthday to MoK's Gramdma!
Anyone that makes it to 100 deserves respect and she does sounds a remarkable women [but when aren't they?]

 

[Brian Scott Allen]

Had a football party to watch two rivals play in a bowl game. Wife and her family loves the blue team, my family and I love the red team. Frustrating game, but I made some pot stickers and hot dang were they tasty. Favorite football tradition for me right there.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

I did it wrong. I saw Helio's challenge to write a 25-word log line, and one of her log line samples was this:

Short Term Forecast
After discovering a fax machine that can send and receive messages one day into the future, an impossibly inaccurate weather man struggles for career advancement while trying to maintain the space/time continuum.

I came up with a 25-word story based on her sample:




Short Term Forecast (25 words)

FAX: The space-time continuum will implode in two days. FAX4D creators take full responsibility and leap from the 88th floor.

FORECAST: It's raining men.

 

[Ireth]

I did it wrong. I saw Helio's challenge to write a 25-word log line, and one of her log line samples was this:

I came up with a 25-word story based on her sample:




Short Term Forecast (25 words)

FAX: The space-time continuum will implode in two days. FAX4D creators take full responsibility and leap from the 88th floor.

FORECAST: It's raining men.

You done goofed. But in the best way. XD

 

[Heliotrope]

That was pretty awesome.

 

[MineOwnKing]

Finally got tickets online for Star Wars.

The force is strong with this purchase.

Gonna take my boy today, so nice to share this with him.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Here's a Christmas song remix by my three year old daughter.


Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
Hey!

Spoiler: verses 2-97

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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
Hey!

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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
Hey!

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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
Hey!

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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
Hey!

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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
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Jingle all the way
On a farm Mr. Rice
In a 1-S open sleigh
Hey!

 

[Brian Scott Allen]

Pro tip: don't teach your 1 year old how to say touchdown and teach him the hand signal. They'll yell touchdown every time they see people raise an arm above their head. They also do so at inappropriate times.

 

[MineOwnKing]

Pro tip 2: Don't let kids accidentally walk in on Shaun of the Dead.

Not good.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Pro tip: don't teach your 1 year old how to say touchdown and teach him the hand signal. They'll yell touchdown every time they see people raise an arm above their head. They also do so at inappropriate times.

PRIEST: "In the name of the Father..."

KID: "Touchdown!"

DAD: "Goddammit."

EVERYONE: (glaring at Dad) "..."

 

[Devor]

Pro Tip 3: Don't say "sacred poop" in front of a six year old.

 

[Brian Scott Allen]

PRIEST: "In the name of the Father..."

KID: "Touchdown!"

DAD: "Goddammit."

EVERYONE: (glaring at Dad) "..."

Are...are you psychic because that is pretty close to what actually happened.

 

[MineOwnKing]

On a more positive Shaun of the Dead note...

Just finished part of a chapter while listening to The Blue Wrath(Bloated) by I Monster.

Greatest zombie music ever.

 

[FifthView]

The last few days I've been thinking about copy-pasting all my comments from Mythic Scribes into Scrivener and finding a total word count, then plotting it into separate days, just to see how much further along I'd be on my manuscript if I'd been working on it instead for those accumulating minutes.

But it doesn't work that way, and I'm too lazy to make the effort the comparison would require.

 

[Chessie]

^Holy cow, then all the time I've spent playing Fallout means I would've had like two finished projects by now.

Oh, well. I'm actually on the verge of finishing one at the moment, only a bit more to go. I'd be done with it in a matter of hours but somehow, I've hit this fear snag where finishing seems impossible. Lately, it's been: who wants to read this crap? Sigh.

 

[Addison]

I'm leaning toward that same fear snag. Although it's currently being stalled by a sort of "I can't finish this" yapping in my head. My last (please-please my last) revision, to get it done, I have to delete certain scenes and write certain events. Some of the scenes to delete I like, same with the ones needing to be written, but there are scenes I need to delete that I don't like, and I need to write scenes I'm not feeling crazy about.

That's writing I guess. To make a story work we have to put stuff in that's not in the same "I'm loving this: level as when we started the story.

 

[Incanus]

The last few days I've been thinking about copy-pasting all my comments from Mythic Scribes into Scrivener and finding a total word count, then plotting it into separate days, just to see how much further along I'd be on my manuscript if I'd been working on it instead for those accumulating minutes.

But it doesn't work that way, and I'm too lazy to make the effort the comparison would require.

The comparison also doesn't work (for me) because writing fiction is about twenty times harder than writing a forum post. I consider one an art, and the other a kind of babbling. So I'd use a ratio like that: twenty words of forum post is equal to about one word of fiction.

 

[Velka]

After returning from a weekend in a winter wasteland to spend time with my family I am absolutely baffled/intrigued by the concept of familial relationships. I would never willingly befriend them (except for my grandmother who has dementia and is mad as a box of frogs and absolutely hilariously inappropriate), but due to sharing some DNA I am forever obliged to spend time with those dysfunctional nutjobs.

/adds more rum to her eggnog and is very thankful to be home