Morning, folks. Remember that I was stuck on my story last night? Still stuck this morning. But I'm going to wing it and push through. If it sucks, it sucks. That's what rewrites are for, right?
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There's a book (one of Spike Milligan's ones maybe) which does the "Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a land far, far away..." opening, then spends an entire paragraph deconstructing it, first claiming that it wasn't actually all that long ago - and gives a date - then retracts the bit about it being far away. I think it was Chipping in the forties (?) the story actually took place, though it has been years since I read that.
And it isn't quite the Dead Horse Trope that it ought to be, thanks to a few television shows and films which are reigniting the fairy tale / fable storytelling methods.
Yes, yes it is!
On that note. Today is full of the suck. Daughter fighting over taking meds wakes daddy up long before he had planned makes for tired, grumpy, adlebrained Stanley. Coffee is not helping. Look like it's going to be a 5 hour energy kind of day.
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I know it's probably totally reprehensible, but I totally had a schoolgirl crush on the Hoff back then *and* looking at that, yes, he's cheesy, but he did look good in jeans!
As to 'what's up': I have written code! Well, I reused code and wrote a tiny bit of my own. It all works, though, so I put it together right *and* I baked the pie that got the difficult stuff written! So there. Anyway, I feel accomplished, because this is a project I've been trying to finish for about 6 months and now it's not only 'nearly' done, it's ALL THE WAY done. (mostly... I want to do a few tweaks, but they'll only take a few minutes). Hurrah!
Also, we've had the first tests of the first lot of potential equipment for our 400 TB storage array this morning.
Also, also, yesterday I helped run a workshop for people hoping to do Digital Humanities projects and they all seemed to like it and they were very nice afterwards.
AND tonight I'm going out to Cau, an Argentinian restaurant, with friends from work, with a visit to the pub first. I *might* even have a rum and diet coke.
It's been a very busy week and I need to take work home with me, but I'm not going to think about that right now.
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Actually, it has been deconstructed ever since Don Quixote, mocking faraway and ancient exoticism by taking place not too long in a rather unremarkable rural province:
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Morning. My tummy is unhappy. I'm at work because a crisis came up and we need to have something ready to ship on monday.
I'd rather be in bed. I'm not sure if I'm ill or I just ate something I shouldn't have yesterday.
I'd rather be in bed. I'm not sure if I'm ill or I just ate something I shouldn't have yesterday.
Should it be a worrying sign that I'm writing things without remembering that I did so? Because I opened up Word just now and there was an autosave document in there that I don't remember writing at all.
It's actually not bad. Sure nothing happens yet because it literally only 252 words from the very beginning of a story, but it's the style I apparently chose to write in it that makes it good to me. It's not like a proper novel in the writing, it looks like someone just transcripted what a guy told them in some kind of casual conversation.
I might continue with this...
It's actually not bad. Sure nothing happens yet because it literally only 252 words from the very beginning of a story, but it's the style I apparently chose to write in it that makes it good to me. It's not like a proper novel in the writing, it looks like someone just transcripted what a guy told them in some kind of casual conversation.
I might continue with this...
I tried to work on the stuck story, really and honestly I did. But an idea started hatching in my head and wouldn't shut up. Okay, it's not precisely an idea, more a new approach to an old one (it's Mal, Stanley, I know how much you love him). It keeps growing and growing in my head, and, like I said, it wouldn't shut up. So I started writing things down. Don't know if it's going anywhere, but I'm going to get the notes together and see what happens.
Woke up at two in the morning after a bad dream. Couldn't get back to sleep. Played ME3. Took a nap. Still tired. Made scalloped potatoes. Will write story.
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Morning all.
I do have to comment on the male hair issue. My fiance is pretty hairy. Not full Yetti, but maybe a 1/4 blood. My x was nearly hairless--couldn't even grow a beard.
As to which I prefer? Hair. so much to grab on to when you need to and has the extra benefit you don't stick together when you get all sweaty.
Also fiance has a very fast growing beard. He'd probably have to shave every day to be baby faced. Heck everything below his nose is covered, even up to his lips! lol
I do have to comment on the male hair issue. My fiance is pretty hairy. Not full Yetti, but maybe a 1/4 blood. My x was nearly hairless--couldn't even grow a beard.
As to which I prefer? Hair.
so much to grab on to when you need to and has the extra benefit you don't stick together when you get all sweaty. Also fiance has a very fast growing beard. He'd probably have to shave every day to be baby faced. Heck everything below his nose is covered, even up to his lips! lol
I'm sure she wouldn't want my poa—nevermind.
Now to leave you all wondering if I was actually being serious with that comment.
I have quite enough poarn, tyvm 
I have a... IDK what the hell it is, but it is meant to be poarn (I don't really need to warn you, but yeah - most likely not safe for young eyes) on my blog from waaaay back. There's a reason I'm not asked to write it more often.
ION, I may end up strangling someone if the idiots don't stop derailing the days I am meant to be working. So much time wasted on such stupid things.
ION, I may end up strangling someone if the idiots don't stop derailing the days I am meant to be working. So much time wasted on such stupid things.
or 
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Hubby and Baby Boy keep their whiskers trimmed and tidy. They have to. First, it's just unattractive. Second, with a daughter and sister for whom lipreading is an important component of communication, shaggy mustaches are ungood.
She's having trouble now with one of her college professors who sports both a soft voice and a walrus-y lip-covering 'stache.
The writing has taken a very strange turn today. It's a route to plotting that I've never taken before, never even pretended to try before. I don't know if it's going to lead anywhere, if anything is going to come of it. But it's a live wire, and we all live for those live wires. So I'm following it to see where it goes.
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