The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[old_prof]

You have at least seen temperatures above freezing. It's been like five weeks since it crossed the magic boundary at all. They keep promising a few days above freezing off in the future, but the future has a funny way of liking to stay in the future. Now they're saying maybe Monday, but it was Saturday then Sunday, so I'll believe it when I see it actually happening. At least they've stopped putting negative signs on the lows. Or the highs.

 

[Belegon]

I'm just happy that I can sit in the house without feeling the need to go put on a sweatshirt or sweater. socks or slippers have been a must the last few weeks as well. I only ever turn the heat up so far... fixed budgetand all that. but I've HAD to bump that thermostat a bit so far this winter, much more than the last couple.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

We are starting to trend toward "normal" temperatures for this time of the year in my area. By the middle of next week it's going to be in the mid sixties so the hardy perennials will start growing ...

There's a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is boiling. There are snacks on the counter and there is still some cornbread left so enjoy. I see a fresh influx of plot bunnies so there's more stories to be written ...

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I'm still struggling but I'm not giving up on my story. I'm going to keep writing despite the struggles because I really don't have any hobbies that don't cost a lot of money and writing doesn't cost anything ...

 

[Duleigh]

 

[NotWise]

Here, it's warm for February and cloudy. The weather service is almost positive that we'll have rain this afternoon. I'm almost positive that Pollyanna lives in their software.

The ballroom scene goes on.

 

[TheLobster]

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I totally disagree with this chart and find it completely bollocks.

Why? Because it assumes that when I do write, on those vanishingly rare occasions, all I produce is "brilliant" and that couldn't be further from the truth!

 

[Belegon]

Well, according to my phone we are sitting exactly at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Considering it's still fifteen minutes before noon and the highest temps don"t usually come until early afternoon, I think I can confidently think we are going to have a third straight day where we peak out above freezing. that pleases me.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

It's rained for a week here, but should improve tomorrow.

Bad news is it looks like I need to quit work for health reasons, but good news is that should be financially viable, just. Better news is girlfriend's latest cancer scan is stable and she's now putting events in October and November on the calendar. Actually having another Christmas seems too ambitious to plan for atm.

I imagine she'll have another interview with the DWP complaining she was supposed to have died two years ago, and her pointing out this is what progress in medical research means.

 

[old_prof]

I'm sorry about your health issues, but glad it will work out okay.

I'm very happy for you that partner is doing so much better. Best wishes for that. Cancer sucks.

 

[MrPixel]

Bad news is it looks like I need to quit work for health reasons,

Shame, but certainly glad you're secure otherwise. If you were in the US, the corporate gaming of the medical system is a snake coiled-up to bite hard if you come down with certain conditions, and financial security flies out the window in a heartbeat, literally.

Speaking of which, MRI yesterday confirmed leftovers of the ischemic stroke four years ago. (No. They didn't scan my head and "found nothing". ) New neurologist is very much invested in what's going on up there and did an EEG this past Monday. I think he's wanting to tweak my meds, and was frankly alarmed when I told him my brother has lupus. He's also concerned that my borderline Type II may have kidney consequences.

It's all crashing down. The one beer I had last week with lunch induced a gout flare-up, so today C's going to have to rush into our "usual place" ahead of me to catch them before they pour me the tall beer they normally do out of knowing us. This "no beer, no soft drinks" regimen adds insult to injury with all the other shit I can't have any more.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Let me say this, about that, "What the fuck you talking about, Wills?"

Would math by any other name smell just as sweet...?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Consistent 60s now, trending towards 70s by next weekend.

I have blinders on as far as my health. Keep me in the dark let me go peacefully. I don't intend to fight at all, so why let me know about stuff and make me worry?

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Some drunk bastard nearly knocked me out throwing a beer can at me tonight. I didn't even do anything; I just passed through the street.

 

[Belegon]

well, in the last 48 hours I've written about 5600 words and none of them are what I would consider publishable. Not because they aren't good writing or interesting.

About 2000 of them were setting me up to recall a specific true event from my own sexual history that I do think could make a good story if expanded beyond what actually happened into a direction it could have gone but didn't... but it involves a woman I haven't been in touch with in nearly forty years and is real deep in a very specific kink she had. Specific enough that if through some crazy circumstance she were to stumble across it, she would instantly recognize the situation and probably remember exactly who else was involved... and it might make her feel a little violated. So I shelved it.

then, today, i wanted to continue the momentum from last night/early this morning and ended up putting down on paper a pretty exact retelling of my own sexual awakening from the last few weeks before graduation with my high school sweetheart, the girl I have always considered my first love, to the fortnight before I actually lost my virginity, about seven months after that beginning. I'm not necessarily shy about putting that out there... with a few changed names and smearing just a little bit of vaseline on the camera lense so it isn't quite EXACTLY my own history. But I wrote it all in first person exposition, just a four and a half page info dump. I did include some humor in it and I think it actually would be well received, but I dont feel like it is so much a story as it is kind of some kind of belated diary entry.

besides, I'm now hard up against that actual first time event and that is already here as a story...actually two. My very first two I ever put on Lit. Again, the names have been changed to protect the guilty and theres a little bit of smearing of some facts, either deliberate or just because of the time lapse between it happening and it being written about.

I don't want to lose my momentum so now I need a plot bunny and of course they are all hiding right when I need those little ankle nibblers to come out and play.....

 

[anthrodisiac]

then, today, i wanted to continue the momentum from last night/early this morning and ended up putting down on paper a pretty exact retelling of my own sexual awakening from the last few weeks before graduation with my high school sweetheart, the girl I have always considered my first love, to the fortnight before I actually lost my virginity, about seven months after that beginning. I'm not necessarily shy about putting that out there... with a few changed names and smearing just a little bit of vaseline on the camera lense so it isn't quite EXACTLY my own history. But I wrote it all in first person exposition, just a four and a half page info dump. I did include some humor in it and I think it actually would be well received, but I dont feel like it is so much a story as it is kind of some kind of belated diary entry.

besides, I'm now hard up against that actual first time event and that is already here as a story...actually two. My very first two I ever put on Lit. Again, the names have been changed to protect the guilty and theres a little bit of smearing of some facts, either deliberate or just because of the time lapse between it happening and it being written about.

Nothing wrong with belated diary entry style. If you're enjoying it, why not keep working on it? So it bumps up against a couple other stories that are similar; that's all right. If nothing else, you're right to want to keep up the momentum, so if you truly can't come up with another story you might as well work on the things you're enjoying, even if you never publish them.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I don't want to lose my momentum so now I need a plot bunny and of course they are all hiding right when I need those little ankle nibblers to come out and play.....

You could always go peruse the story idea forum, or click into the most derailed threads on the AH.

 

[AloneTooLong]

You have at least seen temperatures above freezing. It's been like five weeks since it crossed the magic boundary at all. They keep promising a few days above freezing off in the future, but the future has a funny way of liking to stay in the future. Now they're saying maybe Monday, but it was Saturday then Sunday, so I'll believe it when I see it actually happening. At least they've stopped putting negative signs on the lows. Or the highs.

So I probably shouldn't tell you I wore shorts and a short sleeve T-shirt to the garden center today?

 

[MrPixel]

So I probably shouldn't tell you I wore shorts and a short sleeve T-shirt to the garden center today?

No, you shouldn't. But we'll be able to gloat a little bit around here. After tomorrow's all-day rain, it's going to be in the 60s most of the week with a forecast high above 70 on Wednesday.

In mid-February. This is nuts. We'll see how soon all this goodness gets rid of the mountains of snowplow tailings everywhere.

 

[old_prof]

I'm still hoping to see a few days in the 30's this week, although the forecast highs are getting colder for the week.My guess is we get two days in the low thirties before its back to the twenties. This winter sucks. And it's of course snowing again today.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

A Happy St Valentine's Day to those in a position to celebrate it! May you live so long as you wish and love so long as you live.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

It's another beautiful but cold morning with highs expected in the 50s. We're going to get some rain this evening but I should be safely at home by then.

There's fresh coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are snacks on the counter and, since it's Valentine's Day, I made a chocolate bundt cake stuffed with raspberry cream and smothered with cream cheese frosting. Enjoy!

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I got a paragraph or two written and hope to get more done later. Time to order that heart-shaped pizza for dinner tonight ...

 

[sirhugs]

It's another beautiful but cold morning with highs expected in the 50s. We're going to get some rain this evening but I should be safely at home by then.

There's fresh coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are snacks on the counter and, since it's Valentine's Day, I made a chocolate bundt cake stuffed with raspberry cream and smothered with cream cheese frosting. Enjoy!

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I got a paragraph or two written and hope to get more done later. Time to orger that heart-shaped pizza for dinner tonight ...

Do they charge as much for a third less pizza?

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Do they charge as much for a third less pizza?

Actually, it's a square 8" pizza plus a 8" round pizza so it's a little more than a medium pizza.

 

[AStrangeDesire]

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I'm sorry, but where is "get distracted and start surfing for porn"

 

[AStrangeDesire]

I totally disagree with this chart and find it completely bollocks.

Why? Because it assumes that when I do write, on those vanishingly rare occasions, all I produce is "brilliant" and that couldn't be further from the truth!

I'd change to "Enthusiastically pound away at the keyboard"

At least, that's how it feels on those rare occasions when it all just flows. Like, both times it happened