The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

That looks so familiar.

Drs. say the liver is against me. At my age, no transplant possibility. Home hospice care now. Can't stand the lactulose syrup. It's messing with me. What sane dr. says take it four to six times a day? Assholes... No pun intended.

Please be assured that there is a community here that cares about you, and hopes for you.

 

[Duleigh]

Touché.

"Snake? You think that's a snake?" - Arnold Palmer

 

[MillieDynamite]

Some came by and skinned the snake. Probably the same guy that ran over him.

 

[ChloeTzang]

That looks so familiar.

Drs. say the liver is against me. At my age, no transplant possibility. Home hospice care now. Can't stand the lactulose syrup. It's messing with me. What sane dr. says take it four to six times a day? Assholes... No pun intended.

A big hug and all the very best.

 

[Duleigh]

Ok, back up and clear headed. Dr. Feelgood pumped me full of steroids yesterday because I refuse to get my hip replaced. "Just keep it moving, doc," and I end up feverish with a headache for the rest of the day. I end up in bed with David Attenborough on TV explaining marmots or some damn thing nobody eats. What do I need a hip for? I can get into Big Red VI, I'm good.

Big Red IV​

 

[WriterPerson314159]

For those of us poor saps who work for a living, I hope your work week has wrapped/is wrapping up well and that you get to do something that doesn't suck for a bit.

 

[Duleigh]

For those of us poor saps who work for a living, I hope your work week has wrapped/is wrapping up well and that you get to do something that doesn't suck for a bit.

I write for a living and I monitor radio frequencies for calls for help for the local county Emergency Operations Center. No hurricanes this week so it was quiet.

 

[WriterPerson314159]

And because the applications I needed to use for work stopped, umm working, I wrote. 1600 words. There was crying. There was sex. And there was hot, hot, budgeting.

You can rearrange the adjectives to fit your mood.

 

[NotWise]

I think I'd rather rearrange nouns and gerunds.

The boss dredged up an issue that died a year-and-a-half ago and started asking pointless question. I smell a new budget. He can wait through the weekend for his reply, I'm out of patience.

I'll use the weekend to put the patio table away and start up the chiminea. I have two batches of New Mexico chiles to roast, and about four pounds of jalapenos to start fermenting. With luck and perseverance, I'll even get most of my holiday contest story through its first draft.

 

[Duleigh]

I have two batches of New Mexico chiles to roast,

I miss the smell of huge batches Hatch Chilies being roasted at the farmers market or at the street corner produce tent.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

For those of us poor saps who work for a living, I hope your work week has wrapped/is wrapping up well and that you get to do something that doesn't suck for a bit.

Had a near-disaster at 4.30pm on Friday, as the work network went down just as I needed to send various vital things to various people. Luckily it worked an hour later, but I could have done without that.

Had a long sleep and now in the countryside on the way to family for the weekend. Should be good fun and include a lot more sleeping. Possibly even some writing. I've managed nothing more than a sentence in the last 6 weeks or so, so even a forum post is an improvement.

 

[Duleigh]

I should be writing Chapter 17 of All Aboard Andi's Dream, but my muse is screaming in my ear, "MORE CAPTAIN SCARLETT!"
It's hard to ignore her when she gets into moods like that

 

[NotWise]

I miss the smell of huge batches Hatch Chilies being roasted at the farmers market or at the street corner produce tent.

It's the official aroma of New Mexico. How many states have official State aromas?

Had a near-disaster at 4.30pm on Friday, as the work network went down just as I needed to send various vital things to various people. Luckily it worked an hour later, but I could have done without that.

Maybe it should be "Vital Things."

Had a long sleep and now in the countryside on the way to family for the weekend. Should be good fun and include a lot more sleeping. Possibly even some writing. I've managed nothing more than a sentence in the last 6 weeks or so, so even a forum post is an improvement.

I sympathize. I've gone nearly a year-and-a-half without posting a story. Keeping my mind on writing has been hard, but the new Holiday story seems to have caught my attention.

 

[Duleigh]

It's the official aroma of New Mexico. How many states have official State aromas?

I was under the impression that the official scent of Curry County NM was Cow S**t and dust. There are six huge feed lots around Clovis and the the wind from any direction brought us "the smell of money." Every morning my youngest would step out onto the porch, plant his little bare feet and with hands on hips take a deep breath then say "Is that cow poop I smell?" He would spend the rest of the day next to the swamp cooler.

The scent of Curry County made my kids eager to return to North Dakota.

 

[NotWise]

On one of our trips to Montgomery, Al we talked to a woman who's husband ranches near Selma. It's a productive area, but I don't remember any feed lots. They shipped their cattle from Montgomery all the way to Clovis for feeding.

I thought that was a little odd, but that part of the high plains has A LOT of feed lots. Not just around Clovis, but most everywhere from Lubbock up to Amarillo; some big, some small, but everywhere. The only reasons I can come up with are that the corn is locally grown, and there aren't any surface water bodies that have to be protected from contamination.

 

[MrPixel]

Not just around Clovis, but most everywhere from Lubbock up to Amarillo;

And up through the Oklahoma panhandle, into Kansas. I'm trying to refresh memories of driving through there on road trips and the times checking out our helium wells.

Proximity to corn, maybe. It's not a particularly fertile area, everything has to be irrigated and the aquifer is drying up. I think it's mostly isolation and the wind dealing with the stink. Certain industrial processes were commonplace in the California desert because the wind would dissipate the sulfur dioxide away from population centers.

 

[MillieDynamite]

A little shake, a little bake, marshmallow cream, some cereal, and now you got Rice Crispy Treats. Yummy for the tummy, additional paddin' for my ass.

 

[WriterPerson314159]

A little shake, a little bake, marshmallow cream, some cereal, and now you got Rice Crispy Treats. Yummy for the tummy, additional paddin' for my ass.

I made fire. There will also be cider, rum, and chocolate. Yummy for the tummy. Additional paddin’ for my…tummy.

 

[NotWise]

I set up the chiminea yesterday and spent some time in front of the fire. Food wasn't involved. I used the time looking for ways to say things so readers would understand without actually saying them.

Today: write, roast more chile's, start the jalapenos fermenting, do the last edging of the yard before winter, watch the Broncos game, clean the big aquarium. Better get hoppin.

 

[NotWise]

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[Duleigh]

My 100th Story just went public today!
In honor of the story being #100, I had to make it big - 87,000 words
It's Scifi written in the style of the masters of the craft in 1950
Alan Scarlett and the Scarlett Virus

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I sympathize. I've gone nearly a year-and-a-half without posting a story. Keeping my mind on writing has been hard, but the new Holiday story seems to have caught my attention.

Managed a few hundred words and have an outline. Its tagline is "Her polyamory manages to fight postnatal depression", so I predict it'll have a very small audience even if I finish it. On the other hand, I could always post it in Loving Wives...

 

[MrPixel]

Managed a few hundred words and have an outline. Its tagline is "Her polyamory manages to fight postnatal depression", so I predict it'll have a very small audience even if I finish it. On the other hand, I could always post it in Loving Wives...

I first read that as "postnasal depression". You can sort of tell I'm fighting my usual fall allergies.

 

[Duleigh]

Managed a few hundred words and have an outline. Its tagline is "Her polyamory manages to fight postnatal depression", so I predict it'll have a very small audience even if I finish it. On the other hand, I could always post it in Loving Wives...

I tried loving wives, it wasn't as much fun as I thought. The truly stupid who missed the point of the story were smacked down by those that got into the story of the Pastor and his wife on date night. (they weren't revealed to be married to each other until the very end of the story) Most people got it and enjoyed it. The only legitimate complaint was that it was too short.

 

[MrPixel]

Another "...sigh...".

I just came back inside after shoring-up a brick (cinder block) fence we share with a neighbor, with an anchor and a come-along. The ground has softened after 60 years and the fence started noticeably leaning over a month ago, breaking the mortar bonds and light wire grid at one of the anchor posts. I've called the one fencing guy in our area, and he is dragging his feet getting back to me on a quote to fix it or at least shore it up more permanently.

What I'm facing is a fight with the neighbor(s). They're a pair of young women who are totally over their heads financially with the house, a "dream house" (century-old semi-Victorian) where our guess is the grandparents assisted with the down payment a year-and-a-half ago. They have not made expensive repairs needed since, and they mowed the back lawn maybe twice this summer. Way, way over their heads with it, and absolutely not equipped to handle the needs of a big, old house and yard. That has been evident to the entire neighborhood, including the previous owner who we see occasionally.

Anyway, the law in our state dictates that neighbors sharing a fence are equally responsible for its maintenance. I'm willing to bear the cost of keeping it from collapsing, but I do expect them to ante-up for it not falling into their yard, which it will if not fixed. We have copious evidence of the same style fence collapsing in the rear of our yard and replaced with chain link by the prior owner, so we know its fate.

We did get bids on full replacement and disposal of the broken masonry a couple of months ago, in the $10K range. If the girls don't pitch-in on either the repair or replacement, it's going to be a battle in small claims court, or grown-up court if it's a full replacement.

Oh, joy.