The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[NotWise]

Yeah, both stories that I want to sub, one for Pink Orchard and one for Valentine's Day, have passages with past perfect tense. I'm afraid that'll trigger AI. But I don't want to worry about rewriting them until they actually get rejected for suspicion of AI. So, I guess I'll try them and see what happens.

You can feed those passages through on-line AI detectors and find out if they seem like AI or not.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I imagine my editor did that (since it's already up for sale). However, I don't think he has as tight a tolerance as Lit does. I've put in the queue if it flunks out, I might run it through online checkers.

 

[Seadog777]

Putting on a new pot of coffee for everyone.

I just submitted "Trading Up Part 2".

I hope everyone had a good Thursday.

 

[Rustyoznail]

A very good Friday afternoon here. We have a long weekend, and I've taken an extra few days to get the pup settled when we pick him up tomorrow.

Going from mum, dad, and 11 siblings to just us will be a shock.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Welcome back @Seadog777 . I'm technically in a yellow warning zone for wind, but even the dustbins have mostly survived bin day. It's different up north and across the water, lots of battening down hatches.

Submitted a short Valentine's story (now live) and one 750, to break my duck on the year. So far this year has more fun stuff in it (mostly theatre trips) but otherwise is possibly as tiring as last.

 

[Seadog777]

Welcome back @Seadog777 . I'm technically in a yellow warning zone for wind, but even the dustbins have mostly survived bin day. It's different up north and across the water, lots of battening down hatches.

Submitted a short Valentine's story (now live) and one 750, to break my duck on the year. So far this year has more fun stuff in it (mostly theatre trips) but otherwise is possibly as tiring as last.

Thank you. I'm grateful to be here.

Do you think they'll issue a red warning for y'all???

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Thank you. I'm grateful to be here.

Do you think they'll issue a red warning for y'all???

There's a red warning covering all of Northern Ireland and most of Ireland, and most of Scotland and parts of the north. And amber for much of the West Country. I know lots of people stranded down south for the weekend.

I was pretty much in the epicentre of the 1987 hurricane (which we're now meant to call the Great Storm as it didn't meet some technical criterion), so I take high winds seriously, but there are advantages to the inner city.

 

[Seadog777]

There's a red warning covering all of Northern Ireland and most of Ireland, and most of Scotland and parts of the north. And amber for much of the West Country. I know lots of people stranded down south for the weekend.

I was pretty much in the epicentre of the 1987 hurricane (which we're now meant to call the Great Storm as it didn't meet some technical criterion), so I take high winds seriously, but there are advantages to the inner city.

I hope you and your family are all safe and stay safe as Eowyn comes through.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I am running late today. Been doing the mother thing all morning. I need another cup of coffee. Donnie's worn me out today already. It's still 2 hours before he goes to school.

 

[MrPixel]

Just got back from the doctor's office, meeting with the surgeon who is going to do my colonoscopy next week.

She is absolutely delightful, personable, and we agreed wholeheartedly about several technical aspects of the procedure. She's also cute as a button, and if I wasn't married, I'd want to date her... if she wasn't so much into anal.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Had some RL issues keeping me from doing the morning coffee so I am here to make sure there's coffee available for the night shift. There are some brownies on the counter since they were a big hit.

Needless to say, I didn't get any writing done today but tomorrow is another day ...

 

[Seadog777]

Just got back from the doctor's office, meeting with the surgeon who is going to do my colonoscopy next week.

She is absolutely delightful, personable, and we agreed wholeheartedly about several technical aspects of the procedure. She's also cute as a button, and if I wasn't married, I'd want to date her... if she wasn't so much into anal.

Remember, no red Gatorade.
In all seriousness, I'll pray for you.

Had some RL issues keeping me from doing the morning coffee so I am here to make sure there's coffee available for the night shift. There are some brownies on the counter since they were a big hit.

Needless to say, I didn't get any writing done today but tomorrow is another day ...

I hope everything is OK.

Yes, tomorrow is another day, full of possibilities.

Thanks for the coffee and brownies.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I see the brownies are all gone and the coffee pot is empty so I've got a new pot brewing and put out some powder sugar crullers on the counter. The teapot is hot and I'll be over in the corner enjoying a nice hot cup of Earl Grey.

Starting day 21 of consecutive days with snow on the ground, the most since I moved here in 1998. This is the first real winter we've had here in several years and I'm not liking it. These old bones don't like the cold. We will get up to near 40 F today so some of the snow will melt.

 

[NotWise]

I see the brownies are all gone and the coffee pot is empty so I've got a new pot brewing and put out some powder sugar crullers on the counter. The teapot is hot and I'll be over in the corner enjoying a nice hot cup of Earl Grey.

Starting day 21 of consecutive days with snow on the ground, the most since I moved here in 1998. This is the first real winter we've had here in several years and I'm not liking it. These old bones don't like the cold. We will get up to near 40 F today so some of the snow will melt.

We (in South Dakota) got a little snow storm in late fall, 1973, then it turned bitter cold, and it didn't snow again until around Christmas. That bit of snow stayed on the ground the whole time, but the wind moved it around from one little dune to another until it finally hardened in place as a mixture of snow and dust that was hardly distinguishable from the the rest of the prairie.

Remembering that winter for 51 years is by itself evidence of how miserable and ugly it was.

 

[Duleigh]

I thought I was done with winter. I spent my formative years in Buffalo where you as a parent could actually control the weather. (If you gave your child a bicycle for Christmas, it would snow until June. If you bought your child a sled it would rain all winter long) I spent 2 years in Germany where they had freezing fog instead of snow. Then North Dakota - wow. On Halloween the kids all dress as ghosts because you can wear a parka and snow pants under the ghost costume. Trick or treating required a parent to come along to lift the kids over the snow drift in front of the doors. I would finish loading a B-52 on nuclear alert at -30 degrees and the crew chief would find liquid leaking from the plane. "Sure that's not water, chief?"

We watched it drip and he said "Not at thirty below" There goes my weekend. We had betting pools on when liquid water would be see outside our building. I couldn't escape winter. In Clovis NM then had 6 inches of snow one evening. To me that wasn't much, to them it shut down four counties. In Turkey we had freezing rain that was so heavy our tents were collapsing. I eventually returned to Buffalo where we had Thundersnow (which I wrote about) Flash lake effect blizzards (which I wrote about) Ice storms (In the WIP pile) finally we had a lake effect storm that dumped 7 feet of snow on me. A friend from Denver called and offered me a job and I was there before she could hang up.

Fast forward 10 years. I'm tired and cold, a burn pit in Saudi Arabia caught up with me. I'm on oxygen, I have a tank strapped to my back as I shovel a foot and a half of wet slushy snow and said "I'm done with winter! I'm out of here!" My neighbor asked how much I wanted for my house and I said some ungodly number... and he wrote an ungodly number on a check and handed it to me. I'm Florida Bound!!! But... we've had snow, freezing rain, and sub freezing temperatures for the past two weeks... that's never happened here before! I want my money back. I was promised global warming... where the hell is it?

 

[MrPixel]

I was promised global warming... where the hell is it?

Yeah. That. But you're science-minded enough to know how it works.

Broke freezing here this morning for the first time in three weeks, save for two days where it was "warm" enough during the afternoon to melt a little snow and have it all turn to ice right after sunset. We're going to be living out our days dealing with serial calamitous weather events; it's not gonna stop. I really don't think there's anywhere we can move within the US where there's materially less risk of transient misery relative to anywhere else, or someplace worse.

 

[Duleigh]

Yeah. That. But you're science-minded enough to know how it works.

Broke freezing here this morning for the first time in three weeks, save for two days where it was "warm" enough during the afternoon to melt a little snow and have it all turn to ice right after sunset. We're going to be living out our days dealing with serial calamitous weather events; it's not gonna stop. I really don't think there's anywhere we can move within the US where there's materially less risk of transient misery relative to anywhere else, or someplace worse.

The U.P. - NOTHING happens up there. Buncha snow, warm summer, deer season, buncha snow. I could deal with that. It's beautiful up there. Me and my dogs, an old Ford tractor and an apple orchard. Yeah, I should tell Mrs. D to start packing...

 

[Seadog777]

Good afternoon everyone.
I hope y'all had a great day so far.

 

[NotWise]

I hab a code (again).

This seems to be a garden-variety cold, unlike the beat-you-with-stick variety I picked up coming back from Detroit last fall.

 

[Seadog777]

I hab a code (again).

This seems to be a garden-variety cold, unlike the beat-you-with-stick variety I picked up coming back from Detroit last fall.

Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Rustyoznail]

The U.P. - NOTHING happens up there. Buncha snow, warm summer, deer season, buncha snow. I could deal with that. It's beautiful up there. Me and my dogs, an old Ford tractor and an apple orchard. Yeah, I should tell Mrs. D to start packing...

You're welcome here. Definitely no snow, highs in summer normally between 20-30c, apple orchards just up the road. As long as you can put up with the grey, wet winter.

We even have a port, so you could catch a ship across.

 

[Duleigh]

You're welcome here. Definitely no snow, highs in summer normally between 20-30c, apple orchards just up the road. As long as you can put up with the grey, wet winter.

We even have a port, so you could catch a ship across.

All I need is a kangaroo stencil and a can of spray paint and I can do "corrosion control" for the Reserve RAAF

 

[NotWise]

I
I've buried myself in my final project since my employer was hospitalized with a heart attack on the 14th. It's taken most of my waking hours, and progress is painfully slow.

I think we all want to be done with it asap, but it's getting really tedious, and this cold doesn't help. Writing has taken a very cold back burner.

 

[Duleigh]

I've buried myself in my final project since my employer was hospitalized with a heart attack on the 14th. It's taken most of my waking hours, and progress in painfully slow.

I think we all want to be done with it asap, but it's getting really tedious, and this cold doesn't help.

I hope you can wrap it up safely. Working in the cold is life threatening

 

[NotWise]

I hope you can wrap it up safely. Working in the cold is life threatening

The relevant cold is the one in my head.