The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[NotWise]

Pamina - the story character I named after the opera character - just made a date with the FMC. This is going to be fun!

Does your FMC know about Pamina's Mom? Is Pamina set to inherit her mother's title? Inquiring minds and all...

 

[MrPixel]

Does your FMC know about Pamina's Mom? Is Pamina set to inherit her mother's title? Inquiring minds and all...

LOL! Haven't gotten there yet. Besides, Mozart didn't live long enough to compose any sequel.

Just looked at the NWS site for us. The heat index is currently 116°, with a dew point of 80°. That's insane. Almost too dangerous to even go outside. My desert-raised body is in no way equipped to handle that shit.

 

[GrantBricksly]

Ahhhh.....I am feeling very good today....I'm back to writing fresh new stuff...and got on a real good roll today...a little over 4k words added to chapter 6, another 1-2k and I'll have it finished. Then it's just editing, and on to chapter 7.

 

[GrantBricksly]

But then I almost immediately wrote myself right into a scene that Sucked the energy right out of me, and I lost my momentum...lol So I guess I'm done for the day...

 

[Rustyoznail]

I've read a lot of Asimov, but I'm terrible at remembering names to things. Can you help jog my memory about what Foundation was about?

From memory, a mathematician developed a way to use probability to predict the future, and works out the current galaxy regime will collapse and when. The leaders don't like that idea and exile him. Much hilarity ensues...

 

[NuclearFairy]

From memory, a mathematician developed a way to use probability to predict the future, and works out the current galaxy regime will collapse and when. The leaders don't like that idea and exile him. Much hilarity ensues...

That rings some very faint bells. Might've been one of the first of my dad's books that I borrowed.

 

[ItsJustMeApathy]

I got sick at the end of January with norovirus. I didn't go to the doctor but I'm 99.9% sure that's what we had(my youngest daughter was also sick) because another daughter's boyfriend's family had norovirus and I think we got it from them. Same symptoms, same time.
Anyway we missed about 10 days from work, couldn't eat hardly anything, lost some weight.
Back to work, a week later we're both sick again. This time my daughter goes to the er, influenza A. I go to the er two days later, influenza A. We miss another week of work. Back to no eating, lose more weight.
It's now July, my stomach still hasn't recovered. I'm now down about 70 lbs. I'm not trying to lose weight but most days I can't eat much and at work I walk 8-10 miles a day so that probably doesn't help.

Anyway, it's my day off and I've been sitting doing nothing all day because it's hot and I feel nauseous. Sometimes when I eat it feels like someone has my stomach in their hands and is twisting it, it cramps that badly. I guess I need to break down and see a doctor eventually. I do have insurance through my job but the co-pays are a lot and like I told my manager when she asked me if I was losing weight on purpose, I could go to the doctor but all they are going to say is I'm fine and be happy I lost weight or something is wrong and I'm going to die. So what's the point of wasting the money to see a doctor?

Oh and I got my Amazon royalties, a whopping 46 cents! No idea why it was that amount when they said it was like 86 cents, but whatever.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Oh and I got my Amazon royalties, a whopping 46 cents! No idea why it was that amount when they said it was like 86 cents, but whatever.

It's so sad when talent gets subverted by filthy lucre.

 

[ItsJustMeApathy]

It's so sad when talent gets subverted by filthy lucre.

Well, I'm not sure there is any talent that went into my story , but it was pretty well liked here. Most of the chapters were at 4.5 or higher.
It's just frustrating. I wish I had more time to write but I'm gone for about 12 hours a day at work, and when I get home I just want to stare at the walls and not do anything.

 

[NotWise]

From memory, a mathematician developed a way to use probability to predict the future, and works out the current galaxy regime will collapse and when. The leaders don't like that idea and exile him. Much hilarity ensues...

In the book, the scientist isn't exiled. He establishes a colony (The Foundation) as a seed that will grow to replace the collapsing empire. There are trials and tribulations enough for three books, but I don't remember how it ends.

 

[NuclearFairy]

In the book, the scientist isn't exiled. He establishes a colony (The Foundation) as a seed that will grow to replace the collapsing empire. There are trials and tribulations enough for three books, but I don't remember how it ends.

That does sound a bit more familiar. I wonder which one my dad had, because the only trilogy he had more than one book in was lord of the rings.

 

[Rustyoznail]

It was a long while ago for me. Like 40 years... The last bit was that a particular planet could be used to model the galactic empire to predict when it would fall.

 

[NotWise]

That does sound a bit more familiar. I wonder which one my dad had, because the only trilogy he had more than one book in was lord of the rings.

It probably would have been the first (Foundation). That's where all the back story is. The second (Foundation and Empire) and third (Second Foundation) stories don't stand alone very well.

 

[NuclearFairy]

It probably would have been the first (Foundation). That's where all the back story is. The second (Foundation and Empire) and third (Second Foundation) stories don't stand alone very well.

Oh I'm sure he had the whole trilogy at one point, but my parents moved so many times up until my early childhood and he'd lose a few books each time they moved. So it might not've been the most logical one in the trilogy.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

It probably would have been the first (Foundation). That's where all the back story is. The second (Foundation and Empire) and third (Second Foundation) stories don't stand alone very well.

Asimov wrote all of these as relatively short pieces in Astounding, the prime SF magazine of the era. They weren't intended originally as novels. When Doubleday started publishing science fiction in hardcover, it was a commercial decision to cobble the Foundation stories together as a trilogy.

 

[iwatchus]

Just want to brag that the first three chapters of my novel Blunt Force Drama were accepted, to appear Thursday. I expect to submit another two or three chapter chunk each day for the next five days or so.

On to write the next story now, something much shorter.

 

[NotWise]

I had a conference call scheduled for this morning. I even bought a new web cam yesterday just because of that meeting. I was making my lunch when I realized that the meeting was scheduled to be over forty minutes earlier. I was preoccupied with a "this week" deadline and completely forgot about it.

Folks on the call did at least have a letter memo I gave them yesterday. I apologized to my client's attorney after I missed the meeting, and she was happy that the Fed team on the call was very pleased with my approach. Now someone else needs to run with that ball.

The "this week" deadline will probably be met tomorrow, and it should be the last full, professional report I ever have to finish: a summary report, three memos in appendices, about 10 tables (not even sure), and somewhere around 50 maps and figures. I'll still need to pack a huge groundwater model into a useful form, but that's mostly just digital filing.

I even wrote (before breakfast) through a transition in my WIP that's kept me stalled for a couple days.

It's been a productive day, and now I'm hanging my hat up. This retirement thing is a bitch.

 

[NuclearFairy]

That sounds tiring.

 

[iwatchus]

This retirement thing is a bitch.

I always expected to be the one being told this, but you should try actually retiring. I fully understand why you are doing what you are doing. But take care of yourself, too.

 

[Belegon]

Chemo Day.... I'm off to the Cancer Center but I'll take a cup o coffee to start the day. Have a good one, y'all

 

[NotWise]

I always expected to be the one being told this, but you should try actually retiring. I fully understand why you are doing what you are doing. But take care of yourself, too.

The problem with retirement for many people is that you lose a lot of your social interactions. That can make pretty fundamental changes to your way of thinking. I spent a lot of my career in a one-man office, so I didn't think it would be that much of a problem for me.

The last month brought a sudden uptick in my social interactions, and my attitude improved. Now I can see that I wasn't immune to the common problem.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Chemo Day.... I'm off to the Cancer Center but I'll take a cup o coffee to start the day. Have a good one, y'all

You too, Belegon. Hope it's all straight forward.

 

[GrantBricksly]

The problem with retirement for many people is that you lose a lot of your social interactions. That can make pretty fundamental changes to your way of thinking. I spent a lot of my career in a one-man office, so I didn't think it would be that much of a problem for me.

The last month brought a sudden uptick in my social interactions, and my attitude improved. Now I can see that I wasn't immune to the common problem.

My father retired years ago...but then started taking freelance gigs, for the same company he worked at for most of his life. To be fair though, he did that not because he was bored, or needed the interactions, he did it because he made waaaaay more money doing the freelance jobs. Only had to work for 3-6 months doing it. And the work load was practically nothing. (he was basically designing lesson plans for the people that were in his previous job position. But since he had been doing it for almost 40 years...the lesson plans were already made...lol)

the rest of his retirement was spent kayaking, and camping/RVing with my mom, right up until he got Bladder cancer.

 

[MrPixel]

The problem with retirement for many people is that you lose a lot of your social interactions. That can make pretty fundamental changes to your way of thinking. I spent a lot of my career in a one-man office, so I didn't think it would be that much of a problem for me.

The last month brought a sudden uptick in my social interactions, and my attitude improved. Now I can see that I wasn't immune to the common problem.

Retirement was what I wanted my entire life, and I have never been busier... with 1,000,000 + 1 unfinished projects.

The social side was a minuscule part of my work life. Though I worked for a succession of companies over 40 years, I was basically a sole practitioner, "the computer guy". I'd be holed-up in my office for hours solving the company's IT problems and opportunities. In some instances I had a management title with people working "for" me, but I was not that great a supervisor, I just wanted to be left alone to do my thing.

A life with almost no deadlines dictated by someone else short of the IRS? Yeah, I got that, and I like it.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'm so tired today. No idea why! Coffee?