Do we really [I]NEED[/I] such wonderful toys to continue our chosen craft?

[ElectricBlue]

You can but it takes more work. A lot more work.

Ponies don't live in libraries. Jason would die.

 

[Hypoxia]

Dad was schooled before and during the Great Depression and was trained to a fine Palmer hand. I got none of that and my script looks like shit. I took mechanical drawing classes in high school and was trained to print correctly, and still do, though I'd rather not except for scrawled shopping lists. Anything more needs keyboarding.

I took typing in junior high (class interrupted when JFK was shot) and later received military training on teletype gear requiring hand strength. Computers were natural for me as I'd been typing much of my life. Now my vision is shot to shit; LCD screens are about all I can deal with now.

 

[JasonClearwater]

Ponies don't live in libraries. Jason would die.

Haha they don't have libraries anymore. But they sound like a fascinating concept.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Haha they don't have libraries anymore. But they sound like a fascinating concept.

You should pop down the road to visit one, one day. The curious things on the shelves are called "books", with opening pages, and sometimes illustrations which, unlike a gif, don't move.

A woman named Marjorie probably works there.

 

[JasonClearwater]

You should pop down the road to visit one, one day. The curious things on the shelves are called "books", with opening pages, and sometimes illustrations which, unlike a gif, don't move.

A woman named Marjorie probably works there.

Bolliiiiicks. Next you'll be telling me that land lines still exist.

 

[TxRad]

Bolliiiiicks. Next you'll be telling me that land lines still exist.

I have one sitting on a table in my living room. There is an extension to it in my office. It even works when the power goes off. The old rotary one I have as a backup anyway.

 

[JasonClearwater]

I have one sitting on a table in my living room. There is an extension to it in my office. It even works when the power goes off. The old rotary one I have as a backup anyway.

But... doesn't that allow people to call you?

I suppose you can leave it off the hook until you need to make a call...

 

[ElectricBlue]

But... doesn't that allow people to call you?..

Oddly, a key selling point of telephonic communication devices, once upon a time.

Ring ring, ring ring. "Hello, Constable, can I report a stray pony, please? I'm sure someone's fretting for it to be returned."

 

[Handley_Page]

Oddly, a key selling point of telephonic communication devices, once upon a time.

Ring ring, ring ring. "Hello, Constable, can I report a stray pony, please? I'm sure someone's fretting for it to be returned."

The paucity of real policemen [there to maintain Her Majesties peace] means that your example is unlikely to occur in all too many places these days.
Things worked when we had an ordinary copper meandering round his beat; then some clot got wind of Finances and gave the copper a car.
Where once they were pro-active, they became re-active and we're in a parlous state.
Bring back PC49 or even PC Dixon !

 

[ElectricBlue]

Bring back PC49 or even PC Dixon !

Every constable knows it their civic duty to attend to Jason's pony.

 

[JasonClearwater]

Every constable knows it their civic duty to attend to Jason's pony.

Yes, if you see him, do let me know. I fear he's rather slipped his reins and requires a good tethering.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yes, if you see him, do let me know. I fear he's rather slipped his reins and requires a good tethering.

"Tethering." Now there's a word! Mayhaps I should revise my stable scene...

 

[JasonClearwater]

"Tethering." Now there's a word! Mayhaps I should revise my stable scene...

Only if you fancy a hole worn in the knee of your best pair of trousers.

 

[oggbashan]

Haha they don't have libraries anymore. But they sound like a fascinating concept.

I have my own library but also support the local public one. Our local history society, our local genealogy society, our local nature reserve, and our archaeological society all have their own specialist libraries - with dedicated archivists/librarians.

Our artists' cooperative has a specialist arts library. Even the Sewing Club based there has a small library of sewing books and patterns.

Our motorcycle shop has a small library of manuals and road tests for bikes from the 1920s to the 1990s.

Libraries live!

And most have access points to the internet.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I have my own library but also support the local public one. Our local history society, our local genealogy society, our local nature reserve, and our archaeological society all have their own specialist libraries - with dedicated archivists/librarians.

Our artists' cooperative has a specialist arts library. Even the Sewing Club based there has a small library of sewing books and patterns.

Our motorcycle shop has a small library of manuals and road tests for bikes from the 1920s to the 1990s.

Libraries live!

And most have access points to the internet.

Well I have my own library at home. I had a couple of thousand books and my beloved had about six thousand when I moved in. Both of us like books and we are now up to around 10k. At one book a day it's going to take me 20 years to get thru his and he has a lot that I like. I live in a library. The only rooms without bookcases are the bathrooms and the kitchen. Even the hallways have books. I have three bookcases on my side of the bed. BIG bookcases.

 

[oggbashan]

Well I have my own library at home. I had a couple of thousand books and my beloved had about six thousand when I moved in. Both of us like books and we are now up to around 10k. At one book a day it's going to take me 20 years to get thru his and he has a lot that I like. I live in a library. The only rooms without bookcases are the bathrooms and the kitchen. Even the hallways have books. I have three bookcases on my side of the bed. BIG bookcases.

In our old larger house we had a more extensive library. The cookery library lived in the kitchen on the wall away from the Aga and electric cooker.

I had shelved one of the toilets. It was a large room for a toilet. You walked in, shut the door behind you, and took at least three paces to reach the toilet. In that toilet I had the paperback Westerns and Sci-Fi. Originally paperback detective fiction lived there too, but the other two categories expanded to push detective fiction out.

I wanted to shelve down the side of the staircase but was overruled by wife and daughters so one of the four reception rooms became a library in addition to books in every other room except the bathrooms.

 

[JasonClearwater]

Well I have my own library at home. I had a couple of thousand books and my beloved had about six thousand when I moved in. Both of us like books and we are now up to around 10k. At one book a day it's going to take me 20 years to get thru his and he has a lot that I like. I live in a library. The only rooms without bookcases are the bathrooms and the kitchen. Even the hallways have books. I have three bookcases on my side of the bed. BIG bookcases.

HOW do you find time to read, when you write so much, and presumably work a full time job? What other vital tasks have been set aside to leave room for reading that many books?

My first guess is 'sleeping' is a very low priority.

 

[ChloeTzang]

HOW do you find time to read, when you write so much, and presumably work a full time job? What other vital tasks have been set aside to leave room for reading that many books?

My first guess is 'sleeping' is a very low priority.

Lol. I do tend to sleep less but I read all the time. It's my break from writing and whatever else we have going on. I find reading is very relaxing. And I'm a fast reader. I'll read a 400 page novel in 4 hours.

 

[JasonClearwater]

Lol. I do tend to sleep less but I read all the time. It's my break from writing and whatever else we have going on. I find reading is very relaxing. And I'm a fast reader. I'll read a 400 page novel in 4 hours.

Your mind must be a truly amazing place.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Your mind must be a truly amazing place.

Lol. Some might say weird but I like "amazing." I won't tell you how close to reality some of that troll story stuff is about me. Leave that to your imagination but I do run at high speed.

 

[SimonDoom]

Lol. Some might say weird but I like "amazing." I won't tell you how close to reality some of that troll story stuff is about me. Leave that to your imagination but I do run at high speed.

Weird and amazing are a pretty darn good combination, IMHO.

Do you need coffee, or does the high speed run without?

 

[TxRad]

Weird and amazing are a pretty darn good combination, IMHO.

Do you need coffee, or does the high speed run without?

Nothing high speed runs without coffee.

 

[psiberzerker]

"Need?' Sometimes. If it's paraphilic enough, say a foot fetishist. Yeah, that's the definition of paraphilia: Required for arousal, or orgasm. (I'm not going to debate if anyone Needs sex, but to continue your chosen craft? It just might help.)

 

[SimonDoom]

Nothing high speed runs without coffee.

That's how I roll, but I was wondering about Ms. Tzang. She seems to be an outlier.

 

[ChloeTzang]

That's how I roll, but I was wondering about Ms. Tzang. She seems to be an outlier.

Without coffee I'm actually much the same. It's a worry. Honestly, I just like coffee but it doesn't seem to make any difference whether I actually have it or not. I think it's more psychological- I enjoy things more with coffee in hand. It doesn't affect my sleep - I can drink coffee last thing at night and sleep like a baby, but if there's no coffee it doesn't affect me either. I just run at high speed. It's the same when I talk. My brain runs faster than my mouth and I talk fast.... I have to slow myself down at work and when I get excited I just babble.....my SO just smiles and lets me run.... outlier? Lol depends how you define that