The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Rustyoznail]

but my steed stays outside, or around back in the stable - not coffeeshop broken yet, and ptobably never will be.

Ah yes, the trusty steed. I apologise for forgetting the noble beast, but I plead out of sight out of mind.

 

[Handley_Page]

Ah yes, the trusty steed. I apologise for forgetting the noble beast, but I plead out of sight out of mind.

It bis a good way, I think.
PS: What is/was Bill's screen name please ?

 

[Rustyoznail]

It bis a good way, I think.
PS: What is/was Bill's screen name please ?

Beachbum1958
Still technically active, but nothing since March.

 

[DarkRaven13]

Good morning all

 

[Duleigh]

Interesting day today, I have an interview with a research company who wants to know how badly life sucks for a person with a vascular condition that is slowly robbing them of the ability to do simple everyday tasks. I don't know why they want to know but they're going to pay me $125, which is all the reason I need.

A half hour later another company is going to interview me and probably ask me the same thing, but they're going to do it for free. I think the first company is working for a "Big Pharma" company the second company I know is working with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association a group that working to help people like me deal with this evil condition.

 

[Duleigh]

Good morning DR

While I was ranting about things beyond my control I did something I could firmly control - Mister Coffee. He's like putty in my hands and is filling the carafe with that delightful liquid noir that is the staple of the writer's diet. Have at fellow wordsmiths!

 

[Rustyoznail]

Cheers Duleigh and DR.

I won't partake at this time of night, but keep the jug warm. I'll be back in eight hours or so.

 

[DarkRaven13]

Interesting day today, I have an interview with a research company who wants to know how badly life sucks for a person with a vascular condition that is slowly robbing them of the ability to do simple everyday tasks. I don't know why they want to know but they're going to pay me $125, which is all the reason I need.

A half hour later another company is going to interview me and probably ask me the same thing, but they're going to do it for free. I think the first company is working for a "Big Pharma" company the second company I know is working with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association a group that working to help people like me deal with this evil condition.

The $ is a good reason ... and while it might be a big pharma corporation, perhaps in their greed they will develop something to help in the future. The 2nd interveiw ... sounds more altruistic ... and I hope one day you get some relief for what you are going through.

Good morning DR

While I was ranting about things beyond my control I did something I could firmly control - Mister Coffee. He's like putty in my hands and is filling the carafe with that delightful liquid noir that is the staple of the writer's diet. Have at fellow wordsmiths!

Mmmmmm coffffeee. Thank you kind sir

Cheers Duleigh and DR.

I won't partake at this time of night, but keep the jug warm. I'll be back in eight hours or so.

Have a good night Rusty.

 

[Duleigh]

*Bangs head on desk*

It happened again, another "reader" wrote to inform me that I was wrong. This time it was about the neighborhood I wrote about. The neighborhood was former military housing during WWII, but it couldn't have happened that way because he didn't think it did. What would I know, I only lived there for 8 years. The child is a student in Journalism School, so he knows all there is to know about writing fiction. (Damn! I should have pointed that out to him)

I had another one tell me that an AC-130 gunner would NEVER be assigned to a fighter squadron in Kunsan Korea because gunners were Special Ops. I sent that around to my veteran buddies who got quite a chuckle about that. Talk of gunners being special keyed discussion of short busses and much more. The gunners in the group weren't happy, especially the ones I served with in Korea.

 

[Duleigh]

The $ is a good reason ... and while it might be a big pharma corporation, perhaps in their greed they will develop something to help in the future. The 2nd interveiw ... sounds more altruistic ... and I hope one day you get some relief for what you are going through.

I'm not going to get into it with Big Pharma, if it wasn't for Bayer I would have been dead by 2019. Life expectancy for people with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (me) or Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension was 5 years (I was diagnosed in 2014) until Bayer developed a miracle drug called Adempas, it only works on those two incredibly rare ailments, nothing else, it costs $300 a pill just to keep the production line open because these ailments are so rare, and I take 3 a day. Bayer practically donates them to us.

I'm not going to defend some practices like an unnamed vaccine for a disease of unspecified origin, or the moron who thought he was screwing millions out of the DOD by jacking up the price of the EpiPen. The DOD buys them by the crate because they're the #1 emergency fix for inhaling nerve gas.

 

[DarkRaven13]

I am glad that you are well beyond the 5 year mark, and that you go well beyond the 5, 10, 15, 20 year mark!

 

[oggbashan]

We have been trying to reply to a consultation by our local County Council about some stupid road closures.

1. Our previous accounts (6 months old) are no longer valid so we have to register again and get a confirmation email before we can start.

2. The consultation is in two parts but there is no way to access part 2 when you have done part 1 or even from the beginning.

3. The default print is 8 point, as are the responses so I could not see everything even with a magnifying glass. They copied my response back to me. I could only read it by copying it to Word and showing it in 18 point, so I have made several typos!

 

[Lifestyle66]

The coffee pot's empty.

Time once again to slowly consider doing something else for the day, before my wife thinks of something for me to do. (Sigh.)

 

[NotWise]

Thought I saw snow in some of the mountain canyons this morning. It was hard to say for sure with low clouds whipping around the mountain like they were. With snow or without it, our weather's been wet and cool--an interesting change from the recent pattern.

I wrote to the end of a long sexcapade this morning before I came to work. That story's stretching out a bit, but probably none of the sex scenes will be quite as long as that one.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm about to make a mug of Tea.
Anyone care to join ?

 

[Rustyoznail]

Morning all. I see the coffee fairies have made a new pot. Thank you.

I'm finally getting to the end of my Halloween story. I'm happy that it should make it into the comp. It's taken ages and the other plot bunnies are getting restless.

 

[TxRad]

Don't you just love those days that it takes all day to do something that should be done in twenty minutes tops. Jury duty. I'm over 75 and can opt out. I started trying to tell people that this morning at eight. Finally, around three I was asked what I thought of the death penalty. I told that idiot that they should all be hanged. Since I had their attention I said I was 75 and going home and not to call me again. At which point I started to leave. Twenty minutes of discussion amongst themselves and I was allowed to leave.

Eight hours on two cups of coffee. Idiots, don't ya just love them.

When did we get coffee fairies? They do make good coffee.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I'm just assuming they turned up from the mists. Lifestyle66 had no coffee, and it was there when I wandered in. It's magic, I tells ya!

 

[TxRad]

I'm just assuming they turned up from the mists. Lifestyle66 had no coffee, and it was there when I wandered in. It's magic, I tells ya!

I'll have to check and see if they have union or a director. Since I can't seem to find a waitress, I'll see about the cost of hiring their services to keep the wandering herd watered, uh coffeeed.

 

[Duleigh]

Speaking of magic, I've spotted the Magic Sweep Fairy in action. Weeks ago, I noticed a sweep happen on a single story, that one story lost one vote and the rating jumped up an entire decimal from 4.76 to 4.86

The Magic Sweeps Fairy was out again tonight, another story (the next chapter in the series) had been one bombed in its early life was sitting at 4.76, and magically one vote disappeared, and the rating jumped to 4.86. BUT WAIT! It gets more mysterious; in both cases this happened the day that the new tag dropped off.

Could it be that the plaintive wails of a story that lost its new tag attracts the Magic Sweeps Fairy the same way the New tag attracts the evil Uno-bomber?

 

[TxRad]

Maybe a new feature has been add to the sweep timing. No one ever says anything about changes on sweeps. After all, the first rule of the sweep club is that you not talk about the sweeps. Why give the trolls anymore information that they can use.

 

[DarkRaven13]

Hmmm...it is the Halloween month. Perhaps there is an abundance of witches out with their brooms

 

[AloneTooLong]

Don't you just love those days that it takes all day to do something that should be done in twenty minutes tops. Jury duty. I'm over 75 and can opt out. I started trying to tell people that this morning at eight. Finally, around three I was asked what I thought of the death penalty. I told that idiot that they should all be hanged. Since I had their attention I said I was 75 and going home and not to call me again. At which point I started to leave. Twenty minutes of discussion amongst themselves and I was allowed to leave.

Eight hours on two cups of coffee. Idiots, don't ya just love them.

When did we get coffee fairies? They do make good coffee.

the last time I got a notice, I went to the courthouse (about 4 blocks from my apartment) and advised them that a.) I am 83 and b.) wear two hearing aids but in rooms with high ceilings and a lot of hard surfaces hearing is still difficult. I won't be getting any more notices.

My first born turns 62 in December; she just got a jury notificatiion, showed up, and after lunch when she was being 'interviewed/questioned' the Judge told her non need to come back in the future as her hearing was also 'deficient'. She had to get a letter from her audiologist to take to the county but she won't be getting any more notices either.

 

[dmallord]

*Bangs head on desk*

It happened again, another "reader" wrote to inform me that I was wrong. This time it was about the neighborhood I wrote about. The neighborhood was former military housing during WWII, but it couldn't have happened that way because he didn't think it did. What would I know, I only lived there for 8 years. The child is a student in Journalism School, so he knows all there is to know about writing fiction. (Damn! I should have pointed that out to him)

I had another one tell me that an AC-130 gunner would NEVER be assigned to a fighter squadron in Kunsan Korea because gunners were Special Ops. I sent that around to my veteran buddies who got quite a chuckle about that. Talk of gunners being special keyed discussion of short busses and much more. The gunners in the group weren't happy, especially the ones I served with in Korea.

Ya know Duleigh, ya can only lead a reader to the water trough ... but ya can't make'um drink real life events or believe in them the way they actually happened. Something in real time has broken as though we are living in some fractured fairy tale world where one's personal thoughts overrule reality. Young ones ... sigh ... we have to move on leaving them to stand in the middle of their personal reality spot in the universe, hoping to catch the next shuttle to Jupiter.

Pour another coffee, black, and shake it off ...

 

[TxRad]

It sounds like we need another pot of coffee.