The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Duleigh]

For New Years I resolve to re-write my entire Stormwatch Series. I had so much fun writing it the first time, now that I know what I'm doing, this is going to be a riot.

 

[Duleigh]

@Rustyoznail - HEY RUSTY! How's 2025? Do we have flying cars yet?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Open for the last coffee of 2024.....(except in Oz and Kiwiland.....where they're already into 2025....)

 

[MrPixel]

There are some powdered donuts on the counter.

Appr_ciat_d, but th_y mak_ a hug_ m_ss out of my k_yboard. S__ what I m_an? Alr_ady lost th_ _.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Last day to make something good happen this year. I got to get to writing...fast! Just an expresso, please!

 

[MillieDynamite]

I have three stories ready and one about ready for the 2025 750 Word Challenge, Event, Happening, or whatever we are calling it this year.

 

[dmallord]

Thank you for the tip! I figured it out.

Yes, of course, not here. I write stories for literary magazines sometimes. They're not even sexy at all!

I've written a few non-erotic stories here. There is a small audience that appreciates a break from 'porn' once in a while.

 

[MillieDynamite]

You broke the porn? How dare you break porn.

I've written a few non-erotic stories here. There is a small audience that appreciates a break from 'porn' once in a while.

 

[Rustyoznail]

@Rustyoznail - HEY RUSTY! How's 2025? Do we have flying cars yet?

(Wakes up bleary eyed and looks out the window...) Not here, but I want to launch a flying brick at the ravens and seagulls having a noisy fight on the neighbour's roof.

Happy New Year everyone! The last few years we've watched a crappy movie after the fireworks display at the harbour, and the year hasn't gone well. This year we watched the last few episodes of the latest Dr Who. They were great. Hopefully that flows through the year.

Time for a coffee. I haven't had one all year.

 

[NotWise]

The classical music station is playing listener requests all day, with minimal interruption. I thought we might get through it without hearing "The Ode to Joy" but we did not. I usually turn the ode off when it comes on because I've heard it so much, and I'd like to reserve what little tolerance I have for repetition for times when I can appreciate it.

This afternoon was that time. There's still a part about 1/3 of the way through with a pause and a slow entrance by the chorus that, as it always has, made my brain shut down. It's almost like sex, where for a time my brain has no other activity. I hardly breathe.

I amuse myself sometimes, imagining that I'm at the first performance of the 9th symphony. I've read about it, and I can only dream of what a huge physical and emotional impact that must have been.

 

[dmallord]

You broke the porn? How dare you break porn.

Shush, it was cathartic writing. Seems like a glass-ceiling event. Right? Though not wildly read category like I noted.

Justice for Alina
The 'Fixers' Track a Cold Case Killer in a Teenager's Murder.
08/09/2022 in Non-Erotic Stories

PUBLISHED HOT 4.71 / 238 votes 23 favorites .8k views 10 comments

 

[MrPixel]

The classical music station is playing listener requests all day, ...

Odd. We haven't turned the music on all day. The dreary weather here has us both shut down, basically, and alternating naps on the bed since the dog has commandeered the sofa like he usually does. Overcast, cold, and windy just saps your energy, even when it's 72° inside.

But I've got to gather myself and run over to the studio to pick-up some micro SD cards so I can rebuild C's desktop system. I was running updates last night on her Ubuntu box, and one of the updaters walked all over the boot partition. I saw it run away but was reticent to stop it out of fear of it damaging the data side. Verified that her stuff is intact on another system, so I know what I need to spend NYE doing.

 

[Duleigh]

The classical music station is playing listener requests all day, with minimal interruption.

There is no classical music stations for us Ludites. The public stations hid their classical output on digital where it sounds flat if you have a radio that will get it. I Listen to TuneIn radio - a lot of classical for the listener. It's been digitized so it's flat compared to an analog recording, but it's there.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Happy New Year, and let's take' a cup o' kindness yet, for the sake of auld lang syne.

Watched the midnight fireworks from the balcony - they're better than Guy Fawkes, because people actually all set them off at roughly the right time. Give or take a few hours... Only it's a wind warning (up to 65mph even in cities) so many were exploding about 5 houses down from where they'd been set off. Looked fantastic, but very glad no-one on our side of the street was launching their own!

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I have started a new pot of coffee for the New Year. The teapot is hot if you want a cuppa. I put some cheesecakes out for celebrating.

I'm going to try to stay up until midnight but I'm not sure I can ...

 

[Duleigh]

The teapot is hot if you want a cuppa.

Thank you for the tea pot Candy, I've grown a real fondness for tea lately. I need to get a new infuser, I broke my favorite one.

 

[JGittes]

Happy New Year from SE England. The Canada geese were missing from the pond on NYE. I hope they return soon.

 

[NotWise]

There is no classical music stations for us Ludites. The public stations hid their classical output on digital where it sounds flat if you have a radio that will get it. I Listen to TuneIn radio - a lot of classical for the listener. It's been digitized so it's flat compared to an analog recording, but it's there.

Classical recordings provided by Amazon music seem to be neither compressed nor normalized. As a result, some recordings are loud and some are barely audible, and some part of any piece can drop to inaudible levels. That isn't so much of a problem if you're listening at home, but I'm often listening in my truck and those variations mean that a lot of the music gets lost in the background noise.

Music from the radio station comes from the same recordings you can buy, but if it came on hard media to start with then it's been ripped into a digital file. The music that's aired seems to be normalized so it comes out at about the same audio level. It might be compressed as well, so the range from loud to soft is smaller. That doesn't bother me. At least I can hear it while driving.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Happy New Year

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Happy New Year everyone!

I've got a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is hot for anyone who wants a cuppa. There's a box of ginger man cookies left over from Christmas if you want to help yourself.

I was digging around in the storeroom and found a box of plot bunnies that @TxRad must have left behind. I put it out on the counter for anyone who wants to look through it for some story ideas.

There are eight maids milking the cows out back if you want some fresh raw milk for your coffee.

 

[Duleigh]

My new year's resolution is to drink more coffee...


So far so good!

 

[NotWise]

There are eight maids milking the cows out back if you want some fresh raw milk for your coffee.

Eight! I'm thinking MFFFFFFFF. Heck with the milk.

 

[Duleigh]

Eight! I'm thinking MFFFFFFFF. Heck with the milk.

You know they're quite good with their hands. They'll have you done and lighting a Marlboro before you can get their bloomers off.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

I won't, WON'T, snicker about virginity (if they really are maids) or lactation (if they aren't milking cows).

From this point on, the lyrics of 12-Days seem to vary. What I've heard most are 12 drummers, 11 pipers, 10 lords, 9 ladies. But the quantities of these last four groups often differ, from one version to another. Does this hint at a long-standing dispute among long-dead arrangers? No, I don't care enough to research this.

 

[Duleigh]

I won't, WON'T, snicker about virginity (if they really are maids) or lactation (if they aren't milking cows).

From this point on, the lyrics of 12-Days seem to vary. What I've heard most are 12 drummers, 11 pipers, 10 lords, 9 ladies. But the quantities of these last four groups often differ, from one version to another. Does this hint at a long-standing dispute among long-dead arrangers? No, I don't care enough to research this.

These are believed to be the original lyrics of the Twelve days of Christmas. The only real dispute was Calling Birds vs Colley Birds (a Colley bird is a bird covered in coal dust from the nearby colley or colliery or coal mine, however you want to say it) The dirty birds beat the singing birds.