The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[NuclearFairy]

@ItsJustMeApathy Sucks about the hospital stay and diabetes, but it sounds like you guys had fun at the concert.

@Five_Inch_Heels When they do that to me, I usually start writing about them. Gets them to shut up right quick, even if I never show it to anyone.

 

[NuclearFairy]

The memory centers of my brain seem to have taken a vacation. Woke up convinced that it was Monday and freaking out that it was after 8 o clock. Calmed down from that and helped the kids to get breakfast, only to be reminded that spoons are a thing. Then, I think I took my medicine with breakfast, but I'm not sure I took the right medicines. Oh well, I have a doctors appointment tomorrow, if I can remember.

 

[ItsJustMeApathy]

@ItsJustMeApathy - not to scare you but I had a very good friend and a family member diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after sudden onset of diabetes. Pancreatic cancer has no symptoms until the pancreas can no longer produce insulin. Please take her and get a CAT scan with contrast to look for cancer hot spots. Unfortunately, there's no easy blood test for pancreatic cancer.

Yeah the doctors have already talked about that with us because not only does she have diabetes, she has Graves disease. So they were having a lot of trouble regulating her blood sugar and keeping her potassium level right too. Everything was fighting against everything. They said right now her pancreas looks fine. She felt so bad because she vomited while they were doing the MRI. I told her don't feel bad, they've seen everything before.

 

[iwatchus]

I managed to submit my arguing lovers story. There are some issues with the story, but I think the writing is actually better than my usual. We'll see how the readers see it.From the readers' perspective, this is two straight stories in the same category. Have not done that for unrelated stories in 20-some stories. But only because cupcake caper will not appear for two more weeks.

It is way too cold out there for the first week of September. Makes me worried about this winter.

Back to the how-to for beginners on the site and outlining my novels. And reading about mermaids, which trumps that all.

 

[NotWise]

I'm watching a nearly-full, waning moon set outside my office window. We're slated for State Fair weather for the next few days: warm, sunny, and dry. The hot air balloon traffic should be building up ahead of the Balloon Fiesta, but these days I'm never where I need to be to see them.

The garden is doing well. I put another pound of jalapenos and two bags of chiles in the fridge yesterday. The new cucumbers and broccolini are healthy, and I'm getting enough tomatoes.

The Summer Lovin' contest closed Friday, so now it's time to see what the sweeps will bring.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Another cool but sunny morning. It's going to warm up with temperatures above normal by the end of the week. We still need some rain so I'm going to have to do some watering today.

There's a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is boiling. There are various pastries on the counter along with a charcuterie tray.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I spent an hour yesterday roughing out an outline for a new story that a plot bunny kept bugging me about. I'll get to it once I finish the current WIP.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I'm watching a nearly-full, waning moon set outside my office window. We're slated for State Fair weather for the next few days: warm, sunny, and dry. The hot air balloon traffic should be building up ahead of the Balloon Fiesta, but these days I'm never where I need to be to see them.

The garden is doing well. I put another pound of jalapenos and two bags of chiles in the fridge yesterday. The new cucumbers and broccolini are healthy, and I'm getting enough tomatoes.

The Summer Lovin' contest closed Friday, so now it's time to see what the sweeps will bring.

I enjoyed my 4.5 years stationed in Albuquerque mainly because there were balloons in the air most of the time. They also held world fireworks competitions at the State fairgrounds and during that week, there were fireworks every night. Hard to believe it's been 45 years ...

 

[NuclearFairy]

Apparently my appointment isn't till next week.

 

[NotWise]

Apparently my appointment isn't till next week.

I hope you found that out before you went.

 

[iwatchus]

Apparently my appointment isn't till next week.

More time to write today!

 

[NuclearFairy]

I hope you found that out before you went.

Yup, my roommate pointed it out.

More time to write today!

Or, work on the chicken coop. Tough choice.

 

[TheRedLantern]

I spent an hour yesterday roughing out an outline

Read that as "roughing UP an outline" and I pictured you smacking an unruly outline around like it owed money to your boss Tony Soprano.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I continue to be so friggen busy, I have no time to play here. Work is good, paid work is best (but not much fun). Once in a while, I just want to pass the time idly dilly-dalling here. I'm drinking Darjeeling right now.

 

[iwatchus]

So my arguing lovers story goes live tomorrow. No productive writing thus far, but I have the house to myself for a while this evening. Nice enough to sit on the porch.

I have my surgical consult for my knee on Wednesday. I am going to be a basket case if they tell me just live with it. I am pretty jittery worrying about it, which is probably why I am being so non-productive.

 

[MrPixel]

I'm not so happy with my state of condition, either. I changed the oil on one of the cars yesterday. Something that used to be a half-hour job including prep and cleanup took two solid hours, and I'm sore from the squatting, crawling, and reaching. Still made a mess I normally don't. It's not that we don't have a trustworthy mechanic, but he is so busy I try not to bother him with "simple" car maintenance tasks that seem to be less simple as time marches on.

To think that just fifteen years ago, singlehandedly, I removed the transmission from that very same car, completely disassembled it, added new gears, put it back in, and drive it every day 200,000+ miles later. And now an oil change is too much to handle.

 

[iwatchus]

My issues are really two traumatic injuries. One hitting my head when I fell on the ice 6 1/2 years ago. I was just starting to approach reasonable physical shape again when I tore my meniscus 11 months ago. I spent 6 months rebuilding from that when the last shred of my meniscus gave up the ghost. I went from walking 5 miles a day to not being able to make a quick run into the grocery store (or pace as I'm writing).

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I've have something today that I can't really explain because I don't understand it. Confused, disoriented, couldn't think clearly.

Really felt lost ... dazed and confused (not the song). Read things on a screen, then go back five minutes later and don't remember reading it, or feel positive that the words have changed ... been edited. Even took a couple of screen shots to compare ... no difference no matter how sure I was that there had been.

 

[iwatchus]

I've have something today that I can't really explain because I don't understand it. Confused, disoriented, couldn't think clearly.

Really felt lost ... dazed and confused (not the song). Read things on a screen, then go back five minutes later and don't remember reading it, or feel positive that the words have changed ... been edited. Even took a couple of screen shots to compare ... no difference no matter how sure I was that there had been.

take care of yourself. There are so many things that could be going on, some nothing that a good night's sleep won't handle. Others are a little more concerning. If you still feel this disoriented tomorrow, you should probably get it checked out.

 

[Duleigh]

Hey gang

Been really busy. I'd show you what I've been up to but someone would shriek "AI!" and next thing you know I'm being hammered by trolls over a picture of a kitten playing with a duckling. (I'm having most of my fun colorizing historical B&W photographs from 1911 - 1920) However - I have a question

I'm updating my Stormwatch series. I've added 7 new chapters and that's just between the first original episode and the second original episode. I'm fixing the timeline and because it's tied to Andi's Dream I had to fix the storyline also. Now I'm coming up to the second original Episode. I never numbered the episodes, I posted them in alphabetical order hoping the reader would figure that out, but the way stories can be listed here, that was a big failure. The question is, this - the second original episode will become Chapter 9 but editing a story and renaming it takes weeks and weeks to post after being submitted. Would I be wrong to just delete the second original episode and post Chapter 9 as a new story? Chapter 9 is more than 3/4 all new story and the remaining original text has been updated with a new timeline and story line.

Delete and Post as New?
Rename, mark as edited then post and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait...?

If I delete the old post and post as new I lose all those original votes and comments, which is a bummer, but it will be put on the new story page. If I rename and edit, I keep all those comments but there's no notification to the readers that this nearly entirely new story has been added. It just appears on the list of my works and the original story name silently disappears. The readers don't know and I don't know when it's posted.

 

[ElectricBlue]

If I delete the old post and post as new I lose all those original votes and comments, which is a bummer, but it will be put on the new story page. If I rename and edit, I keep all those comments but there's no notification to the readers that this nearly entirely new story has been added. It just appears on the list of my works and the original story name silently disappears. The readers don't know and I don't know when it's posted.

If you post a "new" chapter 9 just by itself, who is going to know or care, if the original version was posted long ago?

I'd just edit and be done with it. The only folk who will see the change are those reading the story for the first time, and they won't know the difference. Why do you think the first batch of readers will come back to the story? In their minds, they've already read it, surely?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I do not want mid 90s again.

 

[sirhugs]

coffee helps

 

[iwatchus]

I do not want mid 90s again.

I assume that is temperature, not reverse nostalgia against the Clinton years.

Are you feeling better today?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Temp could change by 40 degrees today ... mid 40s now, forecast for mid 80s.

 

[iwatchus]

Temp could change by 40 degrees today ... mid 40s now, forecast for mid 80s.

We're mid-40's now, only going up to mid-70's though. Too cold to write out on the porch this morning.