The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[iwatchus]

This morning is a good step forward for me. My head is clear. I don't feel exhausted. It's still uncomfortable to swallow but getting easier. And I don't seemed to have lost any more weight yesterday, which is definitely good. We'll see how I hold up to teaching in person today. I am looking forward to it.

I've gotten about 1.2K written on my WIP this morning, easily the biggest burst since I got sick. All character building, but it went well. This is my first story that may be marginal in erotic content for the site, even by my relatively loose standards of that. My understanding is that SF&F readers are pretty tolerant of that. I guess I will find out. It does have tentacles, but definitely not tentacle porn.

After raining for several days, it's looking beautiful today.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

The Incredible Mr. Lipid?


Oh wait, that was Limpet.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Spouse did one of his online snack orders. Both he and offspring must have been ravenous, as there's a good 10kg of nuts, huge pile of cocoa bars, probably another 6kg of raisins and dried fruit, and then all the jars of weird hippy food.

This morning was spent trying to put contents of a 3x4 foot box somewhere that wasn't the dining table. Did some other tidying, too - I wasn't physically able but SIL asked me where stuff could go and the bins are now full again (it was rubbish collection yesterday). Delayed spring cleaning... (it's spring in Australia, right?)

 

[MrPixel]

there's a good 10kg of nuts, huge pile of cocoa bars, probably another 6kg of raisins and dried fruit, and then all the jars of weird hippy food.

No worries. All to be consumed during the next football match on TV.

 

[TheRedLantern]

It must be Halloween season because I beta read a Halloween story this morning. To celebrate the season, I'm making my coffee with waters from the River Styx and danish with Forbidden Fruit.

I've been kicking around a (not Halloween) story idea about a girl who gets catfished, and so she has to decide whether it was the body she saw in the dating profile or the mind behind the messages she got that she's really attracted to.

 

[TheRedLantern]

as there's a good 10kg of nuts, huge pile of cocoa bars, probably another 6kg of raisins and dried fruit

I know I talk about pastries a lot, but nuts with raisins and dried fruit is a gold medal contender in the Snack Olympics.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I know I talk about pastries a lot, but nuts with raisins and dried fruit is a gold medal contender in the Snack Olympics.

I have just filled a jar with black raisins and golden sultanas and topped it up with rum. There's nothing more disappointing than non-alcoholic rum'n raisin ice-cream made with 'rum flavouring'. I'm wondering what the minimum maturing time is...

I'll just have the nuts - I'm not crazy about dried fruit generally. Fresh, yes.

 

[iwatchus]

I'm allergic to nuts, so we can split out portion of the snacks KqQ.

 

[Duleigh]

I have just filled a jar with black raisins and golden sultanas and topped it up with rum.

I'll help with any leftover rum you have.

(Get it? Leftover alcohol? It's Australia, it just doesn't happen there)

 

[NuclearFairy]

Best rum cake is made with real rum. And I don't even like rum... But I love rum cake and rum balls. Weird.

 

[sirhugs]

mmmm... rum, almost as good as whiskey.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I know I talk about pastries a lot, but nuts with raisins and dried fruit is a gold medal contender in the Snack Olympics.

You forgot the choklit chips!

 

[Rustyoznail]

I have just filled a jar with black raisins and golden sultanas and topped it up with rum. There's nothing more disappointing than non-alcoholic rum'n raisin ice-cream made with 'rum flavouring'. I'm wondering what the minimum maturing time is...

I'll just have the nuts - I'm not crazy about dried fruit generally. Fresh, yes.

Try and leave it for a week, and resist the urge to take the occasional spoonful for "testing".

 

[NotWise]

I just spent three hours processing chiles. Now my left hands burns. That is an indicator that the chile is pretty warm. Now my back is tired.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Do you know Hyder Simpson and his coon dog Rip?

 

[iwatchus]

I'm happy. Today, I was able to eat my first two real meals in most of a week. And I got some writing done on WIP, with more time today to maybe write some more. And three different people gave me three different perspectives on my WIP over the last few days.

Happy times all around!

 

[MrPixel]

That is an indicator that the chile is pretty warm. Now my back is tired.

Then make a paste out of the chilis and use them on your back! Capsaisin is a marvelous muscle pain reliever.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I'll help with any leftover rum you have.

(Get it? Leftover alcohol? It's Australia, it just doesn't happen there)

Reminds me of the meme asking what to do with leftover bacon ...

 

[NuclearFairy]

Reminds me of the meme asking what to do with leftover bacon ...

Isn't that the stuff that get's hidden in the back of the fridge while everyone is having firsts so you can make bacon bits later?

 

[NuclearFairy]

I broke my streak, I wrote 343 words tonight.

 

[NotWise]

Then make a paste out of the chilis and use them on your back! Capsaisin is a marvelous muscle pain reliever.

Yeah, you don't feel muscle pain when you skin is on fire.

 

[Duleigh]

I do miss the hatch chilies from living in Colorado. Odd - I don't remember mention of hatch chilies when I lived in Clovis NM, but I spent most of my time in Clovis avoiding Clovis.

 

[sirhugs]

I broke my streak, I wrote 343 words tonight.

If I posted that, I would have to add "and a few of them were good ones."

 

[subdudeme13]

Krispy Kreme offers $1 Original Glazed® dozen BOGO Saturday through Monday and perfect pairing of FREE coffee and doughnut on National Coffee Day

 

[sirhugs]

Krispy Kreme offers $1 Original Glazed® dozen BOGO Saturday through Monday and perfect pairing of FREE coffee and doughnut on National Coffee Day

but are they as good as Tim Horton's?