What You Doing?

[neonlyte]

It's evening here. I've had a very nice chicken casserole, made with a real chicken that lived on a farm, and polished off half a bottle of red. Slightly peppery - the wine - but very nice for all that.

The birds in the trees outside the window have settled down for the night and I can finally listen to John Coltrane without the birds trying to do the harmony's.

I'm busy writing / editing the story I was planning to do for Nano, until fate intervened and I found myself twiddling thumbs between playing nursie. I'm going to continue it through Nano, just keep a good record of where I'm starting from on 1/11 (or 11/1 if you prefer). It's about 30k in so I might even get close to a finished draft.

If anyone cares to join me to celebrate - well the day - or anything that comes to mind, then I wish you 'Your Very Good Health'.

 

[neonlyte]

I've just opened the Armangnac, it's a bottle I found recently stored away in the attic along with some 1969 Port.

The Armangnac's not at all bad, still an edge to it even after all these years - I reckon we bought this about 20 years ago.

Health.

 

[oggbashan]

I have a 1957 Chablis. I'm not sure that it is still drinkable.

I need to save it for a suitable occasion - perhaps when my last daughter gets married.

I also have some 1989 French Bicentennial Champagne. I know that is no good. I drunk some in 1989 and it was dire then. It has a nice bottle and packaging so I'll keep it as a souvenir.

My brother was given a dozen bottles of Napoleon Brandy when he married a wine importer's daughter. That is brandy (actually Cognac) made when Napoleon Bonaparte I was Emperor of the French. 40 years on he still has 2 bottles.

But tonight, after my evening meal, I will drink some cheap cider - this year's. That isn't worth keeping.

Og

 

[matriarch]

A nice 2004, slightly chilled diet coke........topped up with cheap brandy.........the Armagnac is way too good for a mixed drink....with my dinner of roast pork, etc.

I'm sitting in my garrett, talking to this machine, the wind is howling around the little dormer window, making me very glad I'm inside and not out.

Shortly I will be off to my bed, work beckons on the morrow.

Your very good health Neon, Ogg, and all my friends on Lit. Long may you be part of my life.

Mat

 

[cloudy]

I'm having almost the same thing as Mat - a very piquant 2004 Coke, minus any additions (contrary to what some may think, I rarely drink alcohol).

It's in the high 70's here (farenheit, folks), and I'm wishing for it to get cooler, although I probably won't get my wish until the end of this month, if then.

My entirely blank page of the document I've opened to write my Halloween story is staring at me accusingly, and there's cartoons on the TV, so........

Spongebob here I come.

 

[Guest]

 

[matriarch]

I'm having almost the same thing as Mat - a very piquant 2004 Coke, minus any additions (contrary to what some may think, I rarely drink alcohol).

It's in the high 70's here (farenheit, folks), and I'm wishing for it to get cooler, although I probably won't get my wish until the end of this month, if then.

My entirely blank page of the document I've opened to write my Halloween story is staring at me accusingly, and there's cartoons on the TV, so........

Spongebob here I come.

Tut-tut.
But I do understand.
I hate deadlines, the rainy day one sucked all the will out of me.

 

[doormouse]

I'm sitting here scratching my ass wondering what the fuck I'm doing awake.

Is that the kinda thing you want to know? lol

Actually chatting on yahoo trying to read the boards at the same time

 

[Liar]

workin workin workin

Hey, it pays the bills.

#L

 

[carsonshepherd]

My poison? 2004 Miller Lite (my 2nd today, I started late.)
Cooking dinner. Chicken, okra and biscuits.
I almost have 100 posts, what should my av be, I wonder.

 

[Guest]

Just returned from an off-the-charts performance of Mahler's 9th symphony. Having tea after a supper of tabouli, feta and dolmas. Chocolate bar with hazelnuts to follow. Working on photographs with Photoshop and lurking here on breaks.

Peace to all, Perdita

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Here is an excerpt from the review of the first night's performance, fits today's.

"I don't think I've ever heard the orchestra's string sections play with such a high gloss before, or heard the brass muster a choral blend so gorgeously rounded or so weighty. The evening's hero was acting principal horn Robert Ward, who outdid himself all night with one potent, luminous solo after another.

Lamination, though, suggests something preserved and sealed off, and Wednesday's performance was just the opposite. It breathed, it moved and danced, it sent off sparks; the music was endlessly responsive to what had come before and what was coming around the next corner.

... To listen to this performance was to be struck anew by the myriad of tiny details that make up a Mahlerian tapestry -- a fillip of woodwind melody here, a snippet of a brass fanfare there, all stitched together into a single overarching musical fabric.

Thomas seemed, if possible, to be even more attuned than before to the panoramic sweep of the symphony, drawing connections between even the most far- flung corners of the 100-minute score. That much was obvious within the first few minutes of the opening movement, which were slow without ever languishing the way they sometimes can. Thomas offered a luxuriant reading, but one that moved unhesitatingly from moment to moment.

The same sense of pacing returned to magnificent effect in the finale, its choral textures infused with a feeling of urgency that slowly dissipated as the music lapsed into its final charged silence.
...
No doubt most of this sorcery will be caught on CD, making a worthy keepsake of the event. But no recording, however faithful, can substitute for the experience of witnessing the performance live." full review

 

[sincerely_helene]

Imparting my vast widsom on the BDSM boards whilst sipping a diet soda and vodka.

And I am wondering if I am the only one who shakes my mouse around when pages take too long to load in.

I am also currently in the middle of cooking up my famous "Too Lazy to Go to the Grocery Store Spagetti and Ketchup Sauce."

Something about Sundays. I should probably go write something.

I will tackle the dishes tommorow(ish).

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Dumping the bag of lime in and covering over the pit and figuring out where to dump the axe...

No, in truth, I'm getting ready to see Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Globe downtown.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Dinner is all finished, (frozen pizza tonight, yuck, but at least it was easy), sitting around playing on the computer, should be getting something productive done. Cracking open a decent Pinot Grigio, anyone want to join me?

Mid 40's here and very clear skies. Was hoping to go out on the porch and read some when the little deviants had gone to bed. But the older one fell asleep in the car at 6:00pm and now won't want to go to bed till midnight. Ugh.

 

[Lovepotion69]

Let's see here. I had dinner, took a bunch of pics for fun. My creativity is back! Post processed a few of them, posted on Lit in my new thread. Now chatting with an old Lit buddy. Oh yeah, changed AV. Should be sleepy. It's 4am here.

 

[neonlyte]

Let's see here. I had dinner, took a bunch of pics for fun. My creativity is back! Post processed a few of them, posted on Lit in my new thread. Now chatting with an old Lit buddy. Oh yeah, changed AV. Should be sleepy. It's 4am here.

Sleep well!

Creativity is a strange companion, mine seems to thrive on limited sleep.

Love the new AV and enjoyed looking at your photos a couple of days ago. My current writing is set in Scandanavia, your photos help remind me of the details that complete an image.

By the way, my daughter has just started dating a Swedish guy, should I be worried?

 

[neonlyte]

Dinner is all finished, (frozen pizza tonight, yuck, but at least it was easy), sitting around playing on the computer, should be getting something productive done. Cracking open a decent Pinot Grigio, anyone want to join me?

Mid 40's here and very clear skies. Was hoping to go out on the porch and read some when the little deviants had gone to bed. But the older one fell asleep in the car at 6:00pm and now won't want to go to bed till midnight. Ugh.

Sounds an excellent idea! Cheers.

When our daughter was tiny she would only sleep in the car, she still does when someone else is driving. I worried madly when she first got her own car!

 

[neonlyte]

Dumping the bag of lime in and covering over the pit and figuring out where to dump the axe...

No, in truth, I'm getting ready to see Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Globe downtown.

Whittle down the handle into a walking stick and use the head as a door stop for the porch door, that should fool them.

How was the C&A?

 

[neonlyte]

Imparting my vast widsom on the BDSM boards whilst sipping a diet soda and vodka.

And I am wondering if I am the only one who shakes my mouse around when pages take too long to load in.

I am also currently in the middle of cooking up my famous "Too Lazy to Go to the Grocery Store Spagetti and Ketchup Sauce."

Something about Sundays. I should probably go write something.

I will tackle the dishes tommorow(ish).

Try the spagetti with lightly fried garlic, a crushed red chilli and oilve oil dressing. If you're close to someone, make sure they eat it to!

The Mouse - I'm sure I heard squeaking on the BDSM board.

 

[neonlyte]

Just returned from an off-the-charts performance of Mahler's 9th symphony. Having tea after a supper of tabouli, feta and dolmas. Chocolate bar with hazelnuts to follow. Working on photographs with Photoshop and lurking here on breaks.

Peace to all, Perdita full review

Mahler - I'm envious. I can never have Mahler as a backdrop to what I'm doing, his music alawys compels me to stop and listen.

Do we get to see the photographs sometime?

 

[shereads]

Dumping the bag of lime in and covering over the pit and figuring out where to dump the axe...

Thank you, Luc, for the first laugh of a sleepless night. I forget sometimes that you're one of the people who can make me spew Diet Coke onto the keyboard through my sinuses...That's a good thing, right?

Neon, to your extraordinarily good health.

Insomnia would be a bitch without you guys.