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Writer's Block: Something Seems Different
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Writer's Block: Play Catch
If your pet had thumbs, what would it do?
CJ would open her crate...open the bedroom door...and then proceed to wreak havoc on the house.
I'm perfectly happy to have her thumbless, thanks!
CJ would open her crate...open the bedroom door...and then proceed to wreak havoc on the house.
I'm perfectly happy to have her thumbless, thanks!
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Writer's Block: Back to the Future
Given the choice of time travel, would you go back in time or forward?
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Back. Hopefully to high school so I could choose a different college, but I'd settle for last week so I could pick the right lottery numbers!
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Writer's Block: Merry Christmas
Either the Dr Who Series 5 DVDs or Ticket to Ride: Asia :)
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Writer's Block: Hobby Lobby
[Error: unknown template qotd]I don't really collect anything these days - I still get games, DVDs and CDs from time to time, but I don't get much and I don't really consider them collections.
In the past, I collected baseball and hockey memorabilia (including a lot of autographs), and as a kid I collected glass animals.
In the past, I collected baseball and hockey memorabilia (including a lot of autographs), and as a kid I collected glass animals.
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Writer's Block: Musically inclined
[Error: unknown template qotd]In elementary school and middle school I played flute in the band. Not well.
Tried teaching myself harmonica and piano. Neither worked.
Started guitar in middle school and played up until about ten years ago. I was good in theory - literally. Music theory, scales, chords, sight reading treble clef - no problem. Hearing tones, improvising, reading bass clef...terrible. And people kept wanting me to play bass instead, but my hands are too small and the whole reading bass clef thing. Gave it up for good when my hands started hurting, I do miss it sometimes but the hands just can't handle it.
Tried teaching myself harmonica and piano. Neither worked.
Started guitar in middle school and played up until about ten years ago. I was good in theory - literally. Music theory, scales, chords, sight reading treble clef - no problem. Hearing tones, improvising, reading bass clef...terrible. And people kept wanting me to play bass instead, but my hands are too small and the whole reading bass clef thing. Gave it up for good when my hands started hurting, I do miss it sometimes but the hands just can't handle it.
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Writer's Block: Cornucopia of colors
[Error: unknown template qotd]It's not hot. (Usually). The air seems cleaner. The trees are colorful. Did I mention it's not hot?
Yesterday was just awesome, by the way, sunny, clear, breezy and high 60s. We drove around to look at the trees for a few hours. Beautiful.
Yesterday was just awesome, by the way, sunny, clear, breezy and high 60s. We drove around to look at the trees for a few hours. Beautiful.
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Writer's Block: Between a rock and a hard place
Oh, spiders, definitely. I'm not afraid of snakes.
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Writer's Block: Sweet tooth
Ice cream, ice cream and did I mention ice cream? Oh, I'd be so much thinner if that stuff didn't exist.
Presently in the freezer are Friendly's Butter Crunch (first time I've found some in ages), Wildberry Cheesecake (forgot the brand) and Haagen-Daz Bananas Foster, a particular favorite. Over the weekend I polished off another H-D and 2 pints of Ben & Jerry's. Just in case the freezer stopped working, of course. Just in case.
Presently in the freezer are Friendly's Butter Crunch (first time I've found some in ages), Wildberry Cheesecake (forgot the brand) and Haagen-Daz Bananas Foster, a particular favorite. Over the weekend I polished off another H-D and 2 pints of Ben & Jerry's. Just in case the freezer stopped working, of course. Just in case.
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Writer's Block: You’re giving me a toothache
[Error: unknown template qotd]From my gaming friend Jim: "I'm going to write a book of all the things you say." (He thinks just about everything I say is really weird/funny/crazy.)
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Writer's Block: Get in my belly
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A concoction called 'shrimp elegant'. Rice, shrimp, onions & mushrooms in a sour cream based sauce.
Unfortunately, my mother is losing it and ruins it more often than not these days. Last time she way undercooked the rice and set the saute pan on fire by putting in the onions and nothing else and walking off. Sigh.
A concoction called 'shrimp elegant'. Rice, shrimp, onions & mushrooms in a sour cream based sauce.
Unfortunately, my mother is losing it and ruins it more often than not these days. Last time she way undercooked the rice and set the saute pan on fire by putting in the onions and nothing else and walking off. Sigh.
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Writer's Block: Love to hate
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Back in their respective heydays, I was a big fan of Scorpius (Farscape) and Luther Mahoney (Homicide: Life on the Streets). In both cases you had a villain who was amoral and determined to bring down our heroes; but then they'd turn around and help, or do something good for someone else. They did the right thing just enough to make you wonder what they'd do next. More recently, I think Ben Linus (Lost) falls into this category.
For pure sociopathic delight, Alice (Luther) is tops these days.
Back in their respective heydays, I was a big fan of Scorpius (Farscape) and Luther Mahoney (Homicide: Life on the Streets). In both cases you had a villain who was amoral and determined to bring down our heroes; but then they'd turn around and help, or do something good for someone else. They did the right thing just enough to make you wonder what they'd do next. More recently, I think Ben Linus (Lost) falls into this category.
For pure sociopathic delight, Alice (Luther) is tops these days.
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Writer's Block: Live action hero
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I loved X-Men when I was a young 'un (and that was the original, yellow Spandex version) so the trilogy went over very well with me. And I like the Dark Knight movies.
I loved X-Men when I was a young 'un (and that was the original, yellow Spandex version) so the trilogy went over very well with me. And I like the Dark Knight movies.
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Writer's Block: Parlez-vous francais?
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After 6-7 years of Spanish in high school and college, you'd think I'd know it. And I can read Spanish well. But I can't speak it for the life of me. I'd like to go back to school on that one and become genuinely fluent in it. I'd like to learn a third or fourth language to at least conversational level as well - probably Italian for convenience (it's close to Spanish) and German for every day, it's very common amongst gamers.
After 6-7 years of Spanish in high school and college, you'd think I'd know it. And I can read Spanish well. But I can't speak it for the life of me. I'd like to go back to school on that one and become genuinely fluent in it. I'd like to learn a third or fourth language to at least conversational level as well - probably Italian for convenience (it's close to Spanish) and German for every day, it's very common amongst gamers.
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Writer's Block: Subtitles please
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'The Lives of Others' and no.
'The Lives of Others' and no.
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Writer's Block: On the menu
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Fried alligator, with blackberry sauce. It was alright, basically just a really big fried clam with a good sauce. The weird thing was that the unfortunate alligator had been caught and killed on a local golf course earlier in the day...and it was my father and brother who had called the park rangers to tell them there was an alligator on the fairway. Now there's a coinky-dink.
Fried alligator, with blackberry sauce. It was alright, basically just a really big fried clam with a good sauce. The weird thing was that the unfortunate alligator had been caught and killed on a local golf course earlier in the day...and it was my father and brother who had called the park rangers to tell them there was an alligator on the fairway. Now there's a coinky-dink.
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Writer's Block: Horrible bosses
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Oh, I've had some real winners. The micromanager. The yeller. The OCD case.
But the guy who emotionally and physically abused me for almost 10 years, sabotaged my attempts to find another job, fired me over the phone, contested the firing at unemployment and meanwhile hired a man for the same job at twice the salary has to be the grand prize. I didn't get revenge, per se, but when his lease at that office ran out, the landlords refused to renew it because he was so abusive of his employees, they didn't want his toxin in their building.
Oh, I've had some real winners. The micromanager. The yeller. The OCD case.
But the guy who emotionally and physically abused me for almost 10 years, sabotaged my attempts to find another job, fired me over the phone, contested the firing at unemployment and meanwhile hired a man for the same job at twice the salary has to be the grand prize. I didn't get revenge, per se, but when his lease at that office ran out, the landlords refused to renew it because he was so abusive of his employees, they didn't want his toxin in their building.
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Writer's Block: No. 1 hits
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'Help!' Fun, great melody, great harmonies, nice beat and you can dance to it. And sneakily serious lyrics.
'Help!' Fun, great melody, great harmonies, nice beat and you can dance to it. And sneakily serious lyrics.