Hello again,

It’s Tuesday so that means I am going to be going my writing group 🙂 tonight.

Last week I had a friend from one of my older writing groups show up at the Tuesday group. It was a nice surprise and I hope to see him there again.

It’s now been six hours since I wrote the above.

My day has been rather sucky to say the least. My boss has decided to take away my RDO starting March 1st. Her reasoning (in a nut shell) was I didn’t have enough to do around the office so she wanted me here every day instead of doing my 9/8/80 split.

Derr…Huh???

Evil, it can’t be explained.

Today I filled out three applications to various state agencies, Caltrans, Department of General Services, and the Department of Conversation. I must admit that I have been a bit negligent these past few weeks in filling out other job applications. I kind of blame myself for getting my hopes up for one position in particular (which obviously didn’t go my way). I’ve also been distracted with darth bitch (my supervisor) and doing my best to not draw her wrath.

I’ve also been in something of a bah-humbug mood these past few weeks. It’s not a winter blues thing so much as a feeling as if I’m just spinning my wheels and not getting any sort of traction on anything…so why bother? Know what I mean. I know you can’t win at everything and life is partially built upon how you handle failure. I get it, I really do. It’s just… I feel squished. I have no time for anything I want to do and if I can’t find something to be myself about then I start to lose myself… to the monotony…. know what I mean?

I know I have two young kids, thankfully they aren’t small anymore (I am not wishing my life away/fast forward as I know it slips through ones hands before you can even blink) but that they still can’t even wipe their own butts (at least my six year old). This SHIT kinda gets old if you know what I’m PUNtificating?

Anyway…

This last weekend we got to go to Lake Tahoe on a mini getaway and spent some time with the family. It was nice but it was also short. I never felt I got to relax with having to deal with my rats and their issues the whole time.

I did manage to sneak out on Saturday morning and got an hour and a half to myself to go over a story for somebody I recently met online. I edited her story and pointed out where she was leaving things open nebulous or weak. I didn’t do any real writing of my own because of it. I don’t know if she is reading this or not but I got the impression that English wasn’t her native tongue. That made it hard as I didn’t want to nitpick everything to death.

So last night, as part of my Tuesday after work writing group, I tried going online to try and find some beta reader/swappers. I think that is what I need most of all. I need somebody to point out what isn’t making sense plot wise. I’ve tried with a number of people (but with all of them so far) there has always been some sort of mismatch. I’m just not interested in reading your homosexual werewolf romance. I know you want to write but you can’t have logic gaps by having the lead character McGuffin themselves out of every situation. I mean its like they travel across a content walking the entire way only to find out in the last scene that they have had the ability to fly and only chose to walk from the start. Really? Who the Eff does that in real life? Characters/People are real and in being real they are also lazy. You can’t have inconsistencies like this and expect your story to be taken seriously.

Anyway… (#2)

Hey I just checked my email and I got some email about a hot Russian girl who wants to send me naked pictures. It’s almost like somebody is trying to give me a present today. I gotta go and click me up some viruses on my work computer 😉

Yes it’s been a week since I last posted anything.

I’m a bad man.

I’m an evil man.

Hey, it’s Friday the 13th. Maybe I should post something?

That is all

(For now)

Oh I just found this story link

Enjoy…

Here I sit in a McDonalds again early in the morning. I need this. Not the McDonalds part so much as the internet and away time. (The $1 tea doesn’t hurt though).

Last night the after work our family sat around in the family room and turned on a Harry Potter movie (#2). My daughter just finished reading the first book after watching the first movie and so we hoped this would help peek her interest into reading the second book. (I fell asleep during the first movie last month – I… am…. not… a …. harry…potter…fan.)

Anyway…. because my daughter was wrapped around me and watching the movie I couldn’t do much of anything but watch the stupid thing. I fell asleep again but only for a few seconds as I had to excuse myself to get up and use the restroom. By the time the movie was over it was close to 10 pm and my brain was fried. That was it for me. Day over.

Greedy grumpy dave part… I know I was there watching for my kids but I need some me time too. So here I am, having fled, hiding away and getting some time to review a friend’s story and pick it to pieces.

The simple joys of life 🙂

*=My kids have been watching a stupid (In my opinion) cartoon by the name of Octonauts. At the end of every episode they do some stupid sing along and the thing has been burned into my brain.

Train ride into work got me 850 words.

Time at Starbucks in the evening got me 1200 words. A good deal slower than what I did this morning but progress is progress. 🙂

This morning I snuck away and got some writing done.

From the span of 8:05 to 10:22 I got in 2,554 words

Doing that math that comes out to about 1,100 words/hour 🙂

While that is good and all I still have some mojo left in me to keep going but the family is now awake (via text message) and so I have to go back home and do family duties again.

Ggrrrrr…..

It’s 8:43 in the morning and I’m sitting in a La Bou right now. In just over an hour I am expecting various people to come in and “MEETUP.com” for a local gathering. This meetup is going to be my first with this TED focused discussion group. The topic today is “Who’s more intolerant, the left or right?”

I, being closed minded, believe I already have the answer and nothing you are going to say will make me change my mind otherwise.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-convince-someone-when-facts-fail/

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So as I’ve gotten here plenty early, I like to do that to new things (like interviews or first dates – Hey I’m not here for that reason…) I’m guessing I should start plugging away on my writing again. I’m just not feeling the mojo at the moment.

And this is where my internal muse starts shouting “NOTHING EVER GETS DONE WHEN YOU IGNORE IT!”

Yeah- yeah,shut-up already.

I need to get my tunes going in my head and we will see how far I get in the next hour.  Its 8:54 right now.

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8:55 to 944 gave me a total of 856 words. I’m done with a scene so I don’t feel like pushing ahead with only 15 minutes left. I got my 900 ish words an hour so I’m good 🙂

The following is part of what I wrote over the last hour in all of its first draft ugliness…

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Eve reached the side of her house about seven minutes later. She entered through the side kitchen door as that was her favorite door and it was how she had left her house when she had decided to take her walk to the store.

Michael, from somewhere deep in the house, called out, “Is that you?”

Closing the door behind herself, “Yep.”

Sounding as if he was getting closer, “Was about to send a search party. The weather is saying a serious cold front is moving in.”

“Oh its already here.”

Entering the kitchen he spotted her and smiled, “Well at least you thought to bring your jacket.”

Eve put her bag down onto the counter and said, “Unlike Carla. She was out riding her bike in those spandex long johns again.” She faced Michael, “Do you mind putting this stuff away? Carla wanted me to come over and have a chat with her.”

Michael chuckled as he walked towards the counter, “What did Cliff do now?” He leaned in and gave Eve a kiss as he began putting everything away.

“I don’t know yet but right now I really need to pee.” Eve made her way down the hall and towards the bathroom.

Michael yelled out from the kitchen. “Whatever it is I’m sure Cliff has no clue as to what part he played in it.”

Pulling down her pants and squatting down, “None of you do.”

Michael added, “If a man is alone in the woods, is he still wrong?”

Letting out a bit of gas, “Why is that even a question?”

Michael laughed.

Eve, feeling relieved, let out a deep breath and just sat there for a moment. She listened as Michael opened and closed various cabinets and tried to imagine what her life would be like if Michael was more like Cliff. She shook her head and reached for the toilet tissue as she wanted to flush that idea away. Finishing up she pulled her pants back up and stepped to the sink.
From the kitchen Michael yelled, “Done.” His voice then went up in pitch as he yelled out, “Can I go back to my room and play again?”

Laughing Eve replied, “Is your homework done?”

With the same high pitch, “Yes…”

“I can hear it in your voice, what did you forget?”

Michael came into the bathroom after her and grabbed her around the waist and hugged her. His hands ended up doing a bit of wandering around her front as he said playfully, “I need some more hands on in my biology.”
Eve twisted about and shut the water off. She then flicked her still wet hands over her shoulder and struck Michael in the face with a spray of droplets.
Michael replied, “I thought I was the one trying to get you wet?” Eve turned around within his embrace and gave him a kiss on the lips while she groaned at his joke. He gave her another squeeze and then backed away thus freeing her. “I thought it was funny.”

She dried her hands on his shirt and said, “You are sick in the head” and then walked out of the bathroom.

Okay, maybe I am. You still married me.”

Calling out over her shoulder as she walked towards kitchen heading out again, “Stop reminding me.”

Life is nothing but a slide towards death. I understand this.

Hey death, you are killing my youth as well as my dreams. FU.

Can you please stop being such an ass about it?

I just got my turkey is in the oven.

oh…wait… I meant exactly that. no euphemisms intended.