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| Re: New Thing [message #49645 is a reply to message #49483 ] |
Mon, 07 May 2012 06:08   |
 CathyR
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| rainycity1 wrote on Wed, 02 May 2012 03:46 |
Oooh... an alpaca! I like that one, but I'm not sure how useful they are when it comes to the cockroaches and crickets rattling the windows...
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Some wonderful animal photos, including some rather extraordinary looking alpacas here
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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| Re: New Thing [message #49648 is a reply to message #49483 ] |
Mon, 07 May 2012 07:42 |
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| rainycity1 wrote on Tue, 01 May 2012 22:46 |
Oooh... an alpaca! I like that one, but I'm not sure how useful they are when it comes to the cockroaches and crickets rattling the windows...
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Well... if the cockroaches were as big as cats (for example) then the alpaca would be very useful in chasing them off.
[Updated on: Mon, 07 May 2012 07:43]
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: New Thing [message #49681 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Tue, 08 May 2012 22:17 |
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Are we going to find out what flavor of rose? Though I'm relieved that the T-shirts and underwear appeared. I once helped a friend drive from central Texas to Salt Lake City in a hugely overloaded 3/4 ton van with bald tires, along with a large dog who belonged in a Disney movie and two cats, who belonged...wait, there are cat lovers here. Sorry.
After the first blowout, and realizing how bald the tires were (just short of Durango, Colorado, and it was alternating light snow and very cold rain--that's also when we found that M-'s father in law had moved the jack and other tools from where we'd put them--handy to the front--and buried them "somewhere") we had a very wet trip across the desert with water, water everywhere, and no place to stop and let the dog out (especially not a long-haired, shaggy dog.)
Then we had to cross the last range of mountains. I was the driver for mountain sections. It was raining at the bottom of the mountain. Higher up..."It's snowing," said M-. "No," I said firmly, thinking of the hard-boiled-egg slickness of the tires. "It's just cold rain." A little later, "It IS snowing, E. The ground's turning white." "M-," I said, very quietly, "I am from South Texas where it does not snow. I am driving an overloaded van on bald tires on switchbacks. I do not wish to consider snow. White paper is falling past the windshield and onto the ground, and it will be white paper until I am over this [unmentionable] mountain and safely down to level highway on the other side. Got that?" "But--" "It's not snowing, M-," I said, still very calmly. "Or we're going to slide right over that edge there. Take your pick." "White paper," said M-. "Right," I said. "Good choice." Long silence ensued. When it was clearly just rain again, we returned to light topics such as politics, law, emergency medicine, etc, until finally I got us to the level(er) highway far down below where there were gas stations and fast food franchises. "Would you like me to take over?" M- said. "Yes," I said. "Please. And help me pry my fingers off the steering wheel."
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| Re: New Thing [message #49725 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Fri, 11 May 2012 22:12 |
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Don't stop there! What DOES K stand for? Kareen? Kiss? Koala? Kaiulani?
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| Re: New Thing [message #49727 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Fri, 11 May 2012 23:36 |
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Yay! More New Thing! I hope the meatloaf is good in that diner. I hope the rosebush survives (not just the night, but forever.)
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| Re: New Thing [message #49742 is a reply to message #49681 ] |
Sun, 13 May 2012 00:03 |
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| EMoon wrote on Tue, 08 May 2012 22:17 |
Are we going to find out what flavor of rose? Though I'm relieved that the T-shirts and underwear appeared. I once helped a friend drive from central Texas to Salt Lake City in a hugely overloaded 3/4 ton van with bald tires, along with a large dog who belonged in a Disney movie and two cats, who belonged...wait, there are cat lovers here. Sorry.
After the first blowout, and realizing how bald the tires were (just short of Durango, Colorado, and it was alternating light snow and very cold rain--that's also when we found that M-'s father in law had moved the jack and other tools from where we'd put them--handy to the front--and buried them "somewhere") we had a very wet trip across the desert with water, water everywhere, and no place to stop and let the dog out (especially not a long-haired, shaggy dog.)
Then we had to cross the last range of mountains. I was the driver for mountain sections. It was raining at the bottom of the mountain. Higher up..."It's snowing," said M-. "No," I said firmly, thinking of the hard-boiled-egg slickness of the tires. "It's just cold rain." A little later, "It IS snowing, E. The ground's turning white." "M-," I said, very quietly, "I am from South Texas where it does not snow. I am driving an overloaded van on bald tires on switchbacks. I do not wish to consider snow. White paper is falling past the windshield and onto the ground, and it will be white paper until I am over this [unmentionable] mountain and safely down to level highway on the other side. Got that?" "But--" "It's not snowing, M-," I said, still very calmly. "Or we're going to slide right over that edge there. Take your pick." "White paper," said M-. "Right," I said. "Good choice." Long silence ensued. When it was clearly just rain again, we returned to light topics such as politics, law, emergency medicine, etc, until finally I got us to the level(er) highway far down below where there were gas stations and fast food franchises. "Would you like me to take over?" M- said. "Yes," I said. "Please. And help me pry my fingers off the steering wheel."
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I had a similar conversation with my roommate from Hawaii one winter. We were driving over a mountain pass and she was the one at the wheel. "Oh look, it's snow!" I said enthusiastically. Her grip tightened a bit, and she said emphatically, "No, that's not snow. I can't drive in snow. It's rain." "But..." "It's RAIN."
I waited a few minutes and said, "That rain is awfully white and flaky." She glared at me, but I had the sense to keep my mouth shut after that until we were safely over the pass. (At least our tires weren't bald, and it was a good road.)
"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"
-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")
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| Re: New Thing [message #49792 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Tue, 15 May 2012 21:24 |
libby.gorman
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I so needed that tonight. THANK YOU!!!
Also, I will wait for anything you want to write. Readers who "forget about" their favorite authors must not have really engaged the books to begin with.
Libby
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| Re: New Thing [message #49796 is a reply to message #49742 ] |
Wed, 16 May 2012 03:02 |
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| danceswithpahis wrote on Sat, 12 May 2012 21:03 |
| EMoon wrote on Tue, 08 May 2012 22:17 |
"I am from South Texas where it does not snow. I am driving an overloaded van on bald tires on switchbacks. I do not wish to consider snow. White paper is falling past the windshield and onto the ground, and it will be white paper until I am over this [unmentionable] mountain and safely down to level highway on the other side. Got that?"
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I had a similar conversation with my roommate from Hawaii one winter. We were driving over a mountain pass and she was the one at the wheel. "Oh look, it's snow!" I said enthusiastically. Her grip tightened a bit, and she said emphatically, "No, that's not snow. I can't drive in snow. It's rain." "But..." "It's RAIN."
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This reminds me of my friend in university who hated to get wet. When it rained, she would say, frequently and with emphasis, "it is not raining, and therefore I cannot get wet."
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My first thought on the alternate names for Kes was "snail kite" lol. I love the name  Of course, American kestrels are one of my favorite birds... (have yet to make a decision on the kind they have here, since I haven't met any yet)
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| Re: New Thing [message #49797 is a reply to message #49742 ] |
Wed, 16 May 2012 06:24 |
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| danceswithpahis wrote on Sun, 13 May 2012 05:03 |
| EMoon wrote on Tue, 08 May 2012 22:17 |
Are we going to find out what flavor of rose? Though I'm relieved that the T-shirts and underwear appeared. I once helped a friend drive from central Texas to Salt Lake City in a hugely overloaded 3/4 ton van with bald tires, along with a large dog who belonged in a Disney movie and two cats, who belonged...wait, there are cat lovers here. Sorry.
After the first blowout, and realizing how bald the tires were (just short of Durango, Colorado, and it was alternating light snow and very cold rain--that's also when we found that M-'s father in law had moved the jack and other tools from where we'd put them--handy to the front--and buried them "somewhere") we had a very wet trip across the desert with water, water everywhere, and no place to stop and let the dog out (especially not a long-haired, shaggy dog.)
Then we had to cross the last range of mountains. I was the driver for mountain sections. It was raining at the bottom of the mountain. Higher up..."It's snowing," said M-. "No," I said firmly, thinking of the hard-boiled-egg slickness of the tires. "It's just cold rain." A little later, "It IS snowing, E. The ground's turning white." "M-," I said, very quietly, "I am from South Texas where it does not snow. I am driving an overloaded van on bald tires on switchbacks. I do not wish to consider snow. White paper is falling past the windshield and onto the ground, and it will be white paper until I am over this [unmentionable] mountain and safely down to level highway on the other side. Got that?" "But--" "It's not snowing, M-," I said, still very calmly. "Or we're going to slide right over that edge there. Take your pick." "White paper," said M-. "Right," I said. "Good choice." Long silence ensued. When it was clearly just rain again, we returned to light topics such as politics, law, emergency medicine, etc, until finally I got us to the level(er) highway far down below where there were gas stations and fast food franchises. "Would you like me to take over?" M- said. "Yes," I said. "Please. And help me pry my fingers off the steering wheel."
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I had a similar conversation with my roommate from Hawaii one winter. We were driving over a mountain pass and she was the one at the wheel. "Oh look, it's snow!" I said enthusiastically. Her grip tightened a bit, and she said emphatically, "No, that's not snow. I can't drive in snow. It's rain." "But..." "It's RAIN."
I waited a few minutes and said, "That rain is awfully white and flaky." She glared at me, but I had the sense to keep my mouth shut after that until we were safely over the pass. (At least our tires weren't bald, and it was a good road.)
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Hey, they have snow on the Big Island of Hawaii... My family drove through winding mountains roads of Colorado in a 45' RV (Legally, it can only be 45'... good thing the DMV doesn't measure these things). Yeah, we kept joking about my mom practicing her vowels:
Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeooooooouuuuuuuuu.....
Good times.
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| Re: New Thing [message #49804 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Wed, 16 May 2012 15:57 |
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Kestrel eh? Pretty odd name, but could have been a lot worse (eg something along the lines of Bliss or Desire (but beginning with K obviously)). Glad to see our heroine nevertheless has the gumption to publish under her own name in spite of her reservations about it. I am thoroughly enjoying this by the way. So glad you decided to do this.
[Updated on: Thu, 17 May 2012 19:28]
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| Re: New Thing [message #49886 is a reply to message #49804 ] |
Sun, 20 May 2012 00:54 |
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| Mockorange wrote on Wed, 16 May 2012 12:57 |
Kestrel eh? Pretty odd name, but could have been a lot worse (eg something along the lines of Bliss or Desire (but beginning with K obviously)).
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You mean like, 'Kissy'? 'Kasandra'? I wonder what other 'K' names we could come up with? An opportunity has been missed.
(I think I'd rather read about Kestrel, however.)
FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/
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| Re: New Thing [message #49888 is a reply to message #49886 ] |
Sun, 20 May 2012 01:28 |
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| rainycity1 wrote on Sun, 20 May 2012 00:54 |
| Mockorange wrote on Wed, 16 May 2012 12:57 |
Kestrel eh? Pretty odd name, but could have been a lot worse (eg something along the lines of Bliss or Desire (but beginning with K obviously)).
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You mean like, 'Kissy'? 'Kasandra'? I wonder what other 'K' names we could come up with? An opportunity has been missed.
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You mean, what other odd names could Kes's mother have come up with? *g*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: New Thing [message #49921 is a reply to message #49910 ] |
Mon, 21 May 2012 14:47 |
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| KatydidNL wrote on Mon, 21 May 2012 03:33 |
I find myself wondering how writing this compares, stress-level and/or fun-wise, to your "regular" output?
Still enjoying every word. Am hoping this will be a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG serialization.
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I have been pondering a similar, or perhaps inverted, issue. If the blog is intended as an adjunct to the career as a writer one would hope that it is less work than the, to be published commercially, fiction. We don't know how the effort of writing enough Days in the Life material compares to the the effort of writing enough of Shadows since the excerpts that have been posted are presumably "free" in the sense that they had to be written anyway. In contrast, unless the point to the exercise is just the variety, the presumption is that enough Kes is less effort than enough Days in the Life*. For those of us who only do expository writing (and most of that for compilers rather than people) the idea that creative work of the sort represented by Kes might be regarded as "less effort" comes as something of shock.
I originally typoed Days in the Lift which sounds a little more angst ridden.
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| Re: New Thing [message #49967 is a reply to message #49594 ] |
Wed, 23 May 2012 23:21 |
EMoon
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Sort of panting "Yes, yes, yes...oh, yes..." and now inclined to say "More, please" and hold up my tiny little bowl.
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| Re: New Thing -- KES [message #50007 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Sat, 26 May 2012 23:19 |
EMoon
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Oh, goody, goody, goody! More New Thing! (Cradles it to her chest and...well, not just reads it in a hurry.)
Having moved to a small town (much smaller than I'd been in before--about 650 people after we moved here) and arrived alone...I am enjoying Kes's reaction. (Though I'd been there once before so was already in the house at the end of the road on the first night. Alone. Slept on my sleeping bag on the floor. Discovered the next morning that there'd been a murder in the night--the first in 40-something years--but it wasn't me, so...)
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