Category: musings
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SF Gizmos & Gadgets
welcome to the future Or, all the futuristic stuff I’ve always dreamed of owning. And who hasn’t dreamed of owning items we see in a movie, or on TV. I remember my friend Linda and I desperately wanting to join the USS Enterprise so we could each have a phaser, not realising till much later…
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The 5 Ws
As I didn’t have a post for today, I thought I would do something book related! And, of course, if you would like to do your own version of this, steal away. WHO — Name an author you would love to have a ‘One to One’ with. It would have to be Louise Penny. I…
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Writers verses Editors
What the writer says, and what the editor thinks: This is just a Beta Release — It’s haemorrhaging errors I fixed chapter 23 — the remaining 72 chapters are, however, crap I’ll just kill off this character — procrastinating, has no idea how to proceed And a time machine appeared in the middle of the…
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Wake Up Time
I enjoyed reading Herman’s blog post this morning talking about how he became A Day Person1. Which, of course, got me thinking about what kind of person I am. I’ve never been a night owl like my OH who, if given a chance, often stays up till 1 or 2 am. Me? I’m ready for…
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Beyond the Veil …
It’s raining. A soft drizzle. Gentle in its insistence. Coming straight down. It’s been raining since the wee small hours. I awoke at around 1:30 am this morning to hear its soft plink plink against the window. There was something rhythmic in its random symphony. So subtle it lulled me quietly back to sleep only…
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By Moon Light Lit
As a huge fan of all things space, and as someone who’s followed everything NASA has done since day one (yes, I am that old) I just had to up my game with my desktop image and went with what seems to be a popular choice among aficionados, Earth as shot as seen from the…
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AMA #4
Today I thought to answer a few questions asked for the AMA challenge. What’s your comfort movie/show/piece of media, and – if you feel like sharing – why? This one is easy. My go to comfort movie is The Fifth Element. I have lost count the number of times I have watched this movie, as…
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Being Certified ‘Cool’
I swear I need to go back to night school to take a certificate in Fridge Operating procedures as, even after 40 plus years, I still have problems. Despite having a temperature gauge inside the fridge, I never know if the interior is cold enough or not. As by the time I manage to wrangle…
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By Candle Light
Can someone please explain to me what happened to lightbulbs. When did we go from having cheap incandescent bulbs that fuelled our winter-nights with light to read by, to mercury-filled, evil planet-polluting $6 spotlights which, while they are supposed to last several times longer, don’t? I ask because yet another bulb plinked out of existence…
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Time is what you make of it.
Time, and indeed, life is what you make of it, as Lou Plummer states in his post, Time Is What You Make Of It. And, like Lou, after having to retire early because of a traumatic event in my life, I found myself on the precipice of a dark place. But even then, faced with…