I'm here to work on fiction. Occasionally I'll blog but that's certainly not my focus. You have a specific fiction genre or format you can't find enough of? Ask me. Maybe I got it. I migh share it with you. Otherwise, leave me alone; I'm toiling away at my workbench.
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Paddling upstream might get you where you want to go. Drifting downstream will get you wherever the river wants to take you.
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It’s official: I now have more things needing cleaning, repair, replacement, recycling, repurposing, adjustment, assembly, disassembly, trashing, and/or transport than things that don’t.
Retired career IT software engineer, or as we were called in the old days, programmer, it's time to empty my file cabinet of all the "creative" writing accumulated over the years - toss most of it, salvage and publish what is worthwhile. View more posts
Ramblings
I’ve always said that it’s rewarding to try to make one’s way against the current. Good show my friend. Have a great Middle of the Week!
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Still something to be said for a careless drift now and again. Do well this (Valencian) mid-week.
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Cannot argue with that, I agree. Thank you and you too, all the best!
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You’re a poet; I know it.
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Nope, I show it. Zooks, man, I don’t even have a poemeticist’s heart or sole [chuckle]. Some say I don’t even have a heart. No one calling bets on “soul” accounta no one really for sure understands what a soul is.
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I tend to bare my soles in my sleep
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To the sheep?
Keep at this, gonna have to start a sub-blog on proper word mis-use.
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I enjoy these potted philosophies.
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And mostly done cold sober. Thanks for poking at me.
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An incredibly simple and incredibly profound metaphor for life: “Paddling upstream might get you where you want to go. Drifting downstream will get you wherever the river wants to take you.” I feel an elaboration brewing in my head that will become a blog post in “Growing Up Boomer” for no apparent reason.
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Supah! Looking forward to it. And now I can roll up my tent, saddle the camel (it’s a rental), and steal away into the desert night, having inspired one someone to something. Do well, Jeff.
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Sort of a Portable Curmudgeon feel to your blog today.
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Clever sobriquet. Not quite sure I grasp the full meaning. Perhaps a new blog title? Wait until tomorrow. If I can manufacture sufficient warnings I open myself to a barrage of snipers, trolls, and POPs [Pissed-off people] aiming for my jugular. OR. I’ll miss a post, resigning the one intended to the “do not post” post pile. Would be a shame as of late, the subject matter my “reader” keeps tossing at me suggests yet another post of the same philosophic vein sure to rankle many collars. What do I care? With a readership of five, it can’t be that bad. Thanks for dropping by and chatting.
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No problem! The Portable Curmudgeon series of books were collections of short but sharp sayings like you provided here.
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Oh. Take a mess of those snippets to mad a book or a pamphlet even.
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