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What a week. Thank goodness for the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)! The end of the week this week, was social interaction equivalent of putting barbells in a clothes dryer. Messy, mission accomplished, loud and… did I mention messy?
So I was trying to communicate with Abbie and Kerry and Zoe and Val last night, and was, pretty much on the whole, un-successful. I had no internet. I am glad that I do now have internet. (1)
We ‘talked’ about, or rather, Abbie had a simple and reasonable question/observation, which was to the effect that she might, on this particular week, have difficulty finding the 10 grat items. (Typist’s Note: she may very well have changed her mind on that and written a standard 10 items, however, I’m writing this a day later (than that ‘conversation’ and have not, as of yet, gone to read anyone’s TToT. At the risk of inappropriateness, I like to write before reading other posts). Hey, I’m comfortable with that! (2)
In any event, no sooner did I hear a question (or, imagined hearing a question) regarding the requirement for 10 Items in every TToT post, than I was busily typing… ‘Booke of SRect RUles’!!! (did I mention that I was touch-typing on my tablet?) That being said, sure glad I had it or I would have spent the entire evening in the Un-cabled Country. (3)
I did communicate enough vowels and Capital letters so that Val was able to come to my rescue and wrote on the chat, ‘the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) and even made a suggestion of a possible SR that might be applicable in Abbie’s current situation. (4)
Snowed, by Jesus, really snowed yesterday. Imagine we got nigh onto 6 inches. (5) (damn! totally forgot to mention to A and to Kerry, who was also at the type-chat, that Items of Hypogratitude are allowable, when properly contexted!
6) Una enjoyed the snow. But then again, Una enjoys everything. Except maybe annual trips to the vet. Now Ola was a total power of example for me in this regard. She, like Una, did not enjoy going to the vet. However, once we arrived and got out of the car, she would drag us towards the building. Accepting the visit as inevitable and despite feeling fear, she chose to charge, rather than run away. (7)
8) Graviteers who stand up to the center of any and all significant masses (those of a planetary scale. of course) and, cameras in hand, laugh!
9) Blogdominion. Chapter 17 is sitting right here, in 2nd draft. Hey!! Any one wants to suggest plot vectors, let me know. In Chapter 17: Maribeth and Margaret take some time to themselves, minus semi-boyfriends and interesting attorneys and compare notes, it’s Criminology meets Demonology… well, maybe. Diane Willoughby has lived the best life she’s been able to and raised a fine and pretty much happy family, but now she needs to know more about a chapter in the life of her husband, a chapter that she fears may threaten everything she’s worked to accomplish! And, speaking of lives and families raised, (or hopefully!) Cheri Fearing needs to know what’s behind the change in her husband Tom’s outlook on life, an outlook that finally took a strong turn towards the positive, with his success as a blog writer, but there’s been a change, not so positive, made worse but it’s familiarity. Read all about it tomorrow!
10) Probably the first identified, SR. 1.3 allows that the completion of a list is, in fact, an Item of Gratitude and therefore may be applied as an Item on said grat list.
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isnt SBOR/BOSR rule #45.6 subsection d the one that says if valiant attempts are made at internet vid chat communication despite level of success the attemptee is granted immunity from tardiness to the subsequent TToT? I think it was that one or maybe it was #56.4…damned dyslexia.
pree…cisely!
lol… (one of my favorite jokes, ‘sorry, but I’m just a little lysdexic’)
Getting internet back is 10 right there. No dance required.
true dat
Type chat! Cool. Glad you guys adapted to the loss of internet.
Treehouse covered in snow….
Blogdominion. Really enjoying it. Look forward to Chapter 17.
“Well, a lifeform’s gotta do, what a lifeforms gotta do!”
lol
Interesting plan when faced with a medical visit. I learned from an early age, sick a lot, that this got things, even painful or frightening things over quicker than fighting them.
:-)
Anyway…wasn’t Friday night’s contact made with us all made so much more enjoyable/challenging by the fight technology put up?
Well, okay, but at least we all gave it our best shot, right?
Hopefully things will return to their regularly scheduled programming for next time.
yes we did. and I can’t wait to get back to the normal video with audio vidchats
Sorry to have missed vchat but we were at Sarah’s PARTY and Denise was there too! And Lizzi, all the way from Jolly Old England! Oh you knew that already. Glad you got your internet back and that no dogs required chasing. BTW, we still have snow from Jonas. It’s getting gross. And I never read other people’s posts before writing mine either. Too much in my head-ness, ya know?
very much so, it’s like that with most of my (attempts) at writing, my frame of mind is what must change, not the surrounding environment of people, places and things. but yeah, lets do an old fashion vidchat this Friday again!
Barbells in the dryer? There’s an interesting visual–or should I say, audio?
I’m enjoying the gravity challenge, and blogdominion.
thank you…. the GC because… well because each of our triumphs are all of our triumphs
the Blogdominion because it’s been very satisfying.
Ohhh but a crappy internet connection when you’re trying to be with people there is absolutely the most VERY frustrating of all frustratings, and I’m glad you had Val on hand to convey the necessary. I hope next week will be better (as you’ll have Denise and Sarah back from the party, and Kristi and I in ONE PLACE)
Ola – an example for life, forsure. I must charge at things more often :)
yeah, she would do relate herself to the world around her in ways that I’m still trying to comprehend.
Barbells in a drier. That’s how my week is starting and all my intentions of eating healthy. Ugh. I am failing. See you Friday! I will be there.
cool