Oi Clod!!
Wtf is up with your sig line? please explain? (said in my best Pauline Hanson voice)
It's... a goal, for now. One which can't be accomplished while I'm on the cellar, so I'm hoping that seeing it every time I log in (and trying to be able to update it each time, but I'm being less stringent on that one because hey, let's be realistic) will help me get there. It will hopefully hit zero by, say, the end of the year. I've lost motivation before, so I don't want to jinx it, but I promise I'll talk about it if I ever get there. :)
Interesting.
What would be a desirable goal that can be measured like this, that starts at 38k and moves to zero in half a year, and can't be accomplished while on the cellar?
Debt reduction? Worthy goal, right direction, fair timeframe, but that number seems high (for my tax bracket)...
Number of laps around the block for exercise? That's 38k per 6 months, approx 7k laps per month, 1400 laps per week, 100 laps per day...seems high. Probably not laps.
Net calorie loss? 3500 calories in a pound of flab, trying to lose 11 pounds? Right scale, right direction, pretty reasonable rate. Strange unit of measure though, too precise.
* pauses head scratching *
The sig changes globally when you change it. There is no record of it in earlier posts. When it becomes 37,873 from the current 37,874, it will only look like 37,873. We'll never know what it ever was before that. The sig is a very ephemeral recording medium.
Number of paper cranes she has left to fold?
good one. Tink and I once "volunteered" to make some money for an organization to which we belonged by stuffing envelopes. What. A. Major. Pain. In. The. Ass. Never again. A quarter an envelope is not enough. A buck an envelope, maybe. It looked like easy money, but we wound up doing all the work, and no one else in the group helped. We felt like the little red hen, and then we gave away all our bread. Never again.
I've done yard sales for charities before, and it's so much work for so little money, It would be better if everyone who helped out at those things just donate $50 and keep their Saturday. The money raised would be the same.
Envelope stuffing sounds just as bad.
My number is more like 361. Ceramic tiles left to hang on the wall in the bathtub surround re-tile. Maybe this weekend. Either that or a hike.
My theory about garage sales:
Some people do it to get more money.
Some people do it to get more space.
Those two values are inversely proportional.
My dad sold advertising space when I was younger, many saturdays were spent helping him in the office stuff envelopes. Rate cards, fact sheets, etc. I think he gave me the extraordinary sum of .05 per envelope. In the mid 60's that was a lot. Anyway, I'd stuff tousands of envelopes. In the years I did that I must have moved a small warehouse of paper.
Now a days outgoing mail sits on my desk till a day or two after the last possible minute, but I did develop an unequalled tolerance for boredom, at the price of an intolerance for repetition.
countdown to the Apocalypse?
Number of sittups before she gets her awesome sixpack abs back.
200 situps / day until new year's... interesting. That's a lot of damn situps. 15/hr while waking... perhaps that's the wrong grouping. 100 in the morning, 100 before bed. I'd never get out of bed. Well, not after two days anyway.
She's cleaning e-mails out of her inbox
holy moly... good guess. why bother to take half a year with that though? volume fits, precision fits, direction fits, cellar fits. timeframe doesn't fit as well...
My theory about garage sales:
Some people do it to get more money.
Some people do it to get more space.
Those two values are inversely proportional.
Absolutely! The last garage sale we had included a baby swing. It started the day at $5 and was reduced to $3 around lunchtime. At 3:00, when we were theoretically shutting down, a woman who was already buying some other stuff was waffling about the swing. I told her it was hers for a dollar. She seemed genuinely surprised, and asked why I'd sell it for that little. I said, look, my youngest kid is 8. I need this thing out of my basement more than I need five dollars. She still looked suspicious (but she bought it anyway).
If it helps confuse the issue further, it didn't start at ~38,000. It started at ~80,000, four years ago. :)
SD: At some point, it costs less to pay her to take it away. You would pay to have the dump accept it. $1 is a steal! For you! But that "logic" doesn't operate in a linear way--less cost==more value. I doubt the woman struggled financially over the additional dollar, but the low price probably helped reduce the value of the chair in her mind. "If it costs a lot, there's probably a reason for it. And vice versa."
Clodfobble: Yes, that adds nicely to the confusion. Yours isn't moving linearly either. I like puzzles, but I'm certain I don't have enough to solve this one without a lucky guess.
Freecycle is a great way to get rid of crap fast. People are addicted to it, and they will snap stuff up just because they want to "win" it first. Although we did have a heck of a time getting rid of the "
Light in the Piazza" cd.
I was sidetracked reading my wikipedia link for "Light in the Piazza" and missed UT's post.
Holy cow. I'd heard of that book a while ago, but never knew it was real. And Amazon has it!
and here I thought I was the Amazon Queen . . . I'll relinquish the title . . . long live Queen Undertoad!
my guess
But! (no pun intended.... )
There's no reason that can't be done while on the cellar, so, disqualified.
funny tho!
SCF !!! on the reviews. You have been warned.
I'm constricting right now!!!
Ah one...... and out
Ah two...... and out
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99,998[/COLOR]
It's certainly cheaper than Effexor.
I would worry, however, about getting exactly to (but not over) 100.
Freecycle is a great way to get rid of crap fast. People are addicted to it, and they will snap stuff up just because they want to "win" it first.
Oh man, Freecycle has saved me hundreds of dollars in dump fees. I have gotten rid of rotted fencing, big piles of rocks, old stained carpeting, and more general construction debris than you could possibly imagine. The best part is when these people (women, 99% of the time) would tell me what they were going to build with my hazardous materials--doghouses, bookcases, a new "patio" in the back... it's sad, because I really think with some of them it borders on a mental illness, this inability to pass up a "bargain." But not sad enough to make me refuse to give it to them.
Time for an anally-themed intermission joke.
CF goes to her doc complaining of anal charley horse as a result of her new anti-depression regimen. He prescribes her 21 suppositories and (you can stop here if you know this joke) and tells her to one 3x per day for a week.
She gets home and shows Mr. CF the pills. "Jeez, CF, those are massive. Maybe if you break them up they'll be easier to swallow."
"Good Idea! I'll try it."
So a week later she is back at her doc's and he asks her if she took all the medication.
"Doc, I did, but for all the good it did me I might as well have stuck them up my ass."
We now return you to our regularly scheduled speculation and thread drift.
you'll notice she has not deigned to solve the mystery
It's like those people who tell everyone they know they're officially going to quit smoking... and then three weeks later they're back outside the building on their breaks. I appreciate generic support, but there's sadly a very real chance I'll lose my motivation again, and I don't want to be "that guy," you know? It's like fishing for compliments, but with moral support instead.
Perhaps.
But, jeeze... you're more than halfway there. Um. what?... one step at a time? one case at a time? 37,713 bottles of beer on the wall, 37,713 bottles of beeeeeer! Well. What can I do.
Here are eight and a half million for you.Whatever it is Clod, you can do it! Go, Clodfobble!
[SIZE="1"]How was that?[/SIZE]
Sorry Clod, I didnt mean to bring it out in the open :o I thought it was something that I missed.
You can do it!! [/rob schneider]
Dollars they still owe on the mortgage?
For their car? Number of roaches left to squash?
C'mon, tell us!
You'll never do it you slacker, moral support troller.
I can see the number getting higher already.
Sorry Clod, I didnt mean to bring it out in the open I thought it was something that I missed.
No no, it's totally fine, I did start randomly putting vague things on the board after all. :)
college loan?
maybe its just
that ive been looking
at schools for a week now
and thats all i have on my mind
(and i must confess i don't know your age)
but for a state school, mayhaps, 80000 in debt
may sound almost right, and now, slowly, you try
to rid yourself of it all, and have already reached halfway?
nah.
Dude, if I could come up with $37,000 in six months, I wouldn't be eating mac'n'cheese for dinner all the damn time.
Don't give it up, Clod... make 'em wait. :thumb:
Don't give it up . . . make 'em wait. :thumb:
Is that what you tell all the women?
But who would count eternity in days?
(These old bones live to learn her wanton ways.)
If you don't know concentration which gives you peculiar pleasure, your life looks like a hell.
He knows me so well.
Must be one heck of a jigsaw puzzle that Clod is working on!
Yeah, one that says "from 4 to 6 years":p
Whatever it is, it's something easy to count. Like computer files, and not like weeds left to pull in the front yard, otherwise it wouldn't be updated with precision so easily.
I've got $10 that says she will be finished on November 2nd, if she spends less time here.
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this mystery is killing bigV, it would seem.
oh, what is the 1-20-09 in your sig, big?
Ooh, I know that one. It's inauguration day. :)
Well, add one to my total.
I can't bear to be shown up.
I wonder if it's nappies left to change.
Perhaps she slacks off some days because she's in the Cellar and lets the boys run commando.
[COLOR="Silver"](Disclaimer - I am sure Clod is a marvellous mother and would never put internet entertainment before the needs of her family. Unless its the one day a year when tw is really funny)[/COLOR]
It's funny you mention that--just yesterday we had yet another incident of Minifob shoving his hands down in his diaper and smearing poop all over his shirt, face, and hair. There were two upsides, though: none got on the carpet this time, and he came running to me very upset about the whole thing, so at least we know he was trying to get it off his hands rather than doing it for fun.
I think it is the number of dollars she is working off her phone sex bill from a few years ago.
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this mystery is killing bigV, it would seem.
oh, what is the 1-20-09 in your sig, big?
Ooh, I know that one. It's inauguration day. :)
Bingo.
lj: Not killing me, interesting me. I like puzzles. It's something that is measurable, and according to the other clues given in Clodfobble's initial explanation, something that can be known. Maybe with the information available here, maybe not. I'm just paying attention.
The most interesting parts of my professional life are like this in many respects. There is a set of circumstances, some history, and some goal. Figure it out. Why is the exchange server crashing? Why can't I see the contents of the Q: drive? Please grant D read only access to xyz directory.
Here's what I want. Here's what I've got. Close the gap. It's a stimulating mental exercise, that's all. It has not come close to the "it's killing me mystery" stage. Yet. Those exist for me, but they're uncommon. The most frequently asked and most frequently unanswered question is "Why (fill in unrepeatable computer behavior here)?" Why ask why? Because. I don't know. Do you care, now that it's up and running? These are all answers I've used to salve the itch of not knowing when I *can't* know.
She's been watching Battlestar Galactica on DVD, and that the number of humans left alive in the fleet on her latest episode viewed.
my guess, debit. I love a good guessing game.
She's been watching Battlestar Galactica on DVD, and that the number of humans left alive in the fleet on her latest episode viewed.
:lol: Yes, and if the human race isn't extinct by December, I'll be very disappointed.
One more thing, lj. When Clodfobble marks her progress in her sig, we are only able to see the present value. When I make posts of that value, we're able to see a progression with the value and a time date stamp. I haven't been very diligent in my tracking of these changes, but as more data points are recorded, the chances of detecting a pattern increase. At least, that is my hope.
Can you make a chart that will push updates to my iPod Touch automatically?
No.
My MSAccess<-->iPod connector is not out of beta yet.
34,038
first one that doesn't end in "4"
That's coincidence. But it's funny, because now it's back to ending in 4 again.
In the beginning I thought maybe this was a rolldown of personal debt. If it is I want to learn from you Clodfobble, cuz yer doin it fast.
At this rate you'll be down to zero by the end of October.
Yeah, but rates aren't so useful when you don't have a lot of data points. Miss just one day at this point, and it adds like two weeks to the projected schedule. Can't get cocky.
I've accounted for such variances by modeling the data as a stochastic oscillator.
I expect you to miss 3.7 days completely, and to have another 7.12 days of negative progress.
number of paid hours or minets until yer job goes away Clodd ??
I've accounted for such variances by modeling the data as a stochastic oscillator.
I bet the ladies love it when you talk dirty to them like this.
snip--
Net calorie loss? 3500 calories in a pound of flab, trying to lose 11 pounds? Right scale, right direction, pretty reasonable rate. Strange unit of measure though, too precise.
--snip
calories burned?
Maybe.
I bet the ladies love it when you talk dirty to them like this.
Or
this.
Oh here, y'all are making me feel bad...
Whatever it is, it's something easy to count. Like computer files, and not like weeds left to pull in the front yard, otherwise it wouldn't be updated with precision so easily.
it's distinct sounds she is learning to make with her mouth so she can sound like a walking video game.
I'm sure it has something to do with sound files, that's her bag, baby. [/austin]
And / or I once had a job where I had to input data from paper forms into the computer into some sort of data base. Kind of like stuffing envelopes, as a matter of fact. (I miss my dad tonight, shitty envelopes and all)
So I think Clod has to process some sort of file in real time which would mean sound or video to me, (a single image you can see all at once) it could be words, but I don't think Clod would stoop to data entry, she's actually a nerdy brainiac trapped in the body of a nascent soccermom.
But I digress.
you say that like it's a bad thing. trust me, there are worse things to be stuck in than a soccermom.
er... nevermind.
Oh here, y'all are making me feel bad...
Fuck 'em, they brought it on themselves, the busybodies. :thumb:
Oh here, y'all are making me feel bad...
I apologize. I intended no distress, and I regret that I made you feel bad. I'm sorry.
:lol: I meant feel bad for you guys, not genuinely bad. It's like a puppy who can't figure out where the hidden toy is.
Maybe in another ten posts or so, someone will ask again if it's money... ;)
M&M's in the jar on your counter?
33,571 today. No progress.
No progress. Clodflobble is slacking off. Slacker!
Yeah, it just wasn't going to happen yesterday. I took Minifob to play at a friend's house, and then I spent naptime prepping dinner, [size=1]and then I got on the cellar for awhile[/size], and nothing ever gets done between 5:00 and 9:00 that's not directly kid-related, and then I had to go do a recording after the kids were asleep.
Excuses, excuses. But I got a little done this morning!
Pictures stored on various disks and harddrives that she has to sort through.
Pictures stored on various disks and harddrives that she has to sort through.
If it were various drives there would be some work involved in calculating the running total.
I think it's something that can be done at the rate of a few hundred an hour. Like shots of tequila.
amount of disk space used saving stuff?
being reduced as she deletes items? Maybe.
But why would she need to slowly review each item as opposed to just closing her eyes and hitting "format?"
amount of disk space used saving stuff?
being reduced as she deletes items? Maybe.
but
It's... a goal... It will hopefully hit zero.
If I was cleaning out my hard drive, it would never hit zero. I'd just be removing junk until I only had good stuff left, and I wouldn't know how much junk I had until I reviewed it all.
It's been a little over ten posts, is it money?
ah, heck I can spend my way to zero faster than that if it's money!;)
She's plucking the hairs on her legs rather than shaving. that's why the project increases disproportionately if she misses a few days. oh and minifob is doing the counting and he like numbers endiing with 4.
Moments so dear?
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
28,011
Sorry I missed a few.
pimples on mr clod's back?
Still on track for mid-October finish.
I'll put $100 in the tip mug if she's down to 0 by October 16th. Anyone else?
I'm in for a hundred on that action HLJ.
Holy shit! Now if I don't make it, I'll feel terrible that I effectively screwed Tony out of $200. Thanks, guys. Better get back to work. :rolleyes:
I'm playin with the big boys now!
I'll tip $100 if she finishes by 30 Aug.
I'll tip $50 if she finishes by 15 Sep.
I'll tip $25 if she finishes by 30 Sep.
I'll be be back on my regular schedule beyond that.
I have an additional condition: I want to know what's been counted, including a reasonable explanation.
Great.
<strike>I've</strike> We've just driven CF out of the cellar for a month. There goes the neighborhood.
As additional motivation if she doesn't finish by October 15th, I'll do my best to get everyone looking for that picture of Clodfobble peeing on the floor of the liquor store again.
Wait! no, don't start looking yet!;)
[size=1]Ahem... just for the lurkers out there, it wasn't actually me in the picture...[/size]
Which you would say, regardless.
nice attempt at damage control Clodfobble.
If you don't have bladder control, damage control is the next best thing...
doesn't this strike anyone else as stalking behaviour?.....:bolt:
I tell you tomorrow..... ;)
doesn't this strike anyone else as stalking behaviour?.....:bolt:
You say that like it's a bad thing...
(Crossover to Word Out of Context... do you pronounce the "L"???
She's knitting something, no doubt baby related and these represent knits or purls or whatever they are called.
What do I win?
doesn't this strike anyone else as stalking behaviour?.....:bolt:
You'd think she was in heat, or something.:rolleyes:
you say that like it's a bad thing. trust me, there are worse things to be stuck in than a soccermom.
er... nevermind.
I hope I don't have to wait until the inch starts soccer:eek:
You say that like it's a bad thing...
(Crossover to Word Out of Context... do you pronounce the "L"???
no, of course not!
btw, of course I now know the answer and will be auctioning it on ebay....... :p
Big V - I'll do it.
19,301
Whatever it is, her pace has increased significantly (581 per day recently).
I think we're motivating.
Big V - I'll do it.
19,301
Whatever it is, her pace has increased significantly (581 per day recently).
I think we're motivating.
I'll take the credit for that, thank you very much..... :lol:
It probably has something to do with her requirement for less than 10MB.
at 581 she's a solid month away from being done
Yabbut I've had a run of good days. Sometimes there are stretches of 2-3 days where I get nothing done...
OH OH I got it! she's writing a bodice ripper and she's getting paid by the word.
Write faster Clod! you need more than 500 words a day! You'll starve in some garret, please more adjectives!!!
OH OH I got it! she's writing a bodice ripper
Maybe she's
inventing a bodice ripper... you know, a tool.. sort of like the jaws of life... for when you can't get that bodice open fast enough by hand. The count represents the number of transistors she needs to fabricate onto integrated circuits to get it down to a marketable size.
717.
She's up to something.
SHENANIGANS!
Wait, what? :confused:
[size=1]...Up to less drinking than some others I could name, that's fer sure... [/size]
I'm not actually drinking as much as I'd like, since every day is a school/work day... But a boy can dream can't he?
I'm playin with the big boys now!
I'll tip $100 if she finishes by 30 Aug.
I'll tip $50 if she finishes by 15 Sep.
I'll tip $25 if she finishes by 30 Sep.
I'll be be back on my regular schedule beyond that.
I have an additional condition: I want to know what's been counted, including a reasonable explanation.
16,221 on August 25.
Looks like the $100 is safe.
Probably the $50 also.
There's still $250 available for a 30-Sept finish.
I hope she is finished by Sept 30 AND doesn't tell what she was doing.:lol2:
It's kegels, did someone already guess that?
That's a marvelous guess, and if you get first prize with it
I claim second prizeThat's a marvelous guess, and if you get first prize with it I claim second prize
"Besides shooting out a big blank from your buttock, you can feel as if your root chakra leaked sweet hot mucus."
Alright, the unvarnished truth is, and I'm sure Clod wouldn't want me telling everyone, but I do know, is that those represent hours of community service she's been sentenced to perform because of an unfortunate incident in the parking lot of Target.
There are you all happy now? She feels like shit about the whole thing and you all are just rubbing salt in the wound.
Sorry, Clod, I just had to spill.
That's okay, foot. I'm just glad there are 500 hours in a day, or I'd be doing this forever...
Also, I'm really sorry I punched that baby in the Target parking lot. In my defense, the baby was being kind of a dick.[/obscure reference]
Alright, the unvarnished truth is, and I'm sure Clod wouldn't want me telling everyone, but I do know, is that those represent hours of community service she's been sentenced to perform because of an unfortunate incident in the parking lot of Target.
37,000 hours? What did she do, run over a Republican?;)
Nah, it's pushups, situps, or those isometric exercises that make your boobs bigger.
That's okay, foot. I'm just glad there are 500 hours in a day, or I'd be doing this forever...
Also, I'm really sorry I punched that baby in the Target parking lot. In my defense, the baby was being kind of a dick.[/obscure reference]
LOL:lol2: That's some funny stuff there clodfobbble.
The last bit was from
here.
Also, ah... sorry Tony, but I really don't think I'm going to make the Sept. 30 deadline for the mad tip jar bonuses. It'll be close, but I think I'll need another week, at least.
Never a need to apologize.
...
Also, ah... sorry Tony, but I really don't think I'm going to make the Sept. 30 deadline for the mad tip jar bonuses. It'll be close, but I think I'll need another week, at least.
Still on track for mid-October finish.
I'll put $100 in the tip mug if she's down to 0 by [COLOR=Blue]October 16th[/COLOR]. Anyone else?
I'm in for a hundred on that action HLJ.
13,169 - there's still time.
Oh hell, I might still make that! 12,695 it is!
She'll be able to shoot ping pong balls across the room by the time she's done.
11,228
sorry I missed yesterday's value.
I know.
Okay, look, here's the deal: I'm writing a book, in the vain hope that it might eventually be publishable and thus provide some income to my family. (And that really is the motivation: I love writing, I always have, but while it would be cool to say that I'm good enough to actually get one on the shelves, it's always just been for my own entertainment--up until I lost my steady contract audio gig awhile back. Being really and truly "unemployed" hit me a lot harder psychologically than I thought it was going to, and I really need some way that I can contribute. Yes yes, I'm contributing by raising the kids, blah blah blah... tell that to my psyche.)
So anyway, I decided I was going to finish and polish the story with the best chances of being marketable. For a first-time sci-fi novel, the standard range is 80,000 to 120,000 words. Any less, and it's not a novel, any more and publishers want you to be an established name before they'll make that kind of commitment. So the number in my sig file is counting down from 80,000, because while the final product will be longer than that to some degree, before that point it doesn't matter how good it is, it's not a novel.
But being so close to the end, my work has shifted much more toward revision. Don't get me wrong, there's definitely content still missing--three and a half scenes at the very least--but I need to revise what I have before I can really know where those scenes are going, and I need time away from it so I can revise with fresh eyes. In the meantime I've let my mother and husband take a look at the work in progress so they can hopefully offer some feedback, but I'll need to digest what they say and incorporate those changes in addition to the other revisions, so it's going to be awhile before I really get back into forward motion again.
Long story short: I'm still working on it, it just doesn't look like it. I'm very confident at this point that I'm going to really finish it, probably by the end of the year, which was my original goal. I really appreciate everyone's support.
I'll buy your book when it becomes published. :)
Thank you for correctly interpreting my post as support, and not nagging or worse.
I feel for you Clodfobble. I've been out of work before. I wouldn't wish it on a snake. And I have a well developed fear of deprivation for my family. I know how I felt when my situation was similar to yours. And it sucked. I'm with you there.
But don't blithely discount your current "contribution", please. And, more importantly, don't discount your potential. I say potential, because you're not gettin' paid, *right now*. But that doesn't meant it's not there. It *is* there, you know it and we know it.
You're smart, funny and articulate. And your work is simply unripe, not unworthy. Just so we're clear, ok?
Good luck and git 'er done!
Oooh ooh sci-fi, my favorite! :yum:
Okay, look, here's the deal: I'm writing a book
This is so much better than I was guessing. I pictured deleting/cleaning up computer files, but this is WAY better. I'm impressed.
That's awesome, Fobble. I'll buy it too -but I want mine signed :D
Me three - what Monster said
That's great, Clod. Have you considered reworking part of what you've done so far as short stories or a novella? (I admit I know nothing about it, except that many SF writers seem to have gotten their start that way.)
From a financial perspective, it's reasonable to get your start that way because there are magazines that purchase shorter works. But A.) they don't pay much, B.) they're pretty much only purchased by other writers (and with the advent of the internet, the short story mags are all slowly going broke because even the writers aren't buying them much anymore,) and C.) I suck at writing short stories. :) In all objectivity, my biggest strength is character development, and my weakest is plot. I don't care so much about what happens as opposed to how it happens. You can certainly have short stories that are more about a mood instead of an event, but it's hard.
My first thought was "that is so fucking cool!". I hate, detest, and abhore creative writing. Scientific writing is different. There isn't supposed to be any fiction ;).Good luck. I'm not a sci fi fan, probably because I just really haven't read any, but can't wait to someday read your novel! Awesome awesome awesome.
Ohhh, never would of picked it.
You will be awesome, Clod.
I will buy a signed copy and I will market signed copies on ebay for ya...I rock at ebay.
Holy Crap! I can't believe you all fell for that crap. You should be a writer Clod! But first finish that community service. You should have thought twice before making that drunken threat call to the kid's house at dinner time. And in the future when they ask "Who is this?" don't give them your real name.
Okay, now get out there and service the community. I mean serve. I meant serve.
The rest of you, "gullible" isn't in the dictionary.
Aw, leave her alone... she's got work to do, if I'm going to get a case of her books before Christmas.
Oh, and if she decides to give up writing, and turn to prostitution, I'm in for that too. Beast told me she's got a great arse. :drool:
Clod knows I'm in her corner big time. And not just for her arse either. I respect her as an artist. Or an arsist.
I am sorry she let the cat out of the bag though. As a creative person that kind of thing can have the consequence of distraction or diverting pressure which may be better harnessed to writing.
Someone once said something to the effect of "Writing is easy. You just stare at a blank piece of paper until blood starts dripping from your head."
I have the most confidence in and admiration for CF of any dwellar.
To be clear, my comment wasn't directed at you 3foot. I was just saying, ya know. ;)
Aww, writing science fiction is easy.
Watch a TV Cop show and take notes. Replace the cruisers with hover cars, the guns with lasers, and the illegal immigrant character with a disguised alien. Done.
Not really. Big cheers to Clod for tackling something hard and emotionally challenging. I look forward to the finished product.
Amazing.
I have so many heroes on here and you've always been one Clod, for your reasonable approach and your concise way of putting things. I can't promise this means I'd love fiction by you, but it does go a long way towards making me willing to part with cash to read it.
So following on from Foot's comment, all I can say is keep bleeding.
You are only 51 words and ten pictures from being done!!!
To be clear, my comment wasn't directed at you 3foot. I was just saying you must be paranoid, ya know. ;)
there ya go!
Ya all sound like a bunch of cheerleaders, what the hell do you know.
Some chica down in Texas, probably illegal, squirting out babies, can't hold a job, hanging out with strange, purple haired, suspected terrorist, aliens.
Bah, write a book, no way... never happen... probably can't even spell seance fickshun. ;)
[SIZE="1"]Think that'll help? [/SIZE]
Footx3, you've been in great form lately :D
Bruce, come over to the brawl thread a moment will you? There's a slap up the back of the head waiting for you :P
blah blah blah, [COLOR=Black]squirting our babies[/COLOR], etcetcetc ;)
That would explain the millimeter's persistently wet diaper.:eek:
Footx3, you've been in great form lately :D
Thanks, I've been working out. It's the 12 ounce wrist curls.:D
That would explain the millimeter's persistently wet diaper.:eek:
What are you talking about? :confused:
Zany Comrade Moderator! Why do you try to obfuscate the squirting of our babies?
hey, there's movement.....
It's so frustrating how little movement there is though. To give you an idea, last week I spent three goddamn days completely tearing apart and building from scratch a major plot point. In the end, I had a net gain of precisely three words.