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Posted on 10/05/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
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A hand me down from daughter, works good, but it's a little old and slow.
It's got some tutorials on it that I need to take. However, I am pleased to have a laptop to take with when traveling. I wonder if it can handle my Garmin GPS mapping program. Probably not, but who knows.
How's everything, Bear?
Audio or video?
Doing ok here... watching football, burning some episodes of "Andromeda" to CD, doing some FReeping.
LOL! No, I'm not worried. If he read that, he'd just laugh. He knows it's a rainy dreary day and he's just thankful I did SOMETHING to get the jedis out of the house and keeping them busy.
Sides...he got a great long nap out of the deal.
We watched Sergeant York last night...great movie.
LOL! I like it!
It meant to not let your own ears be deaf, methinks.
audio
I love sourdough...I should make me a batch o' starter and actually USE it!
Right now, though, I just put a batch of rye wheat bagels in the oven. All the talk of 'em here made me want to try my hand at 'em, and Dad used to make them so I asked for tips. He usually just made white or raisin...so we'll see how these do! I like that I can know everything that's going into 'em - keep it all whole grains and no hydrogenated garbage. Now if they just turn out OK...
I'm planning to freeze 'em, one or two to a baggie...then I can take one out the night before to have for breakfast! Do breakfast sandwiches and such.
I know the feeling! Heh...
Awwww. Welcome to FR bittygirl.
I have the vaguest glimmerings of a crazy idea. I'm thinking of attempting to write a book (well...a story) for my littlest sister for Christmas. She loves fantasy, and "little girl" books like Carolyn Haywood's Betsy books...so I'm thinking of attempting something with some of both qualities. Don't really have any ideas yet, but probably something a bit cliched like a magic gate or secret place in the woods or something like that. She'd like it even if it seemed overdone to me.
It'd give me some writing practice before October (albeit at a lighter, more juvenile level) and then I could pick it up again in December so I didn't feel so lost. ;-)
Maybe I'll go for it. Gotta do some pondering.
Kewl! Are you going to make your sister the main character?
Something like that, yeah...at least make the character a little like her. And maybe include a friend of hers, too.
Even if it was horribly written, she'd think it was neat. And it would give me motivation to work on the sort of writing I think I actually COULD do.
How long is it going to be? Shorter than NaNo?
Dunno! I have no plot yet. Probably close to NaNo length, I'd think. Not much longer, in any case.
I need a plot, though.
When we went on that lonnnnng walk yesterday we passed an overgrown drive that disappeared into the woods, and I kinda said when I was little, I would have imagined that it went off into a magic glen or something, and she kind of added to that a bit, which is what got me thinking about this in the first place. So I could use that as an opening, but where to go from there, I have no idea!
She could end up on the holodeck! LOL
Heh...I don't think Teresa would quite understand that concept. ;-) I'll have to work in fantasy cliches insteada sci-fi. There are plenty o' those, too...
Hmmmmm....chase a rabbit down a hole?
Or through a magic gate, leading to a world where nursery rhymes come true.
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