Writing
Q rides again! (Back soon)
As soon as the weather clears a little. What happened to August? And September?
- Two and a half years after we bought this land and building a house on it (in exchange for our share of “Cruz Blanca”, the farmhouse in the mountains that was our home for the past twenty years, plus some more) - the title deed was finally released by the Provincial Registry. It became “legally ours” - so have been able to start untangling the remaining issues …
- We very nearly lost Remy, the other half the K9 division of our immediate family (two German Shepherds Champ and sister Remy, both seven). We had never heard of Bloat , or “Gastric Dilation - Vulvulus” until the Saturday 23d August … and then learned more about it than I’d ever care to know. A rare opportunity to know you dog inside. Two hours emergency surgery (the duty vets, a couple of lasses, one still in her evening clothes) . Remy is fine now, though will be forever at risk if we are not careful with her feeding. She figured on her own that she’s to take a nap after her meals. Smart.
- In the midst, rearranging my work to accommodate writing full time , as a business - far from real yet, but much more realistic.
“Danzig Daughters” the novel is - work in progress, still in rough draught.
A heartening bit of good luck, I got a third place in a flash fiction contest (at the UK site, Writelink.co.uk for a dark little piece (probably reflecting my mood at he time). First place was way ahead, it did provide some welcome cheer at the moment! Thank you, Writelink & Paola.
“Seventh Aubrey” returned (can be revised, sent again); “Mother Dear” needs working on some more. Then a week ago, I thought it time to get back into the fray with writing friends in the different forums (fora? ). Writers Village U. and the L. Ridge alumni at Storycrafters. At Writers Village University a new round of the six week introduction to basics for writers is starting up, and in November of course, another bout of “writing 50 000 words in a month”, the notorious and totally mad NaNoWriMo
BYKNIGHT.COM will just have to wait a little longer. I’ve got (finally) Dreamweaver, Photoshop and other Adobe stuff and no more genuine excuses for stalling.
So Q rides again. Windmills will remain un-tilted, damsels will have to take care of their own distress’, knaves will stay unpunished for a while.
Sunshine.
Q
Q’s Place is still under construction - and about Spam
I have to find a good theme: Some look great at first but the text starts drifting across columns, or picture don’t quite stay put - at least, where I thought I put them. Others … I tried one and couldn’t find my way back into this site management place: Q was locked out of Q’s Place!.
Pretty can? The Original:
Still working on this site. “Q’s Place” is a little low on an overcrowded priority list. Mrs Q and I discuss what might go here. It’s definitely be the place to put personal things, for friends and family as well as any that wander by and care for the kind of things we post. writing of course, and home making as we haven’t been able to settle down yet; for oh so many reasons!
This morning though there were forty seven messages spam queue, blocked by the wonderful WordPress Akismet plugin. Wonderful software, that!. But the topmost was nasty - a few hundred lines of filth. So long that it wasn’t practical to search back for any genuine messages.
So if I haven’t acknowledged a genuine post: my apologies. Please post again. I know I should check in more often and look at comments held by Akismet before the list gets too long … of course it wouldn’t have done anything about the garrulous pornographer of that long, long comment.
Of course, one can just let the sewage through and then collect from Adsense? I doubt it, the good people at Google must be wise to that one, ages ago. Whatever, it’s sad to see so many twerps and nitwits using up bandwidth like this. Nitwits and twerps is too mild for those sad sacks that make a living promoting the junk.
Until the next one, soon I hope. Pictures of where we used to live.
Where we are now - which is also where we hope to move out from.
And some grandchildren pictures, and great pictures of great grandchildren as well.
Meanwhile …
Please don’t open the can !
Q
Let the good times roll! Am I done with computer crashes?
Open Office: It is a wonder we use Microsoft Getting used to it can take a while, the Ways of Word are very ingrained. Open Office has a huge number of extra features and I see no reason for not making it the default suite here, but I’m not yet confident enough to use it for submissions on-line, where the finished product will probably be opened with Microsoft Word.
As soon as the weather clears a little. What happened to August? And September?
- Two and a half years after we bought this land and building a house on it (in exchange for our share of “Cruz Blanca”, the farmhouse in the mountains that was our home for the past twenty years, plus some more) - the title deed was finally released by the Provincial Registry. It became “legally ours” - so have been able to start untangling the remaining issues …
- We very nearly lost Remy, the other half the K9 division of our immediate family (two German Shepherds Champ and sister Remy, both seven). We had never heard of Bloat , or “Gastric Dilation - Vulvulus” until the Saturday 23d August … and then learned more about it than I’d ever care to know. A rare opportunity to know you dog inside. Two hours emergency surgery (the duty vets, a couple of lasses, one still in her evening clothes) . Remy is fine now, though will be forever at risk if we are not careful with her feeding. She figured on her own that she’s to take a nap after her meals. Smart.
- In the midst, rearranging my work to accommodate writing full time , as a business - far from real yet, but much more realistic.
“Danzig Daughters” the novel is - work in progress, still in rough draught.
A heartening bit of good luck, I got a third place in a flash fiction contest (at the UK site, Writelink.co.uk for a dark little piece (probably reflecting my mood at he time). First place was way ahead, it did provide some welcome cheer at the moment! Thank you, Writelink & Paola.
“Seventh Aubrey” returned (can be revised, sent again); “Mother Dear” needs working on some more. Then a week ago, I thought it time to get back into the fray with writing friends in the different forums (fora? ). Writers Village U. and the L. Ridge alumni at Storycrafters. At Writers Village University a new round of the six week introduction to basics for writers is starting up, and in November of course, another bout of “writing 50 000 words in a month”, the notorious and totally mad NaNoWriMo
BYKNIGHT.COM will just have to wait a little longer. I’ve got (finally) Dreamweaver, Photoshop and other Adobe stuff and no more genuine excuses for stalling.
So Q rides again. Windmills will remain un-tilted, damsels will have to take care of their own distress’, knaves will stay unpunished for a while.
Sunshine.
Q
I have to find a good theme: Some look great at first but the text starts drifting across columns, or picture don’t quite stay put - at least, where I thought I put them. Others … I tried one and couldn’t find my way back into this site management place: Q was locked out of Q’s Place!.
Pretty can? The Original:
Still working on this site. “Q’s Place” is a little low on an overcrowded priority list. Mrs Q and I discuss what might go here. It’s definitely be the place to put personal things, for friends and family as well as any that wander by and care for the kind of things we post. writing of course, and home making as we haven’t been able to settle down yet; for oh so many reasons!
This morning though there were forty seven messages spam queue, blocked by the wonderful WordPress Akismet plugin. Wonderful software, that!. But the topmost was nasty - a few hundred lines of filth. So long that it wasn’t practical to search back for any genuine messages.
So if I haven’t acknowledged a genuine post: my apologies. Please post again. I know I should check in more often and look at comments held by Akismet before the list gets too long … of course it wouldn’t have done anything about the garrulous pornographer of that long, long comment.
Of course, one can just let the sewage through and then collect from Adsense? I doubt it, the good people at Google must be wise to that one, ages ago. Whatever, it’s sad to see so many twerps and nitwits using up bandwidth like this. Nitwits and twerps is too mild for those sad sacks that make a living promoting the junk.
Until the next one, soon I hope. Pictures of where we used to live.
Where we are now - which is also where we hope to move out from.
And some grandchildren pictures, and great pictures of great grandchildren as well.
Meanwhile …
Please don’t open the can !
Q
Let the good times roll! Am I done with computer crashes?
Open Office: It is a wonder we use Microsoft Getting used to it can take a while, the Ways of Word are very ingrained. Open Office has a huge number of extra features and I see no reason for not making it the default suite here, but I’m not yet confident enough to use it for submissions on-line, where the finished product will probably be opened with Microsoft Word.
Open Office: It is a wonder we use Microsoft Getting used to it can take a while, the Ways of Word are very ingrained. Open Office has a huge number of extra features and I see no reason for not making it the default suite here, but I’m not yet confident enough to use it for submissions on-line, where the finished product will probably be opened with Microsoft Word.
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