GeorgeGlass

“flashes” and “humps” probably appear more often in stories about roads/drivers.

I have a deep and abiding fondness for the “Mind the hump” road signs….

Have to admit, I still need to read it.  That’s a cookbook, right? 

Yikes! I hope you keep it locked, but if someone was looking over your shoulder you could just blame it on Facebook ads or something.

My problem is that while most people worry about their web history, I’m always terrified someone will get hold of my custom spelling dictionary. The horror!

I’m planning on borrowing George’s phone every chance I get.

Jeez, I’m lucky I don’t write on my phone. Just a lot of F bombs and the word Peen. They’ll probably just think this phone belongs to a 13 year old boy. 

I literally clicked it for the billy goats and now I feel like I have been the victim of a troll!

So that’s actually worked out ok. But, honestly, the next user along will be bigger and meatier than me and make a much better…

Just be glad the Troll Trace guy wasn’t there for you.

As I was crouching under the bridge – where at least a little of the rain was still able to reach me – I thought, “If a billy goat comes along, I’m frickin’ eating it.”

I am so very sorry, George. You are never truly prepared to lose a parent.

Thanks, all.

Damn, I’m really sorry to hear that.

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 I mean, suppose it’s your child vs a neighbor’s elderly grandparents?  Similar choice,

No, “save this human or that human” is not similar to “save this human or that dachshund.” I’m sorry, but in my book, human lives take precedence over animal lives. 

Of course, this isn’t a hard and fast rule. In a burning building, I would choose to save one of my cats over, say, Larry Nassar. But then, I’d probably choose to save my toaster oven over Larry Nassar, so...

In most peoples books, human lives take precedence over animal lives. But not all, and I really don’t think there’s something wrong with that. I can’t tell you to see human lives and dachsund lives as similar, and you can’t tell me not to. We favour humans because we are humans, so there’s that obligatory loyalty there, and most of us have been taught that we as a species are superior. If you relate more with humans of course you’re going to value their lives more. That doesn’t mean their lives have more value. Unless you define value as in how they contribute to human society. 

For example, I believe life is valuable and that belief isn’t conditional to how I relate to other species or how those species can contribute to human society. But if there was a dog or a potted plant in a burning building, I wouldn’t save the potted plant over the dog. I don’t relate to a potted plant. I don’t understand how their suffering functions the same way I understand a dog. But a child vs a dog would be a much tougher choice to me, because I understand both. I’d probably choose the child, but I would not be able to live with myself – that dog’s death would haunt me. 

I do see my pets as my children. I don’t think they’re the same as human children, of course human children grow up into human adults, and trumps or cosbys so there’s a smidge more responsibility involved in shaping their minds and teaching them respect, and if they bite somebody, the neighbours can’t have them immediately executed. But I love them unconditionally. I value them. I am responsible for their lives, their happiness, and I am the only loving, nurturing authority they know. And I work at a shelter so I see what abandonment does every single day. I worry often about what will happen to them if something happened to me. 

As you can tell by my rant, I feel very strongly about this.

After I lost my cat, I cried, I really cried; it was the first time in decades that I had.  I knew he meant something before, but I didn’t realize until afterwards exactly how much he did mean to me, still means to me; I even have his urn on my desk here; not sure I’ll ever be able  to “part” with him.  So, I understand the sentiment behind that bumper sticker, really understand it, and I’d probably be one who’d rescue my (remaining) cats over a neighbor’s kid (if I was in an apartment). 

Of course, that’s more hypothetical, because I’m in my own house, with some distance to the neighbors, thus if their kid were in danger from my burning house, well, either the kid is rescuing *me* (and I won’t be in a position to object), or started the fire.  And in a fire, I would most likely try to make sure they made it out safely, even if it puts me into danger.  Hopefully, fingers crossed, I’ll never have to know the answer to this what-if.

I’m sorry for your loss. My condolences.

Sad to hear that your father is gone. Peace be with you always.

Oh crud, I’m so sorry.    I get that feeling a lot for a super tech-savvy old friend who passed away just as Wikipedia and YouTube were becoming real things, so often while watching or reading about tech stuff I think of how much he’d have loved all of it. The fact that I get to think about him at random once in a while like that makes me happy, and it will be the same for you. Best wishes to you and the family.

Hope you’re past it, and it stays away, whatever the illness is.

What? Lots of writers use prompts.

Plenty of prompts, just point your browser to (...not saying...) 

My daft one just shakes his head and leaves the room.

I didn’t signup, but, it’s not too shabby, up about 40k this month to my “the repair guy” story (I’m seeing 46k on the drive, but some of that was pulled in from earlier work).

Sorry you have to miss it. Hope you can get back to it next year.

This is only the second time I’ve done it, and it’s every bit as intense as I remembered.

Oh Nano season is so exciting! Are you excited?! I’m excited for you! (Too much of a commitment phobe to do it myself so I like living vicariously.) 

I’m definitely excited. It’s tiring, though. I’m probably spending more than 2 hours a day just writing. (One wonders when I’ll get around to putting away those clean dishes that have been sitting in the dishwasher for the past day and a half.) But I’m glad I’m doing it.

Is a flexini like a martini?

I’m taking something called tizanidine. Makes me sleepy at the wrong times, but there are worse side effects to have.

BTW, it’s my left shoulder, and I’m right-handed, so I’m afraid JD’s theory is incorrect.

“Stranger in the tub!”

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JayDee

“Stranger in the tub!”

Sounds like an excellent start to a story.

I want your phone so badly right now…

If phones could talk… Well they can, evidently, but if they were sentient….

Sometimes I worry about what people would think if they ever saw my custom spell-check dictionary. Nothing good I’m afraid…

Thanks for the input and sympathy, all. I decided to let the translator know that I am OK with the posting if he or she adds my name to the title or summary, but if that doesn’t happen within the next week, I’ll report the story for violating Wattpad’s community guidelines.

Well, the translator has already added my name to the title and the summary and apologized for translating the chapter without asking my permission. I am satisfied, and I have given my permission to translate the rest of the story.

I like a happy ending!

That. Is. Perfect!

M… Nah, I don’t even need to say it. (BTW, decent advice if the first one you try doesn’t work out; I figure by putting this here you won’t ever need it.)

Thanks, FS. I’m actually now hiring 2 people, and I hope to God they both turn out well, because I don’t want to go through another, “Sorry, this isn’t working out” scenario.

Fourth century CE Wales… just saying…. I have a physicist friend who helps me with the rocket science. 

Just play AstronomyCast on YouTube in the background when you’re doing tedious non-thinky stuff. Even if a lot of the info doesn’t sink in you’ll immediately know where to look. (Or you always have me. )

Honestly, that makes me sad, too.

Who knows – maybe they’ll be happy to take its advice one way or another.

Congratulations! I know it’s been a long process, but totally worth it. Heh, I was about to look up how its size compares to your other epic masterpiece, In the Light of Day: A Frozen Epic, but then I remembered Star’s counsel: “If you need to measure it, it’s not awesome.” And I know it’s awesome.

Heh, if only you could see all the creepy things in my custom dictionary on MS Word…

See, kids? Punctuation DOES matter!

Maybe their publisher charges them by the comma?