Old Fart's and Pouffes Bar, Grill, and Hogewey Infirmary
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Exactly! Where'd you find Porter's baby picture?!?
You know... it might be fun to see everyone's baby pictures... it's a shame most of us were babies before the invention of cameras.
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So...let me tell you about my on-line self-editing workshop. Things didn't go as planned, thanks to back-to-back ice storms in my area. I originally took it to help ferret out my tendency to tell rather than show. Basically the advice was: don't do that. Well, okay. I got that. It wasn't helpful. I spent quite a bit of time researching to find the explanation that I could actually wrap my tiny mind around. (And hope that it actually stuck with me.) They all basically said the same thing, but it takes the right example before my personal 'oh yeah' light blinks on.
I learned about gerunds. Dangling participles. Misplaced modifiers. You know, all the stuff that many of us promptly forgot the minute we walked out of English class? Yeah. It all came rushing back, draging along that same 'almost there' headache I remembered from high school. The words may as well have been written in a foreign language, and again, made zero sense.
Obviously, diagramming sentences is not, nor will it ever be, my strength. At least now I know. How else will editors ever make a living without people like me around?
The irony was pretty thick too. One of the first lessons was about unecessary usages of the word 'that'. I'd just spent an hour going back into a rough draft to insert 'that' everywhere I'd unconsciously dropped it. I figure the problem with 'that' is going to depend on editorial preferences wherever you go. Some like it, some find it superfluous. Almond Joy/Mounds.
I learned about gerunds. Dangling participles. Misplaced modifiers. You know, all the stuff that many of us promptly forgot the minute we walked out of English class? Yeah. It all came rushing back, draging along that same 'almost there' headache I remembered from high school. The words may as well have been written in a foreign language, and again, made zero sense.
Obviously, diagramming sentences is not, nor will it ever be, my strength. At least now I know. How else will editors ever make a living without people like me around? The irony was pretty thick too. One of the first lessons was about unecessary usages of the word 'that'. I'd just spent an hour going back into a rough draft to insert 'that' everywhere I'd unconsciously dropped it. I figure the problem with 'that' is going to depend on editorial preferences wherever you go. Some like it, some find it superfluous. Almond Joy/Mounds.
Sorting out the Medicare stuff today. Next week, social security.
Whoopie. [sarcastic kind, not the hooray kind]
Whoopie. [sarcastic kind, not the hooray kind]
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Can't speak to the Medicare issue, but SS was easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. I filed on-line and it went smooth.
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Petroglyphs. On rocks. We splurged. By the time my brother showed up, they just used a stick and a patch of dirt.
Parents never take as much care with the kids that come squalling after the first... poor, poor things...
For whatever reason, they don't seem to have noticed a dozen years of my tax returns. You can't go in person without an appointment and to get an appointment the wait time on the phone was an hour!
I haven't gone online yet because I'm too stressed out but I do hope I can take care of everything online.
All that 'life' stuff is totally taxing. 
MaeZe!
Syn, that course sounds interesting. Sort of like a refresher?
If I recall correctly, the chihuey once said (that) American schools are planning to drop English grammar from the curriculum. Is that really going to happen?
B 'cos if that happens, English will D send in 2 incomprehensible glyphs b4 u no it.
Thnxnbai.
MaeZe!Syn, that course sounds interesting. Sort of like a refresher?
If I recall correctly, the chihuey once said (that) American schools are planning to drop English grammar from the curriculum. Is that really going to happen?
B 'cos if that happens, English will D send in 2 incomprehensible glyphs b4 u no it.
Thnxnbai.
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All that 'life' stuff is totally taxing.
Syn, that course sounds interesting. Sort of like a refresher?
If I recall correctly, the chihuey once said (that) American schools are planning to drop English grammar from the curriculum. Is that really going to happen?
B 'cos if that happens, English will D send in 2 incomprehensible glyphs b4 u no it.
Thnxnbai.
I hadn't heard that one, but I don't doubt it.
So I gave up my protein-pump inhibitor two days ago after seeing a study that found preliminary evidence it might increase the plaques in Alzheimer's. I have been noticeably losing brain function for a couple years. The heartburn is quite annoying. I'm working on alternative solutions.
Ditto! - And yeah, I'm ticked that I also paid into Medicare for 42.5 years, and they're now deducting it from my SS check -
That explains my brother.
He got away with EVERYTHING!
I've heard that siblings can be annoying. Fortunately, I never had that problem. I'm my mother's smartest, prettiest, most talented kid.
I've heard that siblings can be annoying. Fortunately, I never had that problem. I'm my mother's smartest, prettiest, most talented kid.
Only child?
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Ditto! - And yeah, I'm ticked that I also paid into Medicare for 42.5 years, and they're now deducting it from my SS check -
You like that, you gonna love paying taxes on the checks you get that are the result of the POST-tax money you paid in to SS in the first place.
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I've heard that siblings can be annoying. Fortunately, I never had that problem. I'm my mother's smartest, prettiest, most talented kid.
Yeah, but... that makes you their dumbest, ugliest, least talented kid, too.