Hey all  

Are we all committed to sit on our couches and watch the winter Olympics from Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo? I'm not sure I am  Now, if I was there and being surrounded by gorgeous Italian men , then we'd be having another discussion .

Oh wait, there is another game going on in Santa Clara 😮 

I went back to work after a 2-week staycation, and I think I put in an 80 hour work week this week 😮 Only about 900 emails to work through on top of all my other jobs and tasks, I was so FML this week . But it is the weekend, which I am enjoying and not worry about the pile of work still to be slogged through until Monday. I think I should have gone somewhere on a trip that was nice, maybe the mess I came back to would have been worth it . 

Have you ever bought a lottery ticket or something like that, yes, I know it is gambling 💲but I have a limit and I stay in it, and then you get home and you go to reach in your jacket pocket and the ticket is missing 😮 That happened to me last night. That feeling of dread and thinking this might be the one . So, not to much you can do right? Well I can follow tonight's draw and it is won in my city, I guess I could contact the lottery board and put in a claim showing it was bought with my debit card . But 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% chance it won't be worth nothing. But still.

Now here is the question of the week  What is the most significant thing you won in your life in some kind of raffle or lotto or the like. Doesn't need to be a paid ticket, so if you entered a contest for Hawaiian Punch at the grocery store and won a trip to Hawaii 🌴. I guess a couple of years ago I won a HS band 50/50 raffle for my nephew and won some money more than like $1000. I took part of the winnings and gave the rest back to the band that was raising the money. 

Now that we got you thinking back over your lifetime , let's see what happened over the past week at the GA News Blog.

Monday, Cia was right off the start of the month with an all new CSR. Since we only have 28 days this month, get to reading:

 Tuesday, was the big kahuna's turn to do a Deep Dive:

Thursday, Val and others had some great ideas on how to pump out some poetry for our upcoming Poetry Anthology: 

Friday, she was back thinking about a winter vacation:

Now that Part A and B are done of the Blog, let's move onto C . The Words of the Day. I wonder if there is a certain theme to an upcoming day hidden in this list of words . 

tenderness, ache, devotion, intimacy, affection, hesitant, longing

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Here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets!

2 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. TRAVISTY by Mark Arbour
2. The Prisoner of Carronne by Mark Ponyboy Peters

6 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

1. Carter's Campaign by Topher Lydon
2. Medellín by LittleBuddhaTW
3. The Lost and the Damned by Topher Lydon
4. Sci-Fi Flash Collection by Myr
5. Secrets 3: The Road to the Future by Bill W
6. Fantasy Flash Collection by Myr

44 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. Angel Awakened by Painawakened
2. Young and Hungry for Love by Wombat Bill
3. Randy for Submission, Pursuing the One by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
4. Bro Court: Section 69 by Boy Mercury X **Complete**
5. Break the Day by dragonthusiast
6. Grumpy Gym Regular by Soren Kraft
7. Jody and the Navy by KKirk
8. Permanently Black and Blue by mastershakeme
9. Misaligned by Laura S. Fox **Complete**
10. A salty drop of Magic by Celian
11. Borders and Bribery by Thirdly
12. Right-Hand Man by Boy Mercury X **Complete**
13. Finding Liam by Nuno R.F.C. Rendeiro
14. Out Of The Closet by RichardWrites
15. The Fantastic Eight and Their February Surprise by BendtedWreath
16. Darren’s New Life by Lee Wilson
17. The Art of Living by Robert Hugill
18. Other Side of the Tracks by ChromedOutCortex
19. Knight and Squire by Albert1434
20. The Curse of Love by Yeoldebard
21. Bouns story by RedMoon
22. The Curse Of Love by arielynn24
23. Rising Stars by Littlelovestories
24. Widderkin Interlude by Palantir
25. A versatile Count by Thomas Lindblad
26. Malicious glee by Kileoli
27. Finding Myself by RichardWrites
28. White Sheets by Celian
29. ThunderDust by J92
30. Love Is Still Blind by Lee Wilson
31. Seaside Entries by ObicanDecko
32. What We Survive by ChromedOutCortex
33. The Demon's Realm. by E K Stokes
34. Family life, but not as we know it by Robert Hugill
35. Journey Home by ChromedOutCortex
36. THROUGH IT ALL by vanalas
37. Another Time by Celian
38. The Straight Boys Took Me On Vacation by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
39. Yours to Bully by Littlelovestories
40. Noah's Adventure by AquariusGuy
41. Ctrl+S Is Never an Option by Kileoli **Complete**
42. Beyond the Veil by Laura S. Fox
43. A Runner's Knot by Boy Mercury X **Complete**
44. The Brotherhood: Awakening Book II by The Writer X

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