The Drop in Centre

[rickproehl]

Excuse me Good Sirs and DiC friends.

just wanted to stop in and say ‘Good Morning’

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.” – Larry King

How is your day?

[Mikiesboy]

The day is going by ... At work people identified as Wave 1 will return to work in after September sometime. We haven't be told we are wave 1, but i don't think so. The rest will be home likely until the end of the year.  But plans can change.  So we will see.

[Reader1810]

8 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

The day is going by ... At work people identified as Wave 1 will return to work in after September sometime. We haven't be told we are wave 1, but i don't think so. The rest will be home likely until the end of the year.  But plans can change.  So we will see.

tim, I recall you saying you liked working from home - for a myriad of reasons - so I hope you’re not in the first wave so you can enjoy that aspect of working for as long as you can. 

Hope your day is a great one.  

[rickproehl]

47 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

The day is going by ... At work people identified as Wave 1 will return to work in after September sometime. We haven't be told we are wave 1, but i don't think so. The rest will be home likely until the end of the year.  But plans can change.  So we will see.

 

tim i hope you get the chance to work from home. we are hearing rumors this may be the new normal for us. i hope you are as fortunate. 

have a good day.

[Mikiesboy]

44 minutes ago, rickproehl said:

tim i hope you get the chance to work from home. we are hearing rumors this may be the new normal for us. i hope you are as fortunate. 

have a good day.

We will see ... i may put in a request .. but Banks are funny places.

[kbois]

I made the mistake of checking the news again. No more. 

I don't understand why there is so much senseless violence in this world. I'm not sure if it's made the national news, but down here it's been pretty prevalent. Last Friday three friends were murdered in a rural part of Florida and today they arrested 3 people for the murder. What upsets me most is the main suspect has been in and out of the court system since he was 12. He's now 27 and in 15 years has had 230 felony charges filed against him. 230. WTF???

Three friends in their early 20s, who only wanted to go fishing are now dead because the criminal justice system failed. My son is 22. I can't imagine losing him for such a senseless, unneccesary reason. My heart goes out to those families. 

[Mikiesboy]

13 minutes ago, kbois said:

I made the mistake of checking the news again. No more. 

I don't understand why there is so much senseless violence in this world. I'm not sure if it's made the national news, but down here it's been pretty prevalent. Last Friday three friends were murdered in a rural part of Florida and today they arrested 3 people for the murder. What upsets me most is the main suspect has been in and out of the court system since he was 12. He's now 27 and in 15 years has had 230 felony charges filed against him. 230. WTF???

Three friends in their early 20s, who only wanted to go fishing are now dead because the criminal justice system failed. My son is 22. I can't imagine losing him for such a senseless, unneccesary reason. My heart goes out to those families. 

I found a news site i like. I get an email from with this headlines.. i can glance at it but not read it all if I don't want to. The news is awful .. best choice to keep away as much as you can.

[MacGreg]

It's challenging to want to be informed but also keep your sanity when it comes to the news. Sifting through media hype to get to the facts is more and more difficult each day. Makes my head spin. Going radio silent every now and then is definitely necessary for mental wellness. Like tim, it's probably best to pick and choose stories in small doses.

[kbois]

10 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

I found a news site i like. I get an email from with this headlines.. i can glance at it but not read it all if I don't want to. The news is awful .. best choice to keep away as much as you can.

I have two apps, only one of which I glance at occasionally. I first saw the story over the weekend but when I got home from work today my husband had it on the tv, so I really couldn't avoid it. The house isn't that big.

I made him put on old episodes of Match Game .....love that show!

My high school is so tough (how tough is it?!). In shop class they teach us how to make ..............?

[Reader1810]

34 minutes ago, kbois said:

I made the mistake of checking the news again. No more. 

I don't understand why there is so much senseless violence in this world. I'm not sure if it's made the national news, but down here it's been pretty prevalent. Last Friday three friends were murdered in a rural part of Florida and today they arrested 3 people for the murder. What upsets me most is the main suspect has been in and out of the court system since he was 12. He's now 27 and in 15 years has had 230 felony charges filed against him. 230. WTF???

Three friends in their early 20s, who only wanted to go fishing are now dead because the criminal justice system failed. My son is 22. I can't imagine losing him for such a senseless, unneccesary reason. My heart goes out to those families. 

I saw that on the news. So sad for the one guy’s dad to be the one to find them. 

[Wayne Gray]

It's difficult for me. I ride the line between being needing information and stepping away from the mindlessness of it all. There's a paralysis that comes from knowing there are problems that we can't fix, yet I feel the need to know what is happening in the world too.

Personally, I check in with the news, then check out of it. I don't wallow there. I can't. Well ... apart from COVID-19. I don't have a choice there - my job depends on my staying aware of public perception, news, and advances on testing and supply chains. I've gotten pretty good at reading the tea leaves and predicting upcoming shortages to reagents and supplies before our own vendors and suppliers know they're coming. I consider that different, though. Because my actions are making a difference of some sort.

I really do think it's harmful to us to hear so much terrible "stuff" and feel like we don't have a way to help. It's easy to let it pull us down, and we all have to take a break from it.

[Mikiesboy]

7 minutes ago, Wayne Gray said:

I really do think it's harmful to us to hear so much terrible

It is  harmful.  i have been using Sanvello to make goals. one is only look at the new 2x a day.  That app is full of helpful and good things.  Find good things and good people who love you, like you and want to support you. Protect yourself, be good and kind to yourself.

[Reader1810]

If you want to read positive stories - about anything and everything - this site is a good one. 

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

[kbois]

13 minutes ago, Wayne Gray said:

It's difficult for me. I ride the line between being needing information and stepping away from the mindlessness of it all. There's a paralysis that comes from knowing there are problems that we can't fix, yet I feel the need to know what is happening in the world too.

That line is the hardest of all to decipher sometimes. It's the mindlessness that really gets to me. It's hard to believe that a story about the severity of Covid can be side by side with a story about one of the Duggar girls wearing shorts out in public. I mostly try to stick with skimming the headlines and leave it at that even though it's necessary to at least be aware of what's going on in the world. Short of burying our heads in the sand. it's hard to ignore something that's plastered all over the place though, especially something so senseless and avoidable. Well tomorrow is another day and I'm hoping it will bring something positive. 

(Shouldn't you be working on your story??)

[MichaelS36]

17 minutes ago, kbois said:

(Shouldn't you be working on your story??)

My understanding is Wayne has written a 4600 word outline over the last few days.  I think that's work. 

[kbois]

2 minutes ago, MichaelS36 said:

My understanding is Wayne has written a 4600 word outline over the last few days.  I think that's work. 

Yay! Progress!

I'm looking forward to Wayne and tim's collaberation. (just a little impatiently, what can I say? They're both wonderful writers.)

[Wayne Gray]

I need structure to write long stories. tim doesn’t have that same issue, so he’s had to wait for me to finish my crutch. I hope it turns out to be useful to him too, though. 🙂

[mollyhousemouse]

good night Sirs
good night DiC
hug your loved ones

 

[Reader1810]

7 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

good night Sirs
good night DiC
hug your loved ones

 

Good night molly...happy dreams 

[MichaelS36]

51 minutes ago, Wayne Gray said:

I need structure to write long stories. tim doesn’t have that same issue, so he’s had to wait for me to finish my crutch. I hope it turns out to be useful to him too, though. 🙂

He said to me, it's going to be a big help. He uses notes, I know that.

[rickproehl]

Excuse me Good Sirs and DiC friends.

good night 

may you get the rest you need.

take care.

[Ashi]

5 hours ago, MacGreg said:

It's challenging to want to be informed but also keep your sanity when it comes to the news. Sifting through media hype to get to the facts is more and more difficult each day. Makes my head spin. Going radio silent every now and then is definitely necessary for mental wellness. Like tim, it's probably best to pick and choose stories in small doses.

I think the most harmful part is the news (if you could even call it that) is so sensationalized, some of us just don't want to read it anymore (there is a difference between tabloid and news, and in our time, the differences between them are very blurred).  The more of us don't care about policies that affect our lives, the more likely the democracy would falter. 

And of course Einstein said something like, "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who standby and do nothing."

That's the real danger....  We're so sick and tired of the news, and we turn it off and not doing enough to stop the spreading of misinformation.

The other half of me is telling me, "the most malicious things often started out well-intended," as I often don't know if my help would turn out to be helpful, so I am very restrained with giving any intervention.  Unless something is seriously wrong of course.

Reading all that badly written fictional "news" is just absolutely sickening and harmful to my mental health.  When the awful trend started back in early 2000's, I was like, "OMG, the return of yellow journalism" that we read about in history class (except Internet spreads it much faster and wider, and free!).  Of course, the media must re-invent the wheel and call it "fake news" to sensationalize it....  Why people just don't research what they read?  (My cousin has famously said, "who has the time to do that?  :facepalm:)  This is not a new phenomenon and you'd thought we got rid of it decades ago, as more people have become more educated and sophisticated....  Oh, I see what's the problem now.   

[rickproehl]

Spoiler

 

Excuse me Good Sirs and DiC friends.

just wanted to stop in and say 

‘Good Morning’

[Mikiesboy]

9 hours ago, Wayne Gray said:

I need structure to write long stories. tim doesn’t have that same issue, so he’s had to wait for me to finish my crutch. I hope it turns out to be useful to him too, though. 🙂

CRUTCH?  This has nothing to do with our different styles ... i do write notes similar to what you have done but i use One Note.  We had been writing notes but due to times we stopped writing because of COVID and you only were writing and then later it was just me, things were getting lost. With so many characters and story lines it was easily done.

This outline helps us easily track things, we can colour code things as we need to, we can both see it and easily  decide where things will go. We can write reminders and put them later chapters to make sure don't forget something.

It is a brilliant document that we both need to finish this story. Thanks, Wayne, i'm grateful you took on the task.

 

[Mikiesboy]

As writers we hear a lot about good and bad ways to write. Many spend hours discussing what style is better, or what POV is better. Ego is showing in dicussions on these and other topics when authors try to outdo each other saying BUT this or that is stronger or better or blah blah blah... Use the tools in your writer's toolbox... ALL of them when they are appropriate. Here is an excellent article on Active and Passive voice.