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  1. comicfan
    Okay. I live with a man who is passive aggressive in his attacks. But then again he also likes to attack when no one else is around to hear him. Agh. Sometimes you just wish, I can fill in that blank so many ways right now.
     
    Alright it takes me a while to reach my boiling point. I am not the kind to just attack. However you push me up against the wall and you might find you don't like the mild manner man you had been dealing with.
     
    Okay so my father has been having problems with the phone. I know I've offered to buy a new one but was told he wanted to go looking. Fine. I can accept that. In fact, it means I get to save some money which is never bad for me. However, tonight the phone rings and the answering machine doesn't it get it. I look and there is no power to the machine. So is there a problem with it because Irene blew it out, did the power cord he has it attached to finally go, or did outlet stop working. The answer, i am not sure because evidently I am horrible person who still has DVD towers sitting in the living room and that is why he can't get an electrician in to check the power in the outlet or come to fix the light in the kitchen. I tell him I want to just plug the items into a different outlet for a moment but no. So I am just wrong again. What a joy. Anyone noticing a pattern here?
     
    Right now I am not sure if I want to wish him away to my brother's home, wish I was never born, or hell just wish myself back up to Connecticut where I had a life. Since I have been home, I'm draining the savings I had. The store I work in never bonuses, there are no raises for me in the position I hold, and well the place is a mess. So I've tightened my belt. I go out not at all, I buy nearly nothing, unless you count groceries and the $20 a month I allow myself to spoil myself.
     
    When it comes to living at home, well I try not to do anything that would bother him. I don't have a television so can't be playing that loudly. Any movies I own or watch on my computer using a headset. If I sit with him, well he goes into bed at 8 most nights. What the hell am I suppose to do? Basicallly, I wonder if I died tomorrow would he notice or would he wait till he smelled the rotting body to do something. I know. Not being fair to him but one more time I seem to be the one who can do no right again. Just tired, didn't sleep, and not in the mood to be yelled at. Seems to be a normal situation lately. Oh well. Who knew in your forties you would end up alone, taking care of a parent, and debating whether to put on the happy smile again or just picture the writing I should have on my gravestone from the heart attack I give myself.
     
    Whee. There is nothing wrong with that a few months in a nice padded room won't fix.
     
     
     
     
  2. comicfan

    Busy

    By comicfan,

    Just was one of those days when you never feel like you have enough time for everything you are trying to get done. Just seemed to rush from one project to the next all day long. My day started at 8 am and four hours of sleep.
     
    I got up raced to the shower and tried desperately to wake up. One of those times you wish you would either wake up or drown. Well i sure as hell didn't drown. Then I was off to Weight Watcher for the Summer Party. I know it sounds odd. Here were sixty plus people together for a Weight Watchers meeting and what were we doing? Eating. Actually, it was a lot of fun. The leader of the group had everyone sign up to bring things. Not being sure of my work schedule I just signed on to bring the cutlery for it all. The food was delicious but more important anything tha was cooked came with a recipe telling you how to make it and how many points per serving it is. I didn't have much to worry about because I filled up on the fruits and veggies so I saved my points.
     
    Then it was a quick run to the grocery store to pick up some of my essentials. I am fresh fruit fanatic. I stopped to pick up some various fruits, a couple of bagels, some WW meals, eggs, skim milk, and yogurt. For me that makes staying on the program possible. I also have decided that while they give everyone 49 extra points, it doesn't mean I need to use them. I did this week after listening to how everyone divides them up and adds them to their daily points levels. Trying to copy that example I only lost one pound instead of the two + pounds I had been. Hard Lesson but one I have now committed to memory.
     
    Anyway, I also somehow fit time in to rewrite chapter 22 again and get that up. I have been put in charge of coming up with new Prompts for the writers. I have two that I posted tonight and that makes four new ideas for the week. I am now partway into my new story for the Anthology. Once Accident's Happen is over I hope to work with Andy on another story. Well that is about all people. I'm off to bed because after closing tonight at work i get to open tomorrow and need a few hours rest. Have fun
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    Today started out such a good day. I had been good getting things done. I had done dishes, cleaned the bathroom and was ready to take my father shopping all before 10am. We did the stores my father wanted. We started at Entermann's Outlet where my father bought bread. I was proud of myself because I never once looked at the cakes and stuff. Then we went over to Sam's Club. There my father picked up essentials like paper towels, toilet paper, and other things for the house. Me, I bought my fruits there and was happy I didn't go near the cakes or cookies. The it was over to Target so my father could pick up things for his corgi, JJ.
     
    Okay so came home, unpacked the car and put the stuff away. All I needed now was gas. But I also wanted to go get some pictures of the Great South Bay, this time from near my home. I drove over a town so I would have easy access to two locations where there were docks. I happily snapped a couple of pictures and then figured I would go over to see Captain Andy's. That bar had had a long history with my family.
     
    In the early 70s my father use to come out to Mastic and Mastic Beach so he could go drinking and fishing with his buddies. As a child there were two bars that were really family places. They served food, made sure anyone who brought their kids had things for them to do, and basically made sure one adult was always able to drive. This was long before the days of the bars being required to have a designated driver. Captain Andy's was the bar my mother ended up learning to be a barmaid at. My mother basically had had many jobs in her life time. My father went on strike with the phone company and that meant Mom found work. I can remember her for months going the twenty minute drive out there where she would tend bar, cook food, clean up, and then come home.
     
    By the later the later half of the 70's we had moved out to the area. By the early 80's, my mother was working in the local school district. Fast forward 25 years and now Mom was retiring as a Teacher's Assistant. The old Captain Andy's was now Claire's by the Bay. It was a restaurant and catering hall down on the water. There are pictures of my mother's retirement from inside the building but now I was getting fond of my memories and wanted to capture that old building. Of course things change, which is something I forgot.
     
    The parking lot was really almost gone now. The weeds and sea grass had filled the parking lot. At first I thought the damn building had been torn down but then the reality of the situation hit me. The catering hall hadn't survived the recession. Early last fall it had closed and the windows and doors had been boarded up. the neatly kept gray building was now a mess. The docks that had gone out into the bay were gone leaving only the pilings which looked like tombstones jutting out of the water. The building itself was now marked with spray paint of words, signs, and pictures. I couldn't bring myself to snap a photo of what it had become. The place of my memories was gone and a shell of it was left.
     
    I never mind seeing progress make over spots where things have fallen on hard times. I have a problem with the hard times make spots that have been in business for 60 or so years fade because the economy has turned to garbage. So now another part of my past and that of my family's is gone. Seems I missed the opportunity to get a picture of this place for my own records. Now it has only my memory to live on in.
  4. comicfan
    I have been asked if I am finishing Charlie or if I have just forgotten about the story. The truth is chapter 21 is done and I am working on chapter 22. I do apologize for not having 21 posted yet. My beta and my editor are currently on vacation. While both have said I should send my work to them and they will work on them, I won't do that. A vacation is just that. A break from your normal work load and I would like them to focus on what they are doing and enjoy it.
    I am not sure if those who follow my work are aware of the Anthologies that are on the site. I am presently also finishing one for the Fall Anthologies, Legends. I hope some of my fellow writers who haven't posted before might take up this idea and contribute to this coming anthology. I am one of those who not only writes but loves to read. So here is hoping so many people will take a new look at things and try something new.
    In the meantime, I have been having a ball with so many of the prompts that are up. Those short stories are all being posted under the title Inspired By so feel free to stop by and read them. I am not sure about everyone else on the site but I enjoy comments on the stories. I am honest when I say if you like it say so, found a problem with my work don't hide it just tell me. I prefer to try to make sure my work is the best it can be for those I share it with. Anyway, if you took the time to read all this I just wanted to thank you. I am using this as my daily ramblings and just letting people know how much I enjoy GA and the work, people, and art found on here. Till next entry, have a good one all.
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    A Day at the Duck

    By comicfan,

    Okay, so today was suppose to be my day off. I had things I wanted to get done. One of those included the opportunity to go out to Flanders and pick up something that was uniquely from Long Island for two people on the site who have come to mean a lot to me. I am a reasonably intelligent person so it shouldn't be that hard right?
    There is a reason why my nickname is "Charlie Brown". Like my character, Charlie Wagner, oh did I just give a hint where his name came from, I have no luck at all. Before I left my home I did my research on the landmark known as the Long Island Big Duck. It sits out in Flanders, NY and is a building shaped like a giant duck. It was originally built to attract buyers for a duck farm. It is now on the maps as an official site and one of a few remaining such buildings across America.
    The website for the Duck reads it is open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm. I figured leaving my home a little after noon that this wouldn't be a problem. I would get there right around one or so and be able to get in and buy some things that would be special and mark it as from Long Island. This was going to be one of the corner stones in the small packages I was putting together. As the saying goes the best laid plans of mice and men. First off I arrive at five minutes after one to find a sign posted on the door that they close for lunch between one and two. For me this is not a major problem. I am just down the road from Riverhead and the Tangier Outlets. I drive over, do some quick shopping. Deciding that I don't want to spend a lot of money, I go into only one store and then leave. Seeing that I still have about a half hour yet till the Duck is due to reopen, I drive over to Borders which is in the process of closing. At the bookstore I drool over piles of books that are being discounted at up to 40% off. I very carefully pick out only two and then pay. It has been nearly an hour at this point. I drive back to the Duck.
    My whole reason for going there remember is to buy something that is unique to Long Island for my two friends who live in countries far away. It is now two fifteen and guess what, no one is there. I guess the person who runs if for the county decided on an extra long lunch. After having waited, I get out of the car and snap a few pictures before heading home. I guess next time I will call before I head out and spend my day waiting for someone who isn't there. I'll try to post the pictures in the gallery shortly. Needless to say the gifts will be going out a little later than I wanted them to.
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