Backwoods Boy

The positive thing in this post is that you are smart enough to recognize the contradiction and appreciate the irony. Pity the sheeple, mostly younger, who don't. It's too bad that getting a degree is basically game playing BS. Spot on.

Thanks for that explanation. I've wondered about various lifestyles within DiC specifically, but have been reluctant to ask. I've lived a rather sheltered life, "closeted" in more than one sense. I'm fully accepting of the choices of others, but am often ignorant of what those choices involve, so many words like "Dom" and "sub" are only vague concepts.

Blowing snow out here in the wild, wild west. Not enough to drift, though, fortunately. I haven't even opened the door all day. Drinking lots of tea to stay warm.

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I wish I could pick both Sad and Love. Sad for how I feel and Love for the gift you have given us here from your heart. Thank you

Thanks for the tips. I've seen One Note in use before but haven't used it. I'll take a look. Even though my career was in computer science, I tend to do a lot on paper. It's a generational thing, I think. Up to this point, I've maintained paper records of characteristics. My outlines tend to be the starting point of the file in which I plan to write the chapter. Other records have been on paper. I probably need to move into the twenty-first century.

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The point is well taken, and if the reader is to be provided with details, they should be presented only as necessary, in my opinion. I've seen too many stories on another site that start with a dump of what should be the author's private character attribute spreadsheet. By the time you're done reading the first two pages, you're overwhelmed with detail, and by the time you get to where a detail is important, it's been forgotten. Besides leaving room for the reader, there's another reason for not going into too much detail, especially for those of us who don't plan well. It's hard to retract those blue eyes when you realize three published chapters later that they really need to be brown. Contact lenses maybe? The advice I have received here has helped me understand that I need to add more detail, but to concentrate on the right detail. So now, a comment from a beta reader on the first pass that says "Tyler is so cute" makes me realize that, yes, that was my intention, but maybe there are there some subtle things I can do to make him cuter. And it's almost always actions and dialogue rather than physical details that make the difference. That was today's real experience, by the way, and I'm torn between acknowledging/not embarrassing my adviser So that is probably a longer re-hash of what has been better and more succinctly said before, but thank you for sharing your thoughts on this subject and letting us think and reflect on how we might improve.

The clouds cleared a bit and I can see across the river to the mountains on the other side. I'm at about 100 ft above sea level, and the mountains rise abruptly to about 4000 ft. Snow/ice level is at about 200 ft. Lucked out this time. It's supposed to warm up now for a few days.

That's where I'm at this morning. And yesterday too, now that I think about it. 35 deg F so no ice - that's the good thing this morning. Hope everyone has a fine Saturday.

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Freezing rain forecast tonight, the scourge of the Columbia River Gorge. The standard howling and cold east wind with an over-riding Pacific front. Less than a quarter inch, so it will just make the roads slick. I'll stay home tomorrow. Two years ago, we got two inches in one night. I lost almost all of the trees in my yard, and enough branches fell on my pickup that it was in the fix-it shop for a month. This is apparently our alternative to hurricanes and tornadoes. Going to bed now so I can ignore the weather. A good night to everyone.

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Hmmm.... My body had a different reaction ...

Now let's take up the subject of fresh-cut Christmas trees, another wasteful cultural absurdity, in my not so humble opinion.

SHOTS Steven had orchids to show KEVIN

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