JamesSavik

Lately everything I write seems a botch and forces a merciless rewrite.

You start out trying to write a short story and the characters and plot get entwined, and before you know it, you've got a three hundred thousand word trilogy.

I can be irascible at times... Who am I kidding? I'm irascible most of the time. You kids git off my lawn!

In the Place in Between, Alex's dad was a Phantom pilot who never came back. Many US soldiers and airmen went missing in action, leaving their families with the irreconcilable question of whether they were dead or prisoners of war. When I stumbled across this video, it made me think about him.

Because I've watched enough movies and read books that were so BAD, I know for a fact I could do better. MUCH better. I'd rather paint, but I have no talent at all for it.

I don't plan on using AI for writing. My fondest wish would be to have the bandwidth to get all the stories out of my own head and on paper (or disk files). I don't need it, and it would feel like cheating.

The troublesome cat actually ended up having a medical issue and is much better now. The AI diagnosed him, I took him to the vet who confirmed the problem and treated him.

Oct 1st I was clean & sober for twenty years.

I started growing Basil after discovering how much better fresh herbs were than dried. That doesn't make me a herbalist, just someone whose marinara is a cut above.

Where I run I see numerous little ceder trees as gnarled as bonsai. I'm tempted to "re-home" one.

Back when I was in school, a kid deer hunting fell into a cistern. It had been used before the Civil War on a plantation that was burned to the ground. It was covered, but over the years, it was forgotten, and the lumber used rotted away. The boy was able to climb out with help, but it was a very, scary incident.

I wanted to study AI applications in gradual skool, but alas, life never let me get around to it. Back in the late eighties, I developed an expert system for creating and properly formatting documents for a federal agency. I've been playing with Google Bard and Open AI. You have seen people create art and even have it write reports and short fiction. Over the last couple of months, I've had it give me a hand with projects I'm either not familiar with or am very rusty at, since I haven't done some of them in decades. (I'm much more familiar with Bard than I am with OpenAI.) Here are a few chores I did with AI assistance: Buy a used Toyota Tacoma Plan a funeral Execute the provisions of a will. Analyze the behavior of a troublesome cat. Help streamline my workout routines. For each of these tasks, Bard or OpenAI created an outline that included must-do items, advice, and even a list of local companies that could be helpful. For instance, when I bought my truck, none of the local dealers had anything I wanted on the lot. Bard suggested CarMax or AutoTrader because they were connected to a national network and could find what I wanted. It took a few weeks, but a 2019 Tacoma from Georgia was put on the market and I nabbed it. Being responsible for planning a funeral was WAY outside my experience. Once again, Bard created an outline I could work through and was able to complete the task successfully. For all of these listed tasks, I was able to get support and good advice. My conclusion is that AI is an excellent support tool for tasks you might not be familiar with or are outside your comfort zone.

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OK, I warned you. For A Good Time Call

Every kitchen needs at least one colander. I've got several because different sizes are useful.

Well, Mom was 90 at the time, so to her, they were just dumb yungins.

My mom used to watch "the View" and soon change channels in disgust. She would say, "I can't believe those heifers are so stupid." I'd say, "Mom, those cows get more stupid every day."

In Tennessee, you know it's deer season when the hoarfrost crunches under your boots.

So... is that when the coup starts, or when the Russians nuke us? Maybe they just use the 5G towers and microwave us all like popcorn. These sorts of things make paranoid people... pensive.

It finally let me send it after I deleted some images. Think I was over the attachment limit. Gotta get that anthology story in.

I assume their inboxes are full. Trying to get an anthology entry in under the wire.

Many people think that the extinction event that took out wooly mammoths happened very quickly because many of them have been found flash frozen in Siberia with recently eaten food in their stomachs.

Karen is the ultimate termagant: super-entitled and perpetually outraged when things don't go her way.