I read this, and it gave me an image of you having a plastic box with a tree branch in it, and going "Look, mom! It's one year old!".
What made me happy today?
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I read this, and it gave me an image of you having a plastic box with a tree branch in it, and going "Look, mom! It's one year old!".
If there's expenses involved, numbers are the only thing. What's it cost to run library? And revenue is generated by.... what? Library card fees, endowments, and fund raising? Gimme some data... I'm going stir crazy with no businesses to run. I'm gonna start inventing imaginary ones in a minute.
Lol! Didnt you just retire? Go on a cruise
Then come back and run your imaginary business!
In all seriousness, we are renting this building until a new one is built. So rent is a major factor. Along with the fact the the building needs A TON of work right now, with the mice, and pipes, and other things that the library is paying to fix just to keep us open
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Its -4 C here today, warmer than it has been, but I really like how the days are slowly getting longer!
That's so low! The UK does get quite cold as well, but I am lucky enough to not be needed at the university right now! I can do everything on my laptop under the sunny skies of Crete
I'm pretty happy about avoiding -4c weather indeed.
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it is kind of keeping me indoors. I need to go out and do errands, but I put off everything until tomorrow!
Infinitesimal compared to payroll, I would think. How many people do you have working there?
Temperatures and human reactions to them are so interesting. -4 C is 25 F, which seems a very comfortable winter temperature to me, unless of course, the wind is blowing 40 mph. I don't avoid running errands until it drops down below -28 C, but I have good winter clothing.
On the other hand, I look for shade when the temps soar up to 30 C and once it climbs over 38 C, shade, ice tea, and a good breeze are necessary just to keep me breathing, let along having the energy to raise the glass to my mouth. When I was young, I lived in places where temps were consistently over 38 C for weeks on end. Didn't start bothering me until I was in my early 20s. My tolerance for heat has steadily decreased ever since.
On the other hand, I look for shade when the temps soar up to 30 C and once it climbs over 38 C, shade, ice tea, and a good breeze are necessary just to keep me breathing, let along having the energy to raise the glass to my mouth. When I was young, I lived in places where temps were consistently over 38 C for weeks on end. Didn't start bothering me until I was in my early 20s. My tolerance for heat has steadily decreased ever since.
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I unfortunately suffer from chilblains so cold temperatures have the potential to bring me torture. Seriously, chilblains are no joke. It's when blood leaks out of your vessels and becomes trapped under your skin. It brings actual agony I'd rather not describe.
England's winters triggered them annually multiple times. Thankfully, these last two years, the circumstances enabled me to spend the winter in my home island, so no chilblains! It's been marvelous and great.
This is my last year in university if all goes well. I'll leave England and its harsh winters for hopefully Crete, if again all goes well. There is a possibility I might have to spend some years in Athens though. But the temperatures will be alright there as well.
And so, all is happy
Grandkid 1 built a fort. Won't let his sister in.
He's left his dinner on the coffee table. Fool.
She goes up to it, starts chomping down his cutlets.
NOOO poppy make her STAHP
Go get it stupid.
Refuses to leave his pillowfort. Wails.
I knew she was smart, but not to the extent of knowing if your enemy is holed up in a castle, you simply starve them out.
He's left his dinner on the coffee table. Fool.
She goes up to it, starts chomping down his cutlets.
NOOO poppy make her STAHP
Go get it stupid.
Refuses to leave his pillowfort. Wails.
I knew she was smart, but not to the extent of knowing if your enemy is holed up in a castle, you simply starve them out.
Deep sympathy.
I frostbit the tips of my fingers almost 50 years ago and I remember that every time my hands get cold. The amount of money I've spent on good gloves over the years would've paid for airfare to Crete with change left over to take you to dinner.
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Isn't that just how real businesses get started?
I finished one excel spreadsheet homework assignment. That level of boredom had to have killed off some neurons. Schism's neuron reefs are in danger of going extinct. We need to protect the environment.
Maybe said dumbifying of me will be narrated by David Attenborough (sp wrong, don't care).
Maybe said dumbifying of me will be narrated by David Attenborough (sp wrong, don't care).
Yet you're still described as "New Member."
I'm still undecided whether to describe my novel set 1981-1984 as "period" or "historical." I say it's set at the "end of the predigital epoch and beginning of the neopuritan era."
I describe my story set in 1986 as historical, since it deals with a real historical event. But I don't know if you'd do that if a story just uses the time period as a backdrop though - maybe then, it'd be period.
Hmm, I guess you can't use
"the launching of the Reaganite-Thatcherite Regime".
How about "The MTVian Revolution"?
If your novel has anything to do with music, that might help.
Probably not. History is slowing down as the methods for recording the present improve. I remember when I was looking into history PhD programs 20 years ago, the proficiency in foreign languages was the great bottleneck. You couldn't research primary source documents if you didn't speak the language. Now Johnny from Burger King's phone can translate anything that wonders across its lens.
