tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117613732024-03-13T18:03:53.180-05:00Fine WhineA place for me to vent or praise, or whine, or fiddle around with those 26 letters.Virginia Llorcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354795459855491623noreply@blogger.comBlogger481125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11761373.post-34873716381755070182020-01-22T19:06:00.001-06:002020-01-22T19:06:58.330-06:00Life With Luigi ; chapter next, Louie dusts<br />
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Dad had a spider on his bed room ceiling and went out and bought a telescopic duster. We are planning to store it next to my other two telescopic dusters and all my telescopic vacuum hoses and pipes. This is when at age 82 you look up the word "dust" in the dictionary and do a Google search for how to get a spider. Aren't you glad there have been no spiders in my house for 54 years? I mean, what would we have done?<br />
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Now people want a national mandate about the export of horses. Every county, at least in Northern Illinois, has its group of justice warriors that are rescuing starved and abandoned horses on private estates and farms. How old are the jokes about the glue factory?<br />
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A friend contributed to a charity that was trying to save the many burros running wild out west. They called to tell her the truck arrived in Chicago with her burro and please come pick it up. She lived in a city bungalow with her parents.<br />
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And what do they do when the wild mustang herds overgrow? They have round ups and slaughter. They also do this with buffalo herds, for instance, in Custer State Park. (Maybe National Park.)<br />
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This is a perceptual problem. Cows are actually more intelligent than horses and much more interested in bonding with humans. We don't ride cows and we don't eat horses. Why is that? A food chain is a food chain. Does a spider get sad if a ladybug gets caught in his web instead of a housefly or a mosquito?<br />
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So I wanted my favorite chicken and dumplings for my birthday dinner. That was Monday. But everyone was busy. My husband "liked" a wish from another person. That was his contribution to my birthday celebration. So on the way back from errands I bought a quonset pizza. Tuesday Fran came by with two cards and a bag of truffles. She made the kids call and say Happy Birthday. I actually got a greeting from each of my brothers.<br />
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Fran is terribly busy, doing clinicals to finish her masters and also working. But it is getting old. I am not supposed to drive. I have no license. ( Thanks, Lisa.) And have crippling agoraphobia. I have been picking up Delaney after school and bringing her here. I hit a car in the school parking lot. Fuck it. I didn't own it. So Lou picked her up two days and tomorrow. He is losing it completely.<br />
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Today I made the soup. Delaney ate two bowls. The dumplings were fluffy. Succés foú. So I go to clean up. Fran came in and had a small bowl. She doesn't even like it but thought she had to. But needed to be home for paper. So I try to make space in the fridge for pot. I am sick of recontainering everything with elaborate and expensive elán like some must do and leave the various detritus for the negro slave to clean up.<br />
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I first pick up a small carton of apple sauce. It had exploded. It was stuck. Everything on the shelf was stuck hard. This did not happen ten minutes ago. Hard stuck. Days. No one mentions. So I unstick. Wash some containers; throw much away. Take shelf and wash. Replacing shelf, knock over bowl of left over waffle batter. Fills next shelf. I remove objects, wash batter off them. Sop up puddle of batter. Remove shelf to wash. Notice batter filled crisper. Remove crisper to wash. Throw away tube of ground turkey that says use or freeze by March 17, 2017. Throw much away. Fucking olives. Fucking pickles. Sparkling crisper now contains one can frosting, one package hummus, one package new tortillas.<br />
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Well, I was on a major writing kick a few years back. I was doing fairly well selling ebooks on Amazon and Smashwords. I hate promoting and felt like I had plateaued. I have about 80% of another fiction work completed, and I dabble in weird genres every now and then. It isn't even that I want to. It is more like I have to. I think that once you write something and someone buys it and says, "Crazy good read", you are sort of hooked.<br />
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I have stopped promoting, and my sales have tanked. But I have started dabbling again. Wrote some stuff on various Web platforms. Then, out of the blue, I sell a book. Minute in fact, but it boosted my author rank about a million steps. Not kidding. Was #20 for a minute in one category. Then I noticed a hit on one of my exposition websites. Then I notice a follow from someone in the business. Actually felt kind of embarrassed.<br />
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There is all this boring badinage about publishing, the publishing industry, the future of publishing, the death of print at the hands digital, pricing, fonts, pulp versus literature, genre, cross-genre, formulaic writing, (my absolute favorite). (See Harlequin guidelines, etc.) Then reviews, paid for, traded, sock puppet, fake, positive, negative, etc. Three years ago this was fascinating. Now it is old news.</div>
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I published on KDP. I had some terrific download figures. I got beta readers for free. It was fun. I hated promotion. I stopped it. So, of course, I dropped off the map. I have screen shots of when my very first was number one free, when my second one was number nine paid and featured on some Amazon "also liked" next to John Sanford. Now I bore myself to sleep at night trying to figure out how to make a single paragraph transition in a book that is finished in my head -- imagining the witty promos I will do when I release it. I play Candy Crush a lot. Can barely read something from my "must read" pile.<br />
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I think authors might want validation more than they want to tell stories. I had a few reviews so validating, showing the reader got me, it seems enough for me. Maybe I am rationalizing, but it seems like I don't care so much. Then I will spend an evening spewing four thousand words and loving every single one of them.<br />
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<br />Virginia Llorcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354795459855491623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11761373.post-40976278190126083222016-12-02T23:10:00.002-06:002018-03-02T23:42:51.610-06:00Yuletide Greetings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">If, when, or before you prescribe amlodipine besylate for someone's hypertension, please google the side effects which are widely documented. Then you won't have to refer that person to:</span></div>
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Virginia Llorcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354795459855491623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11761373.post-11808830482803541462016-02-06T23:02:00.001-06:002016-02-06T23:02:13.515-06:00Problem Solved1. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Google the word<i><b><span style="color: red;"> taqiiya.</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> "Taqiyya is an Islamic juridical term whose shifting meaning relates to when a Muslim is allowed, under </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Sharia">Sharia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> law, to lie. A concept whose meaning has varied significantly among Islamic sects, scholars, countries, and political regimes, it nevertheless is one of the key terms used by recent anti-Muslim polemicists</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 19.84px;">.</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, <i style="font-size: 12pt;">taqiyya </i>and <i style="font-size: 12pt;">kitman</i>. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam -<span style="color: red;"><b> in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them." </b></span></span></div>
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“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” Obama responded. “What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria they’ll come in, they’ll leave, but you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain.”<br />
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Obama said this to George Stephanopoulos Friday morning. Was it delusion, stupidity, a trigger? ISIS is pouring across the world. We have ISIS training camps in Illinois and no one does anything about it. How can he possibly believe we have contained them? And, if he doesn't know it or believe it, it is one more nationally broadcast lie to America. What happened in Paris can happen here at any minute. Think about that every time you walk in the door of a mall or a theater. The only difference will be someone in the crowd of US citizens will be armed.<br />
<br />Virginia Llorcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354795459855491623noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11761373.post-27208648844521836702015-11-14T00:15:00.003-06:002015-11-14T00:17:12.050-06:00Harrassment By Any Other Name<div>
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When I was in college, I was a member of a much ridiculed minority. One consisting of only two percent of the world's population. At my institution the percentage was even lower. As a matter of fact, I only recall 3 other members of this minority in all my years spent there. I was constantly being approached by people remarking on my condition. I went to the Dean, Lamping was his name. He was dating a grade school class mate of mine, but they broke up. I better leave her name out of this. Anyway, I asked for a "safe place" where those of us sharing this condition could congregate without being "hit on". That is what they called it in those times. You were being "hit on" or "hawked", not harrassed. So when I made my request the dean said, "Bag ass, Red."Virginia Llorcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354795459855491623noreply@blogger.com2