QOTD: # 164 Feelings

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How are you feeling right now?

I have mixed feelings right now. My girlfriend is here from Texas for a week. We are headed to Vegas today for fun and games. I am very very happy about that. 😊

I am also feeling frustrated with blogging. Despite my usual output of 6-8 writings a day and over 940 subscribers my numbers for views and such have been down and I don’t know why. I think my material is still good so it’s a mystery.

As always thank you for reading…

-aaa

The High Rope Walker

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The crowd watched in breathless silence as the walker made his way across.

It was a gale, twenty-five mile an hour wind which is even stronger at his locale.

As he stands tenderly on a small wire affixed between two skyscrapers more than seventy-five stories high, each.

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In his hands, a wooden stick used for balance it’s nearly twenty feet long.

This stands as his sole assistance against the wind and his minuscule walkway.

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Underneath him, nothing but a large experiment in gravity, should he fall the 800 plus feet to the cold asphalt below…

-AAA 08/27/2024

We Are ALL Enough 

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Who cares if they stare

Just be you, and dare

As long as you’re aware

Look inside, the answer’s there 

Empathy’s, cross to bear 

Knowing life is far from fair

Alive, because you care

There’s plenty of love to spare

And generosity to share…

-AAA 08/27/2024

QOTD: #162

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What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

I was double checking colors that start with the letter “i” as I’m creating a limerick that is for that letter.

I settled on “indigo” but then and decided to go a different direction with the limerick.

I often look up words, letters, annunciations, and other things just to be sure I’m getting things correct in my writing just double checking, really. Coming up with some interesting adjectives and words and animals that go with some of the letters, the alphabet that we don’t use as often as a common practice for me.

As always thank you for reading…

-aaa

My Mountain Stream 

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Stand near a stream 

Watch the waters gleam.

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Rippling by 

Babbling sighs.

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Soft soil gently holds bare feet 

Along with dampness and peat.

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Here up high the scents never hurt 

I even enjoy the mountain dirt.

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Gentle breeze

Swaying pine trees.

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A mild wind suggestion

Adds to this gorgeous procession.

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The sun warms you all about 

From the inside and out.

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The waters, ice cold to the touch 

As the snowmelt does this much.

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Crisp, clear, and crystal clean

Juxtaposed to waters of home, quite obscene.

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A gull flies by, a gentle wish 

To spot the largest swimming fish.

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The sky is blue with no rain in sight 

This day, my little refuge, until a night..

-AAA 08/27/2024

QOTD: #161 Childhood TV Shows

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What TV shows did you watch as a kid?

There are a great many shows I liked as a kid and I’m very nostalgic in my older years now, as I still love many of these shows. Some were in syndication mornings and afternoons. Others were part of prime time TV. And still others were part of daily or Saturday morning cartoons.

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s afforded me a lot of great television.

My favorite childhood TV Shows include:

Emergency! (AKA Rescue 51)

Adam 12

F-Troop

Gillian’s Island

The Brady Bunch

That’s Incredible

The Incredible Hulk

Wonder Woman

Welcome Back Kotter

Kojack

Columbo

ABC Wide World of Sports

Star Trek (The Original Series)

Tales From The Darkside

Tales From The Crypt

The Twilight Zone

Saturday Night / Saturday Night Live

Late Night with David Letterman

Star Trek the Cartoon series

The Jetsons

Stop That Pidgin

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Eight is Enough

The Waltons

Jabber Jaw

Starsky And Hutch

The Rockford Files

Magnum P.I.

Happy Days

Lavern And Shirley

Mork and Mindy

The White Shadow

WKRP in Cincinnati

Sesame Street

Tic-Tac-Dough

Joker’s Wild

Let’s Make a Deal

The Electric Company

Mr Roger’s Neighborhood

Cosmos (Carl Sagan)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

New Zoo Review

The Super Friends

Smurfs

Alvin and the Chipmonks

Warner Brothers Cartoons

Woody Woodpecker

Popeye

Heckle and Jeckle

Nightrider

V

The Phoenix

All in The Family

Diffrn’t Strokes

Bosom Buddies

Family Ties

Soap

Benson

Sanford and Son

The Bugaloos

Land Of The Lost

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

The Secrets of Isis

The Facts of Life

In Search Of

Unsolved Mysteries

Shazam!

That’s Cat

The Flintstones

Scooby Doo

Perils of Penelope Pitstop

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Fantastic Four

Gunsmoke

Bonanza

Lassie

Chips

There’s Company

The Adventures of Superman

Tom and Jerry

St Elsewhere

Hill Street Blues

Mama’s Family

Carol Burnett Show

Sha-Na-Na

Real People

Benny Hill

Dr. Who

Faulty Towers

To name a few 😜. As always thank you for reading…

-aaa

QOTD: #160

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What’s your favorite time of day?

I love all times of the day.

Morning with the promise of a day and all that will happen.

Afternoon with a break and the second wind of the workday.

Evening with the warm nights and relaxation and unwinding.

-aaa

No Tell Motels Say A lot 

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All no tell motels have a lot to say

Given the forbidden lovers visiting each day.

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Passions quenched and desires thrilled

At cost of jilted whose needs aren’t fulfilled.

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Paid in cash checked in as “smith”

Anonymity is all they can work with.

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Dreams come true or nightmares 

Depending on who really cares.

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Cheap linens and rubber sheets 

Make this atmosphere complete.

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Finger size bottles of liquor litter the rooms

Along with a stale scent of spent perfumes.

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All of the bedding is filthy too 

With all the nasties these people do.

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So after you check in and before resting your head 

Place thick plastic on the pillows and bed…

-AAA 08/24/2024

Unicorn Challenge 23rd August

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A magical new weekly writing opportunity from Jenne Gray and C. E. Ayr.

The Unicorn Challenge-23/08/24

The rules are:

Maximum of 250 words.

Inspired by photo prompt below.

That’s it.

One Lone Goalie Stands Fast

Standing alone on the damp green turf.

Nighttime arrives as the steady darkness is abated only by the stadiums lights.

A large crowd situated around these proceedings.

The dampness makes the warm evening humid, adding to the tension of the spectacle unfolding.

Near the lights, thousands of small dancing things are drawn and strewn about. 

Oddly (for the figure standing on the field) the strong scent of popcorn, nachos, and hotdogs fills the air.

The spectators enjoy a veritable orgy of outrageously priced junk food.

Consumed with an almost fierce desperation as they root for their favorite team.

Athletes kick and chase a hexagonal patterned ball up and down the field.

For the moment, he lets out a sigh of relief as his counterpart defends a small patch of earth. 

This respite will be short lived as already the  ball has passed midfield and is heading towards his goal. 

Nothing will get through.

He will dive and land horribly to assure a nil score for his opponents. 

A night in the life of a goalie…

-AAA 08/23/2024

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QOTD: Favorite Recipes

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What’s your favorite recipe?

ANT’S DAILY BRUNCH

I eat this nearly every day, it’s a very hearty breakfast that helps me start out my day right. It’s a pretty large meal and serves as breakfast and lunch for me. Definitely, you can adjust the ingredients for a larger or smaller serving size or for multiple people.

INGREDIENTS:

One cup of cremini mushrooms

1/4 cup of diced white or red onions

1/4 cup of pickled jalapeños

3 large eggs

2 tbs of sriracha 

2 tsp’s of parmigiana cheese 

1 tsp of ricotta cheese 

4 dashes of Tabasco

One handful of finely graded Italian cheese blend.

3 tbs of course black pepper

3 tbs of garlic powder

3 tbs of umami seasoning

2 slices of cracked wheat sourdough

6 ounces of V8 spicy 

1 slightly ripened medium banana 

16 oz white monster energy zero carb

1 2 Oz orange EmergenC packet

2 tsp of salted butter

2 tsp of European style butter 

Veggies: 

Combine the mushrooms, jalapeños, and diced onions in a bowl and set aside. 

Eggs (scramble):

Break three large eggs in a bowl, add 1 tsp’s of: course black pepper, umami seasoning, and garlic powder. Next add 2tbs of sriracha (or more). Finally add, 1 tsp of ricotta cheese. Whip mixture with a fork until all ingredients are combined well, then set aside. 

Toast:

Cut a large slice of cracked wheat sourdough bread in half and place in toaster, do not toast until the eggs are nearly done!!

Beverages:

One 6 oz glass of f V8 spicy

To a 16 Oz glass of white monster energy zero carb, one EmergenC packet. 

Note: you can have any beverage you like instead of mine.

Fruit:

Peel one medium sized banana and place on small plate.

PREPARATION

Place 2 tsp’s of salted butter in a medium skillet, under high then medium heat. 

When butter is melted, add the bowl of veggies you prepared earlier. 

Make sure everything is coated in the butter and sauté everything.

Add seasonings to the vegetables, assuring you mix them a lot (1 tsp of: course black pepper, umami seasoning, and garlic powder). 

Add 3-4 dashes of Tabasco sauce to the veggies and keto mixing. 

When the onions become translucent and caramelized, add the egg mixture and stir it in with the veggies.

Then add one handful of Italian cheese blend and spread it over the top of the veggie/egg mixture. 

Turn up the stove to high heat.

Put the toast in the toaster.

Stir cheese/egg/veggie mixture until all eggs are cooked and the cheese melted. 

Then transfer to a plate. 

Take out toast and liberally butter with 2 tsp’s of European style butter and place on small plate along with peeled banana.

Lastly enjoy!!! if you don’t like spicy food, you can always take out the Sriracha jalapeños and Tabasco and you can definitely add more veggies if you like like bell peppers or tomatoes or anything else. I do the cleanup as I make this meal so as I’m finished and ready to eat it, everything is put away and cleaned up and I have nothing to do but enjoy, and you hope you do as well.  

-aaa

QOTD: #158

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Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.

There are many things that qualify as exciting to me.

Discovering music I haven’t heard before that may not even be new, but it’s new to me. That’s always exciting.

My girlfriend will be in town next Wednesday to join me in Vegas. I’m very excited about that.

I never know what I’m gonna write until I write it and that is also very exciting.

I’m very excited about my blog as well, it continues to grow bigger and bigger and I love that.

I couldn’t do it without all of my readers, as always thank you for reading. 😊

-aaa

Get to Know You #31

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Hello and happy timezones, kind friends! I have greatly enjoyed your responses to my Get to Know You posts! So, it’s time. Come sit on my porch for a…

Get to Know You #31

Here is round #31:

  1. What’s the best prank you’ve ever pulled on someone?
  2. What terrible gift have you gotten that you’ve had to keep?
  3. How do you like to spend your time after work?

  1. The best prank I ever pulled on somebody is a doozy.  I work in information technology or somewhere thereabouts for the last 28+ years now. And when we play pranks on ourselves, we play the worst. so, I went to one of my colleagues desk that had walked away for a moment and this is about 26 years ago, I took a screenshot of his icons on his screen, then I dragged all the icons screen and set that as wallpaper. Poor guy sat there for 10 minutes, clicking on the icons that would never open… 
  2. Not really anything everything I get I love and I keep even things that are weird, but really nothing stands out right now.
  3. I do a lot of writing poetry, short stories, pros essays. I also talk to a lot of my friends do a little bit of posting on social media and a lot of blogging. I also love streaming my favorite shows on various streaming sites. 

As always, thank you for reading…

-aaa

Sugar, My Cure My Curse

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Originally Published 08/28/2024

Sugar sugar please don’t be high

But if it’s low, ill never cry

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A sip of Apple or orange juice

Always lets my numbers loose

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Candy cookies yummy things

Fresh French fries and onion rings

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Kettle chips and puffs of cheese

Never ever fail to please

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Sickly sweet and honey taste

I’ll never let it go to waste

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Soda Pop drinks and punch

Always raise my sugar much

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Prick a finger stick and touch

Hoping the digits won’t be much

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When it’s low I feel complete

Because I get to eat and cheat

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If too low an alarm will sound

Or I’ll face plant it on the ground

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Too high of sugar is a goal that’s missed

And Never fails to make me pissed

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Just give some space and I’ll be fine

And raise my sugar from 69

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Diabetes it’s really the worst

Sugar, it’s my cure and curse

-aaa