Superfly on notice!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I also have a new cell phone, its ok, but reception in HR is for crud. I also got a new usb II hard drive for extra storage on my computer... (to take some strain off my internal hd) its a lacie lego errr brick and It was 99 bucks for 160 gb...nice... and its stackable with others too... yay.. now I need a usb 2 hub.

[stacer]

Briefly online while staying at my sister's. Off to a picnic in about an hour. Reunions really make me feel all time-travely in my head. This is actually a good thing--I hope to get some good writing in this weekend, because my new book is based on my hometown. (Even though this is not my high school reunion--it's a drum corps reunion.)

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

drum corps is cooler than HS... so there! Good luck writing. I feel like writing too.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Speaking of writing, I've finally gotten out of my rut of almost 4-5 months of bad-to-no writing. I've got a few poems already written and am in the works of a supers short story. This is fantastic!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

and I Just want to put this in the stupid people with wifi file... tooooo many people have no concept of wifi security...
I say as I type this on my front porch... yay wifi piggybacking
now all I need is a range extender so I can do this from inside....

[stacer]

Speaking of drum corps, I'm really thinking I need to write a realistic novel about drum corps. So few novels even touch on band culture, and drum corps is far and beyond a completely different culture entirely.

As I've thought about my writing this week, being so immersed in my old life and thinking about what I'll write, I think more and more that the stories I have to tell are realistic. I have a few ideas about fantastic stories, but the ones that interest me writing-wise are realistic stories that reflect experiences I've had, which so few people seem to have experienced themselves (small town/farm life, bando/drum corps, and just the unique combination of a number of factors). So I think they'd make interesting settings. Only problem is I'm still searching for the right plot and characters.

I think I've found the mother character, though. It's the main characters and what they'll do that I'm still working on.

[stacer]

And speaking of lack of wifi security, there are two networks within range of my unconnected grandma's house. I expected to be completely out of touch for at least three days, but here I am!

[fuzzyoctopus]

WELL, some of us don't need to worry about such things. We can barely get a signal upstairs in this house unless we're right over the room the router is in.  Our neighbors are a quarter mile away and Amish.  

[stacer]

Heh, yeah, if I were at my dad's house, there wouldn't be any sort of signal whatsoever. Neighbor is about 1/8 mile away across the road, and Dad hasn't ever had a computer in the house. No. I take that back. My stepmom just got an ancient computer from a friend last year and even has internet access (dialup), but my dad hasn't done anything on it. He hasn't even touched a typewriter since college in the early 70s.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Can't sleeeeeeep.
I hate working odd shifts, it messes me up for a week.

[42]

Odd shifts do that.

Course, after awhile you get used to the sleep deprivation...and the hallucinations, parnoia, and general zombie-lifestyle.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Here here! Paranoia and delusions of granduer are fun! Especially when you're walking home after 8 hours of work and start talking to yourself, coherently.

Oh how I miss that. Well... not really. I do that either way.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Hey, someone who grew up in California may have to answer this, but can you be a hippie and an intellectual at the same time? Does a college education or two negate any possibility of one secretly being a hippie?

I'm asking for outside opinions because, heck - I live in Ohio, where large sections of the population cannot even properly conjugate "to be" in their sentences.

[MsFish]

Many of the hippies from the 60s were in college.  Berkeley, especially.  So I would say, no, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I think that most hippies were, at least, pseudo-intellectuals.