Had some people show up at the front door asking me if I want to live forever. Answering no pretty much shocked them until I asked, why would I want more of wars, suffering, marketing,and assorted other ills. Not to mention personal problems. They walked away never to be seen again.

Time only slips away if you don’t pay attention. Ever watch a pot boil?

Time to find some luncheon.

XOJO question/help needed. From everything I see, this should work fine. This is on a Mac and XOJO has access to my folders. I get an IOException (with no reason) creating a TextOutputStream. All the FolderVariable items are correct. I must be missing something obvious. #programming #xojo

Happy National Beer Lover’s Day

Photo up. photosaday.visualnewt.com #photography

What are you looking forward to from Monday’s Apple event? #apple

Good morning while you’re doing whatever you have to do, remember to live. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Thank you for following me, interacting with me, and reading my books. You are appreciated.

Who would listen to a podcast where ChatGPT interviewed itself?.~

“Don’t blow out the candles.” “Don’t flush the toilet.” #writing #horror #prompt #throwawayline

What last made you smile?

This coming week, I’ll be at Creatures, Crime, and Creativity in Columbia, MD. I’ll be makingng a cool of myself, because it’s what I’m good at. :) #mdc3con #writing #books

“It’s fine to enjoy your work unless your work hurts or kills.” #writing

“My eye sight is spot on.” “That’s because all you see are spots.” #writing #throwawayline

“His was an ego borne of bad parenting.” #writing

It just hit me; a novel doesn’t have to be entirely/all funny to be humorous or funny. I’ve been bemoaning/struggling with sustaining humor for an entire novel. Duh! The obvious always is a life lesson. #writing #humor #humour

“He wore a white shirt, and a red vest with black pants. He didn’t know why, but people kept giving him him their car keys. He had a large collection of keys he didn’t know what to do with.” #writing

Code samples taken out of context are worthless apart from being a syntax example. #programming #documentation #failure

Lashes? #humor

What makes horror funny? #writing #life

“You don’t have make enemies. There are more than enough people willing to do it.” #writing

I hate the randomness of autocorrect. It makes me appear like an idiot.