“They were duck hunters. They always yelled, ‘Duck!’ before they shot you.” #writing #throwawayline

One of The Gathering brought an offering today. Oreo dropped off a bird. #cat

Observed. His long gray beard had a top-knot. #writing #character

Spent the morning coding a wrapper for TinyDB. Now I’m outside by the water and free-writing.

Happy National See Monarchs Day They mean Monarch butterflies, but I find it appropriate it lands, pun intended, on Coronation Day.

It’s Friday eve. Time to eat a bucket of ice cream.

Photo up. photosaday.visualnewt.com #photography

“Good things happen to good people. Bad things happen to good people. It all balances out.” #writing

So, are all the tech layoffs due to AI replacing people, or the result of a ‘bubble’ or overextension by management? Rhetorical question.

“The clouds gather like the cats on my deck.” #writing #throwawayline

Good deed for the day, done.

Humans are strange. At birth, most countries issue a birth certificate to attest that you are alive, or to validate your identity. They should give you an official passkey. When you die, a death certificate is issued. That’s what AI’s would do. #life #failure

Lunch #food

How many friends do you have? How many enemies? How many people want to see you dead? Draw a graph. If it the curve doesn’t head downward, you’re a failure. #life

“Life is easy, if you are.” #writing #throwawayline

You’re only as productive as your results. The process of being productive is just the process. An endless road goes nowhere. #life #productivity

I went out on the deck, and this happened again. Oreo, one of The Gathering, found the sofa. I think I need to get it to a vet. I don’t want fleas in the house. It didn’t want to leave the house when I tried to get it out. #feral #cat

A ‘check’ is something you pay with. You pay a “bill”. At a restaurant, you ask for your check; you’re asking to be paid. A check is a bill in America. A bill is also paper money, or what a duck has. You feed a duck bread, which is money he puts on his bill. #writing #english

When you feel you need to eat, write instead. Or do both. That’s what I do. #writing

Don’t forget: tomorrow is Friday. You can start to goof off.

#cats

I spent most of the day redesigning the photosaday.visualnewt.com site. It’s a bit more full-featured and user-friendly. #photography

Lunch and free-writing concluded. Time to get back to attempting to be productive.

After today’s “May the Force Be With You”. Tomorrow should be, “Have a Fifth (of bourbon), Why Don’t You?”