The insomnia is real.
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The insomnia is real.
The dog obsessed over dental sticks and the puppy floss and such, and gargling and she was about five [years old] when the veterinary said she'd worn them to stumps. 'Suki, okay with dentures, baby?' I said, but giving her a bone the dentures would detach without a heap of glue. I'd run along the beach finding dentures glinting on the foreshore. I might have found any dentures on the beach. Never absolutely sure whose teeth you find. She's probably wearing some old woman's smile, a lovely smile. I wish I had teeth to share, my mouth probably worse than my ass/arse [metaphor] :/ or my feet.
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Day went okay, still sleeping really then final 12 hours at the unit. Should really be drunk tomorrow morning but will sleep first. That's the problem with night shift. Dawn is upside, almost.
I always get so irritated by 'lockdown experience' or 'lockdown competitions' and sit here foaming at the intelligentsias/writer slugs suffering at the window pane poetry, and Radio 4, & stillness of slovenly sitting on your ass [repetition] poetry, & tragedy of massive garden haikus that might take over the world if we let it. What about the real slugs? That's my opening line but then I saw FISH wanted 10E for my entry and I kind of dislike FISH & anybody who sends me an e-mail, so I didnt write the poem.
lifted a paving slab and found a female slowworm under it. I keep finding them, males and females and sometimes baby ones. Anything that's main diet is slugs is welcome in my garden.
I looked 'slowworm' up because I'm not familiar...so they're like a little snake? I'm not sure of the size from the pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olly Buckle
My day was a fairly typical workday: doing lots of tasks big and small for someone who can't do them, keeping my patience with that person's passive-aggressive spouse. I had a glorious bath when I came home and then made tacos (didn't want to cook but I did want to eat) and now I'm getting to sit down which is just marvelous.
Now that you mention it there are snails that eat and munch on all the plants in my garden. They tried to get rid of them but it never did work.
They are about ten inches long, the males are silver grey, the females golden brown. They look a bit like snakes to the casual glance, but really they are lizards without legs and they have a different head shape without the snake's neck and separate head. They can also do that lizard trick of constricting muscles and losing their tail if they feel threatened, the tail writhes like mad and attracts the predator whilst they quietly slip off.
I am stuck with a microphone. So I am going to buy a recorder that is more useful than the ones I own. A cousin of mine didn't return it on time. But on the bright side maybe I need it. I am notoriously poor at describing things. I am going to read some books on how some writers wrote faster. They said they used a recorder to write prose. So maybe it isn't all bad. Flights were I am from start in July. Ironically my brother is going to arrive faster than the microphone and he lives in Switzerland. So my goals are high. I started thinking this might benefit me. It will be the ultimate and last recourse and resource as an intervention to write faster. Then and I am going to order medialexie. I am currently on a free trial. I wish I had an easier path to reach my goals.
I will get this recorder recommended by the below book:
WS-853 Olympus
On Being a Dictator: Using Dictation to Be a Better Writer (Million Dollar Writing Series)
I figure I will make fewer mistakes.
And also I did research on how to observe and describe. There are some books on the topic.
My son and three of his friends toured the CHAZ / CHOP site in Seattle yesterday. My wife was pretty mad when she found out. I was glad that they went.
His group of friends is fairly politically conservative (as I am), but the events recently are historic, and we all need to understand them better. He took a few pictures. Basically, the whole thing is just a really large "teach-in". A few hippies were growing food in the park. There was only one scuffle: A Jesus Freak started getting very disruptive (irony?) and was tackled. The "organizers" must still be working on the implementation of that whole free speech idea. Four legs good... unless they are on a pig.
Meanwhile, my wife and I were out driving looking for our retirement property. Our destination was a "town" called Matlock. The town consisted of a gravel lot / equipment lot, and a general store. That's it.
The area is pretty remote, and my wife still isn't sold on being that far out. I'm just hoping we can find our version of Walden Pond.
Thanks but it's a bit too late. The return window expired, since my cousin "was too busy with work and forgot it." He couldn't go to UPS. I had bought it from amazon.
I bought this one after seeing the good reviews and after doing the research (user reviews and website reviews):
Philips LFH-3500 SpeechMike Premium USB microphone
This mutes itself everytime you put it on top of the table, and so on. So you can stop dictating everytime you run out of ideas. I hope it works with windows well. It's an old microphone but has always been considered accurate apparently even though it was made in 2012. I guess the speech software catched up.
I went to all the websites that sold microphones. I read their articles. This one is accurate, durable, and I insured it for 2 years. So if it breaks after 2 years I can file a claim.
I didn't want the naunce microphone even though it supposedly is the most accurate, and it has the best noise cancellation of all to this date according to the reviewers.
I even considered a flexy speech mike dc by speechware. It may be accurate but it looks fragile and people have returned them after seeing how delicate these are.