Work and People

[e_moon60]

Although I had two very sticky days with the book this week, I made my words goal with some spare change--just over 12,000.

And I must remember that some nice email/comments showed up.  On the other hand...so did some not-nice ones.

Naturally, it's easier to talk about the latter than the former, in part because telling the audience that I got a

Comments

[keristor]

"The only right move is to stop the TPP at the first sentence" reminds me of Heinlein's advice that any sentence starting with a clause containing 'but' ("It's none of my business, but...", "I shouldn't say this, but...", and the like) should be punctuated immediately after the 'but'. The use of excessive force in the punctuation may not be socially acceptable (killing someone for a first offense, for instance). (I have paraphrased, and probably conflated a couple of his (vice Lazarus Long) comments.)

I like your ideas about what to do with lemons! Not that I have anything against fresh-made lemonade either.

I'm less certain about the phrase I read as "this morning's sausages, deglazed with a slug". Oh, "of red wine", that makes a difference, the other seemed a little strange (and is an artefact of the way I parse sentences in a linear way)...

[teriegarrison]

In my browser window, the line ended with 'slug', so my mind did the same thing yours did before my eyes managed to travel to the beginning of the next line. :-) (BTW, remember me from breakfast one morning at Eastercon? My hair's longer now than in my photo with this post. I think it was either Sunday or Monday we sat together and had a bit of a chat.)

[keristor]

Ah, I remember from the picture (similar enough that my recognition system actually works), but not which morning. Mornings are too late at night at cons *g*.

[e_moon60]

Oh, that "deglazed with a slug" line got a LOL from me--suddenly the poor slug was gazing at me with a pleading expression, begging not to be put in a pan of hot sausage bits and scraped around...and into my head came a Gilbert & Sullivan song, "Poor Wandering One..." I think it's from Pirates of Penzance, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it transmuted into "Poor wandering slug...how did you land in the sausage?"

Yes, I have a very silly mind.

[keristor]

Heh, your mind has the same sort of silliness as mine so I approve. Yes, "Poor Wandering One" is from Pirates, sung by Mabel (and the chorus, who twist Mabel's "take any heart, take mine" to "take any heart but ours") in response to Frederic. Hmm, his previous song could be sung (similarly modified, "Oh, is there not one lettuce here") by the slug...

[e_moon60]

SNORK!