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Last week, we experienced some pretty cold weather down here in the Deep South where i live (Well, by my standards...) We had several days last week where the high temperatures didn't climb higher than 40F, and one night, combined with the wind chill, the temperatures outside felt like 6F...no, really! Things warmed up over the weekend...in fact, I found it pretty warm last night. But wintry weather is on its' way here again. A storm is making its' way east and it is going to hit my state in the early hours of the morning. It's scheduled to bring a wintry mix with it since the temperatures will be dipping low enough. We are expected to get some ice and...you guessed it by the journal title...for the second year in a row in my state, snow. Only a little bit of snow, however...no more than maybe half-an-inch at the most. Probably enough to dust the ground, but not much more than that. The storm is expected to be on its' way out of here in the early afternoon, but the temperatures aren't projected to reach all that high above freezing. I know some of my friends out there are probably sick of seeing snow...but myself, I don't mind so much, since it isn't every day you get to see snow around here. Maybe I'll get some pictures...if we get anything worth photographing!
In my last journal, I mentioned how in a recent NASCAR race at Daytona (I am a motorsports enthusiast, as I'm sure those of you who know me are well aware of), star driver Kyle Busch suffered a horrendous crash late in the race when his car sailed head-first into a concrete wall at a high rate of speed. Unfortunately, my thoughts that he broke his leg in the crash turned out to be true...it turned out he fractured his right leg and broke his left foot in the accident, and to have emergency surgery performed it. He was not able to compete in the Daytona 500 yesterday, and will be out for months as he recovers and recuperates from his injuries. As I said in my last journal, Kyle is probably my least favorite driver in the entire sport due to his rotten attitude on and off the track...but nonetheless, I still wish him a speedy recovery and hope he can come back and be competitive again. I haven't enough malice in me to wish injury upon anybody, and besides...gotta have somebody to pull against! The thing that irks me the most about this crash is that Kyle hit a spot on the track where there was no SAFER barrier to absorb the blow...just a concrete wall. They've been introducing these life-saving, energy-absorbing barriers over the past decade, and still there are spots on major race tracks where they haven't been installed. I'm not sure if Kyle wouldn't have been injured anyways considering how fast his car flew into the wall, but I don't think he would have been as seriously injured. Seems pretty ridiculous to me...Though they are now installing SAFER barriers on every square inch of wall at Daytona, and fortunately, the Daytona 500 yesterday was a clean and safe race (although it had a very anticlimactic finish...Oh well, they can't all be classics...)
And finally...I'm getting ready to begin work on the next chapter of my "Another Family Secret". Although computer issues forced me to lose what I had written of the chapter (just a couple hundred words or so)...I must confess, a big part of why I haven't gotten around to writing it up fully yet is because I am a terrible procrastinator. I have a bad habit of putting off things until the last minute...I used to be excellent at writing last-minute papers in high school and getting high grades on them! Unfortunately, procrastination is not beneficial to writing...in fact, I'm well aware it is quite the enemy to a writer. At least I don't have a set schedule for writing anything; I'd never make it! I'm going to start working it on sometime around mid-week, but we'll just have to see when I get it finished...
In my last journal, I mentioned how in a recent NASCAR race at Daytona (I am a motorsports enthusiast, as I'm sure those of you who know me are well aware of), star driver Kyle Busch suffered a horrendous crash late in the race when his car sailed head-first into a concrete wall at a high rate of speed. Unfortunately, my thoughts that he broke his leg in the crash turned out to be true...it turned out he fractured his right leg and broke his left foot in the accident, and to have emergency surgery performed it. He was not able to compete in the Daytona 500 yesterday, and will be out for months as he recovers and recuperates from his injuries. As I said in my last journal, Kyle is probably my least favorite driver in the entire sport due to his rotten attitude on and off the track...but nonetheless, I still wish him a speedy recovery and hope he can come back and be competitive again. I haven't enough malice in me to wish injury upon anybody, and besides...gotta have somebody to pull against! The thing that irks me the most about this crash is that Kyle hit a spot on the track where there was no SAFER barrier to absorb the blow...just a concrete wall. They've been introducing these life-saving, energy-absorbing barriers over the past decade, and still there are spots on major race tracks where they haven't been installed. I'm not sure if Kyle wouldn't have been injured anyways considering how fast his car flew into the wall, but I don't think he would have been as seriously injured. Seems pretty ridiculous to me...Though they are now installing SAFER barriers on every square inch of wall at Daytona, and fortunately, the Daytona 500 yesterday was a clean and safe race (although it had a very anticlimactic finish...Oh well, they can't all be classics...)
And finally...I'm getting ready to begin work on the next chapter of my "Another Family Secret". Although computer issues forced me to lose what I had written of the chapter (just a couple hundred words or so)...I must confess, a big part of why I haven't gotten around to writing it up fully yet is because I am a terrible procrastinator. I have a bad habit of putting off things until the last minute...I used to be excellent at writing last-minute papers in high school and getting high grades on them! Unfortunately, procrastination is not beneficial to writing...in fact, I'm well aware it is quite the enemy to a writer. At least I don't have a set schedule for writing anything; I'd never make it! I'm going to start working it on sometime around mid-week, but we'll just have to see when I get it finished...
Entering a New Year of Uncertainty...
Well, it's finally here again. That time where we say goodbye to the previous year and hello to the next one, the days everyone knows as New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. It's funny I say "finally" because really, time passes by way too fast for me these days so it feels like the entire year went by in a flash. As I have said on numerous occasions I wish time would pass slower like it seemed to when I was a child...seriously, I swear time seemed to go about four times slower growing up :D So how did 2023 fair for me? Up and down. It wasn't a very productive year. I did finally get properly started with the first chapter of Baby Steps, but not much more than that. I did want to write more chapters but I just did not really feel in a writing mood that much this year at all. I'm so sorry for those who wanted more :( I did however change one of my main characters' species and attire (Cliff, formerly the Masai giraffe became Cliff the red panda :aww: ), and I also commissioned quite
Get to Know: Cliff Adkins (UPDATED!)
Since I have decided to change Cliff's species, it's obviously in order to update this "Get to Know" journal. As I said before, Cliff is a character who has had a very hard and rough life, maybe the most depressing of any character in my current stories. From being horribly abused as a child, to having a disastrously failed marriage, right up to having attempted to end his own life...He's seen a lot. If some of the details of his life are upsetting, remember you were warned :( NAME: Wallace Clifford Adkins (Cliff, however, does NOT know his actual first name is Wallace, because it's only listed on his birth certificate and records as "W." His own father disliked the name his mother wanted to call him so much that he just wrote it down as "W." and so Cliff has never known his true first name) ANIMAL SPECIES: Red panda (Ailurus fulgens). GENDER: Male. NATIONALITY: American. HOMETOWN: Born in Durango, Colorado, spent most of his early life in Littleton. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Suburban
The Second GoodCaptainClack Q-and-A Spectacular!
Or technically the third, since I tried to do one many years ago that got all of one response and didn't go anywhere. I've kind of wanted to do another one of these for a while but knowing I don't have many fans/friends who would probably want to ask me anything in the first place is always kind of a deterrent :( ^^; But I'd like to try doing one of these again! Feel free to ask me about almost anything, ranging from my stories, characters, my hobbies, interests, personal tastes (like music and the like), and a small handful of personal questions. Just keep in mind I would rather you not ask questions of the following types: -Political/religious questions. There are two things surer to stir up anger and negative emotions in people and that would easily be politics and religion due to how for a large number of people that is extremely deeply entwined with who they are deep down inside. I do not want to get into any kind of debates of that manner or disappoint people there :D
The Saga of the Ageing Captain: A Birthday Journal
"So I'll go and hope and know That my time is near Laughing through the years Having only fears Of ageing Of ageing..." -Thin Lizzy, "The Saga of the Ageing Orphan" Well, it's that time of year again. That magical time of year known as my birthday! It's a day that admittedly felt a lot more special, magical and significant when I was a child. Back then my birthday felt like my own special private holiday just for me (of course, notwithstanding the fact that millions of other people share my birthday :D ). It certainly doesn't feel that way now. Maybe it'll feel more special when...no, more like IF I get close to 100 but more often than not...it just feels like whatever magic that day used to have for me is largely gone. Life personally has not been going the greatest for me recently. I was badly sick several weeks ago and spent multiple days nearly completely bedridden, coughing and aching so much all over that I didn't even want to get up. Turns out a golf friend of my father's had
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