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Around last spring I had the idea that I wasn't crazy about ammonia and bleach around my food because we prep a lot of food right on my Corian counters: sandwiches, baking, etc. So I hunted around to find a natural type cleaner and found I could make it myself for pennies of the cost of a commercial cleanser I use vinegar, cheap vodka, and lemons to make a concentrate. 1/4 c lemon juice, fresh squeezed and strained 1 C vinegar 1/2 C vodka I used to use the peel, etc from the lemon, but I had to strain and ...
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I wonder if I should make a list of reasons I'll quit you on Twitter. Obviously YMMV because of course it does and every post needs a caveat. But it seems like I spend a full half of Twitter not really getting what the hell people are talking about anyway and then when you say something irritating with or without clappy hands I just... no. Can't. Full stop. (Also caveat: not a complete list) Come to think of it, clappy hands emoji might top The List. No, jk, being a racist, sexist troll tops it. Also on this list is ...
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I didn't sleep last night until a few fitful spurts after 5 am. Sometimes I just ... don't. I was reading a lot (I'm up to 4 books this year so far, just started Wanderers by Chuck Wendig) and that was okay but I'm a bit of a zombie today. I'm sure it was the caffeine. Or the residual Wolf Moon. Yeah, lets go with that. Sounds more fantastical and romantic. It's rather a bitch because today is a day when everyone is gone from my house and that's the sort of day when I usually get a lot done ...
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Let's get one thing straight: 2019 sucked. It sucked through the final moments (cleaning up puke AND I missed the fireworks! much less a kiss!!) and I have never been so glad to put my backside to a year. A lot of really shitty things happened but the overarching general worseness was that I had a nearly impossible time writing anything. Frankly it's been going downhill for a couple years. Writing my futuristic mystery took a long time and a lot of forcing myself, but I chalked it up to being a new genre and a steep learning curve and ...
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I had an interesting conversation about talent with my younger son the other day. (He's an artist and you can see his work here.) He is very talented and also mostly self-taught, so he resists learning more about something he already knows a lot about. He has a particular style and genre he prefers, so convincing him he needs to draw things outside his wheelhouse is a challenge. I get it. When I was a kid I wrote stories resembling The Outsiders and I drew horses. That's pretty much it. I was good at those things, and not much else ...
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