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27% favored Trump on the debate. He was incoherent.
It's interesting to see how people will stick with a sinking ship.

Yesterday my sister said Clinton was a big liar, but not Trump. Which proves that people don't always see their candidate at all, but some personal agenda.

I've been spending more time in the yard these days. Doing lots of planting and such. My neighbor gave me a number of flowering plants. Right now her big thing is the milkweed she is growing. She showed me a Monarch Butterfly moth. But there is not enough milkweed to feed so many. She thinks a neighbor, about a half block up the way, may take some in. I need to cultivate milkweed in my back yard.

I submitted my novella to seven publishers. So far got back one rejection. To clarify why it is shorter than book length, I struggled to make one cohesive work of all the material, for several years. I finally had to cave. And I had personal conflicts with some of the subjects, so I deleted reference to most living beings. And, yet, from a personal standpoint, it achieved the objective. It helped me understand where I came from, where I am headed. The cathartic alone made it worthwhile. Before I began the writing, I blamed my life failures primarily on one man, not recognizing the undiagnosed Asperger's until late in the project. The lifelong conflict with my older brother, not resolved, but laid to rest. Whether or not publishers recognize the value of my tale, to me, it is my most successful endeavor.

Congrats om getting to the point of submitting your work. I feel that it's only a matter of time and perseverance that an acceptance will occur. The introspection and new perspective the process provides has to be invaluable.

I've silently read this thread regularly and view your story as a trailblazer for me. As I've mentioned before I have a similar interest in writing a semi-autobiographical work. However, even if it doesn't, it seems that the benefits far outweigh the temporary negatives.

As background, I've started the process. Due to lack of discipline, I'm nowhere nearly as far along as you. My life has actually recently gotten more interesting in the last 10 months. Met my life partner and we'll be traveling around the world together and settling down in a new house being snowbirds in so. Fl as well as lakeside in upstate NY. Gardens everywhere...but..I digress.

I think the story has gotten much more interesting..and not just to me. During this journey, we'll be 2 months in NZ part of which will be on a vineyard and a month in Africa that'll include an( ecological) safari in national game reserve park plus a trip to Victoria Falls.

I'm glad that you've gotten to this point. I wish you luck.

It seems that there are a number of burgeoning writers in this forum.

Not easy but a valuable exercise.

Great, ragman. I am always interested in what you are up to. Your struggles with illness, your new life partner. Travels. Fascinating stuff.

The novel I began a year ago is chugging along. I don't have to compromise with anybody on this project. I may get the razzie award when it's done, but I have other projects I am making notes for. Short stories.

Say "hello" to Dr Livingstone for me at Victoria Falls. When I was there, we stayed at a hotel just a block from the falls. If my memory serves, they call the falls, "the water that thunders."

Two more relatives have cancer. One, terminal, in about three months, the other, no prognosis as yet. All the talk and advertisements about how they are making progress against cancer. - No words.

Dr Livingstone at Victoria Falls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone

I sympathize.

On the other hand, my two surgeries caught mine, and that wouldn't have happened for women back when I was a child.

I just thought about the time I put a heavy coat of mustard on a slice of white bread and dipped it in milk before eating it. It was delicious. But I never made another, because I did not want to cope with a probable mess to clean up. Yet, that one somehow did not spill a drop.

A site I buy products from has introduced:

Addict Assist
(Seventeen coordinated herbs based on an ancient Vietnamese formula for releasing addiction to opiates.)
Net : 120 Grams / 12 Day Supply

Now I have to get addicted so I can test it.

Let us know the results.

Yeah, CI. Right.

I just posted that as a curiosity. But there must be a demand if the product is there.

I watched Sergeant York, with Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan, today. First time I sat down and paid attention through it all since I was pretty young. My kind of movie. And I watched Red River, later. A good John Wayne. Not his best, but one of the better ones. I appreciate being able to tune in this stuff so easily. Saves lots of renting and buying.

I remember Sgt York very well. Especially when Cooper licks his finger and touches the site on his rifle. Kinda of funny, but that's what I remember about that movie.
I agree, it was a good movie, and I've watched it more than a few times.

A little irritant that irritates me lots. I have a wire fence around the property. The gate is chain link. To gain entry all one need do is lift the latch and push or pull the gate. To secure the gate the latch has to be manually pushed down. Really, just tipped and it will fall into place. Simple, no? But, for the past two years, not a single stranger that opens the gate secures it or even tries. Despite the fact I have a dog and there are two beware of dog signs on fence and gate. My dog loves to get free and prowl the neighborhood with a few dog buddies. He has been neutered, so there is no danger with that. But I have to put a choke leash on him and drag him back when that happens. I know if I went to somebody's home and the gate was latched, I would make certain it was latched after I passed through, dog or no dog.