Sunday, July 9, 2017

Remnants of Protagonize


Protagonize shut down June 3. My go-to site for collaborative writing since 2008.

I cannot quantify how wonderful it's been, being in the same virtual worldwide room with folks across all ages and abilities. My glass is most-always half-full. So, yes, that's as close as I'll come to mourning.

Protaggers filled Protagonize's closing hours with posts urging we keep in touch. Contact deets were exchanged, broadcast, like scribbled notes in bottles cast on the worldwide ocean.

Best solution when the ship's in trouble is to find another ship. And our own JSimmons did one better.

So Hi, all Protaggers who read this.

Some of us can be found here:
Remnants of Protagonize
http://protaglives.wikidot.com/

Thursday, October 27, 2016

NaNoWriMo 2016...Ready

Title is self-explanatory :)

It's Woodbe Revisited for 2016.

Last Joe worked out so well last year. I'll be applying to Woodbe 2016 all I learned in 2015.

Spent the past half-hour housekeeping Blogger and NaNo.Updated here and there. Got my badge. Gotta have my badge. Gotta love badges.

And updated my NaNo email contact. WAS a Yahoo account, for years.

Outline is about ready. N minus 5 days.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Spring, Vancouver, 2015

A picture of Spring, early in Vancouver.

A reminder for so many still enduring winter that your Spring will soon come.

Friday, March 13, 2015

Vancouver Parks: Gone to the Kids

I'm glad to see civic minded parents are cleaning up after their kids.

However, City of Vancouver, clearly it is past time for a ridiculous response to the soon dire global plastic-baggy shortage. Install a flushing station.

Nay — a facility. A green edifice, naturally, sure to win architectural awards and pet-lover praise. A multi-stalled pet privy, with multiple white-jacketed attendants. Gleaming porcelain and gold fixtures. Knocking down some of the neighbouring affordable housing should accommodate such a public inconvenience (and pave the future way for re-zoning applicants still dreaming in their cribs).

Of course, that's simply too ridiculous for any city-planner accountant to ever crack a smirk over. I hope. I am smirking, yes.

But — cummon, COV — howzabout placing the fiscally more realistic separate bin, then? Flies will love it. Brown bin, I'd double-yes that. Its intended use plainly obvious by perceived colour alone. Signage, or threat of fine, or public-friendly pictogram would only be informative bin dressing. The City might spend less per bin in omitting such enforcement-hinting obviousness. So removing the need and its costs.

There. Done. No tirade. No rant. I close in Thanking these, my neighbours, who cared and did not add to the sidewalk minefields. Some people's kids...off leash...barking at all hours... .

Saturday, June 21, 2014

"Mumma, can I have something I'm gonna like better than this?" ...Heard in toys dept.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Wushu master strikes the dusty broom over the curb. Pupils due at 2:30.
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Wushu master pushes broom, dances like Gene Kelly round the shining floor.
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