I love this country, and I’m so grateful that I am blessed to live here. For all of those that chose today to protest, whine, complain, and bitch about all they don’t like about the country, might I suggest at least a touch of appreciation for the blessings in your life. For myself, I’m doing my best to love you, with hope for your emotional, spiritual, and physical good health. God bless the USA.
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Happy Birthday to Me!
What a great birthday I had. It started a day early (which was really cool) with a trip to the Habachi grill for some entertainment, sushi, steak, scallops and an entertaining chef, all courtesy of Dillon and Leslie. Good company and good times. I also got a birthday package from Amber and Russell with 5 big slabs of awesome good fudge. I thought it would last forever so I froze most of it. There’s now (on the third day) only one slab left in the freezer. Stuff is addictive and delicious. On Sunday, Nick shows up with a big contribution to my Quest III savings pot and a bag full…
The OpenAI chatbot just rocked my world.
I have been working hard to polish GOAD, the novel, as well as develop a followup game that will hopefully boost sales. Anyway, I heard about this new openAI chat bot and thought I would give it a try, interviewing Russell, one of the characters in the book. What follows is the entirety of that communication, unedited (except that I added ME and Bot tags to replace the little avatars that didn’t copy and paste). It took less than 5 minutes from start to finish. ME: for this conversation, speak to me as if you are an old man with a sense of humor and tasked to guard the world…
Wayward Poem by Richard Crossley
Fingers of those golden rays dance across the lines where the darkness meets the darker out on the ridge of pines and the morning dew cast diamonds that no-one can bear away and day begins its trek again, that’s always been the way. And I rub the stubborn sleep from old eyes that want to see how the days and years and time eternal passes by and by, and my prayer today is just the same as you have heard before even when this body was still fresh and young and thought it would be evermore, before time had made bones brittle and stiffened joints with pain, before sicknesses and…
A Bit about the Ageless Man
Being the group owner for the Writer’s Wrench, I thought perhaps an introduction was in order so folks could get an idea of who I am and what the group is about. Although the group serves writing in general, its primary focus is on developing scripts, or more properly, screenplays. As I learned many years ago, they are a beast that requires not just the ability to create a story and put it into words, but also great discipline in format. As I quickly learned with my first peer reviewed work, it ain’t no novel. A young man, his pregnant wife beside him and in labor, frantically pulls to the…
Posting YouTube Videos
First thing I am going to do is “Upload an Image” using the “Browse” button below the post box. It should become the Featured Image. Okay, did that. Now, I am going to post a YouTube Video after this sentence and then describe exactly how I did it. How it got there. 1: Open another browser window and get to the youtube video you want. Under the video you are playing and want to share, click the share button and then click the “Copy” button that will appear. That will put the link in your buffer. See Fig 1. That’s what you see on YouTube when you click the share…
