Thanks for the treats, Sara! Worked up an appetite waiting for my DIL to have her baby. 😎

Just enjoying a cup of relaxation tea before bed. Currently waiting for my son and his wife’s baby, who could make his debut any minute now. No baby yet, but it’s been nice to spend time with the kids and our almost 9 year old grandson.

I have been MIA for a while here too. But I’ve posted a story and I’m trying to read stories y’all have posted here little by little.

Sweet dreams!

Sipping some tea while the rain disrupts my plans to swim with my neighbor. Had a great visit with my daughter this past long weekend, but her departure left me feeling melancholy. She is going through a tough time and it helped to come home to the beach where she could chill and have mom and dad pamper her a bit. But sending her on the road with tears in her eyes yesterday was heart-wrenching. She is strong, she will be fine, eventually. In the meantime, I think it's cruel that the magic wand I used when she was a child to make things better no longer works now that she is grown. 

I am trying to get used to the new format with an open mind.😜

Hello friends! Finally able to take a moment to check out the new format. I struggle with change, but I imagine I will get used to it eventually. A cup of tea would be lovely before I head out to get my allergy shots.

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ugh. didn't think I'd finish. just submitted my comp.

chocolate milk, please.

i've decided to protest everything capital.

sorry, gotta go. another busy day. will start reading the rest of the stories later tonight.

good day to y'all (now officially accepted as a word)

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I’ve got a couple of bottles of Moscato and a buncha glasses. Who’s in?

I honestly didn’t know if I was going to be able to make my story over 1000 words and then my fingers kept typing ans boom 1492 words!

Start pouring. It's a weekend.ZA84yjE3AzLEC1hV

Length isn't a problem for me. The part of the story that is written is well past 1001 words (thinking 1700 or so without actually checking). It's actually making the narrative work.

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Well, only if it comes with a glass of Moscato!

If it gets that bad, the glass is yours. I'll already have drunk the rest of the bottle.

Sounds like I might need to bring my own bottle and share with you! Lol!

4989 words! I'm ready to enter! At 23:59:59 on July 18, of course.

Pour me a glass!

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Well, only if it comes with a glass of Moscato!

If it gets that bad, the glass is yours. I'll already have drunk the rest of the bottle.

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I have read all the ones submitted so far and look forward to reading the ones that are coming soon!

What about the ones that are coming in at 23:59:59 on July 23? (I'm only half-joking)

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The whole report is really very good. Nothing to worry about. No new therapies were indicated.

I'll have some fresh coffee. Take care Inspirators.

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Any other Batman fans around here?

I have been hooked since I came across the Adam West TV series (1966-68 with a movie spinoff in 1966 that was basically a feature-length episode) as a child. And basically never looked back.

Favorite media Batman?

Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995 with a feature film spinoff, Mask of the Phantasm, in 1993), which introduced Kevin Conroy as the voice of Batman and Bruce Wayne, a role he still plays at times today in animated series and computer games. It hit a nice medium, not quite as dark and obsessive as some of the recent movies, but also without the silliness of the West series (though it did have humour, avoiding the grim seriousness of the Nolan-Bale trilogy). It's a mature Batman who has largely overcome his lust for vengeance to focus on fighting crime and corruption. There is one brilliant episode where Batman tries to convince a mobster to turn state's witness after discovering that the man's son is addicted to the very drugs the mobster has been smuggling into Gotham City. It is largely a character piece, with the action limited to Batman making sure the mobster lives long enough to actually turn. Very much not what you would expect from an animated superhero series, but the writers of Batman:TAS were a clever bunch.

There's a new Batman movie looming but the trailer makes me think it will be going the grim route again. Too bad. A lighter Batman, more akin to the animated series, would be more welcome to this bat-fan.

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Currently watching For All Mankind on AppleTV. It's an alternate version of the space race in which the Soviets get to the moon first, Ted Kennedy ends up as president after Nixon, and Molly Cobb actually made it to the moon. Very enjoyable alternate history.

I haven't seen it yet (don't have Apple TV) but Scott Manley, a Scottish-American rocketry enthusiast I follow on Youtube was critiquing it of late. He likes it, but apparently there's some stuff, like a shuttle going to the moon, that doesn't quite tally with reality. He actually has a whole episode of his own channel discussing that one that I have not watched yet.