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"March 10, 2020"    Prompt: "How many languages do you speak? If you could instantly learn any language and be able to speak it fluently, what language would you pick? How would you use it and where would you go?"I speak fluent American English and a few words of Spanish. I can listen to a Spanish conversation and pick out a word here and there, but to say I speak it would be wrong. It's a fast moving language and hard to pick up. The words all run together for me as if the speakers never take a breath. I would love to learn it though because I feel it is going to be the next dominant language. Prompt: "All sorts of wacky and unusual holidays can be found when you search for "weird" holiday. If you were purposing an unusual holiday to be posted on an internet forum, what would it be?"I've never really given the idea much thought actually. I'm sure any holiday I could come up with some bozo has already beaten me to. As Solomon said in the Old Testament there is nothing new under the sun. If a person does come up with a relatively new idea God has already thought of it long ago.  Prompt: "Describe each day of the week as if it were a person. Give each one personality traits, a job, and a goal."Monday: As the song says Monday is manic. It has all the energy of the weekend. It is well rested from Sunday and has it's batteries recharged. It is the executive director of a Fortune 500 company. It's goal is to stay ahead. Tuesday: Is Monday's twin brother. It was born a few minutes behind Monday and is approval seeking from it's need to live up to it's big brother's example. It is a middle executive. It's goal is to best Monday. Wednesday: Wednesday is a workaholic. Being the middle child it feels left out. It gets all the hand-me-downs from it's two older brothers and longs for a break. It's goal is to stay ahead of Thursday. Thursday is the family clown. It wants to poke fun at the world and just get through the week. It's goal is to make it big in show business. It is a comedian. Friday is the spooky sibling. It is into goth and loves dark poetry, horror movies, and crime dramas. It is psychotic and dabbles in witchcraft. It's goal is oblivion. Saturday is the youngest child. It is Friday's lazy sibling. It has no goals except to get fat and lazier. It is unemployed. Sunday is the first born child. It wants to be closer to it's Creator and attends church all the time. It is somewhat self-righteous and is a preacher.    |
| "March 9, 2020" Prompt: "What is your first memory of being really excited?" One of the fondest memories I have is of my father and I going to a general store way out in the country in a very rural area of the county I lived in.The store was in an old log cabin building or at least a very old building. Dad took me there and we bought ice cream and some toy tools, which we then took home. I remember playing with the tools next to the porch as the full moon glowed in the sky above us. It was a warm day and must have been summer or autumn. That was the closest I ever felt to my dad. "Prompt: There are about ten days left until the first day of spring. What are you looking forward to about spring?"I always look forward to watching everything turn green again in the summer.Spring and summer are my two favorite seasons because everything is green and showing signs of new life. While things are alive in the winter as well, they are dormant and look dead. I love the renewed life of spring time. I love watching the flowers come up and feeling the days getting warmer. I love dressing lighter and enjoying the sunshine. I also like the sound of a distant thunderstorm in the spring. I guess I pretty much love everything about spring and summer. |
| "March 7, 2020" Prompt: "What does wisdom mean to you? Give an example." Wisdom is experience speaking. For example, I tell my clients all the time that "a little manure in our lives is like fertilizer to a plant. We need it grow." I know this because I can look back on my own struggles and see that they were the times of the most growth. Wisdom does not come miraculously to most of us. We can be whip smart and still not have wisdom. Wisdom comes from experience and that takes time. "Prompt: On March 7, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented the Telephone, the ancestor of our smartphones. Do you remember using a rotary dial? If you've never used a rotary dial take A look at the evolution of the Dial Telephone and write something about one of those phones."I remember the old rotary phones. I had several of them before the push button phones came along. In fact I've heard it rumored that when 911 first came along they did not want to use 911 because it took too long (almost a full second) to dial the nine. By the time you dialed the number seconds had elapsed. In an emergency seconds count and cannot be wasted. Push button phones eliminated that issue. I don't know if they really originally rejected 911 or not but that is something I read. I believe it was on television about it. The old rotary phones also did not have storage capacity. You either memorized the number or looked it up in a phone book. Of course a lot of times you could not call out because you were on a "party line". A party line is a phone line shared by two or more households. You'd pick up the phone and somebody would be talking. In an emergency you'd ask them to hang up so you could call out. |
| "March 6, 2020" Prompt: "What product would you stockpile if you found out it would never be sold again? (If the product you choose is perishable, imagine, for the purposes of this question, that the product would remain useable/edible forever.)" If it were up to me I would stock Mountain Dew. I love the stuff and drank it like water for many years. However it turned on me and the caffeine in it put me in the hospital last month with dehydration and kidney stones/kidney failure. Therefore I no longer drink Mountain Dew or any other soft drinks. I do drink Kool-aid now. I still can't stand plain water. It makes me want to gag after not drinking it for so long. Prompt: "What are some things that most people don’t know about you?"There are a lot of things that most people don't know about me. For example, most people don't even know I exist. Now if you ask me what my friends don't know about me I'd say there is very little they don't know. I don't keep much a secret and my secrets I won't share here. Day 2068 Create a character we'd all love to meet. What characteristic do you think will appeal to the widest audience?Day 2069 is a free write day. I'm in the hospital again, complications from my previous surgery. Sorry to hear you are in the hospital. I pray everything goes well for you. I am not really in a creative mood so I guess my character would be rich with wealth and love. He would be able to heal all kinds of sicknesses and even raise the dead. He would be able to heal mind, body, and soul....wait a second. That man did exist and we murdered Him on a cross didn't we? |
"Successes-March 5, 2020" Prompt: "Write about a recent success.  Yours or someone else’s - your choice!"I've had recent successes. The biggest recent success I had was graduating from Marshall University at 58 years of age with an RBA with an emphasis on psychology and a minor in history. I am now pursuing admission into the MSW program and plan to eventually obtain a PhD probably in psychology. Then everybody can call me Dr. Schrebe. I have a cousin whom told me that if I ever obtained my PhD she would be glad to call me doctor. I want to hear her do so! I already hold an honorary PhD from one college. I am working on BS in ministry from another school. In fact I need to email them today. Anyway my successes have been educational. I hold an academic associate degree, a RBA and almost a BS in ministry. I will send them an official copy of my RBA transcript and take care of most of it.I still needed some gen ed hours that the RBA should take care of. Then I will have a BS in ministry as well. Prompt: "Write about what you’d do if money suddenly wasn’t a problem."In my job money is not a problem. I have the resources of the Salvation Army behind me. I get to work with the homeless and the socially disadvantaged and provide them with the resources they need to survive and make their lives a little better. Of course I do not have unlimited resources. If I had unlimited resources I would work with addicts to get them off of drugs or other addictions. "Prompt: What are you studying in your spare time?"I am basically a full time student. Right now I am between schools so I am taking a break from studying. It won't last long though because I plan to take an intensive online course dealing with domestic violence soon. It is a CEU course that I can take through the ministry site I belong to. I think it will be a good course. It teaches me how to deal with suspected domestic violence situations in the church.  |
| "March 4, 2020" Prompt: "Use the following words as inspiration for your entry: inquiry, curiosity, investigation, suspicion, and clandestine. (You need not use the words in your entry, but if you do, please highlight them in bold or a different color.)" I do some type of inquiry on nearly a daily basis. Some of it is due to pure curiosity and some professional investigation. It's not that I have anybody under suspicion. I just like doing these clandestine investigations. Prompt: "Write about the woman who has had the greatest impact on your life."I've had a lot of women make a huge impact on my life. It's really hard to distinguish which one had the greatest impact but I suppose it would be my mother who gave me life. May she rest in peace. Of course both of my wives had a tremendous impact on my life as well. Then my first girlfriend had a tremendous impact on my life as she set up the way I would view women for years to come. They've all had a tremendous impact. Prompt: "Write about the woman who has had the greatest impact on your life."I went and watched "Wonder Woman", which I went on to call "Blunder Woman". I thought it was a terrible movie. There is nothing like an original to keep things honest. |
| "March 3, 2020" Prompt: "If you could be paid for doing anything you wanted full time, what would you do? When you were a child, what did you dream of doing when you grew up? Then, take some time to research “unconventional” jobs (ie. hot air balloonist, deep sea invertebrate researcher, professional table tennis master, etc) and share one that you think you would be good at or would be fun to try." I already do what I want to do at my full time volunteer position. I work full time as community care ministries secretary and men's club treasurer at the Salvation Army Huntington WV corps social services office. We we just talking this morning about how it is a labor of love. You either love this job or you hate it. There isn't a whole lot of middle ground with it. Some times clients are heartwarming and at others their stories are heart breaking. They run the spectrum. Just as a side note, I know I am suppose to read the other blogs and comment on them. I really don't have the time to do that. If I can I will but as it stands right now I don't have time. I will do what I can.I signed up not because I expected to win,but just to have another forum tobkog with. I really enjoy it. Thank you. "Prompt: “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Dorothy M. NeddermeyerWhat do you think? is this true or not?" My grandpa always had a very similar expression that said "Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent what you make it." I agree with this statement. I know that life for me has turned out to be ninety percent how I respond to it.If my attitude sucks then more than likely my life will too. I am a Christian so I usually have a pretty upbeat, positive attitude. I know people who's attitude seems to come straight out of hell. They are always grumbling, never happy, and generally very miserable. "Take a walk in the park, and get inspired by what you see and hear. Write a short story or poem. Or give us some tips for a great picnic if that kind of writing isn’t your thing."It wouldn't be so much what I saw in the park that turned my crank as it would be what I heard. I just got new hearing aids and did not realize how much I needed them. Now I hear the birds singing, water gurgling,frogs chirping, all of it. Image #2187503 over display limit. -?- Image #2187984 over display limit. -?- |
| "March 2, 2020" Image #1997652 over display limit. -?- Image #2066112 over display limit. -?- Prompt: "Write about the practice of making lists. Does list-making stifle creativity, or enhance it? When working on a big project, does making a list help organize your thinking, or cause you to feel more overwhelmed? Are you a habitual list maker, and if so, what do you list?" I try to never make lists. Lists seem to make me even more confused than I usually already am. I suffered a head injury in a car wreck as a young man and it has followed me ever since. As a result of that injury I have problems tracking multiple steps or carrying out multiple step tasks. Making a list only adds to my confusion, especially if the list skips and steps. Image #1997652 over display limit. -?- "Prompt: March Winds. Write something about March winds." I really don't know what to say about the March winds but that they come every year. As a child I went out a time or two and tried to fly kites in them but the kites wound up either not taking to the wind or in the trees. I gave up and my parents didn't buy any more kites. We really couldn't afford them anyway. I did release a few balloons into the March winds wondering where they would end up. I can only imagine. Image #2098718 over display limit. -?- Image #2118746 over display limit. -?- Image #2187503 over display limit. -?- Image #2187984 over display limit. -?- |
| "March 1, 2020" Image #2066112 over display limit. -?- "Yesterday was February 29th - Leap Day! The reason we have this monthly extension of our shortest month is to synchronise the Gregorian calendar with the solar year – without it we would lose six hours every year. *Shock2* In your entry today, write about the phenomenon of leap years and any facts you want to share. Here’s mine: People born on Leap Day are called Leaplings. *Laugh* Do you know any Leaplings? How did you spend the bonus hours of 2020? Did you make the most of them?" I knew a leapling once. At least he told us he was a leapling. He went on to become a famous wrestler in the old WCW and I believe he wrestled for a while with the WWF after it too changed titles to WWE. I gave up watching wrestling long ago because it became too predictable for me. Besides I had no interest in half naked men and women beating the daylights out of each other night after night. Leap year is pretty much the same way for me. It's just another day on the calendar and a few more hours I can spend serving my Lord and fellowman. As you will discover I am very service oriented and give every hour to service. It is now 5:10 am WDC time at my place and I am up, with my door open, having just finished making morning rounds to be sure the guys are alright and accounted for. (I am floor leader at the West Virginia Veterans Home and I conduct the nurse each morning for 5:00AM rounds.) Then I spend the rest of the day working in other service oriented positions. Image #2098718 over display limit. -?- Image #2118746 over display limit. -?- Image #2187503 over display limit. -?- Image #2187984 over display limit. -?- |
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