Rain

It's raining here tonight.  The air smells of petrichor.  Slow rain, soft rumbles of thunder, flickers of lightning, but not the boom and crash of a real thunderstorm.

Hard Things

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?

Further Problems

Due to bait-and-switch from Wal-Mart and AT&T, we have barely half the data we were promised.  So I'm back to trying to work offline as much as possible. >_<  I'll test how much data gets used posting poems and see how that goes.  Sorry for the hassle; people are incompetent.

Poem: "Releasing the Parts from False Position"

This poem is spillover from the March 3, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from fuzzyred and librarygeek. It also fills the "Fed Up" square in my 3-1-20 card for the Food Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Poem: "By the Action of the Muscles"

This poem is spillover from the March 3, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from fuzzyred and librarygeek. It also fills the "Take Out / Take Away" square in my 3-1-20 card for the Food Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Notes for "By the Action of the Muscles"

These are the notes for "By the Action of the Muscles."

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Fiction: "Coming in from the Cold: Sunday: Thanks for Taking Care of Me, Tiny" Part 4

This story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Hairpins," "Blended," "Am I Not," "Unworthy," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys," "Duende," "Saudades," "Querencia," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," "Green Eggs and Hulk,""kintsukuroi," "Little and Broken, but Still Good," "Byzantine Perplexities," "Up the Water Spout," "The Life of the Dead," "What It Means to Me," "If They Could Just Stay Little," "Anahata," "When the Wheels Come Off," "Against His Own Shield," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Building Towers," "Coming in from the Cold: Sunday: Shaking Foundations," "Coming in from the Cold: Monday: Memorial Day," "Coming in from the Cold: Tuesday: Facing Fears," "Coming in from the Cold: Wednesday: Coping Techniques," "Coming in from the Cold: Thursday: Digging for Answers," "Coming in from the Cold: Friday: Bug Hunt," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past," "What Little Boys Are Made Of," "Rotten Fruit," "Trying to Find Prui," "Life in Quicktime," "Sunday Dinner," "Cafuné," "Fatherboards and Other F-words," "The Artists Among Us," "Keep the Homefires Burning," "Their Old Familiar Carols Play," "Fluffy," "A Leg Up," "Wabbit Season," and "A Painful Process."

Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Clint Barton, Maria Hill, Nick Fury, Jasper Sitwell, James Rhodes, Natasha Romanova, Tony Stark, Betty Ross, JARVIS, Hulk.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Guns, Food, Bugs & Insects, Flashbacks, Panic Attacks, Hurt/Comfort.
Summary: Phil, Steve, Bucky, and Clint visit SHIELD to work with the new recruits. Later that evening, an unexpected trigger throws Bucky into a panic attack.
Notes: Teamwork, Training, Games, Carrying, No Sex, Intimacy, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Friendship, Team as Family, Avengers Family, #coulsonlives.

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8.

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Pool Open!

ng_moonmoth has opened a pool. Starting poems are "The Highest-Paid Professional Women" and "Survive the Recovery."  If you're interested, get in touch with ng_moonmoth.

Today's Smoothie

We went shopping today, so we have some new supplies.  Today's smoothie included:

1 cup pear nectar
1 cup vanilla yogurt
1 pear
several frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice

It's pretty tasty, and the texture is good.  The color is a very pale pink.