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Phil Whitley Four Star Member
Number of posts : 907 Registration date : 2008-04-01 Age : 81 Location : Riverdale, GA
| Subject: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:47 pm | |
| Just when I hit my peak of ideas flowing, my muse cranking up, and I'm wanting to do some serious message-boarding, everyone zonks out on me.
Are y'all going to bed, or... writing, like I should be doing? It seems that every night around 10 PM (EDT) I find myself alone on the boards. For west coast people that is only 7PM -
Share your routines with me. What time do you usually do your writing? Message boarding?
It's not just here. I am on two writers groups, and one general one with old friends from 10-12 years ago. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone - all alone... |
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awol Three Star Member
Number of posts : 86 Registration date : 2008-06-13
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:11 pm | |
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Sue Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1216 Registration date : 2008-01-15
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:12 pm | |
| I am up until 4 or 5 a.m. eastern time. I am central time which is an hour behind eastern. Whenever I get online is when I post. Sometimes it is many times a day. Other days it may only be once a day. I try to write when I first get up or in the evening when hubby starts to snooze. He wakes up later to listen to coast to coast.
You are not alone, Phil!
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:19 pm | |
| Sorry, Brew, that you feel all alone. I don't know about the others, but the heat has really done a number on me this year. We're supposed to have 'June gloom' with rainy days and cooler weather, sorta gearing up for summer, but summer has hit, high nineties and more, and I've barely moved.
Good for you that ideas are flowing for you. Wish you'd send the muse this way, altho she'd probably get so annoyed with sluggish me that she'd run back to you.
Oh. It's a little after 8pm here in Southern CA, just starting to get dark, and my swollen eyes are beginning to open. Not sure I'm energetic enough to check the other threads.
How long until winter???? |
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awol Three Star Member
Number of posts : 86 Registration date : 2008-06-13
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:24 pm | |
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:29 pm | |
| That's for sure.
Hello, MS, altho my greeting is obviously late. Shame on me. Guess I'd better check the newbie thread more often. |
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Phil Whitley Four Star Member
Number of posts : 907 Registration date : 2008-04-01 Age : 81 Location : Riverdale, GA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:30 pm | |
| Glad to see there are others who stay up late, Melinda and Sue. It's also a good feeling to know that there are people besides me who listen to C2C! I have even called in a few times... once to talk with Zecharia Sitchin, and once to speak to an old `net buddy, Lloyd Pye. What great minds those two have. Not to mention you can get some really great story ideas from the more ... shall we say... alternatively oriented guests? LOL. Then I sleep from around 5AM til whenever I get up. Then it's on the computer for me - off and on - most of the day. When I'm not writing directly into Word (like in the bed listening to Coast) I have two 5-subject spiral notebooks handy for those late-night inspirations. I have to trasnscribe them first thing the next day while I can still read my own handwriting... |
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zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:32 pm | |
| Hi there! It's about 8:20 pm here, and unless I get a lot of spare time during the day,I am usually hanging out here off and on, reading comments until around maybe 2 am (5am E. coast time) And then in the morning which is probably about noon Eastern time. Sheesh, I'm here a lot! |
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Phil Whitley Four Star Member
Number of posts : 907 Registration date : 2008-04-01 Age : 81 Location : Riverdale, GA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:35 pm | |
| Hi, Brenda and Zada. We simul-posted. Yep, it's already hit the mid-nineties here in Georgia too. Even our little backyard pool is like a sauna - not very good for cooling off until the air gets cooler than the pool water - usually around midnight. Then we have to share it with those dang cute little tree frogs. They LOVE it! |
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:39 pm | |
| I'm curious, Brew. When did you adopt the mountain man look? I think I like it, tho. It's hard to tell in such a small photo.
Oh, I'd kill for a swimming pool. |
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Phil Whitley Four Star Member
Number of posts : 907 Registration date : 2008-04-01 Age : 81 Location : Riverdale, GA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:47 pm | |
| I'm just an old hippie at heart, Brenda. After I retired from healthcare about 4 years ago I started letting what was left of my hair grow. I usually keep it in a ponytail, but that day, up on the mountain, I got my daughter to take that picture with my Willie Nelson locks blowing free.
It also seems to help at booksigning events, etc. with that "eccentric author" look. My daughter's friends tell her that she's got "a cool dad". Not sure that's a good thing... lol |
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Sue Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1216 Registration date : 2008-01-15
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:53 pm | |
| I can't believe it, Brew! We have the same setup! I go to bed the same time. I do the same thing with my laptop and when I don't use that I use notebooks as well.
I have called into C2C many times. I am known as Susie Sunshine of Illinois. The one time I remember I called and talked to Nancy Lieder of Planet X fame.
Good to know one is not alone.
I also love that look! My husband has the whiskers but not the hair.
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zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:00 pm | |
| It's been rather comfortable here, in the 60's with a light breeze. When it gets up to 90, I don't need a pool--I am a pool!! (Or would that just be a big puddle?) In case I hadn't mentioned it before, I like your 'new' look as well, Brew. |
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Phil Whitley Four Star Member
Number of posts : 907 Registration date : 2008-04-01 Age : 81 Location : Riverdale, GA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:05 pm | |
| Thanks, Zada! But in this humidity... I just thimply can't do a thing with my hair... |
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:00 pm | |
| Well, you accomplished one great thing today, Brew. You made me laugh. |
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Dick Stodghill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3795 Registration date : 2008-05-04 Age : 98 Location : Akron, Ohio
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:07 am | |
| For Pete's sake, Brew, we old guys have to hit the sack at 10 p.m. Now there was a time in the not too distant past when you could find me on the streets until the bars closed. No more! Now it's bed at 10, up at 6. I cheated a week ago when there was an Indy car race that didn't end until 1 a.m. Bob Randisi, a prolific writer and founder of the Private Eye Writers of America in 1981, gets up about 10 a.m., heads for the horse track in the afternoon, socializes in the evening and writes from midnight until 4 a.m. Unless there's an all-night poker game at seminars and conventions. Most other guys and gals I know get up at 6 or 7 and write until supper time. Some don't bother to break for lunch. I used to do that but now find I run out of gas around 4 or 5 p.m. I don't know how you take that Georgia heat. The summer I spent in Columbus was unbelievable. The Ledger said it was the hottest summer in 25 years and I sure hoped they were right. For a while I had an apartment in town and caught a 5 a.m. bus for Fort Benning. One morning the big electric thermometer at the bus station read 95 degrees at 5 a.m. That did it for me, knowing there was a full day of infantry training out in the boondocks ahead of me.
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Carol Troestler Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3827 Registration date : 2008-06-07 Age : 86 Location : Wisconsin
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:13 am | |
| Brew, I go online whenever I can. When I write, I take breaks to go online or check email. As far as weather, the following site has photos of the flooding near here in Wisconsin. Many roads are closed and you never know what kind of traffic you will find when you venture out. Yesterday, the road to our housing area was filled with buses, cars with boats, and semis. They were rerouting traffic from the closed interstate. When we went home, the traffic was gone. http://www.wiscnews.com/spe/galleries/photos.290778 I write whenever I feel inspired to do so. I have many projects begun and not finished. I'll check tonight to see if you are here. Carol |
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:20 am | |
| Carol, I wondered how you and yours are doing with all the flooding in your state. Hope you're safe.
Doesn't seem possible that one part of the country would have so much rain that everything floods, while another part, mine, is so dry that any little spark will ignite and burn hundreds of sqaure miles. How I wish we'd get some rain, but so far, nothing. |
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Pam Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1790 Registration date : 2008-02-01 Age : 58 Location : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:01 pm | |
| Hi folks, I am an hour later than most of you, in the Atlantic time zone, (so one hour later than NY) and during the week I find myself in and out of here 2-3 times a day. On the weekend when I try not to be as close to the 'puter, I'm usually on in the AM and before bed, although not always. I'm actually spending less time here than I was, getting some writing wrapped up and doing some marketing, as I am gearing up for a pretty busy summer. Not sure what that entails yet, but hopefully more on the income side to balance what's on the output side! Keep cool--here we are in the low 70's today, there is a nice breeze and although humid, it's quite pleasant. Happy trails! |
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:11 pm | |
| OMG, Pam. How I envy you. It's just noon and already ninety, expected to go much higher. Your climate sounds wonderful. If I ever get rich and famous, I want to move out of this horrid place, or at least escape in the summer. Or, have enough money to travel and see all the wonderful places on earth. Oh, so many things to see and do if only I had loads of money. To those of you who say money can't buy happiness, I say you don't know where to shop! |
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zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:48 pm | |
| Brenda, it's 65 and breezy here right now. Very good weather for me! Someday, maybe I'll win the lottery! Money can't buy happiness but it sure can make poverty more bearable. It would be nice to follow a climate, and go where you wanted when you wanted! |
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zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:52 pm | |
| Pam, be sure to take some time for fun and rest. In the meantime, work hard, and make lots of money! |
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:53 pm | |
| 65 degrees? Oh, I'm almost drooling. For someone who can't take heat and sunshine, I'm certainly in the wrong place. |
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Dick Stodghill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3795 Registration date : 2008-05-04 Age : 98 Location : Akron, Ohio
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Brenda Hill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1297 Registration date : 2008-02-16 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bedtime for Bonzo? Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:32 pm | |
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