“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
— Madonna Ciccone
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Archive for March, 2024
Better Selves
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts on March 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Finding Enlightenment
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on March 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
— Isaac Asimov
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Use What You’ve Got
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #messyfeels, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Procrastination can get in anyone’s way but I’ve also noticed creative people in particular can get all caught up in their messy feelings about their work and whether or not the conditions are right for them to channel their muse. If working in journalism has taught me anything it’s that there is no “right” time and there are no “right” conditions; there is the time you have. You use the materials you’ve got. And the first precondition of getting anything done at all is trying to do it.
— Stephanie Convery
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Dream With Me
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on March 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.”
— Liza Minnelli
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The Rules of Magic
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, genre fiction, Thoughts on March 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »
My mother was asking some questions about genre fiction and the rules of magic. This comic seemed like an appropriate post for today:
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Sci-Fi Book Blast
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, free fiction, genre fiction, science fiction, sff, Writers, writing on March 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Today only (well, yesterday and today, for any time travelers out there)!
Free free free book giveaway from a wide array of science fiction authors. I heard about it through Krista D. Ball, another SFCanada member who is part of the event.
Here’s the main link: Sci-fi Book Blast March 15 – 16, 2024
Books available in the following categories: Adventure, Alien Invasion, Colonization, Crime & Mystery, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, First Contact, Galactic Empire, Humor, Military, Post-Apocalyptic, Short Story Anthologies, Space Opera, Time Travel
Note: it does say to be sure to check that the link is free because database updates don’t always work like they should, and I did run across a few that were either not free or not available. That said, there are over a hundred books in the list so lots to choose from.
I ended last night in a bit of a funk because I 1) finished my book, and 2) the ending was disappointing as hell. Was it supposed to be a dramatic climax and just fizzled, or was the author so committed to his (also annoying) cliffhanger that he decided to just bypass the climax altogether? Ugh.
Either way, I am very much in the market for a new book and new authors, so this giveaway is excellent timing. Hope you find something you like!
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Road to Wisdom
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Fiction, Thoughts, Writers on March 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The four sayings that lead to wisdom:
― Louise Penny
I was wrong
I’m sorry
I don’t know
I need help.
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Still Hope for Pi
Posted in Holidays, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #PiDay on March 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
It is once again Pi Day! This one is for my father, who memorized (a whole bunch of digits of) pi back in grade school. It was a feat I never managed to equal, but perhaps with the help of this handy song, there’s still hope!
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All-Domain Anomaly Resolution
Posted in Other, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #socialmediaisanalienplotdevice, sorry not aliens, UAPs, UFOs on March 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
So it looks like Area 51 is not what popular culture thinks.
tl;dr sorry, no aliens
Read the Pentagon UFO report newly released by the Department of Defense
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” the report said.
The report also addresses claims that government and private companies are “reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology” and hiding it, noting that there is “no empirical evidence for claims” and that “claims involving specific people, known locations technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate.”
I guess this means social media isn’t an alien plot to get us to destroy ourselves? (At least, that’s what they want us to think;)
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I Try
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts on March 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
As usual, Tuesdays are not 100% fun here at Chez J but that’s fine. I still hope that your day is a good one.
Being in a bad mood is not a license to be unkind. Being sensitive is not an excuse for being abusive.
Respect is a social responsibility. Treating it as optional reveals a lack of concern for others.
A mark of character is maintaining civility when things don’t go your way.
— Adam Grant
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