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FrickingKaos:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on July 05, 2021, 11:12:40 PM ---Happy birthday, Tracy! :)
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Thank you!!
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:49:38 PM ---Ah yes, textured paint probably makes it harder for the strips to stick. They usually work fine for me, but I had a hell of a time hanging my framed Millennium record. I framed the DNA record and hung it up with Command strips, and it stayed fine. Then, months later, I tried to hang Millennium on the same wall with the same kind of album frame, and it kept falling down, breaking the glass and taking some of the paint and dry wall with it. I think it was too humid, and the strips wouldn't fuse to the wall right. I finally gave up and waited until it was cooler to try again, and then I was able to get it to stick. It's now hiding the damaged part of the wall LOL.
I'm getting a color called "olive white." It's a really light, subtle olive green - almost beige/gray. I think it will compliment the 70s orange, red, and brown of the shower curtain, and it's a nod to the green bathroom in room 237 without being full on seafoam green. I'm also going to paint the back of the door an antique white to make REDRUM stand out more.
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Poor Millennium! Glad the actual record seems to be okay and only the wall/frame were casualties, lol. When I lived in my sorority house, they painted one summer as part of renovations and when we moved back in, I hung a white board calendar with command strips next to my desk. At the end of the year, nothing I could do would remove it from the wall... until I managed to rip it down, with a 3" x 2" chunk of the newly painted wall, lol. Oops!
Seafoam would clash with those colors, so I think the subtler nod is a good choice. Are you keeping the front of the door the stained wood then? That's a good compromise! :)
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:49:38 PM ---Kevin and Howie definitely have the most opportunities to be on autopilot, with all the songs they have no solos on.
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The beginning of Kevin's hiatus must have been an adjustment for Howie, lol. Suddenly un-autopilot would be a learning curve.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:49:38 PM ---Very true. I do most of my reading in bed, too, and it's definitely easier with a physical book or on a tablet with a larger screen than on my phone. I don't like leaving reviews on my phone either just because it takes longer. If I'm reading an entire story, I'll read on my tablet or Chromebook in a comfy place, but if I'm following a story as it's written, I try to make myself read and review the latest chapter before I open my own story to write.
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Everything takes such a long time on a phone unless there's an app. This forum is the most frustrating on a phone. I tried in the beginning, but then these monster-sized posts just made it impossible, lol.
That's a good plan! I need to be better about doing that, since I've done the opposite: open my own stuff, then maybe get around to reading in the wee hours of the morning if I can... Leads to a lot less reading and reviewing.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:49:38 PM ---I teach in a big school, so we had ten of us for the boyband part! We made shirts that said BSB for five of us and shirts that spelled out NSYNC for the other five. Of course, I was a Backstreet Boy. None of the others knew the choreography, so I ended up being the one to teach the rest of them.
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That is a big school! One for each BackSync member makes sense; I figured you were not just one of the Boys, but Brian, lol. I assume you still had Backstreet's Back memorized, but did you have to brush up on Bye Bye Bye?
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:49:38 PM ---That's exactly it - it's cathartic to write (and read) about other people's (fictional) problems, which are usually worse than mine. I think that's why I've always preferred drama.
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That makes sense that catharsis would be why you lean toward drama. Now if only we could figure out why I lean toward sword stabbing, lol.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:49:38 PM ---It definitely derailed me too. Unlike the previous chapter, I know exactly how this chapter is going to go, and oddly enough, I think that's part of what is making me procrastinate on it. I'm like, "Eh, I can write this any time; I'll wait till I feel like it to really sit down and hammer it out." But that hasn't happened yet this month; I just keep writing a few sentences at a time to keep the streak alive and then moving on to something else - whoops.
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Those always get me too! I don't know what it is about knowing what happens that makes me procrastinate. .. I think it's because I spend such a long time mulling over the best way to write "what exactly happens." Hopefully now that the holidays are over, your motivation returns. :)
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:49:38 PM ---You could always experiment with trying to write a scene in one of the other guys' POV and then write the same scene in Nick's and see which you like better. If it helps, you'll probably get more readers if it seems like a Nick story. ;)
Ooh, new toys! I don't know anything about World Anvil except for what you said here, but it does seem like it would be time-consuming. Hopefully worth it in the long run! Have fun playing with it!
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I was thinking about that for the AJ one coming up. It felt like a good way to test it more than some of these other ones where Nick's not there the entire time for whatever reason.
I started with Nick, since that seemed like an easy place to start, and just filling in their "prompt" information they ask to get you started (stuff like related groups, places, etcetera), I already have ten other related "articles" to fill in. So, as it turns out, not easy! lol
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 11:51:41 PM ---LOL Very true.
I haven't used either, but it seems like the Google one would be easier to streamline with Docs.
It definitely would be hilarious, especially if we drink while we do it!
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GChat is fairly similar to the simpler aspects of YIM. GroupMe is like a slightly fancier group text.
Would we be drinking 00Carter signature drinks? Wasn't it chocolate milk, shaken, not stirred? lmao
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on July 06, 2021, 12:17:57 AM ---Thank you!!
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What did you do to celebrate? :)
FrickingKaos:
Not a whole lot. I had a virtual birthday party on Saturday, Sunday I went to dinner at a pizzeria in town with a friend before we went to see fireworks. Then today I went and ran som errands with my dad, who bought me pizza so I had pizza for dinner again. We also went to Starbucks so I could get my free birthday drink coupon that was in my app redeemed. My dad paid for those too. We came home, ate dinner and then I watched Big Bang Theory for about an hour before I went in the pool for a while. Then I sat out on the patio in the backyard, watched the sun go down and listened to Elton John on my iPad. I went inside, watched a couple movies and cuddled my cat to end the night. Also Nick tweeted me today so that was nice.
I did get another chapter posted on Saturday before the birthday party started so that was nice. I didn’t get much writing done after that. We were on video chat for 5 hours and I got drunk so definitely wasn’t going to write LOL
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