Re: Story

[ABLE1 <somebody@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/2022 1:46 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 11/4/2022 7:53 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 11/4/2022 8:44 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> On 11/4/2022 4:38 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>> On 11/4/2022 6:19 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>> On 10/31/2022 5:57 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/31/2022 4:34 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/24/2022 2:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 10/22/2022 10:18 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10/21/2022 7:47 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 4:37:12 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/18/2022 8:20 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Get creative.  Stop rehashing old themes or...
>>>>>>>>>>> It was either that or ransoming the planet with a giant space
>>>>>>>>>>> laser.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> Bob La Londe
>>>>>>>>>>> CNC Molds N Stuff
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> WELL ! ....... YOU'RE the one who said to be creative    ;-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I guess my idea of creative is different than other folks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Maybe I should have said creative and ORIGINAL.  LOL.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Now you have a whole new premise to try and do something with/to.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Flash Point was stolen from _________, where as ransoming the
>>>>>>>> earth with a space laser was stolen from ____________.  A
>>>>>>>> totally different universe or franchise depending on your level
>>>>>>>> of suspension of disbelief.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My other premise was NOT stolen from ___ _____ ______ _________,
>>>>>>>> but I can see where you might think that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> LOL It would seem that the Story is getting deeper by many many
>>>>>>> fathoms!!   I hope nobody drowns!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure which way I want to go next.  I guess that depends on
>>>>>> what I find next time I log on.  Whether I want to do damage
>>>>>> control or just go with the flow in whatever new direction its gone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've already over used the Achilles Segue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (I think I just coined that phrase.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Remember our new demi-hero Agent Bean may not yet have seen John's
>>>>>> video clip at the end of the recording.  Certainly Bennie Bean
>>>>>> hasn't seen it. Â Â I suspect if Agent Bean had seen John defame the
>>>>>> Secret Service his suspicion level about the whole thing might be
>>>>>> a bit higher, well, and he wouldn't have needed his ten year old
>>>>>> son to tell him what he was listening to.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I started down this path I was originally thinking very fast
>>>>> paced hacker-centric action adventure.  Motor cycle chases.  Brutal
>>>>> police tactics.  Fleeing for you life in the face of overwhelming
>>>>> odds, and seeking a way to turn the tables in a grand unstoppable
>>>>> manner.  It has slowed down.  Become more procedural.  With one of
>>>>> our protagonists now being a ten year old I'm not sure the
>>>>> brutality of a modern high impact action thriller tells well.  Its
>>>>> not like I can retell Treasure Island after all.  Maybe Bennie Bean
>>>>> needs to become superfluous soon. Identify some key points, and
>>>>> leave it to his dad and the hackers. Obviously Agent Bean needs to
>>>>> learn more before kicking it upstairs since his own agency has now
>>>>> been implicated in who knows what.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Bob,
>>>>
>>>> It is my humble opinion that you should consider writing a book, get
>>>> it published, and sell a boat load.  Like Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm
>>>> books, or Ian Fleming's James Bond.
>>>>
>>>> They did it, why not Bob La Londe's Agent Bean??
>>>>
>>>> You will never know if it will work, until you try.
>>>>
>>>> Honestly with all typing you do in the newsgroups your typing skill
>>>> could are certainly good enough.  You can't be a "Hunt n' Pecker"!!
>>>>
>>>> What is the worst that could happen??
>>>>
>>>> You got my VOTE!!!
>>>>
>>>> Les
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am published for article length work in motorcycling and fishing in
>>> newspaper and magazines.  (Maybe half a dozen pieces or so.)  Years
>>> ago I had a web page dedicated to motorcycle games, and White Horse
>>> Press contacted me to say, "Let us know when you are ready to publish
>>> your book."Â  I also chat with George Burliss from time to time
>>> (publisher editor?) with Home Shop Machinist Magazine.  My latest
>>> bigger project is a video series on manual machining with a piece of
>>> shit desktop manual mini mill.  I was hoping to sell George on a
>>> pairing it with a monthly article, but he seemed to want to dumb it
>>> down to much for my taste. That might just be my perception.
>>>
>>> I actually am a hunt and peck typist.  I took typing in high school
>>> (somehow I passed), and lots of computer programming in college, but
>>> I never felt comfortable with classical home row typing.  I developed
>>> my own system that uses some classic typing, and about seven fingers
>>> most of the rest of the time.  In high school at one point we were
>>> told we could type anything we wanted as long as we were typing.
>>> When I realized the instructor wasn't even collecting it I started
>>> writing porn.  I left a few copies on the bus, and pretty soon I had
>>> guys bidding to be the first to get my next fantasy adventure.  I
>>> burned out on that quick.  There are only so many ways to say Joe got
>>> the girl, and I was never into the weird stuff.
>>>
>>> In college I wrote a story about show of force vs outbreak of
>>> violence. It was a western short fiction piece.  The college magazine
>>> editor loved it as did several of the other magazine staff, but their
>>> academic advisor refused to let them publish it.  He was the classic
>>> left wing liberal academic before we called them left wing liberal
>>> academics. Considering some the really creepy stuff they did publish
>>> I was still surprised.
>>>
>>> I always wanted to write science fiction, but everything I wrote in
>>> that genre was basically juvenile wish fulfillment.  Joe space hero
>>> gets the girl, and the whole universe gives him ultimate power over
>>> everything. I never understood the social commentary of science
>>> fiction well enough to write truly good work like Heinlein (he also
>>> wrote some juvenile wish fulfillment) or Asimov.  I could read and
>>> understand it.  I just didn't understand that often that is more
>>> important than the science fiction adventure.  Of course there is the
>>> fantasy science meets real science like Larry Niven with Ring World
>>> or Neutron star, but I never had a good enough grasp of the science
>>> for that.
>>>
>>> Several years back I wrote an article for an outdoor magazine (that
>>> has since gone bankrupt), and it was a fiasco of brutal rewrites even
>>> after I cut out half the real content to meet their maximum word
>>> count.  Then they stiffed me.  They didn't even want to give me a
>>> copy of the issue with my article.  They said I could buy a
>>> subscription. That took all the wind out of my sails for a while.
>>>
>>> Writing is like a lot of things.  Its a lot of fun when you don't
>>> have to meet a deadline and pay the bills with it, or butcher it to
>>> fit somebody else's preconceived format.
>>>
>>> ... and I have to remind myself.  Just because I have published a few
>>> small things that doesn't make me a writer.  What skills I do have I
>>> have to credit to Sarah Sneed.  I had to take two semesters of
>>> English Composition in college.  I had dropped my second semester
>>> twice because I got instructors that hit you with a ton of writing
>>> assignments, but didn't teach anything.  I had steeled myself to
>>> slogging through it when I signed up for Ms Sneed's class.  She
>>> taught.  She taught about research, style, and readability.  I don't
>>> always use what she taught, but I when I don't its a conscious
>>> choice.  She taught about that too. When to break the rules.
>>> (anecdote below)Â  She is probably the primary reason I have any
>>> writing skills at all.
>>>
>>> For the final assignment of the semester I had to write a research
>>> paper on a classic novel.  (not a survey piece)  I took it seriously
>>> and did it right.  We were told if we turned it in before the end of
>>> class during final exams it was on time.  I was working on it until
>>> the last minute doing rewrites, editing, and proof reading.  When I
>>> printed the final copy I knew I could make it to class before the end
>>> of the exam period if I hurried.  When I arrived I didn't even bother
>>> to park.  I just rode my motorcycle right up to the door of the
>>> classroom, grabbed my saddlebags and headed in to be stopped up short
>>> when the door wouldn't open.  I turned and saw her walking down the
>>> sidewalk next to the parking lot.  Afraid she might get away I chased
>>> her down the sidewalk on my motorcycle, and pulled up short in front
>>> of her. Probably a little stress leaked out in my tone when I
>>> complained she had said we had until the END of the period to turn in
>>> our paper.  I got an A.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> V-E-R-Y IMPRESSIVE Bob!!
>>
>> Good read and Thanks for the history!!!
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>
> I hesitate to write things like this that could be interpreted as a
> brag.  To often in recent years I've shared anecdotes from my life and
> been told I was a full of shit bullshit piece of shit lying sack of
> shit.  **
>
> Honestly though I don't consider this to be all that impressive.  I
> can't ten finger type.  I never published a book, and I never really got
> paid to be a writer.  Its just a hap hazard group of secondary fumblings
> throughout my life over the course of 40ish years that paired with a
> little imagination allow me to occasionally crank out three consecutive
> sentences that are readable.
>
> However, thank you.  I appreciate the recognition for them.
>
> Example: **
> One of my favorite actual brags used to be that I have been in business
> literally my entire life since I was four years old.  My mom explained
> to me the concept of profit.  She told me that if I bought candy bars
> and put them on the shelf in the family store it wouldn't be to long
> before I could buy more boxes to replace them, and have money left over.
>  Â I used the money my grandmother sent me for Christmas to put
> merchandise on the shelves of our store.  I was in business at age four.
>  Â That was a bit of a brag, but it really wasn't intended to indicate I
> was a business mogul at such a young age.  Just that I have spent my
> entire life learning small business concepts.  I shared this in a
> machining group not to long ago.  I was accused of being a liar, taking
> credit for my mom's hard work, and that there was no chance at age four
> I was anything more than a pants shitting drooling blob.  That I was
> totally full of shit that had to totally be lying through my teeth.
> (Unless you were toothless how else would one lie?)Â  I tried to explain,
> but soon there were dozens of people piling on.  The shear mass of
> derision made it impossible for me to take the time to refute it all.  I
> just left the group.  The reality is its true.  I did understand, but
> how can I prove that.  I can't.  Just that I have always done better as
> an entrepreneur than as an employee.  I never thought of it as
> exceptional until I was attacked for it.  I just thought it was a choice
> based on opportunity and education from a caring mother.
>
> I have other anecdotal memories, no doubt colored by time, that might be
> met with similar disbelief.
>
>
>
Hey Bob, I understand.  There are far to many idiots on this planet that
will argue that this or that is wrong just get themselves heard louder
that somebody else.  It is even easier for them when they are not seen
or touched in person.  I see it a lot in the newsgroups by a select few
that object to everything no matter the topic.

Or even to boast a blatant lie as the truth and the more the lie is told
it is then believed to be true.  I would say more but then this
conversation (typing) would take a different turn and get shut down.

Your Mom did a good thing.  For you to have that memory is great!!
I am the oldest of 5 boys.  My Mom taught us all how to take care of
ourselves by teaching us how to cook, sew, clean, wash clothes because
as she said; "You need know how to do these things if there is no woman
in your life."  One of the first appliances that my wife and I got when
we got married was a sewing machine.  She didn't understand how to use
one.  She now comes to me for help when something needs sewed.  When she
goes to the beach with "the girls" for two weeks, I survive!! ;-)

As for business things, after working for others to meet their desires,
I decided I needed to build my own wall to climb over and be in charge
of me!!  Basically I was bored with my job.  My boss couldn't challenge
me so I started my business going on 34 years ago.  I have had problems
(we all have) with various things.  But, I figured it out and moved
ahead.

BTW when I took my typing class in 9th grade, I could type 34 words
per minute.  The mistakes were another thing.  Today, I have not tested
my speed but it may be almost as good.  Maybe I will have to give that
a go and see what it is.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=typing+test+online&qs=OS&pq=typing+test+on+line&sc=7-19&cvid=07F7FB73596C4B8F9CB2931DC7902422&FORM=QBRE&sp=1&ghc=1

Just got this!!!  Not to shabby!!  :-)

SPEED     31 WPM
ACCURACY  94%
SCORE     29 AWPM

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!

Les