Somethings to Think about …

Somethings to Think about …

I just wrote this on another forum a couple of days ago, where we were comparing differant people meanings of the word success; I think it applies here as well, so here it is…

I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 squ feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is haveing a job that alows ou to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previose owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pzza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

Reporting harassment and spam to your forum

Today, I had yet another attack of keyword link spamming on one of my forums…the poster, has never joined and used a differant user name each time they left the posts filled with link spam. For days now I have been patiant with this troll and have asked them to stop posting links to their web site all over my board, however they only left “laughing smilies” and posted more links per post. I warned them that what they were doing was not only against my boards rules, but that it was againt ProBoards rules, and US government policy as well and warned them that if they conntinued I would have no choise but to do what I always do to keyword link spam trolls and report them to the FBI.

the posters responce was a touge smillie and yet another link spam….so as I warned them, their IP # is now publicly posted on my board, and I have just returned from the FBI’s reporting site.

It got my thinking though…I’ve used this method to get rid of trolls on all of my sites, and I’ve been asked before how do I send these reports to the FBI

well it’s simple realy, just go to their website, all the info is there. remember to point how that they are harassing you, disrupting conversations on your site, and causeing you to be annoyed because you have to spend each daay deleting their posts instead of working on your forums

for other admin who are having problems with link spam trolls here are a few places where you can report the harasment too.

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm

http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm

http://www.ic3.gov/

http://karisable.com/crpcrep.htm

http://www.nap.edu/netsafekids/pro_report.html

http://www.treas.gov/usss/financial_crimes.shtml

Also be sure to contact the web host that they used to build/host the site that they are spamming on your board…most cases the host will ban them and delete their site

and always keep track of the IP# and be sure you tell every org. you send the report to, both their IP# and the web site that the links open up to

I hope this well help some of you who have had link spam trolls attacking your forum

Reporting harassment and spam to your forum

What Is Success?

What is success?

How do you describe the word success?

What would it take for you to feel successful?I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks on this.

Of course it would help get the discussion moving if I posted my feelings on it, so here I go…I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortgages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 square feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is having a job that allows you to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previous owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pizza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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What Is Success?

What is success?

How do you describe the word success?

What would it take for you to feel successful?

I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks on this.

Of course it would help get the discusion moving if I posted my feelings on it, so here I go…

I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 squ feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is haveing a job that alows ou to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previose owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pizza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

What Is Success?

What is success?

How do you describe the word success?

What would it take for you to feel successful?I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks on this.

Of course it would help get the discussion moving if I posted my feelings on it, so here I go…I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortgages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 square feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is having a job that allows you to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previous owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pizza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

What Is Success?

What is success?

How do you describe the word success?

What would it take for you to feel successful?I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks on this.

Of course it would help get the discussion moving if I posted my feelings on it, so here I go…I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortgages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 square feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is having a job that allows you to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previous owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pizza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Somethings to Think about …

Somethings to Think about …

I just wrote this on another forum a couple of days ago, where we were comparing differant people meanings of the word success; I think it applies here as well, so here it is…I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 squ feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is haveing a job that alows ou to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previose owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pzza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Somethings to Think about …

Somethings to Think about …

I just wrote this on another forum a couple of days ago, where we were comparing differant people meanings of the word success; I think it applies here as well, so here it is…I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 squ feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is haveing a job that alows ou to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previose owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pzza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Somethings to Think about …

Somethings to Think about …

I just wrote this on another forum a couple of days ago, where we were comparing differant people meanings of the word success; I think it applies here as well, so here it is…I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 squ feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is haveing a job that alows ou to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previose owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pzza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

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Poll about Bush

Was reading this: Poll about Bush

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I think, given the circumstances, he’s doing fine. Not many would have been able to cope with such tradgedy such as 9/11, the war, Katrina, the tsunami, etc

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I think he is doing a good job and I would like to see anybody who disagrees to do a better job themself.

I agree…personally I don’t think anyone who has not walked a mile in his shoes has the right to say they could do better than him, unless they are fully prepaired to give up their own life and family and take on the job of president themselves…maybe he’s made mistakes, but let me ask this…can you name a president that hasn’t? he’s only human after all…give the man a break, he’s doing the best he can

for those who want to throw stones at Bush…think on this thought for a while…

“If you think your so perfect, try walking on water.”

What books do you like?

I like books by my fave authors:Keith Laumer
Douglas Adams
Sir A.C. Doyle
H.G.Wells
Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Suess
J.K.Rowlings
Stephen King
Charles Dickins
Little Golden Books

lots of asst. Sci-Fi and Horror stuff

What books do you like?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Garden growers?

Seeing how planting season is almost here (the ground has finally thawed so it can be tilled) I was wondering how many posters here are getting ready to start planting? Once growing season is here we grow most all our own food, everything from corn and peas to carrots and potatoes, to tomatos and squash and all things in between.

apples are so hard to grew, they require more care than vegies…ours usually get used for hen feed cause they get full of worms we only have 4 apple trees, so not much ever comes of them anyways…we usually end up going to the local orchards to pick our apples there rather than grew them…Macs are what most of the growers in the area havewe don’t have any regular cherries, our winters are too long and our summers too cold for pie cherries, but wild choke cherries grow along the brook, we don’t have to do anything to them at all, but the cherries are very sour, not sweet like regular cherries. I also have a perrenial flower garden…the prize center piece being a white rose bush over 100 years old and belived to be nearly 200 years old, that belonged to my great-grandmother, Rose Ricker.Anyone else here got gardens?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Garden growers?

Seeing how planting season is almost here (the ground has finally thawed so it can be tilled) I was wondering how many posters here are getting ready to start planting? Once growing season is here we grow most all our own food, everything from corn and peas to carrots and potatoes, to tomatos and squash and all things in between.

apples are so hard to grew, they require more care than vegies…ours usually get used for hen feed cause they get full of worms we only have 4 apple trees, so not much ever comes of them anyways…we usually end up going to the local orchards to pick our apples there rather than grew them…Macs are what most of the growers in the area havewe don’t have any regular cherries, our winters are too long and our summers too cold for pie cherries, but wild choke cherries grow along the brook, we don’t have to do anything to them at all, but the cherries are very sour, not sweet like regular cherries.

 I also have a perrenial flower garden…the prize center piece being a white rose bush over 100 years old and belived to be nearly 200 years old, that belonged to my great-grandmother, Rose Ricker.Anyone else here got gardens?

Writing: When & Why

When did you first start writing?

What do you enjoy most about writing?

What is it that compeles you to write?

I wrote my first book in 1978, and haven’t stopped since… I like writing scifi/horror/romance… I don’t know if I’m more addicted to my characters or to the act of writing!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Writing: When & Why

When did you first start writing?

What do you enjoy most about writing?

What is it that compeles you to write?

I wrote my first book in 1978, and haven’t stopped since… I like writing scifi/horror/romance… I don’t know if I’m more addicted to my characters or to the act of writing!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Garden growers?

Seeing how planting season is almost here (the ground has finally thawed so it can be tilled) I was wondering how many posters here are getting ready to start planting? Once growing season is here we grow most all our own food, everything from corn and peas to carrots and potatoes, to tomatos and squash and all things in between.

apples are so hard to grew, they require more care than vegies…ours usually get used for hen feed cause they get full of worms we only have 4 apple trees, so not much ever comes of them anyways…we usually end up going to the local orchards to pick our apples there rather than grew them…Macs are what most of the growers in the area havewe don’t have any regular cherries, our winters are too long and our summers too cold for pie cherries, but wild choke cherries grow along the brook, we don’t have to do anything to them at all, but the cherries are very sour, not sweet like regular cherries. I also have a perrenial flower garden…the prize center piece being a white rose bush over 100 years old and belived to be nearly 200 years old, that belonged to my great-grandmother, Rose Ricker.Anyone else here got gardens?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Garden growers?

Seeing how planting season is almost here (the ground has finally thawed so it can be tilled) I was wondering how many posters here are getting ready to start planting? Once growing season is here we grow most all our own food, everything from corn and peas to carrots and potatoes, to tomatos and squash and all things in between.

apples are so hard to grew, they require more care than vegies…ours usually get used for hen feed cause they get full of worms we only have 4 apple trees, so not much ever comes of them anyways…we usually end up going to the local orchards to pick our apples there rather than grew them…Macs are what most of the growers in the area havewe don’t have any regular cherries, our winters are too long and our summers too cold for pie cherries, but wild choke cherries grow along the brook, we don’t have to do anything to them at all, but the cherries are very sour, not sweet like regular cherries. I also have a perrenial flower garden…the prize center piece being a white rose bush over 100 years old and belived to be nearly 200 years old, that belonged to my great-grandmother, Rose Ricker.Anyone else here got gardens?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Internet forums… Why I like them

i LIKE BOTH…ON THE BIG BOARDS YOU MEET AND TALK WITH THOUSANDS OF DIFFERANT PEOPLE EACH TIME YOU VISIT (LIKE EbAY COMMUNITY)…

hey, I hit the caps button…I hate that…fixed now, finish my post…

On small boards you can really get to know the people, and make some close friends,

anyways, I like them both, I think that all forums provide something good, so I try to check out as many as I have time too.

What books do you like?

I like books by my fave authors:Keith Laumer
Douglas Adams
Sir A.C. Doyle
H.G.Wells
Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Suess
J.K.Rowlings
Stephen King
Charles Dickins
Little Golden Books

lots of asst. Sci-Fi and Horror stuff

What books do you like?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

What books do you like?

I like books by my fave authors:Keith Laumer
Douglas Adams
Sir A.C. Doyle
H.G.Wells
Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Suess
J.K.Rowlings
Stephen King
Charles Dickins
Little Golden Books

lots of asst. Sci-Fi and Horror stuff

What books do you like?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Writing: When & Why

When did you first start writing?

What do you enjoy most about writing?

What is it that compeles you to write?

I wrote my first book in 1978, and haven’t stopped since… I like writing scifi/horror/romance… I don’t know if I’m more addicted to my characters or to the act of writing!

What books do you like?

I like books by my fave authors:

Keith Laumer
Douglas Adams
Sir A.C. Doyle
H.G.Wells
Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Suess
J.K.Rowlings
Stephen King
Charles Dickins
Little Golden Books

lots of asst. Sci-Fi and Horror stuff

What books do you like?

Why Do You Hate Americans/Brits?

I was just reading this:

Why you hate Americans/Brits  

I see no logical reason to hate either side… both have their good points, both have their bad points… we should all learn to live together and agree to disagree without being disagreeable about it.

Writing Exercise: How was the universe created?

I was just reading this: How was the universe created!!

the answer is 42…just ask Prak  

LOL!

This topic poses an interesting question actually. Some people say God created everything, others point to Big Bang…I wonder, what if it was both? What if God created us and He used the Big Bang to create us?

Or how about this…me being a writer and creator of 3 universes and over 700 characters makes me question this theory:

what if the creature we call “God” is really just a writer, like me or Stephen King or whoever else, right? Okay, so one day, the man named God decides to write a book, about a planet he calls earth and alien creatures he calls humans…if it was true that God created us and as some religions teach, that God knows everything that is going to happen before it happens, because he’s “the author of life” (as some preachers call him), than isn’t than true by that logic, that we do not exist at all and are nothing more than a figment of the imagination of a writer who makes us do and say whatever he wants us to do and say….

weird theory I know, but I’ve questioned it for years ever since I heard a preacher say that God was the author of all things and that we do his will…I asked him, than why should we bother to do anything at all, and than questioned creation against his teachings, and that’s how I came up with the above creation theory.

Well, you know me, I have to turn everything into a writing course, so, this is your next writing excercise.

Do you look your age?

I am 30 years old, and still get asked for my ID at several places; when I go shopping on a week day, store workers well often stop me and ask “Why aren’t you in school? It’s not a holiday is it?”…my friends tell me that I should be glad that I look so young and that most women in their 30’s would die to be in my shoes, but I really hate it, and am annoyed at having to always have to prove I’m over 18 every where I go.

Public School: Dumbing Our Future?

What is the world coming to these days? I look at the idiosy of the young people today and I wonder, what the hell are they teaching in public school these days, or are they even teaching anything at all may be a better question?

you’d be shocked at how many people I’ve met who didn’t know that pork and ham came from pigs or that hamburger started out as a cow, or how many I’ve meet who thought that Maine was a providance of Canada, not a US state or that New Mexico was a part of Mexico, also not part of the USA, I’ve yet to met a single person that knew roosters/hens/chickens were birds before I told them of that fact, 9 out of every 10 people I’ve met belive that Ben Franklin was a President of the US. I once meet someone who actually believed the moon was made of cheese!!!! My experiance with most young Americans (fresh out of high school age) hadsled me to believe that the education in public schools has failed beyound belief and serves no real purpose when it comes to an actual education.

With minds like that destined to be our future, what possible future can our planet expect to have? And note, that I do not blame the students. It’s not thire fault that their parants were too dumb to teach them how to think. It’s not their fault that public schools are too worried about political correctness and sex education to teach history and science. Students are getting jipped. They are the ones getting the short end of the deal. Students everywhere should band together and demand that schools shape up or ship out, before the mind that can think becomes any more of an endangered speicis.

Have forums lost their pull factor?

I’d say yes, and no, both…

I think it’s that there are so many forums that people join a ton of them, and than only stay active on 1 or 2 that they like best.

Types of Narration

Types of Narration:I could describe for you the meaning of each narration style, but than you may or may not understand. So I have instead written each of the following using the style itself, so that you can see how each style is used. Some styles are similar, for example, both the second person account and the choose your own adventure are written using second person account, however, the format is slightly different.

Most every book you read is written using the third person account. It is the easiest to write and the easiest to read, it is used in both fiction and nonfiction stories.

Also common, is the first person account. This style is used most often in books were the main character is a child, teen, or young adult. True romance stories are often written in this style. The first person account is used in both fiction and nonfiction stories.

A monolog is a type of first person account, usually seen in script writing for comic books and movies. A monolog is a long wordy style that uses a ton of unnecessary words, and often has the character arguing with their own inner conscience. This style is commonly used when the villain is the main character. It is also used by nearly every villain in super hero comic books as a way of speaking.

The most difficult and rarely used style is the second person account. Most every book written in this style is a mystery novel, as this is the perfect genre for second person accounts, though other genres sometimes use it as well. The reader is the main character…the narrator of this story has no name, no age, no gender, no personality, or any other identifiable traits written into the story. By doing this the reader is able to take on the identity of the main character. The secondary characters, the plot, and the scenes are vividly described to make up for not describing the main character. Physical scenes, emotions, and sub conscious thoughts a described with crystal clarity. The reader must feel everything the main character feels, smell everything the main character smells, taste, hear, and touch everything the main character does. It’s a grueling style to write, too difficult for the average writer to pull of convincingly, but when well written the second person account can be the most enjoyable style writing for the reader. Common types to use this style are: Choose Your Own Adventure, Murder Mysteries, Role Playing Novels, and Role Playing Games.
First Person Account:When I write in first person account, I am telling you the story like it is, the way I saw it happen. I’m telling you this because this is how it affected my family, and me and the world has a right to know what happened to us.

Second Person Account:You are sitting at your desk ready to write. You are a very good writer, you know this, but you can’t understand why writing a second person account is so difficult. You decide to call one of your writing buddies to ask. The phone rings. No one answers. You hang up the receiver and decide to move on to a different writing style.

Third Person Account:When Harry writes a book, this is the style he uses most often, because it is the easiest style in which to write. He had tried writing in other styles, because many of his friends had told him that he should. However after much trial and error Harry, decided that third person had proved to be the easiest format for him to write, and so this the one he uses for almost every book he writes now.

The Personal Record:Dear Readers, I do not know when or how you will come by this, my diary, in which I am keeping this account of my life. I’m sure you will soon learn, because a terrible injustice has been done, that I have to hide this book from those who would seek to destroy it. I must write down these events so that when I am gone the world my learn from my mistakes. Please dear reader, do not make the same mistakes I made.

The Monolog:You dare ask ME! ME! The great overlord of all life! Me! Your captor! Me, the almighty one! Me! The ultimate life form! You dare ask me, why I write using this style! The impotence! The audacity! The ignorance! You fool! Must I explain everything to your puny incompetent brain? I write like this because it is part of my master plan to destroy the world!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Soon, I shall control the universe! It’ll be mine, mine I tell you! Mine! MINE! All mine! Mwa_HAHAHAhahah…ha…ha… heh… heh… heh…eh?

Wait…could it be that this is wrong? Could there be another way for me to gain control of the universe without violence? Should I find another way? What am I saying? I love violence! And you! YOU! You incompetent little worm! You shall be my first victim!

BWaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Choose Your Own Adventure/Choose Your Fate:It was a dark and stormy night. You see the lightening flash! You shudder as the thunder clatters outside your window. You are tired and want desperately to go to bed, but your report is due by morning, so you must continue to type away. You must not be bothered by the sounds around you.

Suddenly you hear a crash outside your window…

1) If you think it was just a falling limb, than keep on typing to the next page.

2) If you think it was a car accident than grab your raincoat and turn to page 10 to go outside and find out.

3) If you think is was a ghost in your attic, than get a flashlight and turn to page 33.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Types of Narration

Types of Narration:I could describe for you the meaning of each narration style, but than you may or may not understand. So I have instead written each of the following using the style itself, so that you can see how each style is used. Some styles are similar, for example, both the second person account and the choose your own adventure are written using second person account, however, the format is slightly different.

Most every book you read is written using the third person account. It is the easiest to write and the easiest to read, it is used in both fiction and nonfiction stories.

Also common, is the first person account. This style is used most often in books were the main character is a child, teen, or young adult. True romance stories are often written in this style. The first person account is used in both fiction and nonfiction stories.

A monolog is a type of first person account, usually seen in script writing for comic books and movies. A monolog is a long wordy style that uses a ton of unnecessary words, and often has the character arguing with their own inner conscience. This style is commonly used when the villain is the main character. It is also used by nearly every villain in super hero comic books as a way of speaking.

The most difficult and rarely used style is the second person account. Most every book written in this style is a mystery novel, as this is the perfect genre for second person accounts, though other genres sometimes use it as well. The reader is the main character…the narrator of this story has no name, no age, no gender, no personality, or any other identifiable traits written into the story. By doing this the reader is able to take on the identity of the main character. The secondary characters, the plot, and the scenes are vividly described to make up for not describing the main character. Physical scenes, emotions, and sub conscious thoughts a described with crystal clarity. The reader must feel everything the main character feels, smell everything the main character smells, taste, hear, and touch everything the main character does. It’s a grueling style to write, too difficult for the average writer to pull of convincingly, but when well written the second person account can be the most enjoyable style writing for the reader. Common types to use this style are: Choose Your Own Adventure, Murder Mysteries, Role Playing Novels, and Role Playing Games.
First Person Account:When I write in first person account, I am telling you the story like it is, the way I saw it happen. I’m telling you this because this is how it affected my family, and me and the world has a right to know what happened to us.

Second Person Account:You are sitting at your desk ready to write. You are a very good writer, you know this, but you can’t understand why writing a second person account is so difficult. You decide to call one of your writing buddies to ask. The phone rings. No one answers. You hang up the receiver and decide to move on to a different writing style.

Third Person Account:When Harry writes a book, this is the style he uses most often, because it is the easiest style in which to write. He had tried writing in other styles, because many of his friends had told him that he should. However after much trial and error Harry, decided that third person had proved to be the easiest format for him to write, and so this the one he uses for almost every book he writes now.

The Personal Record:Dear Readers, I do not know when or how you will come by this, my diary, in which I am keeping this account of my life. I’m sure you will soon learn, because a terrible injustice has been done, that I have to hide this book from those who would seek to destroy it. I must write down these events so that when I am gone the world my learn from my mistakes. Please dear reader, do not make the same mistakes I made.

The Monolog:You dare ask ME! ME! The great overlord of all life! Me! Your captor! Me, the almighty one! Me! The ultimate life form! You dare ask me, why I write using this style! The impotence! The audacity! The ignorance! You fool! Must I explain everything to your puny incompetent brain? I write like this because it is part of my master plan to destroy the world!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Soon, I shall control the universe! It’ll be mine, mine I tell you! Mine! MINE! All mine! Mwa_HAHAHAhahah…ha…ha… heh… heh… heh…eh?

Wait…could it be that this is wrong? Could there be another way for me to gain control of the universe without violence? Should I find another way? What am I saying? I love violence! And you! YOU! You incompetent little worm! You shall be my first victim!

BWaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Choose Your Own Adventure/Choose Your Fate:It was a dark and stormy night. You see the lightening flash! You shudder as the thunder clatters outside your window. You are tired and want desperately to go to bed, but your report is due by morning, so you must continue to type away. You must not be bothered by the sounds around you.

Suddenly you hear a crash outside your window…

1) If you think it was just a falling limb, than keep on typing to the next page.

2) If you think it was a car accident than grab your raincoat and turn to page 10 to go outside and find out.

3) If you think is was a ghost in your attic, than get a flashlight and turn to page 33.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

Types of Narration

Types of Narration:

I could describe for you the meaning of each narration style, but than you may or may not understand. So I have instead written each of the following using the style itself, so that you can see how each style is used. Some styles are similar, for example, both the second person account and the choose your own adventure are written using second person account, however, the format is slightly different.

Most every book you read is written using the third person account. It is the easiest to write and the easiest to read, it is used in both fiction and nonfiction stories.

Also common, is the first person account. This style is used most often in books were the main character is a child, teen, or young adult. True romance stories are often written in this style. The first person account is used in both fiction and nonfiction stories.

A monolog is a type of first person account, usually seen in script writing for comic books and movies. A monolog is a long wordy style that uses a ton of unnecessary words, and often has the character arguing with their own inner conscience. This style is commonly used when the villain is the main character. It is also used by nearly every villain in super hero comic books as a way of speaking.

The most difficult and rarely used style is the second person account. Most every book written in this style is a mystery novel, as this is the perfect genre for second person accounts, though other genres sometimes use it as well. The reader is the main character…the narrator of this story has no name, no age, no gender, no personality, or any other identifiable traits written into the story. By doing this the reader is able to take on the identity of the main character. The secondary characters, the plot, and the scenes are vividly described to make up for not describing the main character. Physical scenes, emotions, and sub conscious thoughts a described with crystal clarity. The reader must feel everything the main character feels, smell everything the main character smells, taste, hear, and touch everything the main character does. It’s a grueling style to write, too difficult for the average writer to pull of convincingly, but when well written the second person account can be the most enjoyable style writing for the reader. Common types to use this style are: Choose Your Own Adventure, Murder Mysteries, Role Playing Novels, and Role Playing Games.
First Person Account:

When I write in first person account, I am telling you the story like it is, the way I saw it happen. I’m telling you this because this is how it affected my family, and me and the world has a right to know what happened to us.

Second Person Account:

You are sitting at your desk ready to write. You are a very good writer, you know this, but you can’t understand why writing a second person account is so difficult. You decide to call one of your writing buddies to ask. The phone rings. No one answers. You hang up the receiver and decide to move on to a different writing style.

Third Person Account:

When Harry writes a book, this is the style he uses most often, because it is the easiest style in which to write. He had tried writing in other styles, because many of his friends had told him that he should. However after much trial and error Harry, decided that third person had proved to be the easiest format for him to write, and so this the one he uses for almost every book he writes now.

The Personal Record:

Dear Readers, I do not know when or how you will come by this, my diary, in which I am keeping this account of my life. I’m sure you will soon learn, because a terrible injustice has been done, that I have to hide this book from those who would seek to destroy it. I must write down these events so that when I am gone the world my learn from my mistakes. Please dear reader, do not make the same mistakes I made.

The Monolog:

You dare ask ME! ME! The great overlord of all life! Me! Your captor! Me, the almighty one! Me! The ultimate life form! You dare ask me, why I write using this style! The impotence! The audacity! The ignorance! You fool! Must I explain everything to your puny incompetent brain? I write like this because it is part of my master plan to destroy the world!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Soon, I shall control the universe! It’ll be mine, mine I tell you! Mine! MINE! All mine! Mwa_HAHAHAhahah…ha…ha… heh… heh… heh…eh?

Wait…could it be that this is wrong? Could there be another way for me to gain control of the universe without violence? Should I find another way? What am I saying? I love violence! And you! YOU! You incompetent little worm! You shall be my first victim!

BWaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Choose Your Own Adventure/Choose Your Fate:

It was a dark and stormy night. You see the lightening flash! You shudder as the thunder clatters outside your window. You are tired and want desperately to go to bed, but your report is due by morning, so you must continue to type away. You must not be bothered by the sounds around you.

Suddenly you hear a crash outside your window…

1) If you think it was just a falling limb, than keep on typing to the next page.

2) If you think it was a car accident than grab your raincoat and turn to page 10 to go outside and find out.

3) If you think is was a ghost in your attic, than get a flashlight and turn to page 33.

How I Found Proboards

last summer, I read all the HP books for the first time, and than set out to find a fansite devoted to my fave character in the book : Prof. Snape…I ended up finding thousands of HP Proboard forums, nearly all of the RPG’s, which is not my cup of tea, others were fan-fic sites, again, not my cup of tea either…I was just looking for a place were fans of Snape could hang out and yap about life…finally I found Silly’s Shrine of Snape…by far the coolest HP ProBoard ever built…after hanging out with them for a couple of months I acidently clicked the button on the bottom of the page that sent me to ProBoards home page…that was the first time I realized that “Hey! I can start one of these places too!”…so I did, and now here I am