Quite a few things happened in the last two days since the previous post. Firstly, by some lucky coincidence, my contribution
to The Iron Writer Challenge #62 managed to pull through and get voted the
best. Have to admit, I did not see that coming. This would be the same thing I wrote
about three posts ago
So now that I passed the
initiation, I guess I really am a member of the Iron Writers… and this win has
put me up for what they call the Summer Open; so I’m back up there on the 26th
of June. This time, against the winners of the other weekly Challenges.
As if that wasn’t enough for me,
I went ahead and asked Brian to sign me up for another Challenge. So, C68 has
my name on it, and that’s the 5th of June. Better hope for another
miracle.
And speaking of miracles… we got
our telephone line restored a day ago, and Wi-Fi is officially back up and
running again here at home. Until, of course, the next big disaster.
These past 48 days have been
extremely illuminating to me. Here’s some of what I’ve managed to learn:
·
Getting pissed off will not, by any means, be of
the slightest help to you if the object/person that you are pissed off at is
not within crushing/strangling reach,
·
The mood of your mother will depreciate at a
rate faster than that of yours when you are in an emotionally disturbed state. This
rate of depreciation will accelerate in direct proportion with the cost of objects
that get mortally affected during outbursts
·
If you though that the public sector was lazy
and incompetent before you found
yourself in a crisis that required their assistance, your faith in that belief
is only strengthened as time goes along,
And most important of all:
·
When there’s nothing else to do… just start
writing.
