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Writing Group and Denver Meet-Up Updates

by TaMara (HFG)|  October 13, 20179:53 pm| 45 Comments

This post is in: Meetups and social events, Open Threads, Writing Group

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This is the carousel near the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. It’s suppose to be unique…I find it a bit creepy.

I’m planning on a writing group thread on Sunday – I’ve had a request to discuss NaNoWriMo and I’d also like to continue the topic of self-publishing.  Same bat-time, same bat-channel (here, 12:30 edt, 11:30 cdt, 10:30 mdt and 9:30 pdt).

On to the Denver meet-up. I need some help here – I thought I could take the time to put this together, but I really am swamped with work and I’m heading out of the country soon, so I don’t think I can pull it together. I was looking at meeting on Thur 10/19 or Sun 10/22 at Rosita’s, but I think for that to happen, someone else will have to take the reins. Email me (whats4dinnersolutions at live dot com) and let me know if you can, otherwise I’m afraid time is not on my side right now and I’ll do a poor job of juggling all the pieces to make it happen.

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  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    I find it a bit creepy.

    I don’t see any clowns.

  2. 2.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 13, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    How about a creepy seal?

  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Meh.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 10:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m pretty sure there’s a clown fish on there if you look hard enough. Will that work?

  5. 5.

    Smiling Mortician

    October 13, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    I like the sea turtle but the lobster tail seems partly cooked, which is indeed creepy.

  6. 6.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Is it necessary that I find it creepy? You folks seem to be working so hard on it, so I’ll just say yes.

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I don’t care either way. I was trying to work the clown angle.

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Chaotic neutral, then?

  9. 9.

    MomSense

    October 13, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    baby please

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    October 13, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    [. . .] someone else will have to take the reigns.

    Jesus. And in a writing post!

  11. 11.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 13, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Bite me. Does that work for you?

  12. 12.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    Apparently Zinke decided he didn’t need just his own command flag, but he also needed a commander’s challenge coin:
    coinsblog.ws/2017/10/interior-secretary-zinke-has-his-own-challenge-coin.html
    Zinke also commissioned personalized challenge coins to give to staff and visitors.

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Sure, sure.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    October 13, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Sure. Go and sin some more.

  15. 15.

    MomSense

    October 13, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    He’s a freak – and not in a good way.

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: What a douchebag.

    @Adam L Silverman: Now you are just humoring me.

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    October 13, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    So . . . get booted from the SEALs but miss the military cruft? Start running your civilian bureaucracy like you’re Prince Rupert of Zenda. Winning!

  18. 18.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’d have thought clowns would be more chaotic evil, but what do I know. As for Zinke, he is what he’s always been – someone with his fingers in the cookie jar.

  19. 19.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 13, 2017 at 10:37 pm

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’d have thought clowns would be more chaotic evil

    That’s mimes. Clowns are lawful evil.

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): I’ve got a challenge coin issued by a Foreign Service Executive to me when I was in Iraq. A lot of non military agencies have adopted them since 9-11 because of just how Joint, Interagency, and Intergovernmental we’ve been operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. So a lot of former senior military folks migrated over to civilian agencies and took the traditions with them and a lot of civilian agencies started doing it because they were working in close quarters with uniformed personnel and DOD and Service civilians. By having them to give out it allowed them to reward good work in a way that made cultural sense for the bulk of the people they gave them to down range. But I’ve never seen one for a government department be personalized with the secretary’s name on it. While I don’t have one, I’ve seen one handed out by a previous Secretary of Defense. And that didn’t have his name on it. Just the DOD stuff.

  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Now it makes sense.

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Obligatory.

  24. 24.

    lgerard

    October 13, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    I assure you that it’s not creepy when it is packed with little kids.

    There is a skunk on there somewhere, I wouldn’t want to be the kid who gets stuck with it though

  25. 25.

    Gvg

    October 13, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I don’t understand what a challenge coin is or why it would make cultural sense to the people we work with. Are you referring to Iraqis or our military?
    To this civilian it just seems dumb. The guy has no sense. Probably why he got in trouble with the expense accounts.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Challenge coins never meant anything to me. Gimme something I can pin on me uniform or get the fuck out. The certificate of appreciation from the CO of 2ACR? Meh. If I did well, a quiet congrats or an AAM. Nothing in between.

  27. 27.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Gvg: US military. Though other militaries use them as well.

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I will make a note in your dossier. No Balloon Juice challenge coins. Only Balloon Juice Commenter Action Badge.//

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    October 13, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I see a lot of that stuff as a subtle but troubling sign of the militarization of our government and (somewhat) our society in general.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 11:31 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Only Balloon Juice Commenter Action Badge.

    There better be stars or OLCs. Just saying. I mean consider the time I put in… OTOH, you don’t want to encourage me. Hmmm…

  31. 31.

    MomSense

    October 13, 2017 at 11:37 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    We need green balloon badges.

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    October 13, 2017 at 11:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    How ’bout some nice farts and darts*?

    * Clouds and lightning bolts.

  33. 33.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    @MomSense: Interesting thought.

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): I think this, overall, is the least worrisome. Zinke’s putting his name on the coin is just weird.

  35. 35.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): One is confused. Not getting your banter, mate.

  36. 36.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 13, 2017 at 11:48 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: We have a nice Distinguished QWERTY Cross.

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    October 13, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Decoration for the Balloon Juice Commenter Action Badge. Example seen here.

  38. 38.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 13, 2017 at 11:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: All joking aside, my original comment reflected my attitude as a serving officer. If what I did wasn’t worth an AAM, a simple thank you or, if appropriate, a comment to my Battalion CO, which shows up in my file is fine.

  39. 39.

    Currants

    October 13, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    @lgerard: Agreed–my granddaughters LOVE that thing, and always aim for the turtle and the owl.

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 14, 2017 at 12:05 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I understood where you were going with the original comment and why.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 14, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Sorry about over-explaining.

  42. 42.

    sacrablue

    October 14, 2017 at 1:40 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I used to design challenge coins for a client that tons of military and federal govt. customers. The MWR money was flowing generously during the Iraq war era.

  43. 43.

    Arclite

    October 14, 2017 at 2:03 am

    We need a Hawaii BJ meet up.

  44. 44.

    JustRuss

    October 14, 2017 at 3:45 am

    If riding on a giant sea turtle is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

  45. 45.

    Miss Bianca

    October 14, 2017 at 9:18 am

    TaMara, very late to the thread but if you need help organizing i can help, if the organizing can be done from afar and if that means i can plump for the 22nd as our date!

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