Day: January 9, 2024

JusJoJan — Killing Time

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Linda G. Hill is once again sponsoring her JusJoJan daily prompt for 2024. Today’s word is “pastime.” It was suggested by Di, who resides here.

I would say that my primary pastime is blogging, but over the past year, given the mobility limitations imposed upon me as a result of falling and breaking a hip, my wife and I share another pastime: binge-watching British TV detective shows.

This fascination with British crime dramas probably started with 20+ seasons of “Midsomer Murders.” Then we discovered and binged on “Grantchester,” “Inspector Lewis,” “Line of Duty,” “Broadchurch,” “Vera,” “Endeavour,” and others.

More recently we got hooked on “Silent Witness” and two shows about Scottish detectives, “Shetland” and “Taggert.”

It’s interesting to watch shows that started in the early 80s, before DNA was used, before personal computers, before cellphones, and before hi-def TV broadcasts. The evolution of technologies like these sure changed crime-fighting over the past 40 years, including the look and feel if the shows.

We do use subtitles, even though the dialogue in these shows is in English, because sometimes, especially involving the Scottish detectives, we cannae understand what they are saying without subtitles. It’s tough, innit.

For the record, if you don’t mind subtitles, we also found some Scandinavian detective shows worth binge-watching.

Truthful Tuesday — So Far, So Good

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Frank, aka PCGuyIV, is our host for Truthful Tuesday, is back from a brief hiatus. Unfortunately, he came down with COVID-19 for the second time, so 2024 is not off to a great start for him.

The idea behind Truthful Tuesday is for us to respond to the question (or questions) Frank asks and to be 100% truthful in our responses. No glib answers, no funny business, no fibs. Just raw honesty.

For this week’s Truthful Tuesday, Frank wants to know…

Is 2024 shaping up to be a good year, or is there room for improvement? Are you holding on to the belief that this year will be better than last, or have you already thrown out the “New Year’s Spirit” with the other after-holiday trash?

Interestingly, I answered this question in my response to yesterday’s Share Your World prompt from Di (Pensitivity101). So, rather than reinvent the wheel, I’m going to plagiarize myself and repeat below what I wrote in my Share Your World post yesterday.

I’m grateful that, eight days into the new year I haven’t injured myself or broken any bones doing something stupid. I’m grateful that I don’t have COVID, RSV, the flu, pneumonia, shingles, or any other significant malady. So, if I can stay on this path for the next 358 days (this is a leap year), and if Donald Trump doesn’t get elected President in November, I will be very grateful that 2024 will have been a better year than 2023.

Fandango’s Story Starter #131

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It’s time for my weekly Story Starter prompt. Here’s how it works. Every Tuesday morning (my time), I’m going to give you a “teaser” sentence or sentence fragment and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a story (prose or poetry) around that sentence/fragment. It doesn’t have to be the first sentence in your story, and you don’t even have to use it in your post at all if you don’t want to. The purpose of the teaser is simply to spark your imagination and to get your storytelling juices flowing.

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

This whole crazy chain of events started when I accidentally picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport.

If you care to write and post a story built from this teaser, be sure to link back to this post and tag your post with #FSS. I would also encourage you to read and enjoy what your fellow bloggers do with their stories.

And most of all, have fun.

FOWC with Fandango — Breed

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Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “breed.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, ÿplease manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.