An interesting day...

[alexpgp]

It was one of those mornings where the mutts allowed me and Galina to sleep in until almost 9 am, whereupon Galina took it upon herself to announce that she was "going out," that I had three minutes to make myself presentable if I wanted to go with her, and that 37 seconds of those three minutes had already elapsed.

Old habits die hard, and I was ready to go before I ran out of time.

It was a marvelous day out today, the kind you just wish you could put in a container and keep on a shelf for when you need a nice day to help keep your spirits up. It stayed nice enough, temperature-wise, to allow us to put a dent in the disorder that had gradually sprung up in the garage over the past couple of months.

The main work computer stayed off today. This is being posted from my all-Ubuntu Acer Aspire, the performance of which is really quite nice.

Cheers...

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I was ready to go before I ran out of time.

Old Marine training, no doubt ;p

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

OO-rah!

Cheers...

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

In unrelated news, you have any ideas for "cross all the T's?"

My mind of course immediately goes to the naval combat strategy of "crossing the T," but I've written about sailing ships a lot so far this season.

Can you think of any words whose meaning may change enough enough to turn a story upon if a t becomes an l by way of missing its crossbar?

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Writing about the naval combat strategy would be awesome! However, if you feel that your audience won't go for another sea yarn, you can try to create an analogous situation on land, perhaps where the story's hero(ine) saves the day by discovering how to repeatedly "maneuver" in a situation (it doesn't have to be physically) in such a way as to gain an ongoing and growing advantage over the enemy. But in such a story, you run the risk of not being able to make "crossing the T" recognizable as a theme, unless you can explain how the hero(ine) was inspired to do what was done by a story (perhaps a family story) involving the naval maneuver.

Another idea, which requires careful setup, involves going up against ("crossing") someone who is known as "the tease." The hazard I see has to do with making sure to avoid what may be perceived as offensive schoolyard stereotypes.

As far as your last question is concerned, it's certainly an interesting one! At first, I was leaning toward the idea this was not really possible, since 't' is very often planted next to a vowel (if not between two vowels) which makes the conversion to an 'i' problematical, but then I came up with TON and ION. Another possibility that requires a little stretch and a lot of massaging involves "NOISOME" becoming "NOTSOME." Stretch, because the reader must assume that a space went missing, somewhere, and massage, because 'noisome' is an adjective, while 'not some' isn't. :^)

Hope this helps! Me, personally, I'd love to read a good sea story where the 'T' gets crossed!

Cheers...

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help. Also of course a t without a cross can be not only a capital I as in india but a lowercase l as in lima.

I'm also tempted to write some science fiction story and spaceships possibly behaving in an analogous fashion to traditional naval combat, though lord knows spaceships are always portrayed with forward facing weapons systems. But I haven't written an entry in space yet this season so it's tempting nonetheless.