To follow up my other two list, I am adding my "things I would like to do list". This list of course will not have anything practical on it. The things I list will have no chance of transpiring. The chances of Jennifer Aniston knocking on my door, and then winking at me. Have much better odds of happening, then anything on this list.
This blog is inspired by a reader. Who stated there was something on my list of things I would never do,that she always wanted to do.
Things I would like to do!
1. own my own farm
2. visiting rural Russia
3. write a novel
4. find a trove of old coins
5. learn how to whistle
6. buy a fixer upper
7. visit rural parts of Europe
8. own a cottage on a small pond
9. walk and chew gum at same time
10. hit a curve ball
11. open mouth with out inserting foot
After seeing my amateuristic attempts at writing a blog, it's plain to see I will never attempt to write a novel. But sometimes when I am reading a book, I day dream about improving the plot.
I already have had a couple of readers accuse me of being pretentious in my excessive wordage. All I can say about that is, I only use what I feel comfortable with. I try to use words that leave little doubt as to what I am trying to say. Many words have more then one meaning and can be interpreted in a variety of ways. For example. In the fifties if I said, Pierre and Randy,were having a gay old time, fooling around out behind the barn. People would interpret it totally differently than they would today.
So the point I am trying to make. Is that by being a compulsive reader I have expanded my vocabulary. Like I stated in a previous blog.I dozed through most of my English classes. And I would be lost with out the spellcheck icon on my computer.
Two authors who really built up my vocabulary. Charles Todd and his inspector Ian Rutledge series, And M.C. Beaton with her very witty stories about Scottish constable Hamish McBeth.
Charles Todd and M.C Beaton"s tales of these two policemen took place in the early nineteen hundreds. Along with their great stories,I found that the vernacular of that era and of Britain to be almost an alien language to us in America. So I spend a lot of time looking up words they use. So that I can completely understand what they are trying to say.
Another author I really admire is Donald E. Westlake. I find this author to be by far the most humorous I have ever read. His stories about John Dortmunder and his gang of thieves, proves that all humor does not have to be demeaning or slapstick.
I am sure that I will think of more imposable dreams to add to the my list. But That's it for today.
3/24/10
Normally I just add to my lists,without mentioning it.
But so many readers have giving me a jab about my thinly veiled referance to Jennifer Aniston.That I feel compelled to add her to my list.
I did not want to be preceived as a dirty old man, so I tried to sneak it by. I figured it would just be my little joke. So now that I have been exposed,
12. have a rasslin' match with Jennifer
This blog is inspired by a reader. Who stated there was something on my list of things I would never do,that she always wanted to do.
Things I would like to do!
1. own my own farm
2. visiting rural Russia
3. write a novel
4. find a trove of old coins
5. learn how to whistle
6. buy a fixer upper
7. visit rural parts of Europe
8. own a cottage on a small pond
9. walk and chew gum at same time
10. hit a curve ball
11. open mouth with out inserting foot
After seeing my amateuristic attempts at writing a blog, it's plain to see I will never attempt to write a novel. But sometimes when I am reading a book, I day dream about improving the plot.
I already have had a couple of readers accuse me of being pretentious in my excessive wordage. All I can say about that is, I only use what I feel comfortable with. I try to use words that leave little doubt as to what I am trying to say. Many words have more then one meaning and can be interpreted in a variety of ways. For example. In the fifties if I said, Pierre and Randy,were having a gay old time, fooling around out behind the barn. People would interpret it totally differently than they would today.
So the point I am trying to make. Is that by being a compulsive reader I have expanded my vocabulary. Like I stated in a previous blog.I dozed through most of my English classes. And I would be lost with out the spellcheck icon on my computer.
Two authors who really built up my vocabulary. Charles Todd and his inspector Ian Rutledge series, And M.C. Beaton with her very witty stories about Scottish constable Hamish McBeth.
Charles Todd and M.C Beaton"s tales of these two policemen took place in the early nineteen hundreds. Along with their great stories,I found that the vernacular of that era and of Britain to be almost an alien language to us in America. So I spend a lot of time looking up words they use. So that I can completely understand what they are trying to say.
Another author I really admire is Donald E. Westlake. I find this author to be by far the most humorous I have ever read. His stories about John Dortmunder and his gang of thieves, proves that all humor does not have to be demeaning or slapstick.
I am sure that I will think of more imposable dreams to add to the my list. But That's it for today.
3/24/10
Normally I just add to my lists,without mentioning it.
But so many readers have giving me a jab about my thinly veiled referance to Jennifer Aniston.That I feel compelled to add her to my list.
I did not want to be preceived as a dirty old man, so I tried to sneak it by. I figured it would just be my little joke. So now that I have been exposed,
12. have a rasslin' match with Jennifer
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