That's the writer in me, Zee.
Never was a day 1 word would suffice when I could write an entire novelette in an afternoon.
I did a lot of sports (NFL-Packers, mostly) writing for 25 years, covering everything from the draft, free agency, pre-game & post-game dissections, to filling requests from fans of other teams to get my opinion on one thing or another about their team or players.

I built a pretty substantial reputation in those circles as someone who could write objectively and without fan bias in my opinions.
All told I posted over 33,000 articles and more than 4 million words on NFL football from 2001-2025.

I've contributed Guest columns to the local rag from time to time as well.
Been friends with an editor emeritus of the Cap Times since the 90s.

Knowledge is power.
While my profile is a long read, no woman capable of doing so should waste her time on me if what I describe myself as doesn't meet her desires.
Problem is, hardly any of them bother even looking at it, let alone attempting to read it.
Most of 'em can't even be bothered to fill out their own profiles, f/f/s.


Makes it a little easier to separate the wheat from the chaff anyhow.
If they can't be arsed enough to find out something about me before sending me emails asking me to jump onto Wazzapp or googlychat, then they aren't serious enough to be a potential companion anyway.
Ain't no shortage of 'em trying, on this site, though.

Ebbil geneyus Zee strikes again.

Dem po' Frenchies, they dun stand a chance agin The Hurricane from the North.

Yeah, this account has been scooped up THREE TIMES now.
At least admins are getting better at correcting the AI-bot's screw ups.
The 1st time it took 13 days to get it back, the 2nd time almost a week, & the third (this) time 3 days.
Of course it's gunna happen again, this account is just AI-antagonistic I guess.

Yup, liked Annika a lot. It falls into that UK procedurals category I mentioned liking.

About your choice in reading....MZB sound familiar?
Darkover is just about the richest universe of fantasy I've ever read from end-to-end.
C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Andre (Alice) Norton, Ann McCaffrey, Janet Morris, James (Alice) Tiptree Jr. and of course one of my correspondence partners, C.J. Cherryh - ALL terrific Fantasy authors in my collection(s) & all far more worthy of having movies made from their works than puddin'head Philip K.Dick.
At least Hollyweird got it right by producing movies from a number of Ursula K. LeGuin novels.

I use SF broadly but it encompasses Fantasy as well - though I'm most partial to military hard SF like Hammer's Slammers (Drake) & some of the new blood authors like Jay Allan, M. D. Cooper, & J. N. Chaney.
These new breed of SF authors are actually more like writing co-ops, putting out co-authored volumes at such a prodigious rate it's hard to keep up.

My favorite fantasy story of all time is "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McAntyre.
I've read it 3 times now, about a decade between readings, & I still get all misty-eyed every time.

Hé, ne vous moquez pas des Français !
Ils n'y comprennent rien parce qu'ils refusent de parler anglais comme nous tous.

Don't ask me what that says, 3 years of French (& 2 of German I was supposed to need for college) & I can barely count to ten in either one.

I binge read, same as I binge watch.
Last year I read about 300-350 books in mobi format (more like a book with pages than EPUB & its eternal scrolling).
I use Calibre (Freeware) to convert formats on eBooks & set mobireader to display 3 pages horizontally at a time.
I can read roughly 100 pages per hour if nobody is bothering me.
I've read prolly somewhere around 2,500-3,000 SF novels over the past decade.

I do have a dead trees book collection, which I've been adding to since the early '70s, & which stands at 6,534 volumes of SCI-FI paperbacks (about half are 1st printings) dating as far back as the 1950s.
(Know anybody that wants to buy the whole collection? Cover prices add up to ~$30,000 but I'd let it go for $10k.)
I mark 1,863 of the paperbacks as read but many of them are also present in the 156 GB of eBooks on my hard drives (124,753 Files, 21,071 Folders - many of them are in multiple formats (7:1+cover photo), which is why the files count is so much higher than the books/folders count) and have also been read even though they aren't listed as such in my Master SF paperback Excel & Access databases.
I have a sneaking suspicion that although my family is extremely long-lived, I'll never get to read them all but I do try to clear dead authors' entire bibliography before moving on to the next - i.e. I've read everything Isaac Asimov ever wrote, etc.

As for the Nazombie flix I listed, I took into account your non-predilection for both WWII & Horror genres but I believe they are really neither - more along the Bruce Campbell Evil Dead campy trilogy genre, intended to be spoofs on both genres, but funny as hell at the same time.
Stretch yourself SparklingCrystal, give 'em at least a stab at letting yourself enjoy a few good laughs.
You might surprise yourself.
I mean, whooda thunk you could combine SF & Westerns (Cowboys & Aliens)?

2¢ always welcome Zee.

Was folding laundry and a thought hit me.
If some type of disaster hit your area and you had to pack one suitcase, besides socks and underwear, (the most asked for items in homeless shelters), and needed I.D.s passport etc., what would you pack?

Amazing what you have done and how far you've come!
I know the mind is extremely powerful, as is the self-healing ability of the body.
It is actually infinite.
I learnt this from Dr Joe Dispenza. Many who have done his work have healed from stage 4 cancer!?! Also from stroke, being (partly) paralysed, MS and whatnot.
I have started his work a few times, but I always lose motivation/inspiration after some 2-3 months. Like with working a 9-5 job as I told before where I get bored within the same timeframe, I also have this with healing work.
I know from what Joe Dispenza says this is the exact time where you have to follow through. If you do, you're there.
Stupid thing is, I just forget. And then think a week later, "Chit, I haven't done anything anymore?!!"

In spite of my limitations I do a lot myself as well in and around the house. Being single, you have no choice, right?
Sometimes I have to get help in though, volunteers as like you I can't afford to get paid-for help in.
And funny enough much of what I do myself works fine, doesn't bother me much physically?
A few years ago I had to put up a new 7m long gutter on the garage. I'd never done anything like that, normally your man does that, hihi.
But I did it, didn't bother my neck/shoulders at all, which was quite unbelievable! But I was so proud of myself that I got it done and that it worked perfectly as well!
I have yet to finish of the gutter on the other side. Half of it is done.

Roofing I wouldn't do. Too heavy for me. I also have an issue with raising my arms up. Anywhere above shoulder height approx. makes my muscles cramp and triggers my neck.
But I have a council house so that kind of thing I don't have to do myself anyways. I just phone them to tell them XYZ is broken and they sent someone over to fix it.

I hope you manage to get or have it done without too much trouble!!

I could get a parking thing for invalids too a few years ago. But for me there's no real added benefit. Yes, parking in town would be easier I guess, but I hardly ever go into town. I'd get a traffic sign on/near my driveway, which I do not want, hihi.
But I'm on welfare as I wasn't working at the time of my accident, not disability benefit (which is substantially higher than welfare).
Since I'm in the welfare system I cannot get permanent exemption from working/applying for jobs. I can only get 1 or 2yr exemption. Last time I got 2 years, which ends this April, meaning I'll again have to go to my manager and convince him I haven't healed and still cannot work. Sigh...
Always stresses me out as when they decide I can work I'm b*ggered.

I still have my dreams and hopes for the future though! I want to be free of that welfare system, be my own independent self, travel, have a wonderful partner.
Give online courses on the masculine & feminine principles, sell paintings and meditations and so on.

For that I'll have to get myself on track again. Spend about a year on getting balance in hormones after becoming post-menopausal. I started HRT last year (hormone replacement therapy). Takes time to get a balance, not there yet. I do hope it will alleviate my issues. If so, then I can begin to do stuff. Maybe. If I have the guts, hihi.

Lucky you, not having to deal with those animals. Hopefully no human cougars either, haha.

I always felt Australians were quite a lot like us western Europeans, not like Americans, which is why it felt so good to be there.
I get the same vibe from Canadians.
I know many Dutch went to Canada. You often can tell by the surnames. Lot of Dutch ancestry there.
Also German and Belgian I think. Which makes you wonder how many have British roots over there.

Maybe time to dig into Canadian history, hihi. But for now have to chase after a cat who's trying to eat food she's not allowed to eat due to allergy, grrr...

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