Bored Now.

[erastes]

Cripes – don’t they use tie-breaks anymore? 69-68 games? How boring is that? The commentary is making me ILL. “how will they cope with the enormity of the situation?” “such a shame someone has to win.” Oh do shut the fuck up. Oh hoorah. it’s finished.

Today Dad lost the car again, but I simply looked where he’d put it last time and bingo, there it was. I do worry about him parking there, not because he loses the car but there’s a possibility he’ll be fined £75 for parking there!  Advised he walks into town in future – it’s not far, quarter of a mile, tops, and he only goes in once a week. Next time I’ll drive him.

“I Knew Him” is at 8500 words and I’m very happy with it so far. It’s probably more of a draft than I’ve done before, I feel I’m painting in the skeleton as it were, and will be doing the details later perhaps. As I write I think “Oh I really should go and and add this, or that.”  I suppose I can tell you it’s set in 1921 in Somerset – no specific reason for the place, but as i said before a law was changed in 1921 which triggers the plot. Also it’s seven years after the outbreak of the Great War which is hugely relevant and those two clues are related.  It’s first person, so I know some people will immediately add it to their “not to buy list.”  I have to say that beginning a novel is the best fun. Remind me of that in November, will you? When I’m tearing my hair out?

Comments

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

While I did enjoy watching (well, listening while I read, looking up now and again) the match end today, and I'm stunned at the endurance of the two players, I do think that there should be a provision in the rules to prevent the game from continuing indefinitely like this, particularly as the winning player has to continue on - Isner is playing doubles today, isn't he? - in the competition and is at a disadvantage to players that got through in under three hours of play.

Wow, long sentenceish thing there.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i don't understand why they didn't use a tie break - there must be a rule I don't know which isn't surprising.

[aunty_marion]

They use tiebreaks only in the first four sets (or two for women). When it comes to the final set, that's apparently too 'important' to be decided by tiebreak, so it has to go the full distance. The tiebreaks were introduced because otherwise earlier sets were going to moderately ludicrous extents.

[markprobst.livejournal.com]

I hate to ask this, but should your father even be driving? I know Alzheimer's only affects memory, but might he forget the rules of the road?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No - and this is why i don't think he HAS alz - the test for it was ludicrous - i probably would have been diagnosed with it - they gave him some words to remember and told him to count backwards from 50 - and that was it. But no - he doesn't forget that kind of thing, he's a tremendously careful driver. I doubt very much he knows the stopping distances, but who does once we've passed the test?

[markprobst.livejournal.com]

My apologies. I'm afraid I jumped to a conclusion. I had remembered you mentioning Alz before and I thought it was a sure thing. I only spoke out of concern for your father's safety.

[josephine-myles.livejournal.com]

I love first person when it's done well - I really don't know what the problem is that some people have with it. Mind you, I'm happy enough with second person as well (in small chunks), and I love a present tense narrative so perhaps I'm just more experimental in my reading.

Somerset is a lovely setting. I've been living here for fourteen years now and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else - I look forward to reading "I Knew Him" when it eventually gets published!