Before I Croak
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
August 19, 2016 9:43pm CST
Before I Croak
The equivalent of Chicken Little's hollering, "The sky is falling." That's kind of what I may be looking at, and so I'd best get it on and put some of my doggy doggerel together under virtual covers and then do the same for several of the tall tales that everyone accuses me of telling.
All in fun, Good Friends, but I am not wise enough to know how to grow any younger.
What I did in the past is going to pretty well have to suffice for the future. I saved at least most of the rhymes that fell onto my keyboard and also most of the little fables that I let someone (who shall escape being named ) talk me into producing the things). There is one group of tales that is kind of special to me that I should stick into a separate eBook. It is a series of 22 stories about goofy people and goofy events I witnessed in areas of radioactivity work, both in and out of the military. I may add to the stories if I can find the time to do so, but we shall see about that.
I have some catching up to do before I get all the raw material lined up, however, for I really messed up a big bunch of computer text and image files that were stored on one of those "thumb drives." I do not know how I managed to wipe them out, but, leave that to me - I wiped them all out. They are all back onto a thumb drive once again thanks to the file recovery program, "Recuva" (free download from SourceForge dot net). There may be lots of rhymes and tales among the saved files that should be in the desired eBooks.
The image above this posting is part of my monitor screen - the part showing some of the "poems" folder and its contents. When I get all done, I will put the stuff into a folder and figure out how to set up a link to it so that anyone who wants a copy or two can download them.
That's it for today. Time for some of those good-tasting meds and , hopefully, a nice night's worth of snoring. How's that grab you? Up and at 'em in the morning right after that big bowl of Cheerios and sliced bananas.
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Image source: Screenshot by Gus Kilthau
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
20 Aug 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - I do not know how your computer setup is configured, but I would offer the strong notion that using the eMail setup to back up various other files is not the way to go. I will send a note to you with a suggestion or two - easy to follow and good to use. One thing that I can tell you (and anyone else who may not already know it) is that you should NOT do what I did as to the files on my MyLot thumb drive. I did not have a back up for them and m now paying the price for not having one. Yes indeed, Gus was a real bona fide dumb butt about that. 
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
20 Aug 16
@LadyDuck -Ms Anna - How right you are - oh, yes indeed. Speaking of "overwriting files," I have a nifty program on the computer that I use at the close of every computer session to "clean" the C-drive of junk stuff. Works fine. It also has a nice feature that allows me to intentionally erase files that I want "gone." For that, the program gives you three choices of erasure (overwriting, if you want to think of it that way) - (1) simple overwrite, (2)triple overwrite to make recovery even more difficult, and (3)military grade [7x] overwrite to make it nearly impossible to recover the erased files. The program is called C-Cleaner.
Thanks for the useful comment. -Gus-
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@stringer321 (5682)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
21 Aug 16
I see you have written poems to many subjects including cactus, spring, east, an upside down tree and more...
So many ideas I can read about :-)
Do you have a secret way of making the poems or they just pop up into your mind ?
What did you mean `put some of my doggy doggerel together under virtual covers and then do the same for several of the tall tales that everyone accuses me of telling`. You were talking about screaming like a chicken because of the sky was falling down, so maybe it was an SOS ?
What kind of medication do you take that are taste good (maybe you are being sarcastic ?) ?
I think that you have so many wild ideas and inspiration I have no clue how you get your writing style.
Many of your sentences challenged my brain and I'm sure you can make up many songs and poems again even if you lose your old writings.
Who is that someone who escaped being named and told you to write and upload poems ?
This discussion can make a difference in my life since I also like to write, and maybe I will get inspiration to write poems like you do.
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@stringer321 (5682)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
22 Aug 16
@Ceerios Wow, thanks for the answers, now I will have enough background to read and I will ask less questions.
I guess the daughter of the mylotter gave you a lot of things to write about here and that's a good thing to share.
Thanks to you I have started reading fables and learn life lessons. The first one is about the fox and the lamb. Poor lamb, the fox started to blame the lamb and just ate the lamb :-(
The lamb did nothing wrong, but, the fox just wanted to eat the lamb.
I will now be careful when dealing with foxes in real life.
Thank you very much.
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
22 Aug 16
@stringer321 - Friend Mor - There is another fable featuring "the fox" - I recall that it was about the fox and the crow. Worth a read - all about greed. 
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
22 Aug 16
@stringer321 - Friend Mor - My goodness, you surely do know how to ask lots and lots of questions. I will try to answer some of them.
Chicken Little is, of course, a fictional character of many centuries duration. An acorn fell from an oak tree and hit her atop her head, whereupon she raced around hollering, "The sky is falling." (in other words, "A disaster is upon us.")
I do not have a secret way of "making poems," but I tell people to write a word (or put it onto the computer screen - or gaze upon a picture - or listen to some sound or combination of sounds. A poem will come about naturally from doing that. If a person does that but does not know much language (any kind of language), then they will have to be happy with their poem being expressed as "grunts" or other strange sounds. 
As to my "doggy doggerel." those two words translate into "not-too-good poems.," with "doggy" meaning not too good and doggerel meaning somewhat less than elegant rhymes.
"Good-tasting meds" is sarcastic mention of hateful medications, most of which taste very bad.
You asked who talked me into writing fables and posting them onto this website. Let us simply say that it was the daughter of one of the MyLot members. Fables are ordinarily like "fairy tales" in a way - little fanciful fictions that can evoke some sort of "moral of the tale." My favorite set of fables are those of the writer (or writers) known as Aesop. You can download a copy of Aesop's Fables from Gutenberg.org at no cost to you. For my own fables, I simple start off with one or more little characters - usually different critters - and let the tale develop itself and its finishing moral. Fun to do, but poems are usually a lot easier to produce.
Now you have tired this old man's fingers and what is left of his brain for the evening.
Thank you for your comment. -Gus-
As to my "doggy doggerel." those two words translate into "not-too-good poems.," with "doggy" meaning not too good and doggerel meaning somewhat less than elegant rhymes.
"Good-tasting meds" is sarcastic mention of hateful medications, most of which taste very bad.
You asked who talked me into writing fables and posting them onto this website. Let us simply say that it was the daughter of one of the MyLot members. Fables are ordinarily like "fairy tales" in a way - little fanciful fictions that can evoke some sort of "moral of the tale." My favorite set of fables are those of the writer (or writers) known as Aesop. You can download a copy of Aesop's Fables from Gutenberg.org at no cost to you. For my own fables, I simple start off with one or more little characters - usually different critters - and let the tale develop itself and its finishing moral. Fun to do, but poems are usually a lot easier to produce.
Now you have tired this old man's fingers and what is left of his brain for the evening.
Thank you for your comment. -Gus- 1 person likes this
