It’s Saturday, the end of a busy and exciting week and a day in which David and I are hiding at the bar to keep from getting wet—it’s going to rain all weekend. This is when I normally reveal the Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt Linda G. Hill gave us. Today, I filled in for Linda, so any problems we have with this prompt are self-inflicted. Let’s look at what I came up with:
“Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is ‘Last/Lest/List/Lost.’ Use them in any form you like. Use one, use two or use them all. Bonus points if you use all four. I’ll chip in extra bonus points if you use the word formed from the missing vowel in a well mannered way, but behave yourselves lest you lose all you bonus points… Enjoy!”
Do you ever have ideas that seem so much better in your head than they do in practice? Yeah…
If we were having a beer, you would have a lot of questions.
“Hi, Dan. Cheryl was here a minute ago. I ordered your beer and my John Howell’s Special.”
“Are you buying today?”
“I am. A tribute if you will, to your getting your book out the door.”
“Well, thank you, David.”
“Actually, Dan, David is being a little insincere. I told him your beers would be on the house today.”
“I am buying my own bourbon though, and if we get anything to eat, I’ll pay for that, too.”
“Well, Cheers! Thanks to both of you.”
“So, Dan, you introduced us to Rascal Todd on Wednesday. On Thursday, you showed us some images from Pittsburgh. Can we assume that we’ve seen the last of this stuff?”
“Stuff?”
“Isn’t that the word you used last week? You know, when you were describing the tasks related to publishing rather than writing your book.”
“Yes, the ‘technical term’ you were picking on me for using.”
“Well?”
“Well, I’m still working through a list of things I need to do.”
“Do any of those involve your telling us again that you wrote a book? Cuz, we get that.”
“Ha ha, I think everyone is aware. I mean, I still have to update Goodreads and Bookbub, and I might put a few more notices out in Social Media…”
“Why do you have to post multiple times?”
“Not everybody sees every post.”
“Do they get lost? The posts, not the people.”
“No. It varies by platform, but they don’t actually get lost.”
“So, what happens to them?”
“None of the places, Facebook, Twitter, etc. send every post to every follower.”
“Is there anything—other than posting multiple times—you can do to ensure that your followers see those posts?”
“I can spend money, which I’m reluctant to do.”
“Speaking of spending money, you boys want another round?”
“We do, Cheryl. Now Dan, you often accuse me of being frugal. But wouldn’t it be worth it to spend a few dollars to spread your message farther, lest some of your followers miss the message and some are inundated with it multiple times?”
“It’s more than a few dollars, and it still might not cover all the bases. People are in and out of social media sites all the time. It’s hard to hit them all at once.”
“OK, I think I understand. Maybe we should get something to eat.”
“He’s not hungry, David.”
“How do you know that, Chery? Did he post that on Facebook.”
“Look at him. He got a haircut this morning. That means he had breakfast with John.”
“I did post a picture of that breakfast on Facebook.”
“Eggs, bacon, home fries and Italian toast?”
“Correct.”
“I hope your new book is less predictable.”
“I did introduce couple new restaurants.”
“Five-star places?”
“Hmmm, hard to tell. One is a truck stop, but it sounds like a very good one.”
“Dan, as an author, you should know that the phrases ‘very good’ and ‘truck stop’ rarely are found proximate to each other.”
“I don’t like to give spoilers, but my characters liked the place.”
“I’m sure. Meanwhile, I’m stuck here, lusting over pictures of the breakfast you had seven hours ago.”
“It was good.”
“OK. I’ve ordered your book. I ordered Cheryl’s book. I’m going to get a pizza to go. Any other news?”
“Maybe.”
“Maybe. I guess that’s better than ‘yes and no’ but I still don’t like it.”
“If it works out, you’ll like it. Damyanti is going to visit the bar, later in October, but…”
“That’s still good news!”
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