PROMPT: Dream Home

Write about your dream home.

Must be portable, because it needs to be movable if it’s to be expected to keep up.

PROMPT: Fantastic News

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?

Fact check

PROMPT: Outgrown

Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?

Well, having an imaginary friend is adorable at nine, but at ten they institutionalize you. So I would say, yeah.

PROMPT: Break

Do you need a break? From what?

I travel for a break from the ordinary. I spend time at home (wherever that might be) for a break from novelty.

PROMPT: Invention of a Lifetime

Daily writing prompt
The most important invention in your lifetime is…

If “most important” means having both a broad and profound societal impact, then the answer would have to be the internet. [Though I learned through said internet that Arpanet was already operating before I was born. So, if you consider the internet to be a simple progression of Arpanet, then my answer would be a lie.]

If “most important” means having the greatest benefit to mankind in terms of improved quality of life or lifespan, then it’s probably some medicine. Which one? I have no idea. [Maybe that breakthrough that both won the Nobel and made it much easier and quicker to get the COVID vaccines out (mRNA translation, or whatever it was called.)]

PROMPT: Cook

Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite thing to cook?

Thai curry — red, green, massaman, it makes no difference. It tastes good, smells good, and is nutritious — at least in the way that I load it with vegetables. And it requires all those satisfying cooking actions — i.e. slicing, dicing, etc. Also, it’s simple and mistake-forgiving to an extent that even someone unskilled — such as myself — has a hard time fouling it up.

PROMPT: First Computer

Daily writing prompt
Write about your first computer.

My first computer was my brain interfaced with a No. 2 pencil. Yes, I date that far back in the technology stream.

PROMPT: Sports

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What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

Combatives: i.e. Boxing, Wrestling (real, not acted,) Muay Thai, Judo, etc.