[SUM] Like bamboo on a sunny morning

I welcome all of you who managed to successfully drop by and now wait for me to start the usual ramblings (I know... I use that word way too often).

But before I head on to the main topic of today's post I'd like to share a little something with you people. Something that took place yesterday and still manages to make me raise an eyebrow. I got word from my other pc...my laptop - yes! And no it's not done yet... but... aw well, yeah it's a bit strange.
Anyways I received the call yesterday afternoon from the guy from the shop who took it in with me and did a brief inspection of its power pack, adapter or whatever you want to call it and the battery on the spot.
Both of them seemed normal and functional for both of us, but now the repair place of Sony called them to tell them they should call me and tell me that they wanted to have a look at both those things too because the notebook itself seems to be working perfectly fine. (It wouldn't even start booting when I handed it in ... so I can only assume it miraculously repaired itself on its own as Sony says to have done nothing to repair it, whilst having a nice refreshing drink somewhere at the beach. It should have just told me if it wanted to go on vacation that badly...)
In other words, I brought the stuff I still had here because it looked fine to the shop so they can send it in too and right now I'm taking bets whether or not I'll get all of my stuff back before the end of the month. Not even thinking about the whole "is it really working again" part or the infamous 'why'...
In any case I learned one thing: give them a few weeks of time, a Sony Vaio will apparently repair itself after a while. (Did somebody just say Skynet?)

As for today's Short-Update-Madness... As announced in an earlier post on the blog I'm currently working on a short-story I named "The Bamboo Labyrinth", which will most likely be published on this blog as a series of entries for my Storytime segment.
Unfortunately, finishing the whole thing will get delayed for a couple of days as writing it down is a good bit harder than I had anticipated. The start of the story as such is done and it progresses rather nicely but I'm greatly slowed down because the moment I start re-reading parts of it I go onto a re-phrasing spree. All the deleting and re-writing... oh the humanity!
All the drama aside... with my current plans it's not too much of a set back at the moment. I've still got something in store for this week's Friday (Bertha! If anybody still remembers...)
But looking at it realisticly, I suppose the whole thing will be kicking off at the end of next week, so look forward to that.
For right now... I'll give you a short excerpt of the intro for a start, just as promised. Hope you'll enjoy it.


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I chose to cherish the things that are not to decay because of time, those can be remade anyhow, but because of essence... because of personality and its development.
The answer to this riddle I hereby posed so light-heartedly lies so simple: Memories.
They are our lifeblood. Defining who we are, what we experienced, what we learned and how we have suffered. And yet they can be eradicated within the sole blink of an eye. Now..., even though we all know of their frail nature, we still keep on pushing them away from us. We sometimes start wishing them away on a mere whim... and only begin to realize how foolish we've been after it is already too late to retrieve the things lost for eternity. The things that were ultimately forgotten.
So..., but why do we forget in the first place if we still cling to believing we knew any better?
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There you go... no bamboo in the excerpt yet... but it'll all make sense at some point. And no it's not necessarily a riddle.
Note from the Editor - which is by the way also me: Regarding today's headline ... In the story it's not even morning... it's afternoon... Geez.

As always thanks for reading, enjoy your week!
Marc, the Marc-ish

Camels and Nuclear Warfare

I bet now you wanna know what these two things have in common? Then you might wanna read my story 'Loner's Peak' once I'm done with it.

Well... okay... actually... the camel part is merely a bad pun, I guess? And the nuclear warfare might just not be nuclear warfare at all(?) But well... when confronted with weapons of mass destruction it might not be that important whether it's a nuke or not. Right? RIGHT?! ... right?

What am I hoping for? I'm on the Internet of course it would matter.

Meh.

Never mind... just as a quick reminder: the Coming Soon tab on this page is all about 'Loner's Peak', the story I'm currently working on. Peanut. There is also still a preview of the whole prologue on there. And I actually do intend to take it off the site at some point. For realz...

But now I should be getting back to the whole lot o' things I'd be doing normally. Oh and before I forget, the idea for the short-story is shaping up quite nicely. Yeah a short story, not one of the short-short ones but actually short. You either get my drift... or I might just be annoying you.

So enough of that and off you go, we haven't got all day and you still need to check out the
preview over here.


Thanks for reading,
Marc, conqueror of the blueberry pie (not actually blueberry and neither pie, but otherwise it would be boring, right?)


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'“So... how’s the old Camel doing? Ever heard anything again?”

He tried to sound witty with his little pun but it only made him appear even sleazier. And still the words tore right through my heart.'

It's all coming along... just like Goldilocks did...

And then... THERE WERE BEARS! *turns his head towards the shelf to his right*
... and uhm... porridge.



So, the week is almost over and the weekend is also already slowly, slowly fading away.
Okay okay..., maybe I'm dramatizing a bit, but you get my drift.

As this first week commences to cease away and comes to a close I want to shortly recall what I managed to do so far to this site.
Shortly after my first blogpost I put up the promissed 'About Me'-Page where you can find at least the most important information about myself (hah... as if anybody would care..) 
I also got the whole 'Random' stuff done for now. For the moment it will serve as a place for me to put up random links to websites I greatly enjoy.
Under 'Poetry' you'll find a few of my earlier poems, yet keep in mind that they are all written in German.
And finally, today I added a page called 'Coming Soon' which will serve as my personal playground to post teasers or previews of what I'm working on at the moment. Also the first bits are already up, and it's actually quite a lot for a start, as you get to read the whole prologue of my current work-in-progress 'Loner's Peak'.
So now come on... head on over there and enjoy reading it.
Come on... cooome on.
Now go!
Sheesh... now finally go and start reading already.
...

Aw well. More updates to come as I try to figure out a way on how to get the first drafts I made for 'The Tales of Beni James Honeypaw MacLeod' up onto the site in a suitable fashion.

I hope everybody had a great week and is having an equally great weekend so far.
Thanks for your attention,
Marc