Author: KokkieH

Song Title Challenge #21: Rollin’ With My Homies – Coolio

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song.  You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me.  Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page.  You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Rollin’ With My Homies by Coolio and was suggested by anonymusical at They didn’t tell me it’d be like this.  Genre:  romance once again.  Please tell me what you think of it.

Rollin’ With My Homies

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On sitcoms and knowing when to stop…

…because let’s face it, some sitcoms seem to go on forever.  I once heard someone remark that Friends should have ended the second time Ross and Rachel broke up, yet we were subjected to several more seasons before those two finally got together.

Two and a Half Men should have ended after season three, when Jake was still cute and Allan not yet quite so pathetic. Continue reading “On sitcoms and knowing when to stop…”

On technical difficulties…and movie trivia

You may or may not have noticed that I’ve been a tad quiet this week.  I’ve not been taking a break from the blog…at least, not voluntarily.  My internet went on a temporary vacation, preventing me from doing anything here.

That shouldn’t happen.  I have uncapped internet.  It’s 3G, so at times there are signal problems, but this wasn’t the signal.  I know because Facebook worked fine.  And Twitter.  And all my programs’ automatic updates downloaded fine.  But nothing else.

I don’t have a problem with Facebook as such, but it’s a tad frustrating to not be able to access anything else for forty-eight-plus hours.  And Twitter is full of links.  I couldn’t click on any of them.  No Wikipedia.  No Google.  No news websites to read where I can be upset by the comments (actually that was a relief).  No blogs!  It was torture, I tell ya!

Thankfully, all’s back to normal now.  Updating my browser seemed to do the trick, though I have no idea why the previous version which had worked fine until two days ago suddenly didn’t.  I also don’t know why both Chrome and Internet Explorer (yeah, I was actually THAT desperate) developed the same problem at the same time.

Whatever the reason, I’m glad to be back.  Though when I consider that I spent the first two-thirds of my life without internet it’s a tiny bit disconcerting that two days without it now affects me so.  I might need to take an enforced internet vacation soon for the sake of my sanity.

But enough of that.  Here’s a bit of movie trivia:

This powerful wizard from a galaxy far, far away was also a vampire, a dentist and a pastor and in real life caught Nazi war criminals before becoming an actor.

Comment with the name of the actor and all the movies referenced if you can figure it out.  First person who gets it right wins a walk for two under the full moon on Saturday night (not with me, though, unless you’ll spring for my plane ticket).

Song Title Challenge #20: Time To Say Goodbye – Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song.  You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me.  Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page.  You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Time To Say Goodbye and was suggested by rainbowsofhappiness at a URL that doesn’t exist.  Seems he/she doesn’t want a shout-out for their blog.  He/she also didn’t specify who wrote the song, but I assume it’s the one recorded by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman and written by Francesco Sartori (music) and Lucio Quarantotto (lyrics).  I was given a genre, romance, but have decided to add a little Sci-Fi twist.

Time To Say Goodbye

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On changing luck and weekend stuff

I’ve decided that the car’s tyre is number three in the trio of bad luck that have apparently invaded my life.

Friday morning I went to a fitment centre and they advised me to rather replace the damaged tyre.  You can’t fit a new tyre on only one side of the car, so I asked them to place the tyre from the spare wheel on the other side, but it turned out to be a different size from the tyres on the mag wheels, so I had to fit new tyres both sides.  Price: R1700 ($170 at the current exchange rate, but if that doesn’t seem like a lot, it’s about 15% of my salary I earned as a teacher).

I sighed in resignation and told them to go ahead – tyres and suspension are two areas of a car where you never skimp on maintenance.  If you value your life and those of your passengers, that is.

But then my luck changed. Continue reading “On changing luck and weekend stuff”