Gary Poole
Managing editor of The Chattanooga Pulse website, best-selling SF/F editor, traffic reporter, sometime musician, kitten wrangler, lover of tropical shirts.
Joined Nov 2022
Things that confuse me: Why do the signs that say "Slow Children" have a picture of a running child?
Up at 4:30, on TV starting at 5:30. These type of work hours are why coffee was invented.
My wife.
And yes, my anniversary is coming up next week. Why do you ask? 😁
Question of the Day: Who would be the most interesting person to be stuck in an elevator with?
I had to swing by the drugstore real quickly and walked into a very strange situation. Someone, for reasons unknown, threw a bottle of Omega 3 pills at me.
Luckily, my injures were only super fish oil.
My wife has learned to never ask me what I'm thinking, because I tend to answer honestly with responses like "I wonder if garden gnomes ride snails like we ride horses."
I also wonder if they like coffee. The gnomes, to be precise, not the snails. I already know snails don't like coffee.
Sure. That’s what they *want* you to think. I ain’t falling for that trick again.
This is very different from the music I normally create. Was basically goofing off in the studio this week playing around with synthesizers, sampling, and drum machines. I like it, but can't for the life of me figure out what genre it is, musically speaking.
So, the video is done. This is just for fun. Let me know if you like the music -- which is not AI generated, by the way. 😎
I've been eating a lot of chicken salad sandwiches lately. Have a local place to makes great chicken salad and sells it by the pound.
Question of the Day: What's you favorite kind of sandwich?
So yesterday I had a moment of musical inspiration and created a new piece of music that is unlike anything I've ever done before.
Today, I'm working on putting together a video to go with the music.
The muse strikes on her own terms and timetable.
Taking a quick break to grab something from the fridge and a thought occurred to me: clearly the people that design refrigerators don't know me at all if they think one tiny cheese drawer and two giant vegetable drawers are the way to go.
To give you an idea, my normal TV traffic reports are about 30 seconds, with sponsor. This morning, they're twice that long, if not longer. I'm basically telling people if they don't need to be anywhere *right now* to stay off the roads.
All hands on deck this morning in the TV news business: we're dealing with severe storms with flooding, power outages, wires and trees down, and idiots that still think they can drive like normal causing mayhem on the roadways.
This is one of those mornings when I *really* appreciate working from my home studio.
It was definitely a challenge to my willpower, but I have finally removed all the unhealthy food from my house.
It was delicious.
Gary Poole
Managing editor of The Chattanooga Pulse website, best-selling SF/F editor, traffic reporter, sometime musician, kitten wrangler, lover of tropical shirts.
Joined Nov 2022