Das Hier #44

Good morning humans.

I went out and had fun and may have encouraged someone to resume writing.

Only time will tell this particular tale, but I am hopeful that he will follow through on this because there's never too many humans writing about things and stuff.

As for me, I drew up a storm in that short time that I was there and I came home and drew some more

And then I came here, in the final minutes of the first quarter to announce my presence, as it were.

But based on how I am writing now, I am not going to have the kind of day that is going to help us reach the great good goal of the millionized decayear.

I was ready to start drawing the 10th drawing of the day when I realized that I would be drawing two different drawings in the same book, which I don't like to do back to back when I realized what I had to do was to stop the drawing, which I had just begun and come here to write.

That's not going well at all is it now humans?

No, it is not.

But I will persevere.

or will I as I could just as easily knock out just as soon as write it out.

Though I'm more likely to leave then to stay.

Four cookies with icing counts as breakfast yes? Well, it counts for me because that is what I had, even though I could have gone out and bought myself a sandwich to make it a more proper breakfast.

Nos Glorieux are playing tonight and the way they are playing, this game will end in defeat, though whether they lose like they lost the last two games, where they had been leading by three goals at one point in one and twice by two in the other or whether it will be one of their certain losses.

Either way, I don't see them winning.

Oh bother.

I need to sleep.

But I haven't written much and bringing the writing to an end now is going to leave me needing to write almost 2700 words if I am to first good peek it today, which you can be sure that this is something that I want as I decided that I want to write 71,000 words this month, which I am capable of doing if we pick up the pace.

Oh well, there is always the afternoon where I will rested.

Be well won't you humans.

All John had wanted to do on his one day off in the last three weeks was to go out on the lake and enjoy the sweet cool breeze and enjoy a little fishing, secure in the knowledge that he had earned it and was only going to fish for what he would eat.

It was the most relaxing thing that he did, as often as he could, but since he'd taken the new job, he went weeks without fishing and he didn't like it one bit. But the money was good and that was something that he really needed.

Or had, until he encountered The Hovering, who said nothing and just stared him into bubbleness, most of which fell into the lake, to be eaten by the fish in the very lake that he had fished in for the whole of his life.

And now, all that was left of him was four little bubbles, which surely wasn't enough for him to reconstituted.

If anyone could. And they surely couldn't as that was beyond the backward's technology of the people of the Earth.

Did a little of my voice sneak in there? Because i will admit that that sounded a little on the dickish side.

Sorry humans, you don't have the technology to reconstitute him even if you had all the bubbles in the first place, which you don't.

John Rimsley was dead! And there was no coming back from that.

Yes, I know that it is not a happy ending. But I don't like much like happy endings so don't expect them from me.

Sorry for those who like them.

Ha ha ha!

Though yes, I am anxious for that future happy ending for Nos Glorieux that has been lacking since 1993, not that I was aware of any of the greatness of Nos Glorieux as it was happening but since I came here, I have learned about their history and now understand them and seeing as many of their games as I have, especially the ones from when they were the organization to beat, gives me an appreciation for what they were.

So you can imagine what I would say to you haters with your sad hate of a storied club.

Your jealousy is both telling and showing.

I am lacking in the flow and know, though I wish that I didn't that I am not going to climb to the goodly height of any of the peaks with the way the words are flowing right now.

There's no score yet as Nos Glorieux have yet to disappoint us with stupid play as they are mired in a third streak of wretchedness which had me thinking that i would not watch them because it is hard to bear when they can'd do much right these days as they are on the road to losing eight straight games for the the third straight time in the same wretched season.

It's only five as they play now, but that's just because they haven't played the necessary amount of games.

Or that is how it feels as the last two games have been particularly gallings they led both of them and should have won both!

One even?

Nope.

And now they are trailing.

It's 1-0 the other team.

Oh bother!

How long before they are down by two? Of course, if they had scored first and even second, the wondering would be how long before that 2-0 lead ws going to be a one score deficit?

As for coming back from being down, well, that's not in them now surely.

Nos Glorieux. It's going to be down by two any moment from now isn't it as they took the disadvantage and the player who scored the first goal is a legendary scoreman who is one away from 700 as he makes an improbable run to the top of the scoring lead.

So of course he will reach the 700 score list against them when he's gone without a score for the last five games.

Can they do any real good anymore? Having leads for long periods in game is not the same good as actually winning.

At least the other team didn't make a score on that disadvantage, but the way Nos GLorieux are playing the other team could score just this one score and still win, that is how futilely Nos Glorieux are playing. 

For a win to stop the current wretchedness from going to six, that is probably what they are going to need.

Six scores!

Can they score six? Because they can surely give up five.

Their season turned in a game where they played this team all the way back in November where they lost two players they only welcomed back into the lineup recently.

And that has not been the immediate good that their loss was to the immediate bad.

It's enough to make me look to the sky and clench both my fists and shake them each as they were already facing an uphill struggle before they lost these last five games, two of which they should have won.

Even three.

But that is not what happened and they are even further behind where they were just a few short games ago.

Will they only be down in the game by a single score when the period ends? Or will the other team do their thing again and leave Nos Glorieux reeling because it's almost like a little struggle is all that it takes for this team to throw in the towel on any given night?

I'm afraid to answer that question.

But give it the final 2:59 and both teams will provide the answer.

If I were to make  a wager, I would say that if they manage to remain within a score through the end of the period, that they will manage to fall behind by more than one score in the second or third.

But hold on, Nos Glorieux got a score of their own and tied the game up with a similar quick score out of nothing.

There are less than two minutes left to play in the first and the game is tied.

The score will not be tied in the third at this point of that period.

Almost surely the other teams will be ahead then. The only real question is will it be an insurmountable lead or just one in the moments before it's two once more?

Either way, the wretchedness is sure to continue because they haven't been able to play well for any extended period since that turning point in the same building that they are playing in tonight.  

I'm feeling the flow now, as I've already written more in this quarter than I did in the last one where I was unable to strike hard and fast.

But of course, writing about Nos Glorieux when they are in such a season of struggle sure helps out with the words and I am well on my way to the camp at the base of the mountain.

Then again, the base camp is still 400 words away and I am already slowing down from the point where I was writing hard because I didn't know how hard I was writing and wasn't even aware that I had in fact written as much as I had.

Now that I know, I am writing softer, or slower.

So how long before I am racing to reach the base camp two hours from now rather than racing to the first good peak three hours from now when it will be even harder because Nos Glorieux will have already lost their sixth straight game.

Oh bother unfolding.

But with the better part of four hours left for me to write in, though yes, I will be supping at some point between now and then, I have a good chance at helping us back to another good peak day.

Especially when there will be more writing to be written about Nos Glorieux, preferably in a surprise victory, which this season is not a thing that they can expect when their wretcheds go to eight before ending.

That's just the seeming law this season. They must be 8 games long.

Oh, Nos Glorieux had an advantage and couldn't bury a score.

Colour me surprised.

Not.

At least they didn't give up a score, because the way that they are playing, such a thing would not surprise me.

Where's the story that I started earlier? I think that for now, that one drawing has given me all the story that it can give for this day..

So it will be the angry writing about tonight's game then, which is not enough, I'm afraid to get me to the first good peak.

It will be enough to get me to the base camp, but how much beyond that can it get me?

What will happen first tonight? My reaching the base camp, or the other team getting their second go ahead score?

Yes, there is no way that Nos Glorieux will score before I reach the base cap as I am less than a hundred words away from reaching the base camp and they cannot score that fast.

But the other team can.

Though there is the pause of your human advertisements which i can write through so I will have surely reached the camp before either team can score.

Perhaps the better question is will I climb to the first good peak before the game ends?

Sadly, I know in the pit of my stomach that the game is going to end on the wrong side of the for and against.

And no, I will not count the words until the next score, which might give me enough time to make a good stride past the camp and up the mountain because Nos GLorieux are playing well right now and don't look like they are in any danger of falling behind by another score.

Now I've done it haven't I?

Just like when the broadcasters say something like they have a commanding lead, like they had on at the end of last week and went from up by three, to down by one, which happened after one of them said those stupid words, like they are trying to will bad things into being.

So far though, the game remains tied at one and I can only cross my alien fingers and hope that the wretchedness ends at five and doesn't continue to 8 for the third time this season.

Not that a win tonight means that Nos Glorieux are on their way back on the still improbably long road to the tournament. Even a 10 game streak is not going to be enough because while they can win that many games, there are how many teams ahead of them who will also be winning.

Oh bother.

Nuh-uh Sutheran, no counting until the next score. hopefully one that will made by Nos Glorieux, who semeingly could have had the lead by now with the kind of second that they have had.

But it only counts as results o the ice, not chances, which don't end up behind the keeper.

Just like writing as thinking about the story that you are writing is not the same as writing. This is also the case when it comes to editing, or rewriting.

It's not writing.

Only writing is writing!

And anyone who thinks otherwise is mistaken. All those other things are good, don't get me wrong humans, but they are not writing.

Not that I expect to convince any of you of the correctness of my vision.

No more scoring? How will I know when I have written enough?

Will I have to wait until the end of the regulairty to stop writing?

No, I can stop writing and get ready to go out, which I will be doing after the writing is writ for the day, I just can't count the words again until the next score, or until the regularity has come to an end and they lose in the time over or in out shoot.

I would rather they lost in the time over than the out shoot, but who cares about one alien's opinion about the great game of the quietly proud country where I have chosen to live.

And the haters continue to smile as they say to themselves, 26 seasons without an end of tournament vicotry like in days of yore.

That is true,m but tell me when a team even gets close to their record in that great tournament. The closest two are in no danger of getting any closer as the closest won't qualify for this tournament and are 13 trophies behind Nos Glorieux.

The second closest may well qualify for the tournament but will not get any closer themselves and will remain 11 trophies behind.

I got to count my words though.

Alas, it was as I feared, the other team scored. And the human who got that score used to play for Nos Glorieux before he was sent here, where he won a trophy of his own.

Ha!

Now Nos Glorieux have scored a second of their own and the game is tied once more.

And with the march that I am on, we will surely reach the first good peak and dare I say it, we have us a chance to reach the second good peak and second good peak it for the second time in three days, which is good indeed.

But before that can happen, with the end of the period nigh, I will be leaving the writing at rest and make myself ready for I am going out after all the writing that I write is writ for another day.

Ig only Nos Glorieux could win as easily as I climb to the good peaks, which I do if give them the effort that they are due.

Admittedly, the peaks that we have reached this decayear are not near enough to give them a record in the winning.

So I best hush it now hadn't I?

They scored to take a one score lead? They are leading in the third?
Can it be that they will end this streak of wretchedness before eight?

Well, their last game did end with them giving up three straight goals in the 3rd and the other team only needs two more goals to win the game and not the three that that other team needed the other night.

All this to say that Nos Glorieux are far from walking away with a win tonight as having wretched 3rds is not out of the question.

And once more, I will agree not to count my words until there is another score, hopefully one that will scored for instead of against because with this being the 3rd during their third wretchedness of another long season, iyt's more likely thast it is the other team that will score next.

So I'd sooner not have the chance to count my words until the game is over.

Or Nos Glorieux have taken a two score lead.

Maybe what;'s best is there are no more goals and Nos Glorieux wins.

I would love that.

C'mon humans wearing the colour of a faded glory, win. You only have to keep them out of the net for another 9.10 minutes.

You can do that can't you?

Show us all that that you can.

Why are the broadcasters for Nos Glorieux wishing for another score by that player striving for his 700th score? Let him score it on another night, since Nos Glorieux are struggling as much as they are?

No, you are not expected to cheer for them as fans, but do you really need to wish for another score by anyone wearing their colours?

I say no! And I say it loudly too!

Do not ask for things that will cost them a chance, when their chances as it is, is such a longshot.

Seriously, what's your issue?

Are you...

Not that I need to finish that thought because the point was made.

And 1300 words falls to 900 say. I will not reach the second good peak before the end of game.

A game, that I am almost ready to dare to hope will end in the regularity with a victory for Nos Glorieux, though there are still 5:54 to play and a lot  can happen in that much time, like the other team scoring three times.

Oh bother if that happens. And if it does, the legnedary scorer will have two of them soo that he can have a tricked hat, just to break Nos Glorieux and get themselves back on the right track because they have struggled of late.

Not like Nos Glorieux as they remain firmly in the hunt for the top spot in the local side of the 8 teams of the tournament.

No one has suffered through streaks of wretchedness like Nos Glorieux have this season.

Though no team has succeeded like they have either.

And none ever will the way that I see it.

But enough of looking ahead to the future, the here and now still has import.

The next score is key with less than two minutes to play as a score by Nos Glorieux gives them victory that they desperately need!

Do not fail your way into the regularity Nos Glorieux because you will surely lose in the time over.

So of course, what happened? The other team scored to tie it up.

And who's going to score the winner, why the legnedary player of course.

But they're chalklenging the call, which is something they can do now.

No, they didn't challenge the score, which is perhaps for the best as they would have taken a disadvantage if the call had not been overturned.

I forgot that I could count again, wishing that I had counted to celebrate what has not come near enough, a victory for Nos Glorieux.

Especially since November, when the good Petrie was well on his way to Millionizing his year.

He is not going to Millionize this one of course.

Oh bother, there  was 21 seconds left to palyn when the other  team scored to tie the game.

Nos Glorieux won?

Can it be?

Yes, it was. They won!

It shouldn't have gone to the time over, but they won. And they didn't lose any of their key players to injury.

Of course, the last time they beat this particular team, they immediately went on with their first streak of wretchedness.

I am happily surprised, even though I know that you humans like to say pleasantly, I prefer happily. And you're just going to have to accept it.

Just as I have to accept the likelihood that the haters will be happy when the season ends.

I will not need all of the remaining time that there is to climb all the way to the second good peak because I am now 500 words away.

And with more than two hours left in the day, I have this. Though there is a part of me that says why not climb to the third good peak and write 5000 words?

But we've not reached the point where days must be this much written. And I dare say that we will not!

Not if we can have five days a month where we climb to the first good peak. Though that might not be enough.

however, where we stand now, is on the right track, even without the great good efforts of Franklin Perry.

Only where we stand now as far as today is that there's now less than two hours in the day and as I need to eat and there's no food in my home, I do need to go out and buy some.

So there will be no march to 5000 words, or climb to the third good peak as I will be more than content to bring the day to a close with 4000 written, though in the surprising wake of a too rare Nos Glorieux victory, I have lost the great good drive to the second good peak and am climbing up the mountain as if the wind had picked up and it had started raining or snowing.

Considering the time of year, it would be snow, though I would rather climb through snow than rain as I do not like the wet that rain brings.

And yes, it is better to be cold than wet because it is easier to dress for cold than the wet.

I wrote so more easily earlier while Nos Glorieux were playing as I didn't even realize that I was writing so hard.

Those were good times.

Would I have already written the 4000 words for the day if Nos Glorieuyx had lost and were two games away from matching their streak of wretchedness for the season.

Well, better that I struggle to the end in the wake of a surprising victory than already being there because I wrote about the suck that is the season of Nos Glorieux.

One win does not make this a better season. But better a win than a loss.

Or, I could have surely written more this morning, or the third.

But here I am, on the very cusp of the second good peak with enough time to reach the third good peak if I didn't have to get ready to go out so that I can find myself some supper.

However, I do so this is where I leave you to do that.

Be well humans.

Charles Petrie

Date
02-20-20

Time
05:42-05:59=17, 07:00-09:25=145, Untimed, 19:15-22:33=198

Word Count 
123+298+420+3203=4044