Das Hier #33

I can still draw at least as I just finished a drawing that I like very much.

I would have posted it already but my human designed phone is charging and my human designed printer/scanner/copier remains unassembled because it confuses me so.

Stupid humans who are gifted with technology thinking that everyone is gifted with it as you wave your hands around then say, there, it's that simple.

But all you did was say blah blah blah as you waved your hands.

That doesn't mean it's easy for all of us, it's just easy for you.

You humans frustrate me so much.

And speaking of frustring humans, it's nearly noon and I haven't heard from the humans of the writer's collective that is seeking to write a million words but doesn't bother writing often enough to make it a realistic objective.

What is up with that?

The day is nearly half over and they show no sign of showing up.

If I had to say whether they would show up now, I would say that they won't. And that makes me both sad and angry.

I guess you don't want this to happen and if that is in fact the truth, then what am I doing writing as part of a collective with you lot?

But there's still some degree of hope. Time is running out though. Don't disappoint me.

I'm not holding my breath though. And I can hold it for a long time. Not long enough to go the rest of the day without breathing, because that would have required the kind of training that I was never interested in, but long enough that I could hold my breath until the next time that I ate.

Yes, the standard for my people not needing to breathe is six hours. We like to relax beneath the waves and just became used to relaxing there for longer and longer times.

Or is that just a weird flex that will make the whinier humans cry and and pound their fists on the floor because they can never be as awesome as me?

Too bad, so sad. We aliens are just better at some thing than you humans and we have nothing to be ashamed about.

We're also taller and our reproductive organs are more aesthetically pleasing. And more than many are saying this. It's near universal.

This is the earlier drawing that I quite liked. In case you are wondering , it is the ghost that I like the most,

But don't take his smile to mean that he's a pushover right? He's still a ghost.

And he's got powers.

Which ones?

I haven't figured that out yet.

But I won't forget the little man that I drew. He's cool. Though at full size I won't be able to use the same tool for his head.

Yes, I struggle in the drawing of you humans. 

And no, this has nothing to do with the humans in my collective who have disappeared, though I am certain that none of them have gone anywhere on vacation.

They're just not writing.

And if none of them show up by the end of the day, I'm going to drop out of the collective because this is ridiculous.

How much time do they need?

With the exception of Dalton of course, but I need more than than his one day a week to continue like this. So it's going to take Brayden or Halston to show the hell up.

I know that Franklin is ready to step back in so he's exempted too, but relying on him would suck and  leave us in the same position as the good Petrie, who did so much writing about his stupid little life in 2019 that it devalues his accomplishment.

Not like the devaluation of the stick and ball club(s) that cheated in the loud country's grand ole game, but anyone could write half a million words writing about themselves.

We weren't doing that in January and we smoked the output that he managed  in January of a year ago. And we're still ahead of him in the early part of this month. 

Though this is a we that is about to come to an end if one them doesn't show up by the end of the day.

Regardless of what happens, I'm still going to write six days a week because that's what I am happy doing.

I'd rather do my part as part of the collective, but if the collective has no interest in helping me out, then there's no point in remaining a part of the collective.

And I think I've said collective for the last time as a member because there's six hours left in the day and my sense is that none of them are going to show up.

But more power to them if they rise up without me and make a charge at the million word decayear without me.

I'll even let them keep the words that I have written through today, which is more than fair to them since that's...

A lot of words.

I would gladly share with you how many but I don;t have that number at the tip of my fingers like I did through the end of last month.

Of course, that's on me for not ensuring that I was proof to human failings.

It would have only been a temporary problem instead of one that threatens to be improbably long.

But it's closer to 40,000 words which is more than they deserve.

I'm still waiting on you humans

Don't let me down.

Charles Petrie

Date
02-07-20

Time

11:37-11:59=22, 17:12-17:58=46
183 Minutes

Word Count

362+1205=1567