Das Hier #32

Damn you humans!

I'm here and I'm not happy about it either but no one else is showing up so I can't let the day pass without one of the collective writing because ain't none of them writing if they haven't been here by the 3rd quarter.

So I hate to say this to the humans of our collective, but you guys suck and are sucking the energy out of me and I can't keep doing this alone because I can no longer count on the great 4th quarter that brought me to the good days when it was.

Though he's a nobody, the good Petrie was able to write a million words all by himself and we haven't given him enough credit because very few humans could have possibly done what he did.

That being sad, that was last year and what is he doing this decayear?

Have you seen him blogging, which is something that he did in that once in a lifetime year?

Exactly, he isn't even blogging. I'll be surprised if he even writes half of what he wrote last year which is going to leave him down in the mouth because without that accomplishment, he has nothing good to hang his hat on.

Fine, he draws, and isn't half bad at it considering he started drawing later in his life than most drawers do.

And drawer is what he is, which he freely admits to.

Not that anyone asks.

Oh poor good Petrie.

But enough of him right? He had his moment in the sun and as much as he wants to follow it up not only this year, but for the next twelve, that isn't going to happen.

It's amazing that he did it once. He should have taken the bow once he did it, because yes, he did it with half the final month left to write, but he didn't because he thought that he could do it again.

Foolish human.

But I can't talk down about him too much because our collective is falling off the pace that we needed to make it easy to write a million words.

And there is no easy.

Nos Glorieux are back on the road to winning, though they're going to need some help from themselves and other teams for them to qualify for the tournament, which they were doing very well at doing in November when they finished taking care of business against a recent tournament winner.

Sadly that was before they immediately went on the first of two long terrible streaks of eight games, the second of which left them dead in the water, as you humans would say.

With 26 games left they have 59 points and not only have to win their way past three teams just to be 8th. by points.

But the humans recently changed the way the playoffs are figured out which means that isn't a guarantee.

Not that they have to settle for 8th, because they have enough time to win their way higher.

So how many teams do they actually have to pass?

I don't know, the humans made it unnecessarily hard for an alien to figure out.

All this to say, if Nos Glorieux can win another twenty games, they will be in the tournament. 

That's not too much to ask is it?

Or just improbable?

Yes, it's improbable but the last champions did something even more improbable as there was a point in time that they were dead last.

Though I don't think that they are certain sure to do that, with each win, they are closer to the tournament.

Or at least not further.

And they have the keeper who can get hot and not lose like it was the only thing that they could do.

Eventually, they will get back the players that they have lost to injury.

Maybe.

I saw the first score of the night and the last, both of which were scored by Nos Glorieux, as they needed to play into time over.

But they won, so all is as good as it can be with the injury bug still bothering them. 

And they have won three of the four games that they have played this month and seven of the last ten, which takes them back to the last month.

So as improbable as it is for them to qualify for the tournament, they are not yet out as are some other teams.

Don't tell that to the haters though, of which there are many who are still laughing at their two long streaks of utter futility and thinking that they can't possibly stand up again.

They are doing a good job of doing just that.

And only time will tell who will have the last laugh.

But even if it's not Nos Glorieux, they can still count the twenty-four times that they have won the tournament, which no one else has come close to matching.

Yes, it's been forever since they last won, but for the haters, they should know, that they will win again.

We just don't know when.

Also, which is sure to annoy the haters, none of their teams can say with that same certainty that they will win too and just don't know when.

Ha ha ha.

I feel so very human right now and in this moment, that's a mix of good and bad.

I'm bringing us back to at least a thousand words for the day, which is half of what we were hoping to reach, but we are doing better today than we did in either of the last two days.

At least, by the end of the day that is.

And with more than hour left to write, we will make this day better than either of the last two.

Sadly, not combined, but there's time enough that I can do better than I did two days ago when I did real poorly.

Unless I fade when I think about how it's just me, once more.

Where are the humans at?

I can't do that all by myself and I'm about ready to give up on the humans of my collective, which would be a shame since it's only February.

And I fear that I might yet fade because I'm still far from making this day better and if I can't do it even if I write until the end of the day then I might as well stop now and do something else.

What something else might I do, is to draw, though I must admit, that with the way that things are going with the collective, I am finding myself less able to draw.

This will surely change though if I withdraw from the collective.

Yes, it's terrible that I am even thinking about this, but I am.

And now I've slowed down and might not actually write more today than I did in either of the last two days.

Though seeing as I didn't write until late in the 3rd, I'm doing okay.

And I have in fact just now done better than I did yesterday and still have time to do better than two days ago.

Of course, this would be more easily accomplished if I had art to base a story off of.

But I do not and don't know when I will draw again.

Oh bother.

I can't draw and I am struggling to write. When is this going to change?

So I really need to withdraw from the collective so that I can draw?

It would have been nice to have been part of something special, but maybe it's not meant to be.

So it's up to you humans, are we going to continue this ambitious effort or are you going to remain silent and let me try and keep our effort alive while you all enjoy your vacation?

Again, with the exception of Dalton, who can only write once a week.

And now I turn my sights on doing better than we did two days ago as I have counted my progress since I thought I couldn't better that tally.

I can and will before the end of the day.

Sadly, I won't  bring us to the camp at the base of the mountain because I didn't write early enough when the difference between where I will finish and where I might have finished if I had just written earlier because I will end up being short of that by only 500 words.

I'm still counting on the great rising of the 4th quarter aren't I?

Yes, I am and I can't do that because I can't do that great rising like I was doing earlier in the decayear.

This fact only pushes me closer to withdrawing from the collective.

But I'm an alien and as welcoming as they have been of me, their silence is telling and their expectation that I will shoulder the greatest share of the load without any help from them.

Even if I doubled what I did in the last month that won't be enough for us.

Dammit humans! I can't do it without you and if you don't show up in some form by tomorrow, I am going to have no other choice but to withdraw.

Do you hear me?

What's it going to be humans?

I am waiting, don't disappoint me.

Charles Petrie

Date
02-06-20

Time

17:07-17:59*=52, 21:47-23:58=131
183 Minutes

Word Count

362+1205=1567