At 12:36 AM 2/8/03, Roehl Sybing wrote:
 >
 >God, I haven't C&C'd anything since...forever.  I'm such a bad person.  In
 >retrospect, not much to make a fuss about, but anyways...

I haven't in a while either, so we're both on the "bad writer" list :)


 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Jeanne Hedge" <oldowl@rcn.com>
 >To: <ffml@anifics.com>
 >Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 1:02 AM
 >Subject: [FFML] [BGC][FanFic] Spin Cycle
 >
 >[snip]
 >
 >> A quick check of the bedside clock revealed the apparent cause of this
 >> non-commotion - the power was out, and had been so since 5:17 that
 >> morning.
 >
 >Curious, can you tell from a clock whose power is drawn from the outlet the
 >time of a power hit?

Sure you can. It's the last time displayed (not everything is digital 
display, you know). See my on-list reply to Joshua Stratton


 >> She dug through her chest of drawers, through the linen hamper, peered
 >> annoyedly into the baskets of both washer and drier, and discovered it
 >> was worse than she'd expected.  She was out of clean underwear.
 >>
 >> Not a total disaster, she'd done without plenty of times before, but a
 >> girl did have standards after all.  She could hear her mother's voice:
 >> "Always wear clean underwear.  You don't want them to think badly of
 >> you if you have an accident."  OK, she'd do laundry.
 >>
 >> Unfortunately, one of the things she liked least about her condo was
 >> that there was no room for clothes lines or drying racks on the roof,
 >> she didn't have a balcony, and she didn't have a really good place to
 >> hang clean laundry to air-dry inside her apartment.  All of which meant
 >> she would have to pay a visit to a laundromat.
 >
 >Real life inspire this fic?  Just a guess.

Haven't had a power outage in a while. Finding time for laundry at this 
time of the year (very busy at work) is another matter...


 >> "Welcome to Suzuki Laundry," the 'bot greeted her, much to her
 >
 >Puns!  I love puns! (well, at least I think it's one)

Er... if there's a pun in the sentence you quoted, I didn't write it. If 
you're referring to the title...?


 >> Damn thing's so single minded, it's acting almost like a rogue boomer,
 >> part of her brain observed.  Another part of her brain observed "her"
 >> granny give a wave as she left the building, the last of the group.
 >> All clear, time to get out herself.  Would it be safer to head
 >> upstairs, to "pachinko" and warn the old man?  A third part of her
 >> brain noticed the boomer heading back in her direction, and she decided
 >> whatever she was going to do, she'd better do it now.
 >
 >Odd to me, I think.  At this point, I would not be completely concerned with
 >pachinko man upstairs, and I wouldn't think Linna would give that guy a
 >second thought afterwards.  Because as you say below...
 >
 >> She rolled across the floor to the foot of the stairs, intending to go
 >> up.  Boomers on rollers weren't likely to do stairs, after all.
 >
 >In any case, just minute details, I suppose.

Just thought processes - she's used to getting all the civilians away from 
the "incident", so that's her first reaction - go up, tell the guy what's 
going on and try to get him out of there. Then comes the 2nd reaction - no 
real need to evacuate him, but it's probably safer for her upstairs (won't 
have to dodge flying laundry products)


 >> "Spin Cycle" is still a tentative title right now. It may be changed - Dr
 >> Raven suggests "A Little Cheer for Linna"
 >
 >Incidentally, I did my own laundry today, so naturally I have a couple of
 >ideas but hey, the subject is what it is, and all of those ideas (which are
 >gravitating around soap) were bound to be cheesy.  The title you have on
 >looks good.

Other punny suggestions he made include:

"How TIDE Flies When You're Having Fun"
"GAINing ground"
"BOUNCE This!"


 >Good piece, all in all.  I suppose I could be more critical, but not much to
 >be difficult about. :)


glad you liked it :)


Jeanne Hedge
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