Another day without the daily writing prompt pulling into the daily writing prompt response post. Did I change something somewhere to break it? I don’t think so. Who knows.

Here is today’s question:

How much would you pay to go to the moon?

The simple answer to this is nothing. I wouldn’t go to the moon. I mean if NASA wanted me to go for a quick visit, I would, but I wouldn’t pay for the privilege. Sure, Apollo 11 marks the high point of human achievement, but the Moon is a pretty nasty place, what with the total lack of air and pressure and human survivability and all.

Maybe if there was something on the Moon that consistently demonstrated that human life could hang out there without dying in horrifying fashion I would reconsider. Something like an amusement park or something?

What’s up with the daily prompt not pulling in the question? Epic fail!

The question is this:

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

I literally answered this in a daily prompt a few days ago when I wrote something about taking a risk to change careers. Oh good. Repetitiveness.

How about instead of rewriting the previous post I just give a list of careers that I considered at one point or another during various points in my life. The fun part would be trying to figure out which possible careers were things I honestly considered, and which were ones that I thought up when I was four years old or something. Fun, eh?

• Musician, including possibly a performing musician, a studio musician, a freelance song writer, an ad jingle writer, a teacher
• A photographer, including… I haven’t a clue
• Eye doctor
• Writer, including short stories mostly but maybe novels too?
• Truck driver, but only on weekends
• Paralegal
• Garbage man
• Fireman
• Career college student
• Third baseman for the Boston Red Sox
• Astronaut
• Astronomer
• Physicist
• University professor

Okay, there you go. A few career paths I either used to be interested in, am interested in, or was pre-school aged and thought would be fun. It’s up to you to decide which is which.

Have fun!

Daily writing prompt

What food would you say is your specialty?

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My food specialty? I don’t have one. Boneless chicken breasts are my usual go-to dish. Prior to going through weight loss surgery I usually paired it with a quinoa and stir fried veggies thing. Now it’s usually some sort of potato and maybe some broccoli, all cooked in an air frier.

Nothing special. Nothing you’d call a specialty either. Just a few things I know how to prepare and therefore prepare them all the time. When my wife gets sick of something I find something else to cook.

For a while, I was trying to make Tewksbury Tweets my culinary thing. Those are a kind of no-bake cookies. They have tons of sugar in them so post-gastric bypass I have only made them once or twice. They are a sort of holiday gathering treat thing now. I still like making them, but I can’t eat them myself. I promise, that’s not a bad thing. Only my taste buds disagree.

Another possibility from my distant past would be dry Cheerios. Oh yes, a bowl full of Cheerios without any milk. That was the stuff. Pair it with a great big bottle of Coca~Cola and you’re in heaven. I looked at the nutritional information on a Cheerios box recently and I can still eat them. I just have to keep the serving size small. Maybe one of these days I’ll try them and see if my stomach still likes them.

So in summation, the answer to the question what is my food specialty is… nothing, really.