The Beginning At Last

Category: writing

  • Day Damn Three: Sick AF

    Day Damn Three: Sick AF

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    Well, my first two days went pretty well. Woke up this morning and felt a little off. Took me awhile to get my ass moving to get ready for work. By the time I got there, I started feeling hot, and about 35 minutes later, I was nauseous as hell. As much as I didn’t…

  • No Theme Thursday: 04/04/24

    No Theme Thursday: 04/04/24

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    Good day to all and welcome to this week’s edition of No Theme Thursday! We had another fantastic week prior with lots of great entries as always. Looking forward to even more this week! Please have your entries posted by Tuesday 04/09/24, and I will do my best to get them all posted ASAP! Please…

  • Run for Mayorilla

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    I don’t know which community they mean. The one I live in or the WP community? Let’s assume the WP community since that’s more fun and I kinda live here anyhow. What would I do? Why, I would run for Mayor, of course! Yes, my friends and fellow bloggers! I am announcing my candidacy for…

  • NTT Challenge: 03/28/24 Edition

    NTT Challenge: 03/28/24 Edition

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    Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s NTT 03/28/24 Edition! I will be cutting right to the chase this week, and please accept my apologies in advance for the rush job. I am adjusting to this new routine, and it’s quite hectic for me at the moment. I would like to welcome Jenny from Breaking…

  • Day Damn One Done

    Day Damn One Done

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    Good evening, all! this is going to be short and sweet, as I am trying to get caught up on a ton of shit 😄 So, I survived the first day. 👍 Everyone seems really cool and laid back. Much different vibe than my previous gig. Everyone that is there seems to legit like the…

  • Deleted Daily Tuesday

    Deleted Daily Tuesday

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    I’m taking a pass on today’s daily prompt. That’s a topic I don’t wish to revisit, thanks. Instead, I am going to hijack it and use it for my own selfish purposes. Hope everyone has a great Tuesday. I’ll be off to the new job today! Looking at 3-4 days of rain and/or snow, so…

  • Metallic Mayhem Monday

    Metallic Mayhem Monday

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    Good day, all. Hope everyone’s Monday is going as well as it can so far. It’s fairly quiet around these parts. Mostly just hanging out and preparing for my return to the workforce tomorrow. Getting all my stuff together, picking up food, etc. Also prepping for a few inches of possible snow later this week.…

  • Just Another Day

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    I swear to the gorilla gods, we just answered this is Bloganuary 😄 But, I digress… First, there’s that whole “waking up” nonsense. At some point, usually fairly quickly, there’s coffee involved. I’ll usually put on some music and take a few minutes to get my head right. For the past little while, I would…

  • Just let me stay down

    Just let me stay down

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    This is really just me having a ramble, so don’t mind me, and apologies in advance. Recently, I felt quite down and out for a multitude of reasons. One was I physically felt like absolute shit. The mere act of breathing felt like a monumental fucking task. This is why I really do not like…

  • Happy Easter

    Happy Easter

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    From this gorilla to all my friends out there in WP land, my best wishes for a Happy Easter if you celebrate it. If you are traveling, stay safe and enjoy the time with friends and family. If you do not celebrate, I wish you a peaceful, restful Sunday surrounded by family and friends. And…

  • Anything

    Anything

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    What a silly question. I mean, truly. Anything can make a person unique. No two people (or gorillas) are exactly alike. Even if their DNA were identical, their likes, dislikes, quirks, habits, etc., are going to make them unique in some way. People can share similarities, of course, but they’re not going to be 100%…

  • More Is Never Enough

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    In the dark, my hate can hide The pain I carry deep inside I medicate with whiskey burns Another pill, my stomach turns I drink all night and sleep all day I can’t survive another way My throat it burns, the taste is rough But more is never quite enough © The Beginning At Last

  • Killer Like Me

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    No Theme Thursday *Explicit Language and Content Warning* The pain. The sweat. The mud. The blood. The screams. The limbs. The death. The flood. The booze doesn’t kill the pain. Neither do the drugs. I don’t want to be here, but I don’t want to go home either. My buddy wrote to me. He said…

  • What’s in a name?

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    Man, I don’t know. What a silly question. Personally, I don’t sit around dreaming up shit to be named after me. Name a freaking pizza after me, I guess. Call it the Great Gorilla. Put Arrabbiata sauce, pepperoni, capocollo, and red pepper flakes on it. I want it spicy like my women. 😋

  • Friday On My Mind

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    Friday on my mind but I’d just as soon forget I used to have a life but I wonder where it went Had it in my pocket but it must have fell somewhere I thought to look around but I found I didn’t care It wasn’t worth a lot no, it wasn’t worth that much…

  • Until That Day

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    No Theme Thursday *Explicit Language/Content Warning* If I wrote it down or let it out You’d walk away I have no doubt And if I let you see inside I’m sure you’d run away and hide Your fucking friendship, what a joke On platitudes I hope you choke Your hollow words they don’t mean shit…

  • No Theme Thursday (03/28/24)

    No Theme Thursday (03/28/24)

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    It’s that time again, everyone. Fresh off another hot week, we’re back for more! Please have your entries posted by 04/02/24, so that I may get them gathered up and posted for everyone to enjoy! And don’t forget to ping back. 😉 No guarantees it will work, of course, but… OK, let’s do this thing!

  • Like It Was Yesterday

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    Ah, yes…I remember it all so clearly. Join me now, friends, as we take a journey through a portal to the past… At first I wanted to be an astronaut, but then I heard those dumb monkeys beat us to it. Then I thought being a mechanic like my dad would be kind of neat,…

  • Understanding

    Understanding

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    There’s a lot of things that people don’t seem to understand, but one of the first that pops into my brainbox is manners. Common courtesy. Respect. It kind of blows my mind the amount of people that can’t even say a simple “thank you” anymore. Or how many people will let a door slam back…

  • NTT Challenge: 03/21/24 Edition (Updated 03/27)

    NTT Challenge: 03/21/24 Edition (Updated 03/27)

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    Good day, one and all! Welcome to this week’s collection of No Theme Thursday Entries: 03/21/24 Edition! Once again this week, we had a ton of entries, and I am absolutely stoked! We also have some bonus entries from WTH Wednesday, Frenzied Friday, and Over The Top Tuesday, because frankly, they are just that damned…

  • The Quest For World Domination…

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    Begins again next week. Got the call a couple hours ago. I’ll be officially starting the new job next Tuesday. 👍 I’ll be on days for a short spell for on-boarding and training. After that, I will transition over to my normal rotation. The march to world dominance resumes! 😄

  • We Have The Technology…

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    Little Six Million Dollar Man reference for y’all. Working in a management role of any kind means that tech has certainly impacted my job. Oftentimes, I would end up spending more time sitting on my tail in my office on virtual meetings than anything else. Now, I don’t know about y’all, but I have one…

  • NTT: Stuart’s Synchronicity

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    Hello all, Today I had the pleasure of finding a comment on the No Theme Thursday post from Stuart at My Bipolar Perspectives of a Unipolar World. In the comment, Stuart left the below, in which he managed to tie together ALL of the images in this week’s NTT post. Not wanting this to go…

  • Alone In The Crowd

    Alone In The Crowd

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    My NTT entry for this week. Amidst the hustle of the street A thousand eyes refuse to meet I’m different so they look away It happens every fucking day I once was sad, now I don’t care Your kind, I see them everywhere In the stores, or on a train Deep within it caused me…

  • Going To Agoge

    Going To Agoge

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    Not “Going To A Go-Go” like the Stones sing. “Agoge.” Basically, it’s an old Spartan term for the rigorous training and education the young warriors went through to become soldiers. I’m simplifying, but that’s it in a nutshell. During a brief conversation with Ojaswi Gupta the other day, the term came up. Long story short,…