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Originally Posted by has-sound This is the most amazing thread I've ever seen...well...I don't really get out that much Where in South Florida are you? I lived in Boca Raton for eight years. Can't say I miss it all that much, but I do miss my dog.

November is too early for snow. This sucks.

I hate people who can't take no for an answer, even when it's over the smallest and most trivial things.

ABC canceled Dirty Sexy Money and I'm {censored}ing pissed!!!

Originally Posted by Super_Donut_Man I have had 2 job interviews this month (just felt I needed to move on from my current job). The first one I admit, I blew, they said I didn't seem confident enough in myself to be able to jump in and get things done. The next interview I got screwed. The lady asked how many accounts I handled. Her use of Account was vague, so I asked her to specify, she said bank accounts, so I replied 14. I got feedback from them, and they said that I did not have enough experience with G/L accounts, and that they were looking for somebody that has experince with 100+ g/l accounts, and that 14 was not what they were expecting.... Thing is I handle 150+ g/l accounts for 7 different restaurants, and as a corporate accountant I hadled over 400 accounts. They just screwed up the terminology, and I lost a great oportunity for a higher paying better job. Guess it wasn't meant to be. That sucks. I'm in the opposite position. I've had five interviews and had to take one test over the past six weeks, all for the same position. They keep telling me I'm a strong candidate, and now it's down to myself and two other people, but then they just told me last week that they might not have a decision made until the new year. That's six more weeks of waiting after jumping through all of those hoops! Publishing is {censored}ing ridiculous. Sadly, it's also all I know.

I've been the opposite over the past few days in that I can't seem to stop sleeping at all. I've probably slept 24 hours over the past 48 - that's a lot of sleep! And I think I'm going to go get some more right now... I can hardly keep my head up or my eyes open. Damned headache isn't helping either...

I don't get why baristas always seem to crush on me. Maybe I drink too much coffee? I don't know, but it's becoming a problem...

I have not been able to get onto the forum all week for some reason. I'm glad that has finally changed. As for the synopsis, I told the dude to re-write it. Or I'll re-write it for him, maybe, because he's pushing back. I guess he liked the poetry of it all? I don't know, but I trust your guys's opinions more than his since you're not involved, so thanks. When I get something new I'll post it here and we can try that all again. Mr Crow - your new avatar makes you look like James Bond. Now you rock more than ever.

Originally Posted by PiotreX Well for one, I think it sounds a bit too complicated. Can't decide if it's fiction, science fiction, psychological, porn, rnr, whatever else and I have a thought that neither can the author. It may be just too many things at once right there in those few sentence, it seems to come out mumbo-jumbo, trying to be too spectacular and dazzling(word-wise). Anyway, who is this book directed to? Who's the intended recipent? Then again maybe it's just not the type of book I would read, definitely not in my morality range. It's not genre fiction (sci-fi, psychological, etc.) at all. It's literary fiction, meaning it's a story told with words that isn't trying to be specifically anything but a story. The book is directed towards people who like to read things that aren't genre-specific - after a while all sci-fi books become the same, all mystery books are solvable, etc. This is a novel, nothing more. I agree with you that he's maybe trying too hard to be spectacular or dazzling, but as a fellow word-smith I can tell you that I appreciated it when I read it, and he never went over the top. Have you ever read any Salman Rushdie? This book is nowhere near as flowery as he is, just a writer with a good vocabulary and a strong command of the English language. It's a very sweet and heart-felt story, actually, and I found the themes of loss and redemption and the effects of time on relationships to be well thought-out and strongly represented. I'm trying to get this guy published, so you have helped, but you could help by answering one more question: Are you not interested because you're more of a genre-fiction reader and couldn't pigeon-hole this book, or because of the language in general? Did you feel like it was talking down to you, or that it just wasn't interesting?

Originally Posted by niomosy Well, the little vacation for my sister's wedding was pretty good. Nioette was fantastic on the plane for the most part. Excited to go in an airplane (she'd been looking forward to it for weeks), kept herself pretty busy playing with her toys and whatnot, and didn't make too much fuss. She met grandma, an aunt, uncle (blood), their spouses, and her cousin, my sister's son. He's 8. She latched onto him pretty heavily. She was his shadow at the wedding. Grabbed him and pulled him out onto the dance floor more than once and was constantly grabbing his hand to take him one place or another. She got a bit nervous on being a flower girl, though. New people, mom and dad not right next to her, new place, etc. etc. My sister carried her most of the way. She never quite fully recovered until after the ceremony was over, unique in itself for the fact that it was held on Halloween with everyone, bride and groom included, in costume. Saw my brother as well. He didn't show up for the wedding, though He said he wouldn't. I had a talk with him and gave him polite crap about not showing up. Oh well. He'll need to get that resolved with our sister. The only other downer was my sister's place. They smoke in the house. Granted, they smoked outside when we were there, but only when we're there. I stopped back because I missed something and... smoke in the house. I have asthma. It bothers me after a while. Scratchy throat, bit more trouble breathing... and of course, my clothes end up smelling like it - the gift that keeps on giving until you wash your clothes. Oh well. Still, it was nice to see everyone again after they'd all ditched me and moved to... Cleveland Sounds like a fun time (minus whatever issues your brother, and the smoking, of course). Are you going to post pics of all the costumes? I think that would be fun, especially as our Vegas wedding next year is going to be costumed as well. Let me know if you put them up on your MySpace...

Originally Posted by PiotreX No, I think I'd rather grab a Shadowrun novel Originally Posted by Super_Donut_Man I would not read that book Can I ask why? I'm bringing this before a review board next week. It's a great book and the above quote is how the author has worded his synopsis. It's like a cross between a Tom Robbins and a Milan Kundera novel, with a little bit of John Irving thrown in for good measure. Easily one of the best I've read all year. What about the synopsis didn't you like? Or is it more of a genre thing? I want this guy to do well (because if he does well, I do well), so any advice would be appreciated...

Gusty Winds May Exist is the story of a young man setting out to start his life over after suffering through what he truly believes to be the worst break-up in the entire history of getting dumped. Set at the End of the Century, when the world seemed on the verge of tearing itself apart, the saga of Justin Case tells stories of seductive swindlers and psychotic living situations, examines the conundrum of ‘Can a lesbian ever truly love a man?’ answers the age-old question ‘Is it true that you really never can go home again?’, shows how some of those useless things you learned in school can end up coming in handy, and explains how the non-event of the Y2K Bug actually ended up saving the world. Find out the importance of making choices and how you should always read the signs in a tale that spans the most hedonistic highs and heart-wrenching lows of an insane year filled with sex, drugs, and even a little rock n’ roll. It’s a story fraught with frazzled fidelities and broken hearts on the mend, ruminates on age and time and what they do to friends, and talks about how closing doors can sometimes open again.

I was right. We had to make more caramel apples. The apartment smells fantastic!

Red is currently making caramel apples for the Halloween party we're going to on Friday. I work from home and am alone all day. I've got a sneaking suspicion there won't be too many left by Friday night...

"There are two things that are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. And, I'm not too sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

Originally Posted by niomosy I'm also hoping I get to have a go at your steak. Fun with quoting!

Originally Posted by niomosy So, after having attended a funeral for my friends father-in-law on the 17th, I get a call from another friend last night. His dad died. Both were good guys, too. I'm hoping I don't end up on a Bonoman-esque streak here. I hope you don't repeat, or even worse, break my streak. That was the most awful and depressing 12 months of my life (with a whopping total of 28 deaths). That was three years ago and I'm still only sort of getting over it. Now, whenever somebody close to me dies, I wonder if it's all going to start all over again. I hope your streak ends here and now. Nobody deserves to go through a year like that - not even me!

My girlfriend has the worst taste in tv...

*pees in thread*

I have now reached Day Thirty as a non-smoker, and though you can’t see me, I am taking a bow and patting myself on the back in a state of self-congratulatory bliss. Thank you, thank you, all compliments and accolades are much appreciated (no applause, just money please) as I have both strived (striven? strove?) and sweated to get here. Actually, you know what? That’s not true. There really wasn’t very much striving or sweating involved at all. No patches, no nicotine gums, no insane eating binges – I just quit and that was it. It really was just as easy as that once I’d decided to really do it. Okay, maybe the first two days were sort of tense in a physical sense, but by the third day everything sort of evened out and it’s been clear cruising since then. Television totally lied to us. They told us that quitting smoking is as hard as quitting heroin – I’ve actually heard people say that! They make it look like quitting smoking is going to make you freak out and bite off the heads of every person that you come in contact with, that you’re going to need supplements and help and counseling if you ever really want to quit. Hell, they even paste that crap all over your cigarette packs with their crazy huge warning labels and Quitting Information Cards that they stick inside, and you know what? It’s all just a big con. It’s crap. It’s not real. I am here to tell you that quitting really wasn’t hard at all. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it was easy, and this is coming from a guy who was a regular pack-a-day smoker for most of the last twenty-one years, so I have a clue and I speak from experience, you dig? And I’m telling you that there’s really nothing too it once you decide to do it. The trick is that you have to want to, and that’s it. There is no big secret, there is no grand scheme. You don’t need to draw up any maps and detail battle-plans so that you know how to attack it. You just have to want to quit. That’s it. And then once you’ve started on that, you just have to stay true, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll want to. It gets exciting. Once you’ve noticed yourself doing so well it just kind of becomes pointless to stop. At first I was literally counting the hours, of course, but now I get to say that it’s a very cool feeling to know that I haven’t had a cigarette in thirty days. It’s an achievement, an accomplishment, something positive I get to carry with me every day, and I get to know that I’ve done myself some good, all by choosing not to have a smoke. A simple choice that makes even the worst day go a little bit better than it could have all because I made a choice and stuck with it. It’s kind of nice. Don’t worry, I’m not one of those anti-cigarette ex-smokers. I couldn’t care less if somebody wants to smoke. It’s their life, their body, their choice. I will admit that sometimes the smell kind of bothers me now, but no worse than does car exhaust on the streets (which I hardly ever noticed when I was a smoker, by the way) or the wafting aroma of my neighbour’s strange cooking concoctions in our communal hallway. Smoke up, Johnny, that’s my motto, bro. It’s just not my own personal thing anymo’.

I need lyrics for a new melody I came up with last night on my acoustic guitar. Something about 'walking alone in the world today' because that's what keeps running through my mind with the riff and it has the right feel. Don't worry, I won't post an MP3 when I'm done so you'll never get to hear it anyhow. I tend to never record myself. No wonder I forget so many of my songs...

Day 24 or 25 cigarette free. I guess the fact that I lost count is a good sign, right?

So, I just caught somebody I've got something of a vendetta against in a big lie. Big enough that if I were to expose him, it would ruin his entire career, and probably any career he chose to proceed in afterwards. I used to work for him and he stiffed me on my last few weeks pay, hence my vendetta. He's also something of a friend (or, we've been in the same circle for over 20 years, but pretty much nobody but me still speaks to him because he's something of a dick). While some small revenge would be nice, I don't want to ruin his entire life, y'know? Basically he lied about receiving an award that he never received and I caught him at it by calling the place that supposedly awarded it and posing as a reporter looking for more information on the guy, and they not only have never heard of him at all, but they don't even give out such awards in the first place! I would love to exact some revenge on this dude, but I don't want to fark his life up completely, y'know? Karma, and all that. What do you guys think I should do? Confront him privately? Publicly? Or save it for a later date when it might come in more handy?

Five years and five days.