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Jun 21, 2013 02:36PM
5:35pm ET. Chilling out and just ready for the weekend! :D
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1636 CST and opening an UPS package containing a signed copy of Turnaround by Craig Spector.
5:40 PM enjoying the first day of summer. Skinny dipping tonight!
Bordering? I'm proud of my underwater etiquette.:)
That's what my wife said that last time we were underwater together!:)
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Goofy? Moi. I'm more like Daffy.:D
I said bordering. As in Almost, but not quite. I was going to ask you what your wife was going to be doing, but thought that would be in bad taste!
She'll be doing me. No bad taste taken.:)
0234 CST. I'm at work. One of my computers has crahsed. The convection oven I use to cook breakfast for 450 guests caught fire earlier today and is unusable. I have a row of crock pots to use, but the outlets they need to be connected to aren't working. The breakers hadn't tripped, but I reset them; still no joy. I'm currently trying to steam cook what I can, but that's not much. I have two guest laundry machines that won't work and I've been drying clothes for guests since 2230--now my dryers are overheating and I can't get the stuff dry I need to.Everything decided to stop working all at once. The only thing that works properly right is my television and the only thing that is keeping me sane is "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld."
This is what I get for taking two days off.
Squire, my friend. I feel for you, bro. Murphy's Law certainly applies to your problems.
Hope things smooth out for you.
Hope things smooth out for you.
Thanks, Kyle. It's just one of those nights. First one in 6 years though.
I hear ya, man. Let's hope they're few and far between.
7:51pm ET. Ready to read after a long day!
8:45 AM Having coffee and checking out GR.
9:03am - Waiting for more work at work and reading my GR notes.
1244 and I just opened another package containing books. This time, a signed HC edition of Joyland by Stephen King!
5:08 PM Just got in the door. We spent the whole day at Todd's place. Had a blast.
10:36AM Just had some breakfast, a little late today. About to go get a shower, and then heading out for a day out with family. I love days like this!
10:40am...I'm waiting for work at work and reading my GR notes. I'm staring a new job on Monday, so my work load is very light today. :o)
12:40 PM Just finished
Guilty Wives. Walked to the drug store to pick up a few items. Raining again now.
Guilty Wives. Walked to the drug store to pick up a few items. Raining again now.
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4:30 AM Having coffee and reading
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7:19 PM Just had coitus with my wife.
9:40AM About to go set up the pool! WOOT!
12:49 PM Just got up from a nap. Feel depressed.
Sorry to hear you were feeling depressed, Kyle. I hope things look up for you. Hi, everybody who has probably justifiably forgotten me! I am alive and semi-well, and have been keeping myself very busy. It's 1:16 a.m., and I have just posted the first entry to my blog since February. I didn't realize it had been so long, but the important thing is that my story, "Like a Salmon, I Swam Upstream," has been accepted by Stealing Time magazine! You can read the details in the blog.Now, I'm going to look at the mag's website and see what themes are coming up for future issues to see if there's anything else I've written or can write that they might want. I think it's a great magazine, and now that I'm in the door, who knows what is to come?
Thanks, Robin. I feel much better now. Great to have you in the group! Welcome and enjoy!:)
Congrats on your story being accepted by Stealing Time Magazine! That is wonderful!
Congrats on your story being accepted by Stealing Time Magazine! That is wonderful!
8:15pm ET. I am hoping that this weekend ends up being a fantastic reading weekend. I have gotten nothing accomplished; reading-wise, this past week.
2200 CST. My computer has been crahed for 72 hrs and I came in to work early to catch up on my emails.Who receives 153 emails in 72 hrs???? Other than a loser like me, that is.
And most distressing of all was one from somebody who says she read my GR profile and said she wanted to be my special friend...Hooooookkkkkaaaayyyyyy...but she has no profile on GR. So I'm wondering when and under what circumstances she persued my profile. Well, no longer wondering as I trashed and deleted her email.
This is why my profile says I'm wary of this social networking thing...
Whoa, Squire. Your 'special' friend, eh? I've been on the receiving end of a few of those myself. Makes ya wonder.
153 emails? Holy crap, man, you're swamped.
153 emails? Holy crap, man, you're swamped.
I checked my email 8 times a day to keep up on everything. I need my computer back...
Hope your computer gets a boost soon, my friend.
It's 2:24 a.m., and I'm thinking of going to bed, a thing that is hard for me to do unless I am utterly exhausted, which I'm not, quite. I just finished reading some of my homework and saving and printing other parts to read later. I also printed my resume, which I hope doesn't need any more work. Now the harder part is to track down some references who have made themselves scarce. Before working on the homework, I talked with a friend on the phone for almost 3 hours, partly while snacking, and played Bejeweled 3.Squire, your spammer was probably deleted from GR for being a troublemaker. I run into the same thing all the time on a dating website, men who say the same old blah blah and instantly ask for my contact info (which I clearly state on my profile that I only give out to trusted individuals with whom I've corresponded for some time on the site). I click the name or picture, and the site computer tells me that this person's profile has been deleted.
This isn't a dating website, though. However, sonme of the conversations I've witnessed would make me think otherwise.Maybe I need to add on my profile that as a batchelor, I have lots of money to spend on books since I'm not throwing it away on someone who may end up being a bad investment.
But this was only the first time. It happens again, I just might do that.
I've had the same experience, Squire. Good idea.
Lol, Squire!A lot of the people doing that are just wanting people's contact info so they can steal your identity or hack your computer. I even got to know one guy on the dating site who thought my caution ridiculous because, he said, statistically women practice identity theft more than men. Apparently the smaller percent of men were nothing in his mind--nor all the other things they might do to women.
I'm not throwing my money away on the dating website, either. The one I use is free. That may be one reason why it attracts so many morons who want cyber sex with strangers and people so desperate for money they will pretend they want to be your one true love. (If I read one more "I love walks on the beach, and you!" I'll barf.)
And maybe my profile should contain a warning that, as a copyeditor, I will feel much better if I give in to the compulsion to correct your writing mistakes. There's no "t" in "bachelor." But then, if you get batches of books, you may just have created a new word!
You can just set your profile to private and block these horny people.
Not on that website. It doesn't happen on this one.
Yes it does happen on this one, Robin. It happened to me a few times, and to Squire.
I mean, it hasn't happened to me. I don't know if anyone ever reads my profile or blog anymore.
Robin wrote: "There's no "t" in "bachelor." But then, if you get batches of books, you may just have created a new word! "Ha! i just saw that. Good catch!
My high school English instructor was a Mr. Batchelor and I've just continued spelling it that way, I guess.
Anyway, it's 0431 CST and I'm making ready for my early breakfast club to come down to my lobby.
It's 7:31 AM Having coffee and checking out GR.
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