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Don't worry, Des. Unless you took a shot of the two garage door dudes, nobody'd look at your photos anyway. The more beneficial phones are the ones that DISPLAY photos. A nice little library of 'interesting' pictures goes a long way to relieving boredom during a luncheon, or a meeting, for that matter. I was awoken at night too, but by an actual call. No-one spoke to me. They obviously knew they'd called the wrong number as soon as I croaked, "Hello?" into the phone. I find that so horridly inconsiderate. If you have to wake up someone at 2:30 a.m., at least have the decency to speak to the person you woke up. All I was, was incensed. At least you, Jason, got to, you know, 'do it', albeit by yourself. Jason, get a grip. You know you often make choices that are bad for you. You're doing it again. Drop this dude on his pointy 'you know what' and stop thinking about him. Get back to blond dudes, with nice blue eyes...BTW, I'm dirty blond and have dancing blue eyes, although I'll have to stop ageing and wait for a few decades for you to catch up.
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My god. You used 'prolific' and 'fecund' in a sentence without it being in the least bit sexual.
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Verbose? Okay, okay, I know that's not right. Prolific? Whatever.I actually have a short story that I submitted over a year ago, and despite enquiries as to if it is ever going to be posted, it never has been. I'm thinking that either there is something very wrong with the writing, the subject, or the potential for upset, but something is holding it back from being posted.
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Oh, sod off. All that little old me can write is Flash Fiction. You're positively garrulous by comparison to me.
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Vote wisely? ROFLMAOFrom all I can see, almost every election, voting in the USA is like deciding what to do: eat transfatty acid laced, heavily dyed, refined carbohydrates with presevatives, or drinking cafeine laced, alcohol, brewed in lead lined stills. Momentary good taste, and long term bad effects, either way you choose.
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You guys just don't think it through. What you do, when there is a long line of cars, is drive partway onto the shoulder, so that nobody can get by you that way. A side benefit is that you can see down the road to know what's going on. Don't move over too far though, or someone will suddenly try to move into your spot in the regular lane of traffic. A slow zigzag effect is best. And I'm not just making this up now, I DO THIS.
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I have watched out for Jasons in showers, but sadly, he never appears.
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A wonderful read on a Valentine's Day morning.
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Good grief, Des. It is sooo obvious. It is the sponge that's the problem. One should never use a sponge to clean with, particularly curly hair. Not only does a lot of the hair embed itself in the sponge, and the loss can be catastrophic at your age, but the long strokes straighten out the hair. You want short strokes and swirls to keep those curlies curly.
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Hot wieners, yessssss. In buns.
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I don't know about you, Cole, but I can still reach down under just fine. On the other hand, reach DES down under would be a trick and a half. Oh. Well. Maybe not a trick...
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You might also try a negative ion (good ions) generator. Although I have never seen it listed as an aid with SAD, I know that it removes a lot of the moulds and spores of winter ugly things out of the air, and can help tremendously with your body's reaction to those infestations. It also counteracts a bit of the positive charges in most houses due to plastic carpets, electronic equipment, and even electric heating systems. Burning gas for heat generally reduces the positive ions (bad ions) in a house.
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"It was very clever, but that seems to be typical for you"Ha ha ha. How about them apples. (stupid meaningless expression used in Canada) You've set the standard at a level that you now have to be absolutely fucking brilliant in order to even get a comment from anyone. Methinks you are going to have to post a few dumbass things, just to bring down that average expectation a bit.
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Are we feeling needy, Des? Alone, in a cold, cold world? With the only one to talk to being so extremely well versed in English, that you cannot even have a conversation? Be happy! Some 90% of OUR telemarkers are now computer generated voices, telling us we have won a vacation and to just press 9 in order to learn the details. Stinking scumbags: now they won't even give minimum pay jobs to people, but have to recruit impoverished computers to do their work, probably paying them even less money.Did anyone read my blog besides Jason? -
There are other reasons to work, besides happiness. Satisfaction and survival are two. Often though, you can look for the good aspects of a job, and seek happiness from those, even while ignoring as much as possible the aspects you don't like. Yes, you should probably plan on getting something with more happiness opportunity, but in the meantime, being stuck there, do what you can to make it tolerable, or better. I've been in some pretty crappy jobs, but I've always managed to find SOME aspect that made it memorable for the fun or learning, and not for the ugly side. Sometimes you cannot change what is around you, but your perspective on it can be changed, with the will to do so.
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Exquisitely ambiguous.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD. There is help for that, which is ultra bright lights in a particular spectrum. Failing that, get as much fluorescent light as you can. Basically, without the light, you get depressed and lethargic, a sort of hibernation mode, almost.
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You, my lad, need a great big hug. So, I'm throwing my internet arms around you, giving you a hug, then letting go before interesting other reactions may start to interfere with this platonic support.You are learning. You may not be in school, but you are learning. There is a reason older people tend to be a bit suspicious of others, and promises, and why they read the fine print. People and organizations are out there to fuck you up, maybe not deliberately, but that's the bottom line. They are looking for their best interests, and you are incidental meat in the grinder. It's sad, but you are going to be stronger for it.
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Sometimes wieners are better than nuts for satisfying cravings.
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I just got another HD yesterday, one of the older ones; you know the type, before they built in a 1 year obsolescence. I started my Time Machine running (on my iMac) and it took nearly 6 hours to back up the whole computer. I'm happy to have this working again. My nephew recommended Western Digital too. He says that most of the others are hit and miss about their quality. I asked about La Cie, which is what the Apple stores carry, but he tells me that the guts of the units are from all sorts of different manufacturers, and only the boxes are by La Cie. Apparently my nephew runs FOUR separate HDs in their own tower. Talk about failsafe, huh?
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I won't even address the working out thing. I'm fat and lazy, and working out is pretty much out of the question. I did it once, for 6 months, and there was no noticeable improvement except the lightening of my wallet.I lost my hard drive a few years ago. The really depressing thing is, I knew my HD was going, and I bought an external HD, and backed up everything I had onto that. I cleaned off the main HD, and POOF. I had a fire in the external HD and I lost every damned thing I had, including years worth of car rallies (I organize them), all my photos and records of my trip to Alaska, and 10 Geocache locations. If you are into geocaching, you'll know what those caches are. I had put out 10 of them on my trip to Alaska and back, and all the coordinates were gone. Hundreds of contact names were gone: basically, I was screwed. I have yet to recover from it, and before anyone says anything, I need about 12 DVD's to burn all my stuff, and I've also bought ANOTHER external HD to backup again, and it too quit. I feel for you.
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I would love to visit Australia, and it has actually been a dream of mine for decades. Sadly, cost is a huge factor, as is the lack of disposable income, so it is likely to remain a dream till I visit it as a spirit in the afterlife. To be able to say, "G'day" and know the real meaning would be priceless.Oh, and have a nice Australia Day. Don't get too drunk...(is that possible?)
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