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Post by hondobrode on Feb 20, 2016 9:58:17 GMT -5
I've started to feel oldish when I don't know, or care, about pop music anymore.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 20, 2016 10:22:45 GMT -5
I've started to feel oldish when I don't know, or care, about pop music anymore. I've started to feel safe and wise when I don't know, or care, about pop music anymore.
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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 20, 2016 10:22:54 GMT -5
On the topic of Linkedin, I just signed up a few days ago. I feel so old now! How's college going, Zonk? And don't say you feel old until one day you look in the mirror and see the first signs of wrinkles. Just chugging along. I've been busy looking for internships for the summer recently, and after several weeks, I finally scored one!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 20, 2016 11:48:41 GMT -5
Old age, unfortunately, closer to death, is something I thought I'd hate but it's quite enjoyable. While I haven't gotten to the point of my body revolting against me, I still have not had a mid life crisis approaching 40. If anything, I enjoy the perception of life I had over the ignorant (in the very literal sense of the word) young man I was. As my favorite writer Bukowski said, paraphrased .... Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Life begins at 50.
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Post by Gene on Feb 20, 2016 11:53:09 GMT -5
I let a friend talk me into going to a hip rock n roll club last night. I can barely move.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 20, 2016 12:01:17 GMT -5
I just had a great conversation with my dad, which is unusual for us, as we don't have a real close relationship. I'd called my mother the other night to let her know about what had happened with my job, because she watches my girls a couple of afternoons each week after school and we don't need her to come over as long as I am out of work, but I hadn't talked to him. He called me out of the blue this morning just to check in on me, and since he went through something similar to this about 25 years ago, when he was roughly the same age that I am now, he had some good advice about how to handle things.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 20, 2016 14:14:53 GMT -5
I let a friend talk me into going to a hip rock n roll club last night. I can barely move. I HATE NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR ANYTHING ANYONE IS SAYING !
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Post by realjla on Feb 20, 2016 15:44:52 GMT -5
WHAAAAAAAAT?
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Post by Mormel on Feb 20, 2016 16:09:58 GMT -5
How's college going, Zonk? And don't say you feel old until one day you look in the mirror and see the first signs of wrinkles. Just chugging along. I've been busy looking for internships for the summer recently, and after several weeks, I finally scored one! Cool stuff, congrats. What's the internship?
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 20, 2016 18:59:27 GMT -5
Well, couple of things happened today in my life. First thing is that I changed my display name from my real name to "The Captain", both in a nod to my passion for Captain America as well as a desire to go incognito in my current situation, which is... ...I lost my job today. I have worked in the natural gas industry for the past decade, and it is worse now than it has ever been due to oversupply coupled with lack of pipelines, leading to depressed prices with no end in sight. My company has done everything it could up to this point to avoid layoffs, but the time came that that option could no longer be avoided. Being in middle management and making the salary that I did made me a prime candidate, so I was not surprised when they let me go this afternoon. Luckily, the severance package is fairly generous and my wife and I live pretty frugally to begin with, so we have a rainy day fund saved for just this type of occurrence, so we're not panicking. This is the first time in my adult life that I've been unemployed, so it's a little unsettling, but I know that this is part of God's plan for us, and while we may not know what that entails today, we have faith that everything is going to work out in the long run. Sorry Richard. I will be praying that God opens a door for you and that he gives you favor.
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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 20, 2016 20:15:46 GMT -5
Just chugging along. I've been busy looking for internships for the summer recently, and after several weeks, I finally scored one! Cool stuff, congrats. What's the internship? It's with a healthcare network startup. I'll be part of their publicity/marketing team.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 21, 2016 0:27:48 GMT -5
That sounds awesome, Zonk !
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 21, 2016 15:42:07 GMT -5
I didn't find as much as my kids did at the book fair but I got a few things.
A Contract With God. This will be my first Will Eisner read. I've admired plenty of his work but not read any.
Grabbed two William Faulkner books; Intruder in the Dust & The Unvanquished, because I like old pulp novels and novels from that era and I know Faulkner is well thought of. Even mentioned by Bukowski a few times.
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. I had this movie suggested to me from watching Watership Down. But since it's availability on Netflix is still unknown I thought I'd read the book first.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 22, 2016 9:33:23 GMT -5
We just got our 400th member
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 9:49:27 GMT -5
How's college going, Zonk? And don't say you feel old until one day you look in the mirror and see the first signs of wrinkles. Just chugging along. I've been busy looking for internships for the summer recently, and after several weeks, I finally scored one! Here's hoping they pay you, which was not the case when I interned at the U. of Arizona Press back in the summer of '83. Not that I felt exploited or anything, & I did pick up some solid experience (who else among us can say he edited a large chunk of this?), but at the very least I'd have appreciated being given my choice of one of their books to take home, which would've been this. Instead, I wound up paying probably $40 for it via ABEbooks about 15 years later.
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