NO NEWS IS..UMM..NO NEWS

Turns out the interview with my former co-worker in the video
biz is for today. Since I'm home on a day off, I won't have to
see the guy but now I hope the Boss paid attention to what I
said about Torry and doesn't hire him.

If they do, I might have to quit and there's not many bookstores
left out there to go to. I don't want a return to stress at work again.
I've had enough. And while I'm still rping, it's not the complete
release it was for me before the bastards sucked the fun out of it
for me over last winter and spring. It's better now but I'm not
quite as open as I was before.

Yeah, I said the B word. Meant it ,too.

Back to writing.

THIS COULD GET UGLY

I answered the phone at work this morning and the caller
asked to speak to The Boss. When I told him that the Boss
was unable to come to the phone at the moment, the caller
declined to leave a message.

Instead, he asked who he was speaking with,then said he'd
call back.

That seemed a bit odd to me.

A few hours later, I heard the Boss paged on my headset. It was
the guy I'd talked with earlier calling again, apparently for the
fourth time. He hadn't left a name before,but this time said it
was "Torry and that the Boss would know what it was about."

And now the alarm bells went off in my head.

Some of you might recall that when I briefly worked for a
certain video rental chain, I had a very ambitious
assistant manager who flat out told me he was taking
my job from me. He pulled a few fast ones on me
and at a time when I was still scrambling to deal
with massive changes in my life, I was an easy
target. His name was Torry and it's the same
guy on the phone today. He is interviewing
tomorrow for a management position that
will put him in charge of me,among other
things.

When that alarm bell went off in my head,
I went to the Boss and asked if this person
was who I thought it was and then filled
the Boss in on some of the incidents from
five and a half years ago.

So, now..what worries me is this.

If he doesn't get hired, will he put two and
two together and be as confrontational as
he was back then?

If he does get hired, will he make it his business
to get me fired because of past history?

I had to speak up. This guy is bad news.

And now I'm worried about whether it was
smart to do so.

LAZY BONES

Man, I am becoming incredibly lazy lately.

I slept till about 10 am and then woke up and
watched the talking heads on tv before I got up
around noon for brunch and football. Gotta love
the inventor of the remote control.

The Pats put me to sleep for the second straight week
and I woke up about 4 and got my butt in gear
enough to go do my laundry. I then came back home,
made dinner, and umm..promptly fell asleep again.

When I finally made it online, I spent most of three
hours fighting with Earthlink and Outlook, and ended
up with one of Earthlink's Live Chat Techs finally
straightening it all out. So rp was minimal and writing
was nil. Frustrating because I'm futzing around on
that Kil'Marren story and I got the idea for a story
at the laundromat as I watched clothes tumbling. That
one will involve Timmons, Marcus,and the Wasteland.

But that will have to wait until another night.

Because I'm..yes..sleepy.

Pookie..THREE in a row?? Triple Thid!!
Seriously,I'm glad life is good for you.
AND NO SICK!!

There..now..if you'll all excuse me, there's a bed
nearby and I aim to be in it in a few more minutes.

BLACK FRIDAY

Black Friday was more like Grey Friday at the store,
Most folks aren't getting up early on the day after
Thanksgiving to rush out to the bookstores. This happens
every year: the sales goal for the day is some impossible
figure we don't reach but we manage to pull the month
out by having good sales the rest of the way to Christmas.
Doesn't stop it from being a long exhausting day.

Outside of feeling tired, the heel feels better.It's not
completely pain free but hurts less and walking is
easier.

And Pookie has posted two straight days to her blog.

DOUBLE THID!!

TURKEY DAY

Short post. Been a long day and I have a headache
from all the noise.

Had a reasonably good day. The food was excellent,
the family cordial (despite the usual happy horsecrap
of dumping on Drew Bledsoe by my kid brother).

I spent most of the day there and left at 8pm when I
started to feel the post feast drowsys come on. My
place is about 10 minutes from my sister's so I made it
home and was able to doze off in the peace and quiet
of my own chair. Now if I could just get ride of this
headache. Bed will help, I hope.

Wait! What's this? A blog post from Pookie?

THID!!

SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN

Gah, I hate getting up early in the morning. Time was that
6am was my usual wake up time but those days are long
gone. So getting up at 5:30 a.m. for a meeting at work was
not my idea of a good day off.

I went..sat there for 2 hours..ate the food provided, and
then skeedaddled back home to doze off watching the
talking heads on tv. I woke up in time to turn on the Pats
game..dozed off again..turned to the Colts game..dozed
off again...

Get the picture?

Man,I'm really an old fart.

ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS

Slow night at the rp factory. I conked out after work and by the
time I got online after midnight,folks were gone to bed for the night,
or working,or at the HP movie,or had comp issues.

Speaking of comp issues, I spent most of the down time tonight
fiddling once again with Kramer. I dl the latest version of
Firefox and ever since installing it,even more weird things are
showing up.Missing icons on the Firefox toolbar, shortcuts to
mirc on the desktop not opening,etc. Fun fun fun. Feels like I'm
walking a tightrope with Kramer. One mistake and I'm offline for
a bit.

Anywho..off to bed..it's too dang cold!

ANOTHER DAY OFF DOWN THE TUBES

And about all that got done around here was my laundry.

I went over to my sister's place for dinner and we compared aches
and pains of approaching old cootdom. Cheryl weirdly enough has
the same pain in her foot that I do but hers is on the right foot.My
brother in law's knee is bad enough that he's considering surgery,
and my kid brother (the 40 year old kid) a bad foot as well.

Cheryl had the wedding pictures on a cd rom which required I go
upstairs tgo see them on gthe computer. The house is an old one and
the stairs are quite steep and narrow and my feet always seem to be
too big when I walk on the stairway. Tonight,when I started walking
back down for dinner, I looked down those stairs and found myself
imagining falling down that flight. Halfway down I had to stop and
get my head together. Another sign of old age,I guess...and that
will be the last time I climb those stairs,let me tell you!

Dinner was good though and the conversation was too,and we're
all looking forward to Thanksgiving.

STUFF

Got a bit worried last night. I'd been online for a bit when suddenly
the tstorm that had been off in the distance suddenly got a hell of a lot
closer and very very loud. I dove off line as fast as I could but it seemed
to take a long time. I had visions of Kramer here being zapped and that
would be a very bad thing indeed since George is already down.

I've been limping around a bit for the past week or so.This time it's
my left foot. Something sort of ..twanged..in my heel as I was putting
my shoe on and walking has been a bit interesting since then. Whatever
it is seems to be clearing up because it hurts less now except for the
morning when I get out of bed.

I'm in the midst of the first part of the Kil'marren story and the
next part of Undercurrents is already taking shape in my head. I'll
be incorporating some of the past events in Camelot's history into
it,both the myth and the rp. There's a lot of history there to draw on
and I intend to try and use it once some of the absent rps are free
to play more again. In the meantime, I'll lay some groundwork out
to help further the sl a bit.

While the rp is somewhat sporadic, I'm happy with what we do. It's
probably not entirely what some folks might expect but there's a
plot and w're moving forward,and without courtships,.instant babies
or overnight knights. What's really heartening is that we've got a few
newer folks who so far seem to be able to rp within the guidelines.

At this point,I'm totally befuddled by the apparent abandonment of
the old channel by those who supposedly were the true heirs of
Arthur and Camelot's dream. They claimed it had been taken over by
Evil and withdrew to another channel, yet now that the Evil (that
would be those of us from the former Ops list)) is gone, they still
stay away. So what's their excuse this time?

Not that it really matters now.I don't expect to ever rp again
with any of those who haven't already rp'd with us on Sorcery
and that "15 years later" bit makes it pretty certain I won't. How
can BT know someone who isn't even born yet.((and I'm still
shaking my head over how a character who was a grandmother
already can have a baby 15 years later.)) Other than those who
do rp with us,the only contact we've had with the rest were
two who seemed more intent on idling while scouting us
out.(and who have been banned.)

So the two camps are irretrievably seperated. The lands to
the North of Camelot those other chars held are now The
Wasteland and the rest of us will continue on.

Off to food shop.

OCTOBER

Weird month.

It rained with a vengeance and I lost phone service twice
as a result, once for nearly an entire week. With no access to
rp I had plenty of time on my hands to write and turned out
three installments of Undercurrent based on a rp in Cams and
a two part standalone about Jera, a rat king and a ghost cat.
There's still a Kil'marrin story to come that's mentioned in
passing in the one about Jera.

George the computer may be at the end of days.The modem
went south and I don't have the money to spare on repair or
replacement and most likely won't until sometime after the
first of the year..way after. So I'm using Kramer the touchy
laptop for my online actvities for now.

My niece Sarah got married and it was a nice wedding. I had
the chance to talk with my Dad's sister Dorothy and her two
daughters.I hadn't seen Aunt Dot since Dad died back in `86
but hopefully we can keep in better touch from here on in..


On the flip side,I didn't realize it at the time but it was also
most likely the last time I will have an easy conversation with
my sister in law and her parents.She dropped a bombshell on
my brother the day after the wedding.

Suffice it to say I won't be attending holiday dinners where
they will be present anymore.

Rp is a bit slow at the moment as school,vacation and health
affects various regulars but as I mentioned before we had a
good chunk just before all this hit and I've already planned the
next part.

And work ...well..the store put up the Christmas decorations
the night before Halloween..

Sheesh!