In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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I'm really glad I went. Caught up with a lot of old friends and acquaintances. Looks like I might have a few job leads after tonight too. One or two of them could be some serious life changing money if one of them were to work out. I'd have to work full time for the first time in a dozen or so years, so working on the house like I want to would be out of the question pretty much with all the time it takes just to do regular maintenance around here, but if I was still in a big hurry to move I could just pay somebody else to do it.
I was there for 5 1/2 hours and wasn't even tempted by the booze. Even had no problems out in the beer garden while the bowl was passed around and had to turn down a few people who were practically trying to force some edibles on me after I mentioned that I've never tried them before.
Good to know. I can trust myself in a scenario that I was fairly uncomfortable walking into, and I didn't feel the need to make up an excuse to leave early either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's wonderful on all counts Jack.
So glad that things are starting to look more up for you.
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Thanks Brenda.
It's really kind of interesting being around a bunch of folk who are drinking and cutting loose while being the sober one. I'm thinking with the fact that so many of them have families at this point that they wouldn't have drank as much even at a 40th B-day party if nobody had invented Uber yet.
When I was the last of the party to leave except for my friend and his fiancee, he followed me out and we had a smoke and he said "well I made it". I asked him what that meant, and he said "Well... I'm still standing. I didn't embarrass [his fiancee]." It was true. Actually, he seemed to be quite a bit better off than some of the other people I knew by the end of the night. I let him know I can't wait until he gets that rental property fixed up and that bullshit stress out of his life.
One of my old friends who I hadn't seen in maybe eight years was there and said "we're neighbors". It turns out that at some point he moved one town over from me. He want to go shoot pool like we always did back in the day and even offered to pay for it. None of his friends live very close and everyone's so busy. I told him that I'm probably not good anymore and I hope I don't bore him, since apparently he's really good now and never quit playing. His oldest kid just graduated high school. That was with an ex of mine that he kind of stole away from me while he was unemployed and I was working a lot of overtime, just around 20 years ago. It had led into a fist fight and a huge falling out for years. We'd since made up and hung out on a few occasions in between my times cutting everyone out of my life. He asked me if I hated him, for yanno, what happened between us all back then. I said, nah man... we're past that. No worries.
That relationship didn't work out for him either, and even though the kid is out of high school he's still paying child support probably until the kid is out of college. I kind of feel like it was just another in a very long line of bullets I dodged over the years.
Anyhow... he's one of the guys who says he wants to get me a job. He's been a salesman all his life. He was talking about the job and said "It's not much... $25/hr." I said, dude, in the last 10 years I was working overnights for $8.25 an $11.50 an hour. I think I can make it work". 
One of the other guys was a dude I only met once in my life at a friend's wedding around 12 years ago. He married the sister of a friend I hadn't seen in 10 or so years (who was also there). Not only did this guy remember meeting me too, but he asked "don't you live in Wisconsin". He remembered I worked up there all the way back then after just that one night. Sharp guy.
He wants my resume. He wants my google photos link of the work I've done on the house. He says whether I want back into the tech industry or I want to work with my hands that he's got connections and he can either get me in where he's located or with somebody doing something that I want to do, whether I want to work a solid gig or just some moonlighting stuff. He mentioned tech security, and that if I wanted to get certified knowing what I already know about the stuff, I could be looking at six figures.
It all sounds pretty exciting. Not going to get my hopes up on anything just yet, but I can add the "networking" opportunity last night to the things I'm really thankful to my friend for. Maybe... just maybe, I can get my foot in the door at a place that pays a real livable wage and really turn things around finally instead of just kind of skating by and piecing things together with duct tape. It's not like I'd have to do it for very long if I didn't want to. 5 to 10 years with legit pay is really all I'd need.
Fingers crossed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Sounds like you and had good time with your friends. And made some good contacts as well.
Finger crossing is good but hopefully one of these will turn up something for you.
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Meeting up with old school mates and friends from long ago can be stressful, so I'm very happy for you that you had a nice time! Congrats as well on testing your sobriety successfully! Not going to say too much about that beyond that; don't want to tempt the gods and bring bad luck down on you. But like BRENDA, I hope that this turns up some opportunities for you. Maybe next time, if at a party or something, you can take your guitar: I think music means a lot to you and I'll bet you're pretty good at it.
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Dry here this Remembrance Day.
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And again after a warning, kiki reposted the same ridiculously long post again and again. Here you go kiki.
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Monday, November 11, 2019 8:24 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
In the meantime, while I appreciate the bump, I hope to keep the thread ON TOPIC.
Assange in Court 841
22 Oct, 2019 in Uncategorized by craig
UPDATE I have received scores of requests to republish and/or translate this article. It is absolutely free to use and reproduce and I should be delighted if everybody does; the world should know what is being done to Julian. So far, over 200,000 people have read it on this blogsite alone and it has already been reproduced on myriad other sites, some with much bigger readerships than my own. I have seen translations into German, Spanish and French and at least extracts in Catalan and Turkish. I only ask that you reproduce it complete or, if edits are made, plainly indicate them. Many thanks.
BEGINS
I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening.
Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian’s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.
But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought.
Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture – even of Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture – and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness.
I had been even more sceptical of those who claimed, as a senior member of his legal team did to me on Sunday night, that they were worried that Julian might not live to the end of the extradition process. I now find myself not only believing it, but haunted by the thought. Everybody in that court yesterday saw that one of the greatest journalists and most important dissidents of our times is being tortured to death by the state, before our eyes. To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable. Yet the agents of the state, particularly the callous magistrate Vanessa Baraitser, were not just prepared but eager to be a part of this bloodsport. She actually told him that if he were incapable of following proceedin
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YOUR link? What a lying sack of shit you are!
A billion flies eat shit.
Some even shit here.
And some ARE shit!
Hey there THUGGER, that means you!
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