Writer's Circle

rmiles7721August 29, 2007Site News

I came across this site at http://www.mywriterscircle.com/ pretty recently. I certainly don’t consider myself a serious author of any kind, don’t get me wrong, but there is a ton of information over at My Writer’s Circle for professional authors as well as dumb old bloggers like myself. It’s a place to chat and get together with other writers and pick their brains for questions about grammar, storylines and really anything that might have to do with writing. You can post samples of your writing for critique (but be aware that you will get critiqued!), get ideas for new stories or articles as well as poetry and screenplays.

Apparently the forum has been online for two years now and I have never been there. I suppose with all of the millions of web sites out there that is no mean fete but with all the message board traffic they have I would think it be be a lot more well known than it is.

As I mentioned above one of the boards is there so that you can have your work critiqued and judge other peoples stories as well. There is quite a bit of amateurish fluff, stuff that I would write but I did come across this little gem. I thought it was pretty good anyway. Go check it out and tell me what you think.

Senator Craig Insists He’s Not Gay

rmiles7721August 28, 2007Politics

I had all kinds of nasty things to say about the disgraced senator but being as how I am such a sensitive guy I will let you make up your own punchlines.



I think the moral of the story is not that he’s gay. To me that is pretty much a non-issue as I could give a shit what you do behind the closed doors in your own home but if you don’t want anybody to think you are a turd burglar them perhaps you shouldn’t be seen flirting with undercover cops in publically known gay hangouts, particularly when that known cruising spot is the bathroom.

Tramp Stamp Tuesday

rmiles7721August 28, 2007Site News

Yeah, it’s a bit later than I usually post it and I have a lot of catching up to do but for those two of you that follow this every week, here is this weeks photo from Malingering.

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Up And Running Again?

rmiles7721August 28, 2007Technology

I don’t know for sure but I did manage to ghost my hard drive over to a new one. This one is about a hundred gigs smaller than the other but I had it partitioned in half anyway and just backed up all the crap that was on the second partition. It was kind of a pain in the ass as I had to do a repair on my boot image in order to boot up.

I am also trying Readyboost, which is a utility built in to Vista (at least the ultimate version) that basically creates a ram drive on my 2GB USB drive and is supposed to spedd things up a bit. The jury is still out on that one. I can’t tell right now since my system was moving at a crawl before I swapped out hard drives anyway.

Exactly How I Feel About It…

rmiles7721August 28, 2007Technology

My Day

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rmiles7721August 28, 2007Technology

Hopefully I will be back online this afternoon at some point. I have moved my music and stuff over to another hard drive, just need to burn Ghost to a CD. I used to have a couple of floppies with it but unfortunately they are gone so I installed the latest version last night and just need to use it 🙂

I have known for several days that I had a hard drive going out so it shouldn’t be a surprise but it certainly is killing me. Back to the irregular programming very soon…

Crash!

rmiles7721August 27, 2007Site News

That’s exactly what my computer has done. Crashed and burned. It rebooted in the middle of posting earlier, thus the entry without a title. I am in the process of moving about 80 GB of music onto a secondary hard drive right now prior to ghosting my main partition so that’s pretty much it for tonight unless I get it done quicker than I think I will.

Need to go find that Ghost floppy, I know it’s around here somewhere…

Online Coupons

rmiles7721August 27, 2007Site News

Normally Friday is Pizza Day here at the house. It’s usually a pretty busy day for me at work and leads into the weekend which is always extremely busy for me. The wife is tired from working all week and neither of us wants to cook. We used to order from Domino’s but for some reason they quit delivering on this side of town and now we get our pizza from Papa John’s. It’s still pretty good but definitely different. One thing about getting pizza is that it’s a bit expensive to have delivered. The nice thing is that I can order online and not having to deal with the phone at all. The only thing missing that I like about Domino’s is coupons. Looking around I found a place to get free online coupons that I can use with Papa John’s. Sweet. Just go to the Papa John’s Coupons page and find the coupon code you need and when you check out from the website enter the code. That’s about as easy as you can get and as lazy as I am some days easy is where it’s at!

They also have coupons for plenty of other places as well, everything from consumer electronics and software to clothing and furniture.

Just Another Mid-Afternoon Whine…

rmiles7721August 27, 2007Technology

Even with the meeting I made it home at a decent time today, right around 4 PM or so and only that late because I picked the girls up from school. I really need to make sure and go to bed at a decent time tonight. I felt like I was sleepwalking through the entire day. The fact that I go to bed at 11:30 and get up at 4:30 might have a little to do with it.

My head has been freaking pounding off and on for the last three days and today is no exception. I don’t know if I am getting a sinus infection or what but something is going to have to give here before I start pounding my head on the keyboard in hopes of relieving the pressure.

The meeting we were supposed to be having today was to include seven of the nine manager in the division, all of whom have food costs expenditures higher than they should. Mondays are food cost meeting day. If their food cost is high we spend a couple of hours checking tickets from the past week that they should have already checked but obviously haven’t been. Out of the seven, the only ones that showed up were my two that had to attend. I called the other district managers and let them know that they would get to hold their own meetings tomorrow and that I was on the way home. I stuck around about 20 minutes later than the meeting was to start and then left. Fuck them if they can’t get places in a timely manner. One of the managers from a store that is about 30 minutes from me was still in his store trying to get his paperwork together half an hour after we started. I just don’t have the time or patience for people that can’t get places on time anymore.

To aggravate matters my Internet connection is down again for the second time in a week. I am going to refrain from calling Charter as long as possible. It’s not like I can’t type this up offline anyway. I got home shortly before 4 and it was down when I got here, so there is no telling when they will get it back on, the asshats. That’s OK, I have to burn some stuff to DVD as well in order to get all of my stuff off of the HD and ready to ghost. I did come up with a 160 GB hard drive, but the one I need to ghost is 250 GB. Half the stuff on here is junk anyway.

Hey, looks like my connection just came back on. Very nice timing…

Heading In To Monday…

rmiles7721August 27, 2007Site News

Another weekend has come to a close. For me it means heading into the slow part of the week and a chance to get some cleaning done at work and catch up my paperwork. I am sort of winding down a bit. Although I was off this past Friday, since I have only had one day off the last two weeks straight I think I am going to try and take Wednesday and Thursday off if I can get the store covered. After that I don’t have myself scheduled off until September 9th so i could use a couple of days off in a row. Besides, I really need to get the area for the second pond finished and one day has just not been enough rest lately. I am exhausted.

One thing I do need to try and get done on my off day is to see if I have an extra hard drive in the basement. I believe one of mine is getting ready to crap out and I need to ghost everything over onto a new one before losing all of my data.. That would not be a good thing.

I have to go ahead and start getting ready for work this morning but just wanted to write for a few minutes before I go in. Unfortunately there is no chance of an early day as we have a meeting this afternoon and with me running the thing it would be slightly difficult to get out of.

No letters from the boy today but hopefully today or tomorrow…