Time to pack up, go home

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 23:31:42 CDT 2010


...but you fail nobly?  something like that...

hope everything works out for the best.  In this world it's amazing
when there's any abatement of anxiety...
hoping that you get your overdue share soon!

I suppose it might be worth mentioning, I personally am unbelievably
calm lately due to this buffered,
effervescent Vitamin C, the Walgreen generic, which I substitute for
every other cup of coffee or so...

Linus Pauling.  2 Nobel Prizes. Lived to 90 something.  Vitamin C fan.
 Think about it...

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
>> It appears that we are on a group fool's mission, or fools' group misssion.
>> Why bother with V. or anything else literary? 2010 brings us, to quote a
>> Greek lady of some renown, "Death, death, death."
>
> I fluffed the opening date for my hosting stint, and, as "my" computer
> was trojanned almost immediately thereafter, I've been dependent on my
> roommate's laptop, and a not-entirely-reliable connection which has
> lost me more than a few attempted posts here.  I'm okay firing off
> quick messages/responses, but ...
>
> Normally, I'd've stockpiled stuff ahead of time, but i thought my time
> was a couple of weeks later than it actually was.  My life has been
> changed drastically over the past year or so, and even more so since
> this spring, and I've had all sorts of demands placed on me in the
> past week or two that I didn't anticipate as well.  My time is still
> not my own, even if nobody's actually paying me for it anymore ...
>
> But that being said, I've some commitments over the next couple of
> evenings, but am trying--amidst hunting down a couple/three hundred
> bucks worth of missing mail, dealing with boxes of possibly flood
> damaged stuff people had been storing for me, and an anxiety attack
> which I've been suffering since this past winter, among other
> things--to get something up tonight, then get through the chapter over
> the next couple/three days.  Move on if the time comes, but I'll keep
> @ it ...
>
> Sorry, if there's on thing i know about myself, it's that i'll always
> fail, but ...
>



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