h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I realized I wrote more than a journal entry's worth of words in another conversation, and never posted here!

I'm unemployed again, and so have more time for wasting online. My last job moved me to not want to come near a computer when I got home, so now that they've invited me to vacate the premises, I find myself on the computer all day at home!

If any of my old friends are still out there, let me know what's up with your lives. I think I kinda missed this place.

something bad causing something good...

who are you?

It's like the hotel California, this palce: you can go but you can never leave.

I'm still working on my list of 25 things. ::thinks::

You lost your job? How come?

*blinks*

I'm having breakfast

Well, you already *know* the most recent major thing that's happened over here IRL...

'Tis a dark time for the journalism profession, as newspapers find that giving free content on their web sites doesn't help when fewer people are buying their print version.

Ironic, isn't it, that newspapers make heavy use of computers to produce that print version.

But if the papers banded together to require Internet users to pay a small fee for looking up, say, tomorrow's weather or the latest sports scores, they'd likely run afoul of interstate commerce laws.

My so-called life? Do I have one? Oh, wait, I have what used to be a career, and they still pay me. The other two reference librarians bailed out while they could still get jobs elsewhere, and I'm left with an unwanted monopoly. I can still get paid, though, which is important as downsized workers in other industries begin to swarm around the library looking for resume books. Will we have to cut our hours as town revenues continue to slide? Stay tuned, and don't put away those Kleenex just yet, as blood in streets begins to seem possible....

How wonderful to be back!

pheloxi! I could say I'm your worst nightmare, but you're such an upbeat person, you probably don't have nightmares!

Ooo, Clive ... wandering through here too? I did my list of 25 things rather quickly ... maybe I should post it here ... I could have kept going! 25 wasn't enough! I could talk about me all day!

I lost my job because the job I got last year was in recruitment advertising. Maybe getting into employment advertising wasn't the exact right career move in this day and age! The only clients we seemed to have were for healthcare. I can't say it was too upsetting. Losing the money, yes ... but I didn't really like the job that much. Kinda like when you're dating somebody. They're okay, nothing special, but you're dating because there's nobody else around. Then they break up with you, and you think, "How dare they?" That's what it feels like.

Hi 2legs! Thanks for the !

You know Gosho, for some reason I can't pass an IHOP without thinking of you!

Yup, all caught up with you, Amy! Thanks for the journal entries!

Hi Paul, I wasn't working for the newspaper anymore. They decided they didn't want me telecommuting last year, and hired some young guy at I'm sure half the salary to take my place! The newspapers are doing terribly though, and that's too bad. I know when I was at the newspaper, they were ridiculously slow to get us stories or anything, because they didn't want it on the internet! They're changing their mind.

You're the dictator of the library, Paul? Shush them all! Bwahahaha!



Oh, TJ just walked in and said, "Tell them I'm still alive, and that I say hi."

that's good to hear. it's probably you who keeps him on his toes, no?

say hi for me

*leaves another *

I can *seem* like the dictator of the library sometimes , but I'm really a pussycat.

i would hate to be a in your library then

Maybe that explains why there are no in my library. A more important reason is that I've sent the to Vinnie's Airlines, where they provide power for Vinnie's airplanes.

maybe the are just illiterate?

The around our house aren't just illiterate, they're downright stupid! We saw one in the garage, and thought we'd have to get traps, but later that day, when TJ was leaving, he hit the garage door closer thingy, and as he was pulling away, the ran out of the garage and right under his tire! He found another squished on the driveway last week.

Of course, all of the critters around here seem pretty stupid. The wretched were nibbling on my flowers all summer, and we tried all sorts of spray deterrents to keep them off. Nothing works. One day TJ was mowing the lawn on the riding mower, and saw something on the next pass right where he had just cut. Getting off the mower, he found 1/2 a . Their defense is to stand still and hope you don't see them, but sometimes that's not so smart. I stepped on one once when I was watering the flowers, and we saw a hawk fly off with one last week. I think the predators are finally paying attention when we yell, "Eat the s!" at them all the time!

I believe I can help you out wiv your rodent problem Flossie a pretty good mouser too!

i had a very stupid basset hound once, albeit only for a very short time. got him from my mother who couldn't keep him herself, but then neither could i. well, i got lucky. a friend came for a visit and we went for a walk in the countryside. the dog ran away from us, tripped over his own ear and fell into a furrow and right on top of a

says my friend: - what an amazing hunting dog!

says i: - since you are my friend you can have him

end of story

Shea, it's nice to meet you. I'm a recent hootooer, and i think i've found my niche. You've got a lovely lovestory.

She certainly does. The second time I ever met her in real life, she was with her husband, and she was so radiant I didn't recognize her at first.