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» Unexpected Good Fortune
Always take a good book on your honeymoon.
Just before I was about to leave on my (first) honeymoon, a package showed up in the mail -- the disks and manual to some BBS* software I'd ordered. I threw it in my suitcase and headed off to what turned out to be a three-week-long marriage, and my spouse's life was spared only by the good fortune of his greatly disillusioned bride having brought something interesting to read. We packed up and went our separate ways a few days after we arrived back home. Oh well.
Fortunately for me, the BBS software led to an acquaintance (albeit long-distance) with the people who wrote it, and that led to a job offer as a technical writer, which led to a fabulously delicious affair with one of the tech support guys, which led to an altogether more satisfying second wedding, honeymoon and marriage which is still looking like the most enjoyable and rewarding thing I ever did, 14 years later.
* Bulletin Board System (BBS), the forerunner of the interwebs. Click below if you remember Wildcat!
(Sat 16th Sep 2006, 4:01, More)
Always take a good book on your honeymoon.
Just before I was about to leave on my (first) honeymoon, a package showed up in the mail -- the disks and manual to some BBS* software I'd ordered. I threw it in my suitcase and headed off to what turned out to be a three-week-long marriage, and my spouse's life was spared only by the good fortune of his greatly disillusioned bride having brought something interesting to read. We packed up and went our separate ways a few days after we arrived back home. Oh well.
Fortunately for me, the BBS software led to an acquaintance (albeit long-distance) with the people who wrote it, and that led to a job offer as a technical writer, which led to a fabulously delicious affair with one of the tech support guys, which led to an altogether more satisfying second wedding, honeymoon and marriage which is still looking like the most enjoyable and rewarding thing I ever did, 14 years later.
* Bulletin Board System (BBS), the forerunner of the interwebs. Click below if you remember Wildcat!
(Sat 16th Sep 2006, 4:01, More)
» Useless advice
Learn to type
Best prospects for a female in high school, as I was advised at the time, was to have "something to fall back on" whilst pursuing my utterly ridiculous and impractical ambition to be an artist, so I was urged in the strongest possible terms to promise to learn to type so I could at least be useful in an office setting (girl clothes, high heels, yeah right).
I got the idiotic typing class out of the way, flunked out of my last year at high school and never got around to finishing, and went on to earn a living for many years as a graphic artist. Never had to answer phones or type or file or anything.
Through some bizarre trick of neurobiology, I developed the ability to type more than 110 words per minute without practicing or even trying very hard. People are utterly fascinated, but apart from helping me get through the work day a little faster (I'm now a technical writer), the advice, and the resultant skill, has been pretty much useless.
(Sat 21st Oct 2006, 4:09, More)
Learn to type
Best prospects for a female in high school, as I was advised at the time, was to have "something to fall back on" whilst pursuing my utterly ridiculous and impractical ambition to be an artist, so I was urged in the strongest possible terms to promise to learn to type so I could at least be useful in an office setting (girl clothes, high heels, yeah right).
I got the idiotic typing class out of the way, flunked out of my last year at high school and never got around to finishing, and went on to earn a living for many years as a graphic artist. Never had to answer phones or type or file or anything.
Through some bizarre trick of neurobiology, I developed the ability to type more than 110 words per minute without practicing or even trying very hard. People are utterly fascinated, but apart from helping me get through the work day a little faster (I'm now a technical writer), the advice, and the resultant skill, has been pretty much useless.
(Sat 21st Oct 2006, 4:09, More)
» Unexpected Good Fortune
Then there was the time...
... my kid sister was feeling around in a hole in the ceiling above the water heater in her basement flat, trying to figure out where her new cat was hiding, and discovered a well crumpled paper bag, which upon retrieving she discovered contained 32 vials of hash oil, left apparently by the previous tenants as they hastily rearranged things just before being Taken Away By The Police. I honestly don't recall if the cat came back or not.
(Sat 16th Sep 2006, 4:28, More)
Then there was the time...
... my kid sister was feeling around in a hole in the ceiling above the water heater in her basement flat, trying to figure out where her new cat was hiding, and discovered a well crumpled paper bag, which upon retrieving she discovered contained 32 vials of hash oil, left apparently by the previous tenants as they hastily rearranged things just before being Taken Away By The Police. I honestly don't recall if the cat came back or not.
(Sat 16th Sep 2006, 4:28, More)