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I've gotten enough questions about where I've been for the past ?Year? or more I thought I'd make it public.
Most obvious was the reverse psychology hostile takeover where Ricoh bought Ikon and pulled them out of the toilet before they could flush themselves down the drain and then gave them control over the combined service department so their management could try doing it again. We got a lot of damn good techs in that merge, and a lot of damn horrible management. Techs from both companies were and still are extraordinarily pissed about that, management is still mostly oblivious, and things are still going to hell in a handbasket. I've been so fed up with work I created a facebook account, and have been wasting my time there...
Second, and much more time consuming is that I was heavily involved in trying to get Initiative 26 (Personhood) passed in Mississippi. Being a copier tech is just what pays the bills, my real job is as the Executive Vice-President of Pro-Life Mississippi - the state's oldest, largest, and most (dis)respected pro-life organization. Unfortunately we lost, but we knew it would be an uphill battle beforehand. We put in a lot of hours and hard work in an attempt to counter Planned Parenthood's lies, smear tactics, and seemingly inexhaustible supply of our tax dollars.
Lastly, in my spare time /laughs/ I've taken up some people's advice and written a book. A series of 3 of them actually. It's not ready for publication just yet, but the story is complete and I'm in the process of grinding off the rough edges. The first pass needed to be with an acetylene torch, second pass was an angle grinder, the third I used a hammer, fourth is sandpaper, and then maybe it will be ready for paint and a buffer. Right now I'm still in the sandpaper phase of editing, but it's getting there.
I know that leads to the question of subject matter, and the answer is no... It has nothing to do with all the strange things people do to copiers, or vacuuming up farts. It was inspired more for my kids (My son is 13 and daughter 5)... Mostly for my eldest right now, my youngest has a couple years before it would even be interesting to her. I took some of the things me and my friends had to deal with learning about life around high school age and fictionalized it. I'm hoping my kids can learn some lessons from a good book, instead of the school of hard knocks like I had to.
And of course if that wasn't enough there's all of the surprises life likes to spring on you...
Okay, now that I have that out of the way I suppose the remainder of this thread will consist of flameing me for the presumption of my own celebrityship. I mean c'mon, what kind of goober would assume they were popular enough to make a public post apologizing for their extended absence...
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