It's about the same - what you said about static electricity, though, was really worrisome. -
ALan On Wed, 9 May 2012, James Morris wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Thanks. It's not so much worry about approaching forty as shock! > Physical health worries me regarding my job as I get older. Though my > father never has worked in a factory, he's spent his life in physical > work and he's still going in his seventies though at a slower pace now. > My mother lost her health to nursing others - lifting a patient and has > had to live with pain for the past 25 years. Watching parents grow > older is scary. > > Sounds like you're having a nightmare with the noise where you live. I > live on a main road and cars slowly start whizzing through around 4am. > From 730am until around 830 there's barely a second of silence in the > traffic. > > James > > > > > On Tue, 8 May 2012 18:06:22 -0400 (EDT) > Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi James, >> >> I find your writing and your work in general brilliant. I'm amazed >> you can write this while at work. >> >> If you're worried about turning forty think about worrying about >> turning seventy. However old you are, it never changes but it does >> get worse. Azure's younger than you and can look forward to my >> death. :-( >> >> We all have the same and different problems which are the same. >> >> - Alan >> >> On Tue, 8 May 2012, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Dear internet spies, >>> I dreamt last night of cycling up too far from any ground on my >>> bicycle. Quite disconcerting but I recalled similiar past >>> experiences and willed myself to calm down. >>> >>> My enthusiasm for anything is in very short supply and motivation >>> is heading the same way. >>> >>> I spent a lot of time over this bank holiday weekend playing OpenRA >>> against the robot AI. I then attempted to play on the LAN with my >>> desktop and Karly's laptop but had problems so setup both to have >>> static IP addresses on the LAN. Using telnet I discovered a version >>> difference between that running on the laptop and that on the >>> desktop. Updating solved problem. >>> >>> I'm writing this inbetween making buckets at work. Making a bucket >>> imnvolves putting a handle on a bucket hot out the press. Cold >>> buckets are much less flexible. >>> >>> Stacks of buckets often give static electrick shocks. Wearing >>> in-ear headphones with metal chasis delivers the static shock >>> straight to my ear. >>> >>> I frequently fantasize about becoming homeless due to bringing upon >>> myself a high level of unemployability. >>> >>> I have tendencies to be socially isolated. My job strenghthens >>> these. People react by leaving me alone I suspect. >>> >>> I'm socially inept. >>> >>> After showing Karly how to play OpenRA she defeated me. >>> >>> I have major confidence issues and speak only in negatives in job >>> interviews (or so I'm told). I tell them things they don't want to >>> hear. >>> >>> I decided it better to tell the manging director when he caught me >>> using my mobile that I was "googling how to make buckets better" >>> than the truth. I didn't expect him to understand what C, GCC, >>> Linux and SSH were. (His understanding of mobile tech seemed >>> limited to texting). >>> >>> I've been recently worrying about turning forty in three years >>> time. It's difficult to believe! >>> >>> Well now internet spies I think that's enough for now, until next >>> time, best regards, semaj sirrom. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent using BlackBerry? from Orange >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> == >> blog: http://nikuko.blogspot.com/ >> email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 >> music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rl.txt >> == > > > > -- > http://jwm-art.net/ > image/audio/text/code/ > > == blog: http://nikuko.blogspot.com/ email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rl.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
