Warning: Some Violence and Much Strong Language.HE WROTE: The End
Yes, we're getting there. Still some scenes here and there to write and plug in. Then we have to go back and do many rewrites adding in motif, character consistency and arc, yada, yada.
This is a bit different than DON'T LOOK DOWN is. I think the characters are deeper and have larger issues. My heroes best friend, Carpenter, isn't quite as humorous as LaFavre, but he is more the moral sounding board for Shane. We've got humor in the form of things like the Thibault family: Two Wheels, Three Wheels and Four Wheels. Two of whom meet their demise.
So today is forward time. I've got three scenes lined up to write and then I can email Jenny and go: Book Done Yet?
And tomorrow morning early I fly out to MN. We get to see the Mall of America. Actually, I saw it once before when I did this same conference like eight years ago. And, strangely enough, someone at that conference came to me and said: "You need to meet someone I know: her name is Jenny Crusie." I was like: "Who?" Sounded like trouble to me.
I was right.
The last episode of THE UNIT was wicked writing. Both the way the two plot lines mirrored each other, but also because there was a lot more going on than was shown, Plans within plans. One thing I like about the show is that it illustrates how Special Operations deals with problems obliquely. Never do things the way people would expect you to do them.
108 Comments:
OO new blog from Bob, AND the demise of the wheels boys. gotta love it. and it's so good, he had to post it twice.
Oh wait, does the double posting refer to "never do things the way you expect them to do it?"
good one, Bob.
Thought I was losing my mind. Nice to know ME is going with me ... I ... the two of us together.
McB: I'm with you and Me. I hit refresh twice before I decided it was not me. Or Me, either.
That Bob. He's a sneaky one he is. How are we, and Me, going to decide which one is the 'real' one? What if he deletes one? I might just wait here in the darkness...
bryan, no! in the darkness, there is death. I like you too much for that.
Bob always was a tricky one. First he posts the blog that had no words. Now he double posts. How are we supposed to know where to comment? What if he removes one and all those comments go away? Bob, what are you doing to us?
Now I'm all confused.
Bob might very well be the Sun Tzu of blogging. We're off-blance, disorganized, and confused. He's forced us to seperate into two groups where he can deal with us as he pleases. You folks going to new Jersey might want to keep your eyes open for any nasty surprises.
Ah yes, The Art of War. I'd be worried. He's good, folks.
And somewhere on a barrier island, a man is laughing.
Will the dual post comments be like a mullet? Business on top and party in the back.
BTW: General stuff is updated at that blog over there and the You know you're a CB when... list is up.
A Bob blog. Just wht I needed to cheer me up today. i am supposed to crank out twenty pages today but here I am commenting. Sigh. After all the hints fromthis blog iam dying to read the book. I need to be on the list for an ARC.
Well, the name is "dueling blog"
Maybe Bob is talking to himself...as we are likely to do.
Bob, the dueling blogger.
It is perfectly normal to talk to yourself.
It's the arguing and name-calling with yourself that you have to look out for.
pdmqqy: please don't make Quincy's quilt yellow.
People think I talk to myself all the time, but I don't. Where's that leave me?
Bob it is "DuEling blog" with an E not duALing blog with an A.
Guess that means we have to comment twice.
Lori three things not necessarily in any order. Are your going to get to see the Bob and Jenny show this weekend? You are doing a WONDERFUL job on the CB site. It looks great. And Last but not least have you had a chance to curl up with your quilt yet? I bet you have been too busy.
noljofj
Not on line (but)Jenny orders free juice.
He said "Never do things they people would expect you to do them.". I wonder what problem is obliquely solved by a double post?
And now they have to keep both because we've commented on both.
I'm excited about the book being done - so much closer to hitting the stores, then!
Also, the foreshadowing of that first meeting - very literary.
fsqwogiy: I'm not sure, but it's got a decidedly cute sound to it. I liked it so much, I nearly made it my name!
Diane said...
He said "Never do things they people would expect you to do them.". I wonder what problem is obliquely solved by a double post?
Maybe he figures duplicate posts excuse him from blogging later? Jenny did two, back to back. Now he can say he blogged twice also.
cbljrll: Cherry Bomb's love Jenny/Robert. Live, Laugh.
bryan: don't feel bad because they cannot see your imaginary friends. Just keep talking. Unless they are ghosts. If they are, for Bob's sake don't make them angry so close to Halloween.
mcb postulates: "Maybe he figures duplicate posts excuse him from blogging later?"
Ah. Ho Shih comments in Sun Tzu's The Art of War (3:3) "When the enemy has made a plan of attack against us, we must anticipate him by delivering our own attack first."
That Bob. He should write a book.
btuda,
What imaginary people?
bryan: you don't have a creepy little kid that keeps coming over and quoting "The Sixth Sense," do you?
Gotta run and see if The King is in the building (well, the reception hall anyway).
bjeqegc: Bungee jumping equals quick evacuation going curtailed.
I think this is the CB version of the missing sock. Only, it kinda backfired, because now there are comments on both of them, so he has to leave it there. Hah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doesn't take much to amuse me sometimes.
For which Blogger is punishing me:
ughtswpe (blue)
Ugh, that's what people eat!
diane said...
fsqwogiy: I'm not sure, but it's got a decidedly cute sound to it. I liked it so much, I nearly made it my name!
LOL! It does have a rather adorable sound to it. Anyone writing a fantasy that needs a cute little nebbish?
otdfh (green)
Ostrich tastes different from hen.
Bryan said...
People think I talk to myself all the time, but I don't. Where's that leave me?
I'm right here!
btuda inquired: "you don't have a creepy little kid that keeps coming over and quoting "The Sixth Sense," do you?"
No, I have a short little brunette with a crooked smile who whispers in my ear.
Me,
Is that you, Me?
Reminds me of a joke (I think I already told this one to Jen).
A man walks into a bar, sits down, and orders a drink. The bartender gives him his drink, accompanied by a bowl of peanuts.
To his surprise, a voice comes from the peanut bowl. "You look great tonight!" it said. "You really look fantastic... And that after shave is just wonderful!"
The man is obviously a little confused, but tries to ignore it.
Realizing he has no cigarettes, he wanders over to the cigarette machine. After inserting his money, another voice emits from the machine. "You BASTARD... Oh my god you STINK... Do you know, you're almost as ugly as your mother."
By now, the man is extremely perplexed. He turns to the bartender for an explanation.
"Ah yes sir," the bartender responds, "The peanuts are complimentary, but the cigarette machine is out of order."
ZaZa said...
diane said...
fsqwogiy: I'm not sure, but it's got a decidedly cute sound to it. I liked it so much, I nearly made it my name!
LOL! It does have a rather adorable sound to it. Anyone writing a fantasy that needs a cute little nebbish?
Sounds like a Terry Pratchett character. The young apprentice, Fsqwogly, third son of a third son, who hires on to the absent-minded genius inventor. His lot in life is to follow just ahead of his master, hopefully forestalling disaster.
Bryan! Love your joke!
blue vdgfh: the absent-minded genius inventor.
Jeez - I think this blog needs to do some catching up. Make them more even in the comments.
I hear people, all day, all night, but I don't see them...I talk to myself, I talk to non-existant people all the time. Just today, i was smiling in the car, kind of chuckling...my daughter says, "Mom, you're lips are moving." I say, "I'm thinking." She says, "That is sooo embarassing, can you think on your own time and you missed the turn." I hear BCB yelling from another state - "You Twit!"
btuda said "It is perfectly normal to talk to yourself.
It's the arguing and name-calling with yourself that you have to look out for."
LMAO.
i also do that. i talk to myself, i talk to imaginary people, and i talk to inanimate objects. sometimes we all hold conversations....
....ummm, that may not sound right. *sigh* no, it does. it's ok. i'll wait for the men in white coats...
bryan: cute joke. and diane, cute "name".
Jen said: I hear BCB yelling from another state - "You Twit!"
I knew I was talking to someone -- was that you in my head?
About a month ago I was driving on the freeway with DD and she startled me by saying: Mom, you know you have to get off here, right?
Me: What?
DD: This is the exit, what are you doing?
Me: Well hell (as I gave thanks for light traffic that allowed me to cross over two lanes and make the exit). I knew that.
DD: What were you doing?
Me: I was thinking about something.
DD: (eye roll) Voices again?
Me: Of course.
DD: Well pay attention. It's a good thing you work less than five minutes from home, otherwise you'd never get there.
Heck, I have in-my-head conversations with people I don't know all the time. Sometimes I just listen in while they talk. Of course, then I get to know them. And put them in stories. I always just assumed everyone had voices, but I've been told that isn't so. What a shame.
But right now I have to take all these voices and go to work. You don't want to know what they have to say about that.
bw
I, too, am feelling sort of bad for this lower, orphan post - receiving a decreasing number of comments.
I'm really looking forward to "meeting" Carpenter. What does the "moral sounding board" for a hitman say? Tough job.
My problem with voices is when I try to introduce them into conversations - people so rarely understand that I'm not always speaking for myself...
But since none of us say anything very interesting, it's probably moot (though I'm sure Moot is a very interesting conversationalist).
koeemovg: Kermit openly emoted, even moaned, over vicissitudinous greenness.
Imagine my surprise to discover vicissitudinous is an actual word.
Bob and Jenny please do not take Xavier out of the book. We need him for verification sentences and we can't use just any X person.
blue tdnvz
To Doherty no victories, Zaza.
I don't know, Scope Dope - I think we could still use him: and he'd be all ours! No non-CBs would know about Xavier. An in-group thing. Do YOU listen to As it Happens? It's a CBC show, I think, that I rather enjoy if I'm in the car at that time.
ixgpaa: if Xavier gets put asunder - arggh!
Uh oh. I think I'm developing dual personalities with the two blogs. Then again, its a split personality kind of day. On the one hand, I'm like great, I have to tell DSS his hamster died and on the other hand I'm TGIF.
lwyqr: Lawyers want yelling, quick results.
this two post thing is actually going to be fascinating. now we can see how our conversations vary, even with the same post. of course, now that i said something it may ruin the experiment, but still! (and no, Bob, i am not crediting this with you.)
it's already showing how lazy we are by mostly posting on the first post, as opposed to the second.
Saddle up everyone! We're headed to New York to check out this restaurant
mcb: count me in! But what fun is moderation? Surely they wouldn't cut you off, would they?
In the interests of balance in all things, CHOCOLATE!
Really, it's just a comment to make up numbers on the dueling posts. How many men can duel with themselves? Or would want to? Only our egg. GAM? EGGAM?
vvmbz
Very virile meb belove ZaZa. Heh.
No no, Zaza. Its DUAL-ing posts!
Maybe Bob's feeling beside himself?
SDCB: no worries about Xavier. I have a nephew Xavier, so we can still use the name.
Though I think, given the sentences people have written, it's quite remarkable what a 9-month old has accomplished.
MCB: *salivates* chocolate. yummmmmm. so going there when i go to NY to visit family this winter.
Does anyone know what this is:
Dr. Zogs Quick Humps Sex Wax?
It's bound to be disappointing, but I gotta know.
ftvfww (blue)
For the victor, fat white waffles. (helluva contest, I tell ya)
zaza: It's a brand of surfboard wax, if I recall correctly from my years living in Florida. The boys in my jr. high loved wearing their t-shirts: "Dr. Zog's Sex Wax: The best for waxing your stick!" *insert rolling of eyes here*
http://www.extremeacademy.co.uk/onlineshop/productexd.asp?_ctrl=i&plid=311&cid=6&scid=0&tid=0&_Lpage=3&id=
I don't want to go to that restaurant, I want to open one of my own! Much like the one in the movie 'Chocolat.'
The only down side is that whenever I turn something I love into a money-maker, I end up falling out of love with it. And to do that to (with?) chocolate would be tragic, tragic I tell you. Maybe even fatal.
kbzjpber - yow. Looks like something to do with kibbutzs, zippers and berber rugs. Not chocolate.
lulu la chocolatier (geez, is that an abbreviation waiting to happen): You are now our official supplier/enabler! Thanks for pointing out that deficit in our TOTW plans.
No need to make money in this venture, so no pressure, no need for tragedy. Just supply us with chocolate. Certain people seem to have developed a fondness for dark chocolate M&Ms, esp. the green ones, so order in a supply of those to start. Oh, and talk to Lori about how to procure chocolate in an emergency involving time travel. She is very good at that.
Go ahead and decorate the place as you see fit. We'll have a logo for you to work with any day now.
bw
bon cheri bomb you have obviously forgotten that when we go to the nursing home I believe it was orangehands and Lori that were in charge of providing all things chocolate to the old folks. I could be wrong but I don't think so.
glamour geek do you really want your nephew in the situations in which we put Xavier? Tsk Tsk. It is your job to protect him. /,D
mcb are you offering to drive to New York? Iselin, NJ doesn't appear to be too far from NYC. It is probably further than it looks.
blue jvjvlkfg This looks bad but I'll try.
Just verbalize Jenny. Virtuosity leaves killers feeling great. Doesn't even make sense.
glamour-geek said...
Dr. Zogs Quick Humps Sex Wax?
zaza: It's a brand of surfboard wax, if I recall correctly from my years living in Florida.
I figured it was either surfboards, snowboards or skis. Great marketing choice. Teenage boy would buy that if they never surfed, boarded or skied. How the he** do you spell that?
dblybkb (blue)
Doherty, Bob: likes YEC but kisses badly. LOL! Sorry, Bob. It's Blogger's fault.
*snort*
i do believe lori and i were in charge of keeping you geezers in the Old Folk's CB Home supplied. which is why you were going to start bribing us, any day now...actually, JJ has a head start, you better catch up.
Scope Dope: I hadn't forgotten, exactly. Really. I, ahem, just thought that with OH in college now and Lori doing all this stuff for the new place, well, maybe they might appreciate a little assistance. Besides you can never have enough chocolate.
I'm also hoping if we give these lurkers jobs to do, maybe they won't keep running back up to the attic all the time. We have to find some way to keep them around, and since Jenny used all the duct tape on Bob we have to get creative.
I figure job sharing is the way to go.
bw
I’m eating breakfast.
My brother walks in, shoves his camera in front of my face. “What’s that?”
I look at the screen. I stop eating. “A dead rat.”
He looks at it again. “Nope. It's too big and furry.” He shoves it back in front of me.
I pick up the rest of my breakfast. I throw it away. “A big, furry, dead rat.”
I walk into the bathroom to shower.
How was your morning?
Lori asks innocently: "How was your morning?"
I think you people gave me the Blogger Flu. I feel like luke-warm crap that's been rained upon.
Bryan,
Uh. That's extra bad. I think that deserves a "poor baby" and an umbrella.
red xfrmkr
Xtra FRoM KyratheRed
(anyone seen her, btw?)
Kyra's been dealing with morning sickness. She said she still lurks when she's not actively puking though.
Bryan - And didn't I tell you to wash your hands? DIDN'T I? Mother knows best!
Article in the paper - an experiment in which they dispatched a bunch of people with colds to motel rooms, then recovered the snotty stuff from a bunch of surfaces they'd touched. Swiped all the surfaces; saved the swipes.
A few weeks later they sent the same back to the rooms to touch stuff again. The team had already wiped snotty stuff, aged several days and frozen, back on. Those people, of course couldn't get sick again since they were now immune to their own germs. Low and behold, they picked up germs!
Going to Kill Devil Hills Monday for a 2 1/2 day conference. Man, I hope I don't pick up someone else's snotty stuff.
zibact: Zenobiotically-Inferred BACTeria.
I always got the nose runs whenever I disturbed dust that had been setting around for ages...God knows what was in it.
Kyra The Red...you take care of yourself...that "One to Be" needs all the help it can get.
Bryan ...take care of yourself too.
zjtceq
red
zince Jenny takes Crusie equally quiet
Ah Bryan, Poor Baby KEEP THAT STUFFY NOSE/CRUD OUT OF ONTARIO. I NEED A DRIVER FOR NEW JERSEY. I can't afford to have cherry magic sheryl get sick. She is my fun ride to the conference. And she is right. I will be saying "Oh isn't that pretty" etc. all the way. I like to see the scenery and some trees have changed all ready too.
That was my biggest disappointment driving to Florida from Ontario in February. We used I95 and another major highway and other than one cotton boll and two different work gangs of convicts, heavily guarded, we saw nothing. On the way back we saw a car all shot up sitting empty on the side of the road. I think it was empty.
That is the trouble with major highways. It is the same here. They cut your driving time down but eliminate all the fun stuff.
blue efrkjwz
Everyone finds Robert's killers, Jenny writes Zaza. Jenny writes Zaza? I want Jenny to write me too. /,D
Okay, Boys and Girls, it's POLL TIME!!!
We've got two lovely, color coordinated polls for your voting enjoyment. Go here for the first poll, then, after you vote on that poll, follow the link to the next poll.
I tried to put them both on one page, but then only one of them worked. I have no clue why, but since we need to make these diecisions, I split them up.
Vote Now! I'll wait until late Monday to close the polls, unless it looks like everyone's already voted and there's decisive winner.
Muchas gracias.
Yes, ma'am. I did. I voted. Both of 'em.
Zaza, it would only let me vote on the name. It seemed to zip past the first voting.
OkieDokie. I went to the other comment stuff and it let me vote the other one. Go figure!
GP - I didn't see the link at first either and then there it was. Or maybe it was there before and I just didn't see it. There was actually a link just below the voting part, not in the results part.
I voted...
ZAZA...nicely put together...you do good work.
I voted. Can I have a sticker? I need to go look at the new logos now.
I think I'm getting slap happy. I was up at 5 and on the road by 5:15 because our new mattresses were going to be delivered at 7:45.
lzumncbs Lately zaza undertakes matching numbers cherrybombs
I voted. Thanks for doing so much work on this Lori, Zaza, BCB and MCB it is greatly appreciated.
green mvorsi
Mayer voted. Originally Robert seemed indignant.(about it)
red lctssys
Let's call TOTW's security system (the) yex system.
I voted, strangely for me, no problems.
I am having problem with my e-mail I'll be in touch with everyone when it is sorted.
Bryan: Poor Baby. Try not to sneeze on the grapes. :)
i voted. (guess who's 18 and gets to vote in november for the CA election? go on, guess.)
nanaimo: hope it gets worked out soon.
Kyra: who i haven't heard from in forever, hope Tweety and DH and Bun are doing well. you are missed. good luck with the puking.
lori: i was just thinking about my brother today. must have heard your scream.
SDCB said, "That is the trouble with major highways. It is the same here. They cut your driving time down but eliminate all the fun stuff."
I think it was one of the old TV guys (Cronkite?) who said, "The interstate highway system: the only way to cross the country and never see anything" or words to that effect.
Bryan, obviously our fellow CBs have failed the keep their germs ON THEIR SIDE OF THE COMPUTER SCREEN. I'm sick too, so "poor baby" to us both. So much for all the antibacterial wipes. (hmph)
And since I'm sick, and my meds aren't working - a 2:30am post and a distinct lack of voices in my head.
(From BCB: "I always just assumed everyone had voices, but I've been told that isn't so. What a shame." What do you, everyone else doesn't hear voices?! Please don't let that get out... Can't you picture all the CBs they'd have to commit?
BUSINESS
Looking at the two polls, "CherryBombs" is winning, with 14 votes or 61%, while "Cherrybombs" and "Cherry Bombs" are just about tied, with 4 votes (17%) and 5 votes (22%), respectively.
On the other one, "The CB Bar & Grill" is ahead, with 9 votes or 39%. But "CherryBomb Bar & Grill" is still in the running, with 7 votes or 30%. The other two are fairly evenly divided, with 3 and 4 votes.
Since only 23 people have voted, that means that ANY of them could still win.
GO VOTE!!! (The link for the second poll is on this page, below the poll box.)
luckily, the CB bug skipped me and hit one of my housemates. of course, she was just laying in my roommate's bed, which means soon my roomie will be sick, and therefore soon i'll be sick, so yeah, it'll spread to me.
thanks. thanks a bunch. i'm already feeling fuzzy...
orangehands said...
i voted. (guess who's 18 and gets to vote in november for the CA election? go on, guess.)
Hey, that's right! You put on your big girl panties and march to that polling place (pity they don't put it online like we do) and do your thing. /;+)
cary and bryan if I didn't say it earlier, get better soon. (hugs)
udabgoez (green)
"You da big ooze," in Jersey-ese? Although why you'd want to tell someone that...sounds disgusting.
OH - ignore my cure from the next post up. It didn't really work, that was merely a coincidence. really.
Bryan and Cary_S - I'm sorry you're both ill! I'm on the upswing, though not as fast as I would be if people would LEAVE ME ALONE and LET ME SLEEP. Sorry, I thought last week would be quiet and I could catch up, but people keep asking me to do things. I hope you're getting plenty of rest (as if anyone does, these days!).
OH - congrats for the voting! Always so many interesting things to vote on in CA - and they give you the info to make decisions, too. I'm usually surprised by how little there is to consider, here in NY. I'm sure you'll consider carefully and make good choices.
zepzsa: Zebulon erred producing zebra striped antimacassars
heck, i'm already working on one of the issues on the ballot. did so last year too, but now i'll actually get to vote on it.
zaza re online: i'm trying to think if that would make it easier or not to steal the election. but besides, unfair to people without computers.
CMS: i'm ignoring it. and when you read the posts to your mom, just skip over it. :)
OH - it's great that you're so active. Everyone complains about initiatives (and they're often staggeringly poorly written and ambiguous laws, not to mention, well, never mind), but it's still a sign of a vital electorate.
nlvpa: never let voting pass apathetically
CMS - I'm of legal age... What was that remedy again? I'll take anything. (At this point, cod liver oil might pass my lips if only someone promises it'll cure the blogger flu.)
My boss already let me short time twice last week. I don't think he'll be so forgiving tomorrow.
And as for the broken blogger (this post has been stuck on 67 since my early a.m. post), I blame Bob for confusing Blooger with the DUAL posts.
If anyone is curious, evidently it was a big furry dead muskRAT that his dog had left him as a present. My brother was generous enough to share that gift with me. No screaming though. If I scream, he wins. Can't let that happen.
I hope people are recovering from the blogger flu.
BUISNESS:
I did post the newest polls on the Ideas blog as a quick reference for anyone interested.
lori UGH! that gave me shivers.
I was just thinking that since Bob can't read any comments past 100 we should stop posting on the one above and only post on this one. That would really confuse him and do something that is not expected of us.
blue wldvkbba
(In )What language does verb Kill become Bob's alone?
louis: I firmly believe that dusting makes me sick. I put it off as long I can stand it and then I clean and presto! I'm sick for days.
bryan: hope you feel better soon. DH and I are going to my parents' house next weekend, so I can pretty much guarantee the blogger flu to strike in the next five days.
DSS came over unexpectedly. His hamster died the night before. Forgot to take care of said dead hamster before he went in his room. Yeah, we just truamatized the poor kid. *sigh* Hopefully we buried it where the dog won't think we hid a new plaything.
nhebfyme: Noted hitman eats break fast, yells morning edition.
SDCB: LOL at confusing Bob.
btuda: That's funny. I always seem to get sick right BEFORE I'm suppose to clean.
I hope the dog lets the hamster rest in peace. For everyone's sake.
stvdz: The more aggressive forms of STDs in street lingo.
btuda said...
I firmly believe that dusting makes me sick. I put it off as long I can stand it and then I clean and presto! I'm sick for days.
You may be allergic to molds or something else in the dust. Sounds like it. I used to get an allergy attack every spring the first time I started digging to begin planting - all those lovely mold growing in the soil, turn over the ground, and they're out in the air. Try wearing one of those dust masks when you clean and see if it helps.
eszce (red)
Evil sirens zapped Crusie evilly.
btuda said "I firmly believe that dusting makes me sick. I put it off as long I can stand it and then I clean and presto! I'm sick for days."
you know what to do, right? make DH do it. you also have a DSS. just saying. five bucks (actually, in this market, maybe not) can come in handy.
Robin S. I have found a great way to get matresses delivered quickly. When DD 8 was almost due, we had bought a new matress, and they gave the delivery time as between 5:00 and 9:00 pm. At 7:30 my water broke. I called them to find out how much longer we needed to wait before we could head off to the hospital. The snotty guy on the phone said "We told you between 5 & 9. It will be there by 9:00". I snottily told him back. "I am 9 months pregnant. My water just broke. I will be heading off to the hospital soon. When EXACTLY will the matress be here?" Silence. Then, stuttering. Then "Just a minute and I'll find out." He came back on, assuring me that they would be there in 20 minutes. They were there in 10. And out in 5. They did not want me anywhere near them. Apparently they only deliver matresses, not babies.
nice one KI
BUSINESS
Poll reporting again. The voting for the name for our blog is fairly evenly divided (12, 10, 9). Now, I should have thought of this earlier, but...well, our cherry/bomb logo, whichever it is, may be confusing with just the "CB" rather than the name written out (in whichever form wins). Just something to think about. With the voting this close, we may have to do a "runoff" anyway. /;+)
In the poll for our name, however, "CherryBombs" is way ahead of the rest (20, 7. 7). Only 34 people have voted in the two polls, and we had close to 50 in the other polls, so if this trend keeps up today (and we see some more votes), I'll close this one tonight. We'll see what happens.
If you haven't already, GO VOTE!!!
Zaza - we need to consider, I think, that with the comments number stuck at 67 and 142 for the current blog(s), there might be CBs out there who don't know we are still open for business.
Who haven't we heard from in the last day or two? I've collected some emails from the donation thing and I can maybe do an alert email or something.
pzoid (the iPod robot ... yes Scope, that one's for you.)
I think blogger is alive and reading Bob's posts. Or Bob broke blogger with the dual posts. Or someone else is taking over the world while we blog, "Hey, is anyone else stuck at 67 and 142?" Now that would be pretty sneaky. First, infect people with blogger flu, then confound them while they are on cold meds with frozen counters on the blog.
OH: I like the way you think. Unfortunately, DH may be on to me as he is already doing the yardwork and most of the gardening. Luckily DSS actually likes yardwork. Instead of buying himself a video game, he bought a weed eater with his birthday money. Of course this is the same kid whose favorite toy at age 3 was the dust buster.
tivweq: Television is viewed with eats (&) quilts.
btuda said: "Or someone else is taking over the world while we blog, "Hey, is anyone else stuck at 67 and 142?" Now that would be pretty sneaky. And that's why my vote is still on Bob!
LMAO while at work...
Yes, blogger is stuck...at the bottom readout number....Bryan found out that if you go to the top of comments...upper left corner ...a true number of comment posts.
I think Bob is sitting on his dock laughing away at our confusion...
dpntphfh...green
don't publish nothing til plenty have flitting haunts
or some such nonsense
I continue to post here, as this entry is over 100 behind the upper one (thanks, Bryan, I never go all the way to the top once I've read those!).
Btuda: I'm very impressed with your DSS! Very cool. Not much of one for cleaning, myself - I'm always so pleased with how it looks when I get it all tidy, but then the mail comes, and it starts to pile up, and then there's no point...
Very pathetic. I resolve to do something useful this evening. However, a friend and I got together last weekend and we did a major book exchange (we only had about a 3 or 4 book overlap of things we had both bought). A lot of her books weren't on my list, as she's going through a paranormal phase and I'm mildly fed up (though as I might have mentioned, I was reading Danse Macabre last week; Laurel K. Hamilton is only partially responsible for the fed-upness, it's more just the high level of prevalence, I think. CMS, this does NOT mean you! Yours sounds different in many ways.). But some of them have been OK - better than housecleaning, anyway...
I ordered a ton of bulbs in the late spring, and got a notice 2 1/2 weeks ago that it had shipped. Well, I just looked, and it's not due to arrive 'til the end of the week. And they have the nerve to tell me to plant them as soon as I get them...
Sheesh.
khpgcwgj: Keep hoping packaging gurus create wrappers generating joy.
i cleaned my side of the room yesterday. (i know, i've been here about two weeks and it was already a horrible mess. all those papers though.) i don't really like cleaning (though as long as it's not vacuuming i don't mind that much), but i like the end result.
btuda: your DSS is great.
which reminds me, i have laundry.
What a trying day. Glad to see at least Blogger is unstuck.
I had to be not-so-nice to someone today -- I guess it was sort of like cleaning house. Sigh. We’ve been having an ongoing problem at work with a vendor type person. Every 45 days or so it comes up again and I calmly explain the problem, he blames it on someone else before he admits it IS his problem, apologizes insincerely, and says he’ll take care of it. So we had the talk again today. But he wasn’t satisfied with irritating just me, so he called the manager in our SC office and was inexcusably rude to her.
He shouldn’t have done that. I get paid to deal with this kind of crap. She doesn’t.
So when he called back, looking for more, I gave it to him. Meantime, the owner of our company had heard about it and was on the other line with a co-worker, asking whether I wanted him to deal with the guy. My co-worker laughed and said: Nope, she’s better than he is. I’ve had drill sergeants who were less intimidating than she is right now.
After I got off the phone he told me that was the best dressing down he’d ever heard, truly a classic. He started to walk away, turned back and said: And you didn’t even raise your voice. That was just awesome.
Later the owner asked me: Who the hell did he think he was talking to, anyway?
I guess the idiot will figure it out tomorrow when he has to explain to HIS boss how he lost a half million dollars worth of existing business.
I just hate having to do stuff like that. Hate it. Hate it. Ruined my whole effing day.
Ok, I’m done. Sorry. Thanks for letting me vent. No need for shovels, though, because I didn’t actually kill the sorry SOB.
Ok, maybe I'm not done. I'll come back later when I'm calmer. Maybe Thursday.
bw
Btuda ... tell the truth, now. Your DSS got a weed wacker because you wouldn't let him get the chainsaw. Am I right?
BCB: You get a Poor Baby for that. I've had to do that myself and I HATE it when people make me have to be tough about something. I can do, boy howdy can i do it when I get on a roll. But I don't like the way I feel afterwards. All that adrenaline wears off, or worse doesn't and there's nobody left to rip into.
But I once had a lawyer overhear me and mention that he wouldn't mind having me on his side next time he does an oral argument.
BCB, I second MCB's poor baby. I too have had that experience a time or two. And when it gets really bad (the million + range), I usually find myself raising my voice. (I've been known to say that people are lucky I can't telepathically strangle them with their phone cord.)
So, instead of me winging to the rescue with a shovel, imagine a virtual bouquet of flowers arriving on your desk. Some of those big, bold daisies to brighten your day.
ahhmgj - The automatic reflex response to the Blogger Flu.
BCB and MCB, it must be a CB trait. When I worked at the Pentagon, I was the only woman and the only non-military person there (in my unit). It only took one encounter with my very low tolerance for crap to keep the guys minding their Ps and Qs. I even terrorized a Chief Master Sargeant. LOL! Of course, when I started there my manager was a former Marine DI. We soon came to an understanding of what me NOT being in a uniform meant. ;+))) And I did it all in a very ladylike way. I really should have been born in the south.
jjkixfvo (red)
Just Jen kicked in Xavier's finely vectored oven.
BUSINESS:
Checking the voting, it looks like some folks had trouble getting to the second poll. If the link on the first poll page (not the results, the actual poll) isn't working, click here instead.
BCB: Poor Baby (ok, so my first instinct was to say you rock, but you get a Poor Baby too).
it's definitely a CB trait. never had to do it in a "job" setting, per se, but i've had to do it.
of course, i found it a great release, so maybe it's different when their job is in the balance, because i felt fine afterwards.
zaza: wait, what did you do at the Pentagon? i remember you saying something about working there, but now i don't remember what.
we need a background list of jobs CBs had, especially all these military/govt ones.
and don't you dare stay away till thurs!!!
Thanks for the show of support guys! The problem was that this guy just didn't get it. He actually said to me: You can't honestly say you and I have had this conversation before. At which point I said: I can honestly say we have had this conversation twice before. I can honestly say I had it three times with your predecessor. And I can honestly say I am not going to have it again. He lost the account right there.
It's a business decision and you don't just yank an account of that size because you're steamed about something. Individuals come and go, but bad policy has to be dealt with. I have to justify these things.
But then he pushed me farther than I am willing to be pushed when he insulted someone else and I just couldn't ignore it. So I slapped him back. That whole part of it was unnecessary and unprofessional. He mistook my patience for weakness or stupidity or maybe lack of authority. Who the hell knows. His mistake.
So today I have to do cleanup. And probably listen to groveling, which I hate. And work overtime.
Thanks for the flowers, Cary, they look beautiful and are a nice contrast to that virtual blood splattered all over the place.
bw
BCB
This is the 2nd time that I can remember your talking about this same situation, and you weren't happy about it that time, either. How the other person could NOT remember is beyond me. How people can mistake "calm" for "weak" is also beyond my comprehension. ('Course, lots of things are....)
Go out at lunch and enjoy the pretty day; it's nice here today!
Margaret
Zaza - you crack me up, bless your little heart!
wziqe
with Zaza, incredible quiet exists
BUSINESS:
Well, we have an official format for our name. We are "CherryBombs." That doesn't mean we have to be compulsive about it in our chats, but anything official, like the blog and the site, will use that format. That choice was way ahead of any of the others, with 68% of the votes.
I think we may need to do the blog name poll again. The most popular (The CB Bar & Grill) only took 36% of the votes. We could eliminate the least popular (6 vote/14%) and vote again. That would leave these three choices:
"The CB Bar & Grill"
"The CherryBomb Bar and Grill"
"CherryBomb Bar & Grill"
Although the first was the one with the most votes, it's the only one that doesn't spell out the cherry and the bomb. With that name, would our logo be confusing? That's not a huge issue, since most visitors will be CBs, but it's a consideration.
In the meantime, I'm deactivating both polls, but here's the page to see the polls and their results: http://www.zazlamarr.com/name%20poll%20results.htm.
I'll try to keep an eye on comments on Jenny's post, to see what you think about another vote on the name.
orangehands said...
zaza: wait, what did you do at the Pentagon? i remember you saying something about working there, but now i don't remember what.
I was on loan there as an Intelligence Analyst. When they discovered that I had a Master's in Writing and Editing, they put me in the editorial branch for the unit. My predecessor was a tiny little Air Force Lt., and the guys were prone to use physical intimidation to keep her from doing her job. Uh-uh. Not me. The worst trouble maker applied for a transfer my first day there, and I didn't have to say a word. Just gave him "the look" when he strutted in the door, and he knew the fun and games were over. LOL! Bless his heart.
THANK YOU, MARGARET! Geez. I wish everyone would pay attention like that when I'm irritated beyond belief. Sure would save trouble later.
The problem is sol-ved. That is to say, it's no longer MY problem.
We should get together for lunch one day soon...
bw
glad it's better BCB.
Gotta say it... you double crack me up Zaza. Where were you when BCB needed you???
vihwho
Vih who???
Lou said...
Gotta say it... you double crack me up Zaza. Where were you when BCB needed you???
There's a difference between standing up for yourself and doing something in the name of your organization. I'm much more cautious in those situations. ;+)
glfgih (green)
Good lord, Frank goes into hissies.
BCB
Yes to lunch! How can we coordinate it? Exchange email addresses? Phone numbers? Talk on our OWN blogs? Unlike Bryan, I'm scared of putting my phone number right here--too many Hot Surfer Dudes may call and frankly, they bore me. Yeah. Right. (sigh...)
Margaret
Lou: Thanks for offering ZaZa's services; I'm sure she'd race right across the country if she really thought I needed her. But one fed-up Sag is probably more than any person should have to handle.
Margaret: If you click on my "name" (ha!) you will find a link to my email. And my blog (ha! again). I'm doing serious clean up and catch up this week, but we'll manage it eventually.
bw
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