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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Went to an award ceremony honoring all the students in our school district who scored distinguished on state testing in @ least one of three subjects Math, Reading & Science. My son James, he's

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From what I've heard, homeless people are often unemployed because they have serious mental illnesses. I would expect that to significantly affect the kind of employment one could get. That doesn't entirely explain class divisions, not by a long shot, but I do think it does have at least some effect. Another thing is that there are some jobs that are common and important in aggregate but do not pay well because the individual skill level necessary to do them is relatively low. Food service workers, for example. As long as those jobs exist people will have to fill them.

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Hi Atrocity! Nothing much happening here, except that we haven't heard from Relentless since his surgery last week. Dave said he saw him posting on Facebook; hope he's alright. Other than that, it's business as usual - sarcasm and pedantry skipping arm-in-arm into the sunset, over the corpses of user accounts that have languished due to lack of interest. :D Nice to see JBaker and Sbird back for a minute. Wish that Ghouly, Relentless, and Mere would make it back on...

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I did notice Mere hadn't been on in a while. All my prog buddies are gone...
Some of the rest of us do like some of the music that you listen to, sometimes... BAN had wondered a few days ago why we didn't have a higher retention rate here. I'd hypothesize that the larger communities, faster pace and better integration (with mobile devices) of social sites like Facebook keep people more stimulated. People that come in expecting that, looking for shallow, quick interaction, might get disappointed. Even other forums with larger communities offer more of that. That, plus we do seem to scare people away sometimes. With regular posters that drop off for a while, I'm willing to bet that life just gets in the way. Working more on music and painting has had a negative impact on my own involvement here. If only we all lived in the same place, we could build a clubhouse and not tell anyone else the secret password until they'd been appropriately hazed.
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It's nice to share some common interests with coworkers. One of my drivers is into some metal, but also deathcore and nu-metal stuff, but is a good worker and fun to hang out with anyway. Then there's KSmash and Edgar, both of whom I have played in bands with and am related to, so at least I'm not alone in my listening habits. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Yeah it's great :) I got along with and became friends almost straight away, we have drinking nights at each others house every couple of weeks, it's great to make friends with your co-workers it makes working so much more enjoyable.
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Some of the rest of us do like some of the music that you listen to, sometimes... BAN had wondered a few days ago why we didn't have a higher retention rate here. I'd hypothesize that the larger communities, faster pace and better integration (with mobile devices) of social sites like Facebook keep people more stimulated. People that come in expecting that, looking for shallow, quick interaction, might get disappointed. Even other forums with larger communities offer more of that. That, plus we do seem to scare people away sometimes. With regular posters that drop off for a while, I'm willing to bet that life just gets in the way. Working more on music and painting has had a negative impact on my own involvement here. If only we all lived in the same place, we could build a clubhouse and not tell anyone else the secret password until they'd been appropriately hazed.
It's a pity Ladyshredder didn't stay, she seemed nice and intelligent. But I probably have to take responsibility for scaring her off, she said something about theology that I corrected and then she seemed to get in a bit of a huff, like the ones murph gets into. I'll be working here at Georgetown all summer and I have a pretty lenient schedule (four-hour shifts), so I am mulling over the idea of taking some money and popping over to New York on a weekend to see if I could meet you at some point. I know you have your child to worry about and I don't want to disrupt your parenting, but I might just have the time. I suppose I'll see.
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If you have the time to come up' date=' let me know! I'd love to meet up, though I'm not sure that we'd be able to offer you a place to sleep - our air mattress died the final death a while ago.[/quote'] That's fine, I would probably just come on a day trip. Besides, that'll force me to be concise if we get in an argument.
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We've just gotten started. The only choice you have left to make is' date=' how much more do you want to lose?[/quote'] How much more do you want me to lose? Any farther and I might just lose my mind - and trust me, you won't like me like that.
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