My problem is WRITING (producing content for readers), and it has gotten so bad my dust-pussies have grown bigger than my cats!!!
Fortunately, last night I spent a couple of hours, beginning the daunting task of cleaning up in my house, while I hired my landlord's two nephews to clean up the garden, which working quite vigorously (what happens when you price by job instead of time), took them an hour and I "tipped" them 100 pesos each ($6.94 USD), which seems like nothing to us, but the minimum wage (their regular jobs), just went up in Mexico, but still is LESS than $5.00 USD per day, which might be more than eight hours.
>>> FIRST THE EMAIL I JUST SENT DEL SHORES:
Del -- I owe you a Confession -- whether you are an ordained Catholic priest, or not!!!
First of all, I was thrilled to find first thing this morning that you are unaware of this, so was at least grateful for that, and could do my typical first couple of hours morning rituals before having to respond, which I would have done immediately, had you been aware. And there are really no consequences for YOU, but possibly for others (not your friends, but for Arthur Godfrey and "Marma Duke") -- and I did NOT reveal anything new that I have not published before, years ago, now, and also true is that 1.5 years ago, Marma Duke and I worked out a thing to protect his privacy, so that now, he's even OK with me publishing his photo, as long as the file name does not include his (and his child's face does not appear on blog) -- but I don't like to bring up potentially embarrassing things about good friends.
Marma Duke with son -- Marma's lithe body (includes chest hairs!!!), combined with his energetic, smartassy personality, would make THIS graphics designer the world's best FLUFFER, but he simply refuses to fluff me!!!
And here he is from a PR release about a film he was in years ago:
Marma Duke is on the right.
I seem to have lost Arthur Godfrey's address (or perhaps he's died), and we communicate by his reading my blog from the ethers and have rare, intergallactic phone calls, but I DO have Marma's and I am going to copy "Testosteroni" -- my peculiar financial benefactor, the ONLY one in my experience who truly cared for me through all my difficulties and sent me a WHOLE lot of money over the last 3.5 years, because there are things that might interest him as well. And beyond that, I'm going to post a somewhat redacted version of this on my blog, because I always acknowledge my screw-ups -- then move on!!! The best news is this has virtually no consequences compared to previous errors which have been of facts.
Anyway, my first thoughts were a debate on whether or not I should publish what I sent you last, if you did NOT respond, but I knew you would and you did. Also, as I was writing it, I expressed some things that I have thought for YEARS (how much Tennessee would LOVE your work -- I literally have viewed Sordid Lives movie more times that any Williams film -- except Night of the Iguana!!!), and it just didn't seem right NOT to let my contacts KNOW that, and I swear it: I REALLY did NOT see your "disclaimer" at bottom until I re-read things two hours later. I panicked at first, because I had BCC-ed the entire list (the ones at ACT II all blocked me, so they did not get it).
So, whether or not you are or would have become aware of this -- that is how it happened. I had actually deliberately said mark it something like NO PUB!!!, because it is plain and clear, and I SHOULD have told you to put it at the very TOP, because in my experience NO ONE reads things below a signature (or its spot), because that's where a lot of marketing, lawyer's warnings, and other laughable stuff usually goes -- and to top it off, it was all caps -- usually a good idea, but you did not hit the return key a couple of times and add a dot, like I always do, so that when reading a chain of emails there is a clear break between the last header and the bottom of the email, and yours was seen by my eye as a header from before, so I never actually read it.
My experience is that the place to put the most important thing(s) is in the first line of text -- or just before the signature, but top is best, because no one can claim not to have read it.
So I am sincerely sorry for having done that (as well as VERY glad I let them know)!!! And I bet you have survived -- so far, anyway!!!
With a more than tentative laugh,
Scott
"HEY!!! Don't forget ME -- I'm the one who's IN TOWN trying to make a damn BUCK!!!"
Well, I guess he HAS done a few interesting things, and despite some confusion on his Facebook page at WHICH venue he is performing, I have certified that it is The Palm, so buy you a handful of tickets, here:
>>> OTHER THINGS:
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Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers' amber-alert: Gals, you may have pornography in your Christian home without even knowing it! Check under all of your children's beds for Bibles! YIC, Betty
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Scott Kenan shared a link.
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