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    Talk Talk

    By Aditus

    Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we? #253 Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds. When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
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A Bit of a Tech Rant....

Well, this is gonna be a first, I'm ranting about technology for once instead of my life, issues, etc lol.   A few days ago I was taking a look at the iPad and realized how helpful it would be at my job because I've been lugging around my netbook since I've been doing a lot of paperwork on it (we're starting to switch over to all digital stuff which is easier IMHO). Lately though I've been getting irritated dragging around my netbook because it's so cumbersome, especially since I've been havin
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Life

How does one cover a year and a half?

So, I haven't written a blog since November 2008. I feel like I have been slacking somewhat.   In truth, I have been very very busy in life. Work has been a trip. I enjoy what I'm doing for the most part and we are doing well.   Other than work, I've been very busy with Gay Authors, of course. I've been coordinating the various Premium Content authors to make sure we have a steady flow of stories for Subscribers. I've been keeping the site up to date, including the new Live Chat software.
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Changes...

I've been drifting a bit when it comes to school lately, mainly because my job right now is changing. I just got a promotion from a Substitute in the residential program at Arc to a full-time staff member in what is soon going to be called Assisted Living. It's going to be nice especially since I already have a good relationship with the individuals in the program. When I went for my interview both me and the manager figured out that I've known most of the individuals since 1993.   Yea, 1993,
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Christian...

...it's a name that's been going around and around my mind of late, but I have no clue why.   Maybe because it reminds me of a long lost love of mine, or maybe it's because I just like the name.     Anyway, I'm obsessed lately with this one song All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix. I have no clue as to why I'm obsessed with that either.     Things are going well on the job front, I applied to be a fulltime staff person at my job which means 40 hours (I'd also be an overtime sub as we
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Freakout!

I have roughly 6 months left in my time in NJ, and its all happening way to fast. My mom told me that they have a real estate agent coming to give an estimate on the house and within two-three months, they're putting it up for sale. On top of it, they're going to be moving soon because dad got a job offer with his current employer to move possibly to Maryland. If he declines that he's going to consider the job offer he got in PA. Oh and they were also approved for another loan for a house where
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Yea... Staples is a no-go....

Okay so, lately its been nothing but business with me. Between work and school and such I managed to find a job opening at staples for their easy tech.   WELL let me tell you something about it.   I went for an interview last week where they were talking about my computer experience and certifications and such, but this week I sat down with the General Manager (who was 45 minutes late to my interview with him.... really unprofessional IMHO). He gave me the low down on the job and what I woul
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Six years

Your face still comes to me in my dreams, even then it's been more then 6 years since I last saw you. Since you last held me in your arms, since you took me and made me feel happy. It's been six years, and I still remember the name of the Axe body spray you wore the first time I met you. I remember how smart you were, and all that you taught me with computers. All my talents and ideals about computers, came from you, and now that I'm going to school for them, I have you to thank for it.   It f
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Don't Panic.

The title says it all and those words mean a lot to different people. To me it's what I tell myself every morning when I wake up, before I walk into work, before I head out with friends and even before I open up a DomLuka story and wonder what cliffyness Dom has for me (Dom you're the bomb!).   Don't panic.   I got snowed in at work last week and while I had the worst night's sleep, I had fun helping the residents who needed it during the night, though needless to say I won't ever do an ove
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Changes

Well lots have been happening as of recently, so I'll do my best to list them all here:   1. I'm single again, and this time it was a good breakup. We both agreed that things weren't the same anymore, that we were loosing touch with our original feelings, so we ended up just becoming good friends, so the way I see it I lost a lover and boyfriend, but gained a best friend out of it.   2. School started up again, so i'm gonna be busy with that again. I got my second round of testing next week
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Damn it all to hell

Well today was a really shit tastic day...   I woke up this morning to a call I never wanted to hear, my dad called from the hospital my grandfather was at telling me that he died, not a good way to wake up in the morning, and really shitty news to boot.   So the next thing I do is call my area manager and tell him that I won't be at work Friday and Saturday because I'll be attending my grandfathers funeral. He said he was sorry to hear the news, but if I wanted to miss my shifts, I had to f
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What crosses my mind....

Okay. I fell asleep a few hours ago but woke up cus my eyes were bothering me again (Pink eye... gotta love it.... growl). So now I'm lying in my bed, my netbook pulled out and i'm writing a blog. Go figure.   Hmmm well, let's see what all I managed to do today...   1. Download and install a new copy of Windows 7 that I bought for 30 bucks (yay student discount!!!). I got it up and running on my new hard drive, so now i'm golden with my computer.   2. I had to call out of work cus of my Pi
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Long time...

It's been awhile since I last wrote a blog, and since I have something on my mind today I'll write it out and update ya!   I've been busy this week doing so much stuff for one job and training at my other job. In the mean time I've been Christmas shopping as best I could and finally I dealt with a snow storm and had to dig out my neighbor (they got snowed in and they couldn't open their doors lol).   The work at the garage has finally sent me over the edge and As of February 1st, I will no
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Just a little update and some neat things...

Well... Thanksgiving has come and pass, so I figured now that I'm done living a life of luxury (who can pass up my grandmother's food?) that I'm going to start to switch to a healthy, organic diet where I can. I've been thinking about it and it's a bit of a change from what I'm used to, and also a bit pricey, but it should help me get back into shape. Another thing that I'm doing is cutting down big time on smoking. I love to smoke, but I know it's bad for me and can quite possibly kill me in th
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Huh

Yea. Google has disappointed me with the Preview of Chrome OS. I thought it would be a good chance to break away from the system, yet its just another disapointment.   Anyway, I'm on trek to be done with my A+ Certification next week (Security and Professionalism are the last two chapters I have) then it's off to Network+ .   Oh and I also need a vacation really bad. I'm starting to have a constant headache (stress headache) and just feel really beat lately. I thought I was getting sick, but
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Busy Busy Busy

So, I've been busy over the past few weeks (though it generally feels like months HA) mainly with school work and my jobs. This week I go in for my paperwork/physical session with my new job to make sure I'm healthy and not a medical threat to the clients I work with, which is cool because that means that I get a free physical (and I hope that the doc doing it is a hot one as well XD ) Once that's all done and over with, I start my trainings which include, but not limited to, crisis interventio
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Better

It's an amazing thing really, how things can change over time. Just last week, me and my mom were getting along really well, joking about things and acting like there wasn't a problem in the world. I even switched my hours for work this week and cancelled some plans I made with friends so that I could spend some extra time with her yesterday (it was also her birthday). Today I spent the better part of the day doing school work (labs, reading, exercises, etc.) that I needed to do and came home a
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Mozilla 1 Microsoft 0!

Ima update this later today because I'm dead tired (and I have an ebook to read... it's really good!) and gonna pass out, but I'm happy to say that the Mozilla Foundation (i.e. Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.) gave a nice big FUUUUCK YOU to Microsoft today.   Turns out that from previous versions to now of Firefox, they had a way to disable on a massive scale certain addons that could mess with the security browser (which is a good thing bad thing). Recently, Tuesday if I'm not mistaken, Microsoft
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Good News, Pinched Nerves and Computer Failures

Okay, to start off on a positive note, I had my one year anniversery with Matt over the weekend where we did a whole bunch of things and he got me one of the cutest thigns ever, a fishey (and the tank, food, etc.). I decided to name my fish Sushi because I love irony of late and thought it would be in good taste (no pun intended).   Also I got to be a computer genius by helping my sister connect to the internet (our router was FUBARED dunno why, but it's not my fault! I SWEAR! ) from memory.
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I look to him

I feel like a fat ugly slob who can't do anything for himself....... and this is why.........       I was at work today when the guy who lives across the street came out to get his dog. The guy, who i've met before, is a little older then me by a few years, cept there's some BIG differences between me and him. It bothered me to no end today after I saw him and waved hi and he waved back. His damn good looks, ripped body just stood there. He brought his arm up, his muscles flexing (yes he was
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End of one, begining of another

After much thought and soul searching, I find myself no longer wanting to write. It's like all my creative jucies just rolled up and died on the operating room table. Though that's not to say that I'm not intrested in the whole process of writing. A lot of my passion I found is wrapped up in Beta reading and helping an author figure something out, you know make them think things out when they get stuck, or explain something that a reader might question, to me THAT'S where my passion lies.   Wh
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Janus

As you may or may not know I am an avid supporter of open-source technology, in that I use as much as I can. My computers usually only use Windows as the OS, but the rest of the time, I use open source software, like FireFox, OpenOffice.org, Songbird, Pidgin, etc.   All of that is gonna change, well has changed today. I was informed that as part of my certifications, I have to use Windows as the OS (not an issue since I've been beta testing Windows 7 RC1 and found it stable enough for everyday
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Eric + Xanax = Baaaaad!

Well, the past few days have been fun, but also there's been an overwhelming dark cloud hanging over my head, to which I had to go to my doc and talk to him about it. As you may (or may not know) I have a serious anxiety disorder that, if untreated, can lead to a seizure like panic attack. Unfortunately the medicine I was taking for awhile to help with the anxiety started to cause anxiety.   I was becoming addicted to it.   I talked to my doc and he told me to come in ASAP yesterday which I
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What a Rush!

Okay, a lot has happened in the past two days, so I'll sum it up by day   Friday - Got my first check from amazon for stuff I sold. Yea I know not as big news, but I was happy with it I also made some duct tape rings for me and Matt (it was an inside joke between us).   Saturday - Spent most of the day working and waited until Matt came over to pick me up from work where I gave him his ring   http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=viewimage&a
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