AquariusGuy

I have an Associates and Bachelor's in Business. Many places want some type of degree and it frequently doesn't have to be related to what work you do. My degree has helped me get a better position in my company and that's it. If you want to move forward with them a degree is required or you don't get an interview. We get tuition reimbursement as long as our degree can be used in our line of work. Many business and technical degrees are covered but there are some that are not. When I was unemployed tons of people were going back to school for a degree and then you had tons of people fighting for the same job. I also got turned away from jobs because of my education. The Federal government will higher people with high school diploma's and you can move up but I know people who have gotten stuck because of this and landed up going to college later in life so they could move forward in the job. I want to go back to school but I need to find the time. I got my degrees while working 40 hours and taking a full course load. Wasn't the easiest thing to do and I know my grades kind of suffered.

There is an app for that.

That is true they are now but much of the Fisher Price stuff went away and is now starting to make a big come back. I know I had one when I was younger. Toys-R-US had them in the vintage toy section a few years ago.

Yes there sites worse than Tumblr but it is becoming more know for porn in certain aspects. Many people jumped to tumblr when blogspot and others start shutting their blogs down. Once you are flagged NSFW your blog isn't easily found. I can tell you I was flagged NSFW within my first few posts. If you haven't seen much nudity on Tumblr did you change your settings? Tumblr defaults to block sites if your signed in and it limits what you can find when not signed in. My feed is full of naked pictures. There a few sites and some of my followers who like my post but don't re-blog as their tumblr are mainly G or PG rated pictures. To each their own with posting habits..... but TRUST me there is TONS of porn on there. I have had mine for 2 years and have over 51,000 reblogged photos.

I've heard of party lines. My friends grandfather worked for the original Ma Bell back in the day. He wrote the manuals that taught people how to use their home phone. I had family in land-line business so its only suitable I work in wireless I have to point out... try finding a phone as durable as the rotatory phone they had. You could easily knock someone out with one.

Saw this and thought some people on here might get a kick out of this.

I knew I had read this article somewhere before. Derek Hartley of Derek and Romaine wrote an article about it in the Huffington Post. He wrote an interesting piece after reading the blog and talked about it on his show on SiriusXM outQ. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-hartley/gut-check-everyone-is-talking-about-how-fat-you-are_b_1829595.html

What an interesting way to close out the story line. Will and JP's conversation at the beginning now makes a whole lot of sense why he said what he did. It was good to see everyone reflect especially JP. He went to a place where they weathered the good and the bad and it was an interesting symbolic choice. It will be interesting to see what tone the epilogue set for the next series in the CAP drama. Great Chapter and story Mark!!!

How did I end up here? 8 years ago this April I either linked from Comicality's page or from one of Vance's stories off Nifty. It was so long ago I don't remember which one brought me here. Once I joined I discovered different author's with many great stories. While many I originally followed have gone dormant, I have found some really other great author's to provide me with some interesting reading. I've kind of blended into the shadows commenting here and there. Still am that way..... sort of.

According to my iPhone my song of all the time.

Yes and I know a few other tumblrs that do too. On the weekend I typically hit it in about 2 hours or less. Today I spread it out so I didn't happen that quickly.

That's not too bad. Let's just say I hit my 250 a day re-post limit daily. Been on there over a year and am just shy of 50,000 posts. I do however have over 50,000 likes of photos. I need a new hobby.

I am on there daily, I must not have a life. There is even an app for that so I can tumblr from anywhere.

my tumblr is NSFW at all.

I kind of have been reviewing your stories on and off depending on how I feel. Overall Mark you are a great writer and this story is yours to deal with in your own way. So what if people don't like the direction your story goes. It happens. 9/11 changed people and this story has reflected only some of the things people went through. While I don't directly know anyone who was in the tower's I know people who did. To try and sugar coat anything surrounding the tragedy would be a tragedy in it self. This chapter was interesting. Will in typical Will fashion apologized for his outburst. He made mended the fence with Frank and now we will see how Frank behaves. This chapter set the stage for JJ. Every character in CAP has been dealing with 9/11 and JJ is the only one who hasn't really come to grips with the whole situation. He was very close to Jeanine and Robbie and that is going to make things 110% worse for him. I am glad to see Will recognizes this and is putting forth the effort to make sure his brother is ok. The only one who will deal with the whole situation later in life is Maddy. She will have a tough road when she become older. Right now she is too young. Keep up the great writing Mark! Who cares where the story goes as long as it keeps going.

Oh joann.... it was nice. Especially this last episode. You should definitely watch it.

It just had its 3rd episode airing, so about 3 weeks ago. I caught most of it fox on demand through my cable company. It is on their website. It is a good show. My cable company even had the special where they showed how the main characters went through boot camp.

I totally agree and he knows how to steal a scene. I have my DVR set.

Has any one watched the new military show "Enlisted" on Fox Friday's? I have to say the show has been pretty cool and the one brother Randy (Parker Young) who has been shirtless quite a bit and loves popping in on his brother Pete (Geoff Stults) at odd times. Including a shower scene and when Pete was moving into his own place Randy showed up and showered and decided he would stay naked making his brother uncomfortable. What are your thoughts on the show?

A very good chapter Mark!!! Staying in "the condo" is prorbably going to be a thing for Brad. So much happened there that I don't think he will ever let it go. He is having it furnished and it is his connection to Robbie and Jeanine. Zach and Will seem to be making deeper connections. They both shared some deep and personal things and it sounds like there is more to come in their relationship. Zach is working on his future and Will seems to now understand it but they don't have to label anythign yet. They have a whole lot ahead of them. Any thing can change at any given moment. Nothing is gaurenteed. Who knows Zach could be injured before college but that would be a major blow to him but life is constantly changing. Nothing in CAP is a stable envirnoment. There will be more things coming.

So today has been totally weird. First I was the only member of my team in Des Moines as the others were out on a job today. I've had an escalated issue yeh big boss gave me to do and it hasn't been easy. Well today I asked someone from her office to try and look something up for me and she got the same results so she asked another person to look it up. Mean while it dawns on this guy that it was his customer. He calls me asking what I am doing as he's been trying to fix this account. My response was "insert boss's boss" gave it to me as an escalation and I am working on it and it hasn't been easy. Needless to say he really screwed a customer's account that our IT people can't even figure out what he did. He started complaining and worrying and going on and on. Well obviosuly he didn't like the fact I was working it. So it told him the big boss gave it to me and not to worry. Fat chance now. So big boss returns from visiting out in the field with the others. I asked her about his training and what he's gone through. She said not much why? I said you know that escalation you gave me? She said yes..... I showed her IT's response and told her that he admitted it was him who screwed the account. She got this look and I know he will be very unhappy Friday when shes back in Minneapolis. She and I talked and I told her I told him I was working it and not to touch it. She agreed. I told my boss to calm the other guy down that esclalations aren't a bug deal. She said what escalation, I didn't give you anything. I said big boss did and she copied you on the emails and a few minutes goes by and she goes so she did. So I had to explain it all to her and she asked me what big boss's face looked like when I told her. (I should mention this conversation with my boss is via a chat program) So I expalined the look and she said he will be screwed six weeks from Friday when big boss is back. I feel bad that I had to rat him out but she would have known any how because we had a trace on who helped him and him admitting it made my job easier. So big boss and I talked before I left as she is Omaha bound in the AM. She said not to worry and would see me first week of February. So I came home shut off my work phone.... and I read Mark's 9-11 and another story on a different site and I sign into facebook. I have a bunch of message from T who I mentioned in another blog. Why is your phone off I REALLY need to talk to you. I responded because my day is over. He said please call me. Alright so I did. He had this $4,500 accessory order that he has been flipping out over. He has called me constantly and the one day I swear he was on the verge of tears over it. We had to fight to get the accessories ordered and used my inter-office connections to do it. Well today the customer only received half his inventory and T was freaking out. I asked if he tracked it and he said yes but I only show one shipment delivered and one on the way. So I fired up my ipad and was able to tell him the customer has an additional 20 or so boxes coming that were delayed because of the snow in the east. He has said ok thats fine and we hung up. I swear not more than 5 minutes later did my text go off. T: Are you sure? Me: Yes T: How sure? Me: Well unless FedEx steals them I am confident they will arrive. No response came until later. T: I just want to make sure they are coming. ME: I showed you the tracking numbers if you are that bored sit there and refresh the page . T: Well I'll take your word for it. So I am not sure how to take today. it has been odd all over and this last part of the night made me wonder how T is going to survive in his position. He's a great guy but when he gets these panic attacks its annoying becuase he won't give up even when I assure him. To top things off my trip Friday out to Cedar Rapids was canceled. I also have a co-worker up in Minneapolis who wants to do dinner before our meetings since she knows we are coming in early the first week of Februrary.

If there is a book and a movie I tend to read the book then watch the movie. I totally agree about the movie falling short. The funny part is my mom gave me the book to read when I was in high school. I read it and was hooked and then saw the movie. Then 2 months or something like that we were assigned to read it in english class and then write a report and were given a month to do it. I was able to jump on the report right away and finish so I didn't have to worry.

hmmmm. an adaptation of Orwell's 1984. Might be interesting. Read the book and loved it, the movie not so much.

Friday next week I am back in the field with a sales rep who works out of our Cedar Rapids office. I emailed him this morning for the details and got his out of office. I was on a call with a co-worker and when I spun around in my chair he (the sales rep) was behind me. He said I got your email. I said that's nice you didn't have to come all the way here to tell me that, a simple reply would have worked. He laughed then proceed to tell me he was there for a training and wanted to stop in since he is rarely in our office and to tell me he didn't have an answer for my email yet.

A very interesting chapter. JP in a situation that's he seen before and now ona different side of it. At least he had the expereince to lean on. Brad confronting Frank was long over due. Probably a poor time to do it but this family loves drama. I think we coming ot a turning point for Matt, Wade, Will, Brad and Frank. How they move on after tonight will be completely different and some of them have major obstacles to over come. I can tell you I really loved the whole part about Wally and Clara being kidnapped and sent to Siberia. That was good...He could have sent them to the north or south pole, as he may eventually need to business in Siberia. Great Chapter Mark!!!