JayDee

Probably a robot. Try saying something like “I think John Connor should be destroyed” and see if they nod along.

Thank you! I was hugely motivated, with a great deal on my plate for the next week. Between the new job, my mother’s doctors, and transition paperwork for my son, I’ll barely breathe this week until Thursday, and then I get to cook the feast… 

Seems to have! Still one showing on the apostrophe on the summary I think. That might be my browser settings tho’ And I see you’ve changed the central alignment which I think might have been what I was referring to with formatting in the original review. Maybe.
I’d forgotten I’d reviewed it too, so I don’t blame you for forgetting as well

Got rid of those strange ??
 

that was you?
Oh shit that is you. Just checked the reviews.
That was one of my first stories.
I still am glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, Happy Birthday to DG!

Yes, Cyber Monday.  I prefer online shopping anymore, something that can be done in a birthday suit! 

Cyber Monday is where it is at.

I try to avoid shopping that entire weekend.  Though the one time I did go shopping on a Black Friday, I needed groceries, and that side of the store was nice and empty.  Electronics section was a different matter (fortunately didn’t need that).

I happen to work in a mall. It has been earlier and earlier. (also Christmas music has been playing since the day before Halloween) Black Friday generally is seen as doomsday. No one is happy that day.
I’ll be getting off after midnight.

On memorial day, the local Taco Bell was staffed with three people at lunch hour. One was taking orders at the counter, one was taking orders at the drive-thru, and one was prepping the food. They were apologetic to the customers. With one person making food and new people showing up every 5 minutes, they were very overwhelmed. Just close the fucking restaurant if that his how it is going to be. I hate American culture where everything is supposed to be available at all times, which requires some form of abuse that we refuse to acknowledge (still haven’t fully accepted the abolishment of slavery after 150 years, I guess). Anyway, you’d think with all the technology and “wealth” this country has access to, we’d figure out ways to not screw each other over, but instead those things are used to screw each other over under more obscure, institutionalized pretexts about rights and privileges.

This is spooky as fuck, but my exact thought before clicking was “Well, that sucks...”
I can only re-iterate it really. I remember a good few years ago now reading a long sad story from somone who’d been in retail for years, finding their Black Friday start times getting earlier and earlier until they were having to come in Thanksgiving and now it’s pretty much become the norm hasn’t it? What a shit show, people can wait 24 hours for that “AMAZING DEAL! TWO ITEMS YOU ACTUALLY WANT DISCOUNTED PLUS A WHOLE WAREHOUSE OF OTHERWISE UNSHIFTABLE CRAP AT A DISCOUNT!”

This is because I got up early and grabbed the communal brain cell first. You can have it back now—I need to go to a trade show, and one doesn’t need cognitive skills for that. Just caffeine, and an ability to grab the good bling.

I was never fond of shopping on Black Friday to begin with, since it’s such a frenetic rush and full of people who try very hard not to live up to that label of homo sapiens. When stores started opening on Thanksgiving Day, I decided I was boycotting stores all through the holiday weekend. It’s refreshingly serene, actually.

This is spooky as fuck, but my exact thought before clicking was “Well, that sucks...”
I can only re-iterate it really. I remember a good few years ago now reading a long sad story from somone who’d been in retail for years, finding their Black Friday start times getting earlier and earlier until they were having to come in Thanksgiving and now it’s pretty much become the norm hasn’t it? What a shit show, people can wait 24 hours for that “AMAZING DEAL! TWO ITEMS YOU ACTUALLY WANT DISCOUNTED PLUS A WHOLE WAREHOUSE OF OTHERWISE UNSHIFTABLE CRAP AT A DISCOUNT!”

Well, that sucks… 

To be fair, 10 years is probably a reasonable time to take to get over being exposed to one of my less socially acceptable stories.

He had a damn long run, and was lucky to have his health for so much of it, but it still feels a bit of a blow. What a creative force the world has lost.

He had a damn long run, and was lucky to have his health for so much of it, but it still feels a bit of a blow. What a creative force the world has lost.

We lost a good one today… 

JUST FOUND ANOTHER HERETIC! GET ‘EM BOYS!
JayDee,
Hoping nobody notices the whole corrupted by chaos thing.

To be fair, 10 years is probably a reasonable time to take to get over being exposed to one of my less socially acceptable stories.

Let’s do the time warp again.
Muhaha. For Malal shall triumph one day