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Maybe others here have probably seen this, since updated here, but I was pleased to note "in these economic times" made the list. I'd had a small joke with a couple of coworkers, e.g.:
"Should I learn more about this PERL package?"
"I don't know. In these economic times..."
I'm also amused that this came out of Lake Superior State. I always had it hammered into my head that if I didn't speak/write correctly I might wind up at an odd sounding school like Lake Superior State.
My daily miscellaneous-writing notes go
YYYY/MM/DD. (And if anyone in England or Australia balks, quiet down. As Denis Leary said, WE GOT THE BOMBS.)
So it was by accident that I noticed 20100102 as a palindrome. But then I thought we could have 2010-10-2 (dropping the zero) and a lot of other cool dates like that too.
And it got me to thinking about 300 years in the future. Some people will never have a palindrome day, unless they live a long time. They'd have to cheat with 2301-03-2, and even after that it'd be tough to get anything. Switch days/months to get 2311-13-2, 2321-23-2 and then...nothing. Which is sort of vaguely sad. Stupid date/number tricks are fun. Amateur numerologists have been spoiled, since the start of the millenium.
...in the Alpha Marathon.
Unless Suskie makes a surprise attack, which would be nice to see.
Finishing was an interesting, quirky goal of the sort I like to have over a year to go with the more serious ones. I remember writing my first "Y" review back on GameFAQs--it's a tough letter--to do the Alpha thing. I think it took 2 years.
EmP coming along and doing it made me wonder why I took so long, especially as I took less to write each review. It's like the four minute mile example used in so many motivational books. Once one person did it, others followed quickly.
It's good to have that formal structure even in offbeat goals, though.
And now, back to fiction writing.
First, the loot. I had a $10 coupon off a $10 purchase at Kohl's, so I bought a fleece for my cats and a bath towel. The dollar store had daily planners for $1.50, but credit purchase was a minimum of $5, so I bought some green olives and a kitty squeak toy. I also stopped at Jerry's in Niles on the way home, and along with their usual cheap produce they had two new flavors of these cool Polish sponge cookies with chocolate on top and fruit filling. Small pleasures and stuff.
I currently have (not counting W, which is submitted, and Z, which should be in a few hours--I hope:)
--57 total reviews
--4 cut/pasted from GameFAQs/my own files for quick HGWars points
--28 were actually new
--25 were modified from GameFAQs, much for the better I believe.
EmP making it to the Alpha Marathon finish line was a lesson in procrastination for me. I still do it. I figured he might sneak something in at the end, and I thought it might be fun to do it a day before he did it or something, or find some time near the end of the year to pip him. I could've done it earlier--though while planning, I suspected he'd pick things up if I did. The self-fulfilling prophecy came about anyway--he wrote his last couple without knowing I was on 23, 24, etc.
Hoped I'd hit it before year's end. Thanks to all that viewed, and who've helped me make it more worth viewing. And of course happy holidays to all.
I noticed I'm within 8000 of #50. I think I was within 10000+ back in March. It'd be fun to get there, but I won't kill myself with quantity. I'm happy with what I've done. And hey, I'm not getting doubled up by #50 any more.
Hope others are happy with what they've done this year too. Earlier today I was able to finish some scripting (merging 2 scripts) that I worried would take much longer than it did. I'm sure there are small bugs in there for special cases...but hey, I've been there before with proofreading stuff here, right?
Proofreading here makes script proofreading easier and vice versa.
It's interesting how this bends back on the distrust people already have of spammers...and despite the usual bad grammar, this is cleverly done, with lots of manipulative tactics I'm sure we've all seen. I'm glad my spam filter didn't squelch this one.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY SAYS EVERYONE CLAM UP
Dear Sir,
RE: PAYMENT OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND GB POUNDS TO INTERNET SCAMMED VICTIMS.
I am delegated from our company to pay internet scammed victim the total sum of four Hundred and Fifty Thousand GB Pounds (GB ?450 000.00) each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates using the name of our company who was arrested here in London as one of the victims of the operations.
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