Month: April 2006

3 days in the valley

Writer guy

Nothing like continuous bed rest for a few days to reframe a busted perspective. Before breaking down, I was starting to hate everything around me out of fatigue. Even the cats wore on the nerves.

On the plus side, I read more books in the last 72 hours than in the past two weeks. Finally got around to Christopher Moore’s Practical Demonkeeping. Moore blends comedy and suspense in a unique — probably unparalleled — way. The neat part is that he’s funny in the most unexpected junctures, which makes the jokes all the more hilarious. He started out as a cult author, but no more. A Dirty Job, his latest, debuted at number 9 on the NY Times Bestseller list. Yet for all the success, he eludes the standard genre classifcation; his works are neither squarely suspense nor drama. And neither are they just comedies. Moore is more than that. He’s a special blend of all three, and a quick read, too.

Sometimes quitting is a good thing…

Writer guy

‘Tis the season for illness and I caught a good one. At 10:40 AM, I’m ready for bed. I try and stay positive, but I really hate taking days off work. The horror of the backlog…the horror.

In more interesting news, the Wife resigned from one of her jobs — she’s down to two now — and walked out with a referral for a literary agent. That’s what I love about her. She’s always there when lightning strikes.

Sniffles

Writer guy

“Each year, more than 2 million people in the United States acquire an infection during a hospital stay, and an estimated 90,000 people die from them — more than from AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.”

Source: Abcnews.com

Imagine if the auto industry had the same lobby doctors do watching their backs. I wonder how many less class action lawsuits against car manufacturers there might be. As it stands now, people get seriously sick; people go to the hospital. Risk of secondary infection because the janitor refuses to wash his hands? Never really considered that angle.

Well, where’s there’s blood, there’s money, and somewhere a lawyer is pondering a motion.

Yo no quiero Taco de wait

Writer guy

This line is every bit as ugly as it appears:

Taco Wait

Sorry about the blurriness, but this is seconds after a customer grew tired of honking in the drive thru, ditched their car, and dashed inside to scream at the employees behind the register. After the shell shocked staff filled their order, the almost customer walked out without paying — or their food.

Turnaround in minutes, from order to trays of hot sauce: 30.
Customers served during wait time: 5.