some bad news

I feel for you, man. I got laid off from my tech job. I have basically been homeless since November, camped out at an old abandoned hippie compound in the woods that a friend was kind enough to let me, my wife, and our animal rescue, (22 dogs, 40+ cats) live at. The electricity was easy, I have an almost waterproof roof finished, I finally got the running water/sewage systems working/ now if I can get a hot water system in we’ll be in high cotton! Also on the up side, I have been getting in great shape working around the property. Things seem to be improving, work is picking up, the economy is showing signs of life, and I have several prospects for better jobs after the war is over. Hey, if don’t mind mesquite thickets, we could probably find some tent space here at “El Rancho Deadhead”.
 
Remember, John (take it from someone who has not only been there, but is there now) everything *always* turns out *exactly* the way it's supposed to. Everything does, *in fact*, happen for a reason. It just, sometimes, takes a while to figure out was it is. The central energy source (whatever you care to call it), that runs the universe, never makes an error.
 
John

Never give up. Never quit.

Keep the dream alive. It will work out in the end.

Semp --
 
I will be thinking of u and the family in my prayers.Keep a stiff upper lip.....;)What ichor said:
Remember, John (take it from someone who has not only been there, but is there now) everything *always* turns out *exactly* the way it's supposed to. Everything does, *in fact*, happen for a reason. It just, sometimes, takes a while to figure out was it is. The central energy source (whatever you care to call it), that runs the universe, never makes an error.
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We're praying for you John, hang tough. I have to concur with Ichor on this one, things will work out.
 
Hang in there John. Books are headaches, a friend who wrote one, even years later is suffering from problems associated with its publishing. Perhaps it is for the best, that things are on the hold for now. I personally think Beo has a great idea. Youll be in my prayers.
 
I won't give the details, as I promised not to...but JP is one of the very good guys on this forum.

I am very saddened by this news.

--Mike L.
 
I've been seeing on TV an advertisement about publishing one book at a time if you want. They keep saying that you bypass publishers entirely. Could be something to look into. Hope your circumstances change for the better asap.. May your karma get a jolt of positive energy.
 
Sorry to hear of your plight John!:( As has been said many of us can relate.

I'm in agreeance with the others in that things will get better. You're a smart man and will be able to recover from the doldrums and then one day have your book published.

We need your book!!!!:)
 
The reason internet publishing failed to take off was the price of the downloaded material was nearly as expensive as buying a printed book. Readers saw no earthly reason to buy internet. I don't know if this is rectified.

The days are gone, or the men few, who can hold a single or even two jobs for a career. People get canned all the time. I've lived in the Mountainness West for almost ten years now. During that time I've seen no sign of the stock boom the nightly news told us about during the Clinton fat years.
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The last hippie compound I knew of was burned and bulldozed to the ground over ten years ago. The occupants, perhaps not rightly named hippies, had taken over an abandoned mine in the mojave desert and were making meth. There were women and children there.


After they'd been driven out by law enforcement I'd done some bullet testing on the cinderblock building they'd started. Cinderblock is resistant stuff. I wish I'd had some solids to shoot with my .375


munk
 
I've lived in the Mountainness West for almost ten years now. During that time I've seen no sign of the stock boom the nightly news told us about during the Clinton fat years.
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Glad to hear it!!! "Fat"? More like the gorge and purge cycle of a bulemic. As far as I can tell the most common "signs" of the "boom" were:

The price of real estate and housing went up so far and so fast that nobody could truely afford them, except the few with lots of the "right" stock. (Actually, they often couldn't afford either, just were allowed to get a loan on a ridiculously overpriced property).

Private and corporate debt increased enormously. Everyone including the govenrment spent LOTS more money than they had, and could reasonably expect to soon acquire.

Tons of stuff that becomes quickly obsolete was vastly overproduced.

Somehow, people thought that a rising stock price freed all from the constraints of fiducial responsibility, corporate ethics, and often simple honesty.

People thought that this could go on forever, and that stocks would appreciate at the ever faster pace required to sustain it.

Now it is apparent to many, but sadly not all, that it can't go on forever, and stock's prices can go down--sometimes all the way to zero.

Some stock valuations are starting to return to "normal", but the debt, overcapacity, mal-investments, and results of the lapse of ethics from it's shady norm will still be with us for a long time.

I hope that the signs of the boom remain invisible to you, munk.
 
Some stock valuations are starting to return to "normal", but the debt, overcapacity, mal-investments, and results of the lapse of ethics from it's shady norm will still be with us for a long time>>

Yeah! Culminating in the Rich pardon.

for 9 years I watched the faces of glee on the Nightly News, on any of the major broadcast networks. Not one of those talking heads knew what 'middle America' had or felt. When it was plush they told me we reelected Clinton because of how good it all was.


My Father made 14 to 16,000 a year as an aerospace engineer in the 60's. Today five times that buys the same. Some things you can't buy ever again- like the feeling of being safe in your own neighborhood.

munk
 
Tough times don't last, tough people do
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....attachment looks like the camp my wife and I had in Glacier...




munk
 
My Father made 14 to 16,000 a year as an aerospace engineer in the 60's. Today five times that buys the same. Some things you can't buy ever again- like the feeling of being safe in your own neighborhood.
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Yep.

Today I saw two toys at the local sells-everything drustore. One was a little radio-control car, about matchbox size complete with tranmitter. Unthinkable when I was a kid. One might be able to save enough to buy a Heathkit single channel RC kit by working for a few months, but no way it would fit in that little car, needed a pretty good sized model plane. I also saw a modern version of the old North Pacific (factory was in my town) balsa wood, stick fuselage, wind up rubber band airplane.Just stick the pieces together and wind 'er up. Used to cost a quarter or 0.50. Now made of expanded plastic foam instead of balsa. Why do I mention these toys?

Radio control toy car: $9.95
Rubber-band stick airplane:$8.95
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Looks like the cost to make both is likely less than a buck, eh? The rest must just be packaging, handling, shipping, middle-men, etc. I'll have to look again and see if the airplane was made in the US. I'm sure the car wasn't.
 
Gentlemen,
I again thankyou for the outpouring of good wishes, sentiment and especially the humor.

As Uncle says, I have been through worse. That pic of the grunts sleeping (probably for less than 20 minutes) is evocative of how tough things really are.

I will still be on line, but don't look for the book for a while.
 
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