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My Own Biographer
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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IFN and I'm taking the boy to see "True Grit" by the Coen Brothers. And on the way I check to see how his memorization of quotes and poetry is doing. He's learning them, but knows nothing about the authors. I've reassigned these for next week.
And perhaps this is what inspired him, because he takes out his pen and paper and begins writing down my quotes. By which I mean all the offensive 4 letter words and explicitives I toss off in ordinary conversation. He jots them down faithfully and reads them back to me, I correct them for accuracy and try to append explanatory footnotes to some of them - he won't have it. "For my teachers and social worker" he tells me.
The Devil's Trill
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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As my dreams have been a bit of a bust lately (today, after my nap, a classic waiter's nightmare: At the restaurant, tables keep coming in and I can't keep up, there are different rooms and every time I discover a different room I discover even more tables I have to get to and visit....and when I'm visiting them, I fall asleep....) I've thought to enclose somebody elses.
Tartini's "The Devil's Trill"
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Why I don't hang out with staff...
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So we start at 2:00 PM on Saturday, there's going to be a camera crew and such filming at the restaurant. The restaurant's had a lot of good press lately, and they're taking it a bit further by having some online videos and such of the staff and food. There's a local news celebrity and sports hero officiating, this I know only because staff is quick to explain to me, not having a TV makes me a bit out of touch.
For dinner we've arranged a long table in the main dining room and the owner has outdone himself with dinner for staff and a few bottles of wine. This doesn't bode well, good spirits in the end will sour...
And G has taken issue with the owner's decision to have a girl doing the serving in the video, he feels that after 10 years it's his right, his due, and he has a fight with the manager, harsh words are exchanged, it wasn't her decision, and G in retaliation tears upon all of the waitresses and other staff.
It's ridiculous, and to add to it G has broken down and is crying. I'm not so good with crying women, let alone men, and there's still 2 hours to go before the shift starts. It's going to be a long night.
Scratch Lottery Tickets
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In the realm of the more day-to-day treasures, a statistician out of Toronto cracks the Scratch Lottery Ticket Code, then turns over his findings to the lottery board because he calculates he can only make around $600.00 a day at it, and it isn't worth his while....
I almost wonder if the Lottery Board itself doesn't put out these news releases, knowing that the number of would-be ticket crackers will fill their pockets far more than the successful ones. I do know that even if he did crack the code, it's unlikely that there's been any great overhaul on the ticket printing process.
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