The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | March 31, 2009
I was trying to get rid of some of my now-gone housemate’s stuff last weekend - a bed and a bookcase, as well as a love seat that just isn’t comfortable any more. So, I put them all up on Craigslist’s “free stuff” listings on Saturday night, and sat back and waited.
Thirty responses between 10:30 [...]
Dan | March 27, 2009
I’m sitting in my home office (soon to be a real office, complete with a lack-of-bed!), finishing up a little bit of work before my last physical therapy appointment. It turns out my knee problem was soft tissue damage (microtears), which can be fixed by PT.
Excellent. Also - I’ve planted beans and greens [...]
Dan | March 22, 2009
As you can see over on the right, I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, which I thought was his best work, by a good bit. His most interesting thought-provoker for me was his thesis that, in order to become really good at something, you have to do it for around 10,000 hours. That’s just [...]
Dan | March 20, 2009
I was sitting here just now listening to “I Need to Know Where I Stand” by the Mysteries of Life, and it occurred to me that nobody else had written a song like that before. And nobody else will, either. I mean, sure, people will write songs that kind of have the same [...]
Dan | March 18, 2009
On Muni this morning, a woman was knitting. She had a green backpack on her lap, and a book propped open on the backpack. As she knitted, she’d every now and then reach forward with a beneedled hand and turn the page. She never skipped a beat as the train lurched forward [...]
Dan | March 10, 2009
I just found out (or, it was noted by my lovely girlfriend who will remain nameless on this blog until she decides that she wants to be World Famous On The Internet) that I misspelled a word on my first query letter. Oops. I’m an idiot.
Dan | March 9, 2009
My left knee has been swollen for a little over three weeks - I think it’s the bursa on the outside of it, and for one reason or another it’s just a little messed up. So I decided to use my brand spanking-new medical insurance and go to the doctor. I don’t mean [...]
Dan | March 4, 2009
Why is it, that when I come in to work in the morning and I start up my PC (a Dell laptop) from “sleep” mode, it takes five minutes to unsleep, and then MS Outlook takes another five minutes to get to the point where it can let me look at email? Coming from [...]
Dan | March 2, 2009
Got my first rejection letter. Well, an email. Can’t frame it, sadly.
And…well, it’s been raining and I have an injured knee, both of which are conspiring to keep me from running. For two and a half weeks. It kind of bums me out. Ah well. Onward. More letters to write and [...]
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