Park Row Fallout ⋅ 40 ⋅
Midwest Attorney trying to navigate the waters of life
Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.
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Drowning or Swimming in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Today is a day I have dreaded. I couldn’t sleep last night. Woke up at 5 to play video games to calm me down. The bosses are back. The Chinese Assistants are practically trembling over it. Whi...
Gifts and Burdens in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
I hate having ideas. Honestly… I have ideas constantly. Ideas all the time. But I lack the ability to make those ideas into anything. And this… this is what my brother will never understand a...
Small Quick Statements (Updated) in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
I was considering my Drafts folder here. There are eleven items there. I was contemplating contributing more to them, or finishing them, or at least doing something with them. But now I don’t ...
The Balls We Juggle in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Today was a mixed bag of a day. I was busy. BUSY. From pretty much crack of dawn to end of day, I was working on something or researching something or drafting something or making a phone call....
Funny in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Muse and Chinese Assistant are asking me about Labor Law. Because Labor Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day.... all of these are required work days here. So the staff are wondering if there is lega...
Beyond the Black of Night in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
There may be some that declare I am not manly for sharing my emotions so freely. But truly, I have never declared myself manly. Hell, in my 12 years with my Wife I can assure you that declaring...
Boomboom Tinkledinker in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Bullet Points Last night I had a dream where I was shopping in a Strip Mall and saw Christopher Walken across the parking lot. I ran over to him and we chatted like old friends. He asked me h...
A Different Tactic. Part 5. 6:30 p.m. in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Perfect World & NoJoMo The above image was taken from Text Adventures.co.uk (HERE) As I think about the Perfect World, I have to carefully consider what that would mean. Obviously, I’m not...
A Different Tactic. Part 4. 5:30 p.m. in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Admissions and Humanity The above picture is Historic Downtown Ames. As I am in the Ames office today; other attorneys have been proving to me that the world of Attorneys is not filled with d...
A Different Tactic. Part 3. 5:00 p.m. in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
A Quick Look Back The above picture is Downtown Tiny Town. As I was eating lunch today, I realized something. Why would Tiny Town work better now than it did then? THERE ARE REASONS. First W...
A Different Tactic. Part 2. 4:15 p.m. in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Comparative Comprehension of Current Cases In other “Shit, we need to take care of this before the Slave Drivers return” news.... my car. So, my car (paid for entirely by me including any and al...
A Different Tactic. Part 1 of many. 4:00 p.m. in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
I have decided to separate my writings. I feel like I’m writing too much, writing too repetitively… and just… writing in such a fashion as to punish the reader instead of reward the reader. And...
TWITTER AND OTHER SUCH THINGS in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
.... and with THAT… I have officially applied to EVERY law firm with an opening; EVERY government office looking for something more than Administrative Assistant; EVERY financial institution look...
Dreams, Bitching, NoJoMo in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Saturday, knowing that my job is destroying me more and more rapidly; a friend made an honest offer. He could probably get me a job selling Washing Machines at Best Buy working for his dad. I a...
NOJOMO 4 & Confessions in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
heading text CONFESSION 1 Obviously, I don’t like my job. That isn’t a confession. That is more like… me repeating myself. The confession comes thus: Because this job drains me of every posit...
Computer Problems and Other Bullshit in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Not surprisingly; several e-mails and phone calls last night from my bosses. Because 7 pm here is 8 am in China. Got in to work this morning; booted up my laptop. There had been updates last ni...
TWITTER THOUGHTS (11/2/2017) in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
https://twitter.com/FelixBlaq TWITTER 1: I used to smile more. A lot more. I smiled all the time as a child. I smiled a lot in College, even during the rough parts. I smiled during Best Buy a...
NoJoMo 2 in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Last night, I asked Wife what she would do with her life if we won the lottery. She said she would go back to school and take every science class they offered so she could find a science that sh...
NoJoMo 1 in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
It is November, a time when NoJoMo becomes a trending Subject Line around Prosebox. Though, the two times I’ve written the word on my work laptop, it was first NoKoMo. Maybe my “typos” at work ...
Looking Out in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Everything being said… I’m not doing myself any favors. I keep cruising around on Zillow. Because… I want that life. I want that life where I own a house and invite people over. We were so clo...
TUESDAY in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Ah. Sweet sweet relief. No e-mails or phone calls or text messages from the bosses. THAT is a nice thing. I do, honestly, wonder if I’ll ever get to the point where my Text Message ringer doe...
Monday Without Them in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Yeah… even without them here… I still hate this job. So, against other attorneys’ recommendations, this firm uses Personal Phones as Work Phones (because, again, work/life balance isn’t needed)....
Two Types of People in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
There are two types of people...................... People always say that; “there are two types of people”. It is true but it is not true. We are all one type: Human; and we are all millions o...
Nocturne at Allegro in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
It is amazing what you can learn from people who feel less observed. Last night, when Chinese Boss left the office for the last time for the next 17 days, I saw our two Chinese Employees visibly...
Certainly Was Interesting in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017
Thursday turned out to be certainly an interesting day in many respects. As I already detailed, my day had already had quite a stir of activity before I even got in to work. 6:30 I woke, showere...
