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Post by paul on Aug 29, 2021 20:51:42 GMT -5
Chapter 8: new cameos!
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Post by Neal on Aug 29, 2021 23:26:43 GMT -5
Still liking the story. Hunter is headed in the right direction, I think. Evidence; "That was sad. I wonder if he was capable of romance? Maybe it was why he was single. Well, that and his hair." Two out of three short sentences indicate a developing awareness of others feelings.
Fingers crossed for Hunter.
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Post by Neal on Sept 6, 2021 2:39:33 GMT -5
Very nice chapter! Really liked the interaction between Hunter and Caleb.
Thought provoking sentence in chapter. "If you want them to do things a certain way, you can lead them that way with some praise and mild warnings most of the time."
Somebody told me once a long time ago that being tactful was the best way to manage people. He said once you master tact you'll be able to tell people to go to hell in such away that they will look forward to the trip.
Speaking softly and carrying a big stick works too.
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Post by Steve T. on Sept 7, 2021 20:10:51 GMT -5
I see romance blooming. Opposites attract, as they say.
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Post by PaulR5 on Sept 8, 2021 1:23:53 GMT -5
Very nice chapter! Really liked the interaction between Hunter and Caleb.
Thought provoking sentence in chapter. "If you want them to do things a certain way, you can lead them that way with some praise and mild warnings most of the time."
Somebody told me once a long time ago that being tactful was the best way to manage people. He said once you master tact you'll be able to tell people to go to hell in such away that they will look forward to the trip.
Speaking softly and carrying a big stick works too.
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." ~ Caskie Stinnett
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." ~ The Theodore Roosevelt quote is often not completed with the "you will go far."
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Post by Neal on Sept 9, 2021 5:04:40 GMT -5
Very nice chapter! Really liked the interaction between Hunter and Caleb.
Thought provoking sentence in chapter. "If you want them to do things a certain way, you can lead them that way with some praise and mild warnings most of the time."
Somebody told me once a long time ago that being tactful was the best way to manage people. He said once you master tact you'll be able to tell people to go to hell in such away that they will look forward to the trip.
Speaking softly and carrying a big stick works too.
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." ~ Caskie Stinnett
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." ~ The Theodore Roosevelt quote is often not completed with the "you will go far."I knew about the Roosevelt quote. I didn't know about the Stinnett quote though. I heard the tact bit in a leadership training class on active duty many year ago. Diplomacy wasn't stressed. Getting stuff done by subordinates and avoiding "Malicious Compliance" was.
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Post by Dabeagle on Sept 9, 2021 14:08:42 GMT -5
Malicious compliance. Such a fun term.
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Post by Neal on Sept 10, 2021 5:28:49 GMT -5
Malicious compliance. Such a fun term. Fun depends which end of the compliance you're on. i.e. "Do you want your milk in the bag sir?"
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Post by Lugnutz on Sept 10, 2021 22:30:54 GMT -5
Malicious compliance. Such a fun term. Fun depends which end of the compliance you're on. i.e. "Do you want your milk in the bag sir?"
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Post by Neal on Sept 13, 2021 5:11:51 GMT -5
Another great chapter. I like Hunter being introspective. "It's true I have plans to put myself in charge of things, but am I really achieving any of that?" He is realizing Bretts effect on him and his behavior. There is hope for him.
(I stumbled on the picture. I couldn't wait until next Friday.)
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Post by Neal on Sept 20, 2021 3:24:00 GMT -5
I really liked Bloom 11.
Hunter is evolving. And in a good way. I really like Caleb. Can his "Little Truck" be a 1999 Ford Ranger? (It already is, in my head anyway.)
My sentence for the week because "Many a truth is spoken in jest.", is “A thing. Like you two have a thing for each other. And probably your things have a thing for each other because with men? It always come down to their thing in one way or another.”
Thanks for the new chapter. I'm looking forward to next Sunday.
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Post by Dabeagle on Sept 20, 2021 9:05:28 GMT -5
The little Ranger works as well as anything. My oldest would love to have that, if it were 4 wheel and 6 cyl. He bought a Honda Civic with 200k miles and is 20 years old, needs a new front end essentially. No job so he's not fixing or driving it any time soon, though we'll probably gift him some parts for xmas or tires.
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Post by glh on Sept 20, 2021 18:40:29 GMT -5
Ah Patreon... A thoroughly enjoyable read, I've just finished "Bloom" a second time. This must be some sort of record for me to do a complete reread this soon. That or early dementia.
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Post by Neal on Sept 20, 2021 19:09:18 GMT -5
The little Ranger works as well as anything. My oldest would love to have that, if it were 4 wheel and 6 cyl. He bought a Honda Civic with 200k miles and is 20 years old, needs a new front end essentially. No job so he's not fixing or driving it any time soon, though we'll probably gift him some parts for xmas or tires. I bought a bare bones 1992 Ranger brand new as second car. It was on the Ford Dealers lot near DC. I got it really cheap because all it had was a heater. No radio, 4 speed on the floor, no options. It wasn't listed in the sales brochure where all the trim levels are shown. A few months later I was in for servicing and notice a Ford Commercial Vehicles brochure. My little white truck was on the cover. It was a warehouse industrial vehicle!
O Oh! Anecdote coming on.
After I had made the second payment my youngest son (then 16) drove it in to a ditch and bent the front suspension and ripped the plastic chin spoiler off. The steering wheel was 180 degrees off. The dealership fixed that. I bought a bunch of 1/4 20 nuts, bolts and washers and put the spoiler back on. At least I got a lot of use out of it.
Not like my 89 Mazda B1000 4wd, years earlier, that my oldest son (then 16) wrapped (literally) around a phone pole. BEFORE I made the first payment! He wasn't hurt. He had to walk a mile up the snow covered road in rural Maine to find a phone. The first words out of his mouth on the phone was "You're not going to like what I have to tell you!" After he told me there had been an accident and that he and his girlfriend where not injured. I said bring the truck back. He said "I can't. The back axles not under the truck anymore." He told me where they were, and I had to wait for his mother to get back from the store to go get him. The fun part of this anecdote is that I was stationed in Washington D.C. I had driven to Brunswick, ME for Christmas.When I got to the scene of the accident I saw a Maine State Police officer looking down in a ditch at my steaming truck on its side with a phone pole embedded just behind the passenger side of the cab crumpling the truck bed. The officer told me there was nothing for me to see here. I said yes there was. That's my truck. He asked me who was in it and where were they. I looked down the road and saw my son and his girlfriend walking towards us from behind him. I pointed them out and he took their information when they got to us. They saw me drive pass the house that they made the call from and had started back to the truck. It was freezing cold and snowing so I was glad they had found refuge while waiting for me. The tow truck did more damage to the truck pulling it off the pole and up out of the ditch. So the truck ended up in the shop for two months and I ended up paying to fly back to DC and then back to Maine get it, on top of the deductible.
Had I not been compensating for being away from them, trial separation for the first accident and divorced for the second one, I would have done it your way. Make them get their own car!
An "OHH No You didn't." That my oldest did and I'm so proud of.
When my oldest got his license his mother wouldn't let him get a car because there was no place to park it where they were living. There was an abandoned huge dog house that a very tall dog had had in the back yard. MY son bought a pocket rocket motorcycle that he could ride into the old doghouse. She wasn't pleased, but she let him keep it.
Anecdote(s) done. Carry on.
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Post by Dabeagle on Sept 23, 2021 18:35:23 GMT -5
You've had a colorful life.
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