tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post4832035352941199417..comments2024-02-12T17:59:33.534-06:00Comments on RAZORED ZEN: Halfway ManCharles Gramlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-79746440936667047642011-11-20T09:52:37.659-06:002011-11-20T09:52:37.659-06:00Richard, I appreciate that!Richard, I appreciate that!Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-57212832563229243262011-11-19T15:49:25.411-06:002011-11-19T15:49:25.411-06:00Charles I am sure all your halves will come togeth...Charles I am sure all your halves will come together. To form a satisfying whole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-9847787764964768402011-11-18T23:36:05.912-06:002011-11-18T23:36:05.912-06:00Golden Eagle, I hope so. I did finally finish the ...Golden Eagle, I hope so. I did finally finish the galleys. Got to get those sent in tomorrow, though.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-20671020121289406102011-11-18T18:29:40.427-06:002011-11-18T18:29:40.427-06:00It sounds like you've been busy with all kinds...It sounds like you've been busy with all kinds of stuff; hang in there. Things have to progress eventually!Golden Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721520451194318436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-759963469211950092011-11-18T17:32:06.164-06:002011-11-18T17:32:06.164-06:00lana, you don't tek kindly to my kind! Is tha...lana, you don't tek kindly to my kind! Is that what you're saying?Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-83814833406418235962011-11-18T13:11:49.589-06:002011-11-18T13:11:49.589-06:00Hey! It sounds like you're giving my husband c...Hey! It sounds like you're giving my husband crap! I don't take kindly to such things, you know!Lana Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975996208260144558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-84677049515169930652011-11-18T07:29:18.035-06:002011-11-18T07:29:18.035-06:00Eric1313, ah thanks for pointing me toward some FA...Eric1313, ah thanks for pointing me toward some FAllout tips. I will check that out.<br /><br />Carole, It's hard being between finished projects at times, but I know it is necessary. I whine a lot. :)Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-84635034276671005392011-11-18T06:58:12.923-06:002011-11-18T06:58:12.923-06:00You might be a little hard on yourself. You have ...You might be a little hard on yourself. You have been extra busy. And I would say you are only halfway right. Most of the time you are completely productive. Or at least your blog posts make me tired with all you do.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828426520214270655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-65058136068159688342011-11-18T00:52:15.096-06:002011-11-18T00:52:15.096-06:00Well, once out of the underground, there is a lot ...Well, once out of the underground, there is a lot of shit to shoot.<br /><br />The clues are here: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_walkthrough<br /><br />It's a great game filled with horribly ambiguous moral choices, I'm sure you'd like it. <br /><br />Also, I hope you've located some affordable sources for The Invisibles graphic novel. Can be a tad expensive I noticed recently, making me glad a friend of mine had them to borrow.eric1313https://www.blogger.com/profile/13807078704660045859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-66825471209884108842011-11-18T00:51:43.224-06:002011-11-18T00:51:43.224-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.eric1313https://www.blogger.com/profile/13807078704660045859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-16564433410174348512011-11-17T22:08:59.392-06:002011-11-17T22:08:59.392-06:00Oscar, I suppose that's true.
Jodi, great Now...Oscar, I suppose that's true.<br /><br />Jodi, great Nowhere man reference. I wish I'd thought of that. :)<br /><br />Michelle, thanks, I will do that. <br /><br />G., I'm a long way from a ladies man. and I'm not very subliminal either. :)Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-38091198674803319622011-11-17T19:28:07.936-06:002011-11-17T19:28:07.936-06:00At least Halfway Man is better than Subliminal Man...At least Halfway Man is better than Subliminal Man.<br /><br />Or Ladies Man.<br /><br />Or the "I Love You Man".G. B. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09783331838434598963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-68910888860510086872011-11-17T14:24:45.193-06:002011-11-17T14:24:45.193-06:00Hang in there -- I toally get that feeling, all to...Hang in there -- I toally get that feeling, all too well! By the way, my editor Ginger at Storylandia wants me to suggest someone for the next issue who writes sci/fi/futuristic/experimental stuff so I thought of you. I don't have your email, but mine mbrooks7@juno.com so if you have any interest, email me your info and I'll give it to her.Michelle's Spellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769666862403600253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-57210850155496529692011-11-17T12:56:53.986-06:002011-11-17T12:56:53.986-06:00Charles-Somebody needs to take a break! You've...Charles-Somebody needs to take a break! You've been crazy busy too long. You need to reboot your head before you 'tilt'. Don't do anymore work on your projects for at least a week. You are getting on your own nerves! R n R and mindless head clearing will do the job. Go back, refreshed and see what pops in. P.S. half a quarter pounder is all anyone needs! Oh, and Half way man is still better than Nowhere Man!<br />Good luck, bud.jodihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798858210138821711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-62242062182805720872011-11-17T12:34:46.821-06:002011-11-17T12:34:46.821-06:00Doing things half-ass is better than no ass at all...Doing things half-ass is better than no ass at all.Oscar Casehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328166606910469945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-49037543197442794112011-11-17T09:58:45.860-06:002011-11-17T09:58:45.860-06:00eric1313, I haven’t really been able to make much ...eric1313, I haven’t really been able to make much progress on Fallout 3. I haven’t played a lot though. I think it would be better if I could get out of the underground but so far no luck. I need to pay attention to clues better, but I tend to prefer just to shoot shit.<br /><br />Laughingwolf, I didn’t care much for the clamato, not quite beery enough or tomatoey enough.<br /><br />Travis Cody, Lana has informed me of that fact, about the fridge fries. She’s a connoisseur .<br /><br />Oceangirl, I was hoping I could at least be halfway funny. :)<br /><br />Mark, If it’s all right with you I’ll probably not think about that. :)<br /><br />Ivan, you get to a certain level of accomplishment and opportunities open up, and people also find they need stuff from you, and in those situations something has to give because you only have limited resources. I’m still trying to learn to manage that give and take. Sometimes I handle it well, sometimes not so well. And the not so wells seem to be winning at the moment.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-75900382223709926012011-11-17T08:03:53.420-06:002011-11-17T08:03:53.420-06:00...or, you could go all the way, all the time, and......or, you could go all the way, all the time, and burn yourself out.<br /><br />My doctor used to say, "Manage yourself as well as you manage other people."<br /><br />I had been an all-the-way man through my youth and middleage, always on the brink of breaking down, but somehow never quite going nuts beause of home, family, hearth, their support for the resident madman who happened to be a writer. When I'd get lapses and slip-ups in my family life, "Ivan's just being 'Ivanish'--that's the way he is. Nerd. Geek." And the money just kept rolling in.<br /><br />But fulltime professional staff writing for a slick magazine requres a mini-masterpiece of at least 800 words every couple of weeks, prostituting youself, if you will, and there comes a time to pay the piper for being "on" all the time. Manic, manic, manic. It was eventually bound to lead to depression. <br />It did.<br />Myself by nature a good-time Charlie with a love of revelling and carousing, I don't know why I'd ended up in a field that requires discipline and some intellectuality, at least in the style of writing like a hipster.<br /><br />And one day the crack-up. Mental block...Could not write a single line.<br /><br />So I tried the usual palliatives and antidotes of drinking drugging and, well, something else....Anything to get that old feeling of omnipotence back (even if in bed you were far from that).<br />Blew a deadline, blew the job, and if it hadn't been for my wife's resourcefulness, would have blown my middle age.<br />Eventually, I got a job with a quiet provincial magazine and this time taking it step by step, I regained my career.<br /><br />So it strikes me Charles, that you may just be managing yourself. It's wisdom, I guess....Why "roman candle" too quickly?<br /><br />Slow and easy does it, I'd say.ivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05662075375182633162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-60857136025416990852011-11-17T07:58:10.531-06:002011-11-17T07:58:10.531-06:00Just think how accomplished you'll feel when t...Just think how accomplished you'll feel when that quarterpounder is all green and smelly and you finish it with that half beer! You Will Be Whole Again...empty a few hours later but wholly empty.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-89849317318483730272011-11-17T03:14:16.590-06:002011-11-17T03:14:16.590-06:00Kinda cute post and I like the sound of half-way m...Kinda cute post and I like the sound of half-way man., which is not bad at all and very normal.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399300464457820101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-89900920772633572832011-11-16T23:20:02.854-06:002011-11-16T23:20:02.854-06:00Well, half done is better than not started at all....Well, half done is better than not started at all.<br /><br />Oh...if you happen across half a bag of McD's fries in that fridge, throw them away immediately!! Fridge fries do not re-heat well.Travis Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06192526507760146748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-91099665118939865992011-11-16T22:53:50.703-06:002011-11-16T22:53:50.703-06:00that'll work :)
thx bud... wish i had an solu...that'll work :)<br /><br />thx bud... wish i had an solution :(laughingwolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08873675614347328116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-20458918285738534742011-11-16T21:46:54.755-06:002011-11-16T21:46:54.755-06:00You overload yourself with work, but you seem to t...You overload yourself with work, but you seem to thrive that way, given your past record. Something will break through sooner or later, you'll find that thread, or chain, or rough woven hemp noose, or whatever you envision as your inspiration.<br /><br />As for the games, Red Dead is pretty good. My band wrote a song that goes 'There's a Black Cloud Hangin Over Me' somewhat inspired by the blackness that gathers before your character kicks the bucket in that game. Finish Fallout3 if you must withdraw from Red Dead. I'll tell you where all the Vaults are, I still remember, in spite of the fact that I have drank much, and slept many times since last playing that one.eric1313https://www.blogger.com/profile/13807078704660045859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-14255314574299436732011-11-16T21:45:51.488-06:002011-11-16T21:45:51.488-06:00Sage, odd that, I was talking about that issue in ...Sage, odd that, I was talking about that issue in class today. <br /><br />Laughingwolf, I ended up mixing most of the clamato with my V8. Hope the doldrums pass soon.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-56275315328270982502011-11-16T21:02:32.756-06:002011-11-16T21:02:32.756-06:00nuke the burger once you combine the beer/clamato ...nuke the burger once you combine the beer/clamato in a big enough mug... if beer and tomato juice [redeye] work, no reason why clamato won't!<br /><br />i'm back in the doldrums, again, not writing much but got a thousand ideas....laughingwolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08873675614347328116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221839.post-91925180803023672432011-11-16T20:11:58.678-06:002011-11-16T20:11:58.678-06:00Is the glass half full... oh, never mind.Is the glass half full... oh, never mind.sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17499891950639742366noreply@blogger.com