Learning that a coworker passed away over the weekend. :(

Major bummer.

Reminders of your own mortality just aren't fun.

Depends on how you use it OldFart. If you dwell on your mortality it's a bummer, if you use it to spur you into something you've always dreamed of doing then it's a great thing. Same thing with remembrance. If you remember how they lived and loved vs. how they died.

sad.... work... boss.... i dont know how, just sad....

I was supposed to meet an old classmate from high school yesterday evening. It has been over 25 years since we'd seen each other and just got in contact again. She didn't show, and she had a good reason, I'm sure. The fact is I was really looking forward to seeing her again. I'm sad she didn't show, and here it is almost 5 in the morning and I've been up all night thinking about it.

: (

Don't sweat it, you'll find out why all in good time.

Same stuff like every other day. Money, daughter, work and life.

my boss. again!!!! he made me crazy............

Chatting to my grandmother who is not well on her birthday.

R. I. P. Mr. Fishy

I'm sorry for not getting the top for the tank. :(

Mr C's gone.

According to the Oz ABC News site:-

Tom Bosley, one of the stars of the long-running 1970s television series Happy Days, has died of heart failure aged 83.

For 11 seasons, Bosley played long-suffering, gravel-voiced father Howard Cunningham.

He was the perfect foil for the show's eternally cool Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, played by Henry Winkler, and Cunningham's less hip son Richie, played by Ron Howard.

Bosley earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in 1978.

He went on to star in Murder She Wrote and The Father Dowling Mysteries.

Agent Sheryl Abrams says Bosley had been battling lung cancer and died of heart failure in hospital near his Palm Springs home.

Winkler has paid tribute to Bosley, saying he was his mentor.

"I'm in shock, I really am," Winkler told Los Angeles' KNX-1070 News Radio.

"I spoke to him just a few weeks ago and he seemed to be getting his strength back.

"We really were a family. Tom was not only the TV father, he was also one of the dads on the set," he added.

Scott Baio, who played Fonzie's cousin Chachi, paid tribute to Bosley on his Twitter page.

"Mr Tom Bosley will be missed by many," Baio wrote.

"He was a great actor, teacher and man."

It's Remembrance Day.

All those young lives gone to keep the wheels of politics grinding.

All the civilians caught in the middle.

All the politicians and leaders who haven't learned a fucking thing.

This is horrible.

From the Oz ABC News,

Amazon under fire over paedophile manual



Anger: The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure is on sale on Amazon (www.amazon.com)
Online retail giant Amazon is under fire for selling a self-published digital book called The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure.

The reviews' page for the book, by Phillip R Greaves and available for Amazon's Kindle electronic reader, was deluged with criticism after the Seattle-based company offered it for sale.

"This is a joke, right? What reputable business would even consider allowing this book to be sold from their website?" said a visitor identified as "Emerald Storm."

"This is absolutely despicable."

"Shame on Amazon for allowing such garbage to be sold on its site," said another with the handle "thirty something."

The book, whose full title is "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct," had received more than 305 "reviews", with 297 giving it a one-star rating, the lowest possible.

Most of the "reviews" were appeals to Amazon to remove the book.

"Amazon, you might want to consider taking this horrid book off your website if you want to have any business this holiday season," wrote "ecirtap."

"Shame on you, Amazon, for allowing a book like this to be uploaded for purchase! This book gives advice to people about something that is ILLEGAL in every state in this nation. It needs to be removed from the site immediately," wrote another customer.

In a statement distributed to TechCrunch and other technology blogs, Amazon said it "believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.

"Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions," it said.

In a product description to sell the book, the author frames it as an attempt "to make paedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certain rules for these adults to follow.

"I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of paedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught," Greaves said.


We aren't allowed to beat these people to death, I have been reliably informed.

I saw that yesterday, it made me pretty sad too.