>>Yo, Jim! LOL
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>>I don't read so gud but I do know how I react when someone hands me a balloon in one hand and a sharp pin in the other.
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>>Best to you and yours,
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>>Mike the insomniac
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>Mike,
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>I am not replying because you didn't respond to the message. Me and mine are fine, how's by you and yours?


Please ignore this non-reply to your non-reply to my message replying to your request not to reply. (I'm getting dizzy).

Just so this non-reply won't be completely wasted, here is a book I think you would like -- "Utterly Monkey" by Nick Laird.

Me are fine, well, as well as a 49 year old guy with only visitation rights and a stalled career and no regular woman in his life can be expected to feel. Correct me if I'm wrong but I expected things would be better at this point in life. I was expecting the big house in the suburbs, the happy family unit, the luxury to philanthropize. Comfort, in a word. I feel anything but comfortable. I have the big house in the suburbs, sort of big anyway, and I live in it alone. Is that an answer?

On the bright side, I still have my daughters and they remain the lights of my life. I just bragged about them the other day so will not do so again. (As a parent yourself, fill in the blanks). I am finally, after three companies' worth of broken promises, about to embark on a .NET project and am giddily excited about that. I went out to dinner on Wednesday with a woman I know from soccer, a date I wanted to break out of continued remorse over my last busted relationship, made myself go, and what do you know, we were amiable. Amiable promises nothing but it's something in itself. Maybe the sun is about to shine on me.

Thank you for not replying.

Yours in non-conversation,

Mike