At least somebody responded!

Going independent was a huge mistake. I got beat up really bad. Pretty much lost everything. I just finished writing my second novel. I'm peddling it now. I was a journalist in New York and Philadelphia before I fell into computers. The job market is so horrible I'm thinking about a career change. Don't know what to do at this point. I've been unemployed since April when the company I worked for laid-off 300 people. Life kind of sucks sometimes. But I do have one hell of a good book!

Jim

>Uh... okay. Literature/poetry was never my best subject, but this message did prompt me to look up some of your past posts. I remember speaking with you at the 2001 DevCon. You had just gone independent, I think. How is that working out? Also, I missed your discussion regarding vaccinations/autism the first time around. How is you son doing now?
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>>Little gutless scrubbing bubbles
>>White washing their world
>>Through toil and trouble
>>Leave no streaks and avoid discord
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>>Spinning yarns of social détente
>>Whisk away the dust and dirt
>>Keep the peace through sanitary language
>>Always careful nobody gets hurt
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>>Rub-a-dub-dub and away they scrub
>>Their world is plain vanilla
>>Disparaging words are never heard
>>Each one is so carefully censured
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>>Little gutless scrubbing bubbles
>>Always scrubbing but never thinking
>>A white-washed world can never redress
>>The very conflicts they are busy cleaning.
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>>James M. Weil