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Thanks for the time you gave xxx and me in the interviews at xxxxxxx. Your qualifications and experience were excellent. Our discussions went well. However, xxx and I have decided to move forward in the ink department with the staff currently in place. I will be more active and on site to help Jxxxxx get the policies and procedures in place with his new and experienced employees. xxx asked me to let you know that he has high regard for your skills and experience and will keep you in mind for other positions or opportunities at xxxxxxx. Please stay in touch Tim. It was good to get to know you.

Got up early on Sunday and drove the two hours into VT for the VW show. It rained all day. Turn out was low. Only 1 other Karmann Ghia. A beautiful 1967 convertable in showroom condition. The owner was a nice elderly gentleman who was the second owner. Always garaged. Needless to say, he took first place. I got a real nice wood burned/engraved plaque for 2nd and met some good people. The season is almost over and I'm trying not to waste any time missing local shows. Drove 2+ hrs back to Mass to catch a local every Sunday show. Great time. Drank too much and still managed to hit the local pub on the way home. YeeeeHahhh! Not good, I know...... I have heard nothing on the job. It appears that they may have reconsidered. I really can't understand why. I thought the interviews went very well. Met the HR person, then one of the two owners interviewed me, then the President of the Ink Co...and then, nothing!!! No responses to my good business e -mail. Very unprofessional of them. Th...

It's a beautiful evening and I'm gonna spend it quietly having a scotch and a smoke of the pipe. I've learned to enjoy some of the finer things in life through trial and error. I prefer 12 yr old Dewars and other top shelf scotch available to us mere mortals but alas, the wallet seldom complies, hence, I had to do some very painful comparrison shopping. Clan MacGregor is my Sept. Tracing family lineage on me mum's side is Scots-Irish with the Scot going back to this clan. So it was fitting that I find an enjoyable low cost scotch with this name. 1.75 liters for $20. I smoke a custom blend of pipe tobacco and most often use my deacon's pipe. A very expensive pipe modeled after the clay pipes of old. With the stem, its about 10" long. If I grew the beard out a little differently perhaps one could mistake me for Amish or perhaps a Hippie holdover. I am neither. American Indians in New England and elsewhere used tobacco in spiritual ceremonies and often drew the sm...

I love growing things. We don't have the garden that we once had. I'm only growing an assortment of tomatoes. I didn't create the tomatoes. Although I did put them in the ground and tended them, it only needed the conditions to be right for them to grow their fruit. Just like a fire. When the conditions are right, ignition, fuel, oxygen. Then a fire can start. Where was the fire before the ignition? After the fuel or oxygen is depleted, where does the fire go? Are we like the tomato or the fire? When conditions were right, were we a seed and egg that grew in our mother's womb? Did we exist before the conditions were right? After the fruit of our lives comes forth, after our fuel or oxygen is depleted, do we still exist?

Well, "The Little Hottie" took a "Cruiser Of The Week" award at the Cruise Night on Sunday. That make 3 awards this summer with another VW show next week taking place in Vermont. Some of my buddies call me a "trophy whore" or "slut". Not true!!!! Just like to show the gal (The Little Hottie) how much she's appreciated. The "Lady" is a little jealous and asks that I refer to her as, "The other Little Hottie," implying of course that she is the first. I have to remind her that she is 12 years older than the Ghia, thus making her the older Hottie of the two. Hopefully I won't have to seperate the two!!!!

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The hero comes down from the mountain,Radiant with the power. Yet one tussle with a dusty old manquickly tumbles him into the dirt . In olden times, young men and women who wanted to be extraordinary trained in the mountains with a famous master. Away from all the distractions of society, isolated in the cleanliness, they remained on a high peak and did not come down until they had attained great ability.Such people were heroes, the pinnacle of cultivation. However, in their subsequent wanderings in the world, such heroes would often come upon some oldster who could quickly best them. Whether in philosophical debate or physical skill, there was always some obscure wanderer who could outshine even the greatest of heroes. Why? Because the hero only had perfection, the strength of youth, and courage. The oldsters had the advantage of experience and wisdom.There will always be people in the world better than yourself. Learn to recognize those elders who are wiser than you, and respect them...

As the summer draws to a close...there are still plenty of crusie nights and plenty of cars to be seen.

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I Love trucks!!!! 

I Love trucks..... 

I love this 'Stang! 

A Cobra in the sun! 

Roadsters.... 

A very old "Olds" 

Vettes in the sunshine. Nice! 

The Lady (in the middle) not being very Lady like with my two good friends since high school. 

A cruise night attracts all kinds!!!! 

Trust, Faith, the Tao.....When I drive "The Little Hottie" down a winding road, I anticipate little, only respond. It IS the journey; Not the destination. Lessons....sometimes we are destined to learn and learn again. Hard headed, I guess. In the months leading up to my lay off in January, I knew well before it was told to us of our impending demise. Much like the peepers that go silent when danger approaches, I could sense and quite accurately fortold our future. I was without fear or a lack of trust in what the future would hold. Come about March, doubt began to settle in, and with it all the garbage that doubt brings to the surface of our awareness. In my simple practice of meditation, a sense of Wu Chi surfaces whereby you calmly respond to what the road brings you. Like driving the Ghia, there is great pleasure in this. Buddhism puts into words what Taoism only intuitively implies. There are five hinderances to achieving this sense of Tao, or Faith. 1. SENSUAL DESIRE (...

Leo Sun Sign Profile: July 23 - August 23 "We are Earth's best, that learnt her lesson here.Life is our cry. We have kept the faith!' we said;'We shall go down with unreluctant tread,Rose-crowned into the darkness!' . . . Proud we were,And laughed, that had such brave true things to say.- And then you suddenly cried, and turned away." Rupert Brooke, born in Leo, August 3, 1887. The mainspring of Leo's great energy, vitality and charm is his instinctive desire for both public acclaim and self-approval. Of all the signs, Leo is perhaps the most aware of himself; in a sense he is always before the looking glass, seeing what effect he is making. In shallow types this makes for mere vanity, pompousness, pride. Add profundity, and all this is changed. Your best Leo type is earnest, sincere, eager to please himself and the world around him and willing, in order to do so, to take on infinite work and go to infinite trouble. He is not genuinely introspective; he ha...

Listen. I cannot stress enough about how much life has been a learning experience for me. Like we are here to learn; to grow; to understand. I worked as a Lab Tech in the coatings industry in the early 80's. I had everything under control. Granted, I wasn't the most people oriented person, but the job was done. Then, they hired a guy to be my boss. He didn't know his arse from his elbow and it was my job to train him. Just seeing his car pull into the yard each day made me sick. He was a total fuck up, being paid more than me and I had to train him!!! It was truly an experience I learned a lot from. I wish we could sit and discuss it sometime. So, here I am. Going for an interview with an old customer of the company I last worked for, and they want to hire me as the ink tech's boss. He has always done a great job but lacks the discipline to, well, discipline. Hire, fire, review, exercise judgement! They want to bring me in as the manager of all shifts. Cake is great. I...

Well, hate to lie or bend the truth. But I can rationalize it with a little effort. One of the interviews that I had, I had put off, knowing quite well that they may very well want to hire me. One of the owners had asked the human resource director to interview me. That happened. Then, the two owners wanted me to come in and see them on Monday afternoon. I had to bend a little and let them know that I was scheduled for a second interview on Monday a.m. Approx an hour passed and they called me back asking to see me BEFORE I go to the second interview stating that they were VERY interested. $$$ are an issue. Hours are an issue. So the game of strategy comes into play. Fact of life. Wish it wern't so, but it is. So, I have two more unemployment checks coming and possible employment on the doorstep. Now it's their move.

I do interview well, if I don't say so myself. As a Leo and an introvert, I often find myself in conflict. Love to rule, be top dog, control the situation but I also like to be left alone and in many ways hidden. Experience, within mental health and as an operations manager and within other various constructive fields of learning, I can often manipulate the direction of an interview. I can disarm and charm the hostile or unfriendly. I had two interviews today. I quickly remembered how to conduct myself after a six month hiatus of late nights and incoherent drunkeness watching the world from my porch...or should I say, perch. Truth is, I am not very good at the games people must play in order to work in the world of business...not good at it, in the sense that I am often in conflict with how things are. I don't like having to walk in a world of machiavellian court. I am good at it, but I don't like it. Makes me feel a little dirty. awww shit. here I go again...or maybe not....

Well, the "Little Hottie" came through again! As you can see from the award on the left (ignore the reflection of my crotch and sneakers :>).....she took first prize. You can see the competition parked on either side of her. There were only 4 Ghias....very rare in the northeast (all the better for me) There were about 75 assorted bugs, 20 assorted vans, and 40 or so corvairs....Fun for all.....

"Who gives a rat's ass!" I yelled, as we ran across the open ground. Clearly, we were spotted, but in our dark clothing and our evasive tatics of running through back yards and wooded lots we had little chance of being caught. With a curfew placed upon the town, we couldn't risk being picked up by the police and detained until our parents arrived. Earlier in the evening I threw stones at my buddy's window in an attempt to lure him out. His father sat drinking a quart of beer at the kitchen table and rushed out to investigate. I lay close to the foundation with my face covered in my hands pressed against the ground. He stood inches from my head and scanned the back yard but soon returned to his quart of Narragansett. My bud soon appeared stating that he was grounded but that his sister engaged his father in conversation allowing him to slip out. We walked several streets over to once again borrow some bicycles left out at night. We peddled to all the hot spots of ...

Tao1776 is another year older on August 2nd. Another year wiser. Another year closer to fine.