Thank you all for your sympathies. Ron's passing is a shock to us all.

Ron and I hadn't talked since about April this year. He's been living in Florida with his children and his girlfriend, Brandy. He was going to school for something...I'm not sure what. We've been keeping in touch since our mutual split in 2003. He always told me how happy he was with everything in his life. He loved his kids dearly and he was always in love with life. He spoke often with my father often as they had mutual business interests so he was the first to hear.

As far as what the cause was there are not many options. He wasn't a drinker, smoker, nor did he do drugs. He was not the healthiest person however...he did love his food and had no desire for doctors. He was a stresser and had a family history of early death. His mother died at 52, a year after a quintuple bypass. So he had the history. I can say that he fought with a terrible cough for a long time. He had it when I met him while he was still in the Air Force in 1993. We all tried to get him to seek medical attention but he never would...stubborn was his middle name.

So far all I know is that he finally did seek that attention Friday morning. He went to see a doctor about it and was given some medicine. I'm not sure what kind yet. He was dead by Saturday morning.

We can only hope he died a peaceful death. I know that I will miss him. I have his number on my cell phone on speed dial. I can't bring myself to delete it.

Thanks again everyone!

I actually had a tshirt with this on it.

Thanks y'all! Another year older and not a damned bit smarter....

So, the job is to take a wire article and re-write it so that it appears to be original and you're paying $10 per article?  Who finds the articles?

Pretty much. Boring...I know. 

All jokes aside...I REALLY do need the help. REALLY.

Sorry, time poor and fully employed already.  So it sounds like the employment front is going well for you.  Good luck with finding the writers.  Check the local junior colleges, budding young writers should jump at this.

Work's been too good to me lately. I've got more work than I know what to do with. I am trying all other angles but I'm in need of someone ASAP. At least for the time being. This was thrown at me last week and I had no time to prepare. It's hard finding good writers on such a short notice. However, I will prevail, I always do somehow.

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts.  May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills.  May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips!  May your clothes smell of success and may happiness slap you across the face. May your tears be that of joy and may the problems you once had forget your home address!  In simpler words............
 
May 2008 be the best year of your life!!!

Its cold. Not happy. Brrrrrrrr.

Happy Birthday!

I spent the day as I always do...updating image galleries for my employer and enjoying a cocktail or two...or ten. Sucks doesn't it? 

Yes, yes you are.

No...YOU are. The studio is looking awesome!

Sausage.

Ditto...only I would have to add "cheese" to mine.