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HOW TO QUIT YOUR DEAD-END JOB IN UNDER 2 MINUTES

[Note: This is based on an account of a successful job-quitting via phone by my friend Romy, otherwise known as "Leane Roffey Line".]

Highly Replaceable Worker Droid: Hello, Boss?

Boss-Type Unit: Hi, Droid.

Droid: Boss, I quit. Personal reasons.

Boss: But why?

Droid: Personal reasons. You get what I'm saying?

Boss: Nothing to do with the store?

Droid: Right. Tell me what I need to do next.

Boss: Well, I'll need back your name badge and your [employee discount card / I.D. card / etc.].

Droid: Okay. Next week sometime. I'm going out of town until then. I'll bring it by.

Boss: Okay.

[Droid hangs up.]

End of resignation.

Droid's significant other: Hallelujah. I don't think I'd have lasted as long as you did at that nut house.

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Wishing you a beautiful day (and a more care-free summer),

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2009.06.20, 6:45 a.m. Hawaii time]

LitBoy.com is the brainchild of writer Bill Brent. If you enjoy this blog, please consider a donation in support of my work. You can either (1) send money via PayPal to info [!at] litboy [!dot] com, or better still, (2) use Revolution Money Exchange. Unlike PayPal, RME pays 100% of your donation. It's quick and easy!


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kick-a** blog recommendation

Greetings, friends and browsers of this blog --

This young man comes up with more good content than most ten bloggers combined. This excellent meditation on PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT is, IMHO, one of his best to date.

-- Despite public appearance, I am a very private person, and so I'm only going to say this once: IT WORKED FOR ME. I stumbled upon the basic principle Glen describes in this post by myself, by mistake, and through a great deal of trial and error. If you are one of the attentive few who truly knew me when I was 19, then 29, then 39, you know that I am not making this up.

-- I also believe that some of us genuinely evolve throughout our lives, whereas most of us merely achieve some fairly superficial levels of change, and never really experience what I would call a deep, integrated growth process.

To put it more bluntly, talk about personal transformation is cheap.

And very lucrative.

-- You may not agree with me on this point, and I will concede: IMPRINTING can happen at any point throughout our lives. While it is never too late, the earlier you start, the better your odds of lasting progress ... toward becoming the person you want to be, rather than the one you are told you should be. Growth and integration oriented change do NOT happen by remaining steadfastly in our comfort zones, however charming and appealing they may be.

That's all I'm sayin'.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2009.04.23, 3:05 p.m. Hawaii time]

LitBoy.com is the brainchild of writer Bill Brent. If you enjoy this blog, please consider a donation in support of my work. You can either (1) send money via PayPal to info [!at] litboy [!dot] com, or better still, (2) use Revolution Money Exchange. Unlike PayPal, RME pays 100% of your donation. It's quick and easy!


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by special request

Hi, folks --

I haven't blogged here in an age, but I am doing so now due to a friend's request. Even if you don't understand all the jargon below (and who among us would?), please hold her in your thoughts for a minute as you read through the rest of this text.

I've posted a lovely picture beneath that. So maybe you can count a couple of your own blessings, and focus them on her. Maybe while you read the text, or look at the picture? Whatever works best for you is great. Thank you very much. --BB

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"I have a favor to ask (and another bright idea). Below is my CAT scan. I'd like you to blog it -- and ask readers for prayers, healing, intent etc. By all lights, according to this I should be six feet under yesterday. I'm not. Ergo, more things are happening here than people understand."

FINDINGS:

1. There is a large mass involving the right neck base, right lung apex and right axilla. These have approximate maximum diameters of 9, 7 and 8 cm respectively. This is likely metastatic adenopathy.

2. There is resultant obstruction of the right subclavian and right internal jugular veins. The superior vena cava fills through right chest wall venous collaterals.

3. The airway is displaced to the left but not obstructed.

4. There are other smaller individual right axillary and mediastinal nodes. These measure up to 2.8cm.

5. The breasts are incompletely imaged. The right breast appears engorged with skin thickening. There are 1.4cm right and 1.7cm left breast nodules.

6. There are diffuse subcutaneous metastatic nodules. These measure up to 2 to 2.5cm. The largest lesions are seen at the left lower paraspinal, epigastric and right lower chest wall regions.

7. There is a large right pleural effusion.

8. There is suggestion of a 3.4cm right middle lobe mass. This may represent a bronchogenic primary.

9. The right lower lobe is completely collapsed.

10. There are no adrenal masses.

11. There are no adrenal masses.

IMPRESSION:

1. Large right neck base, right apical and axillary mass, likely metastatic adenopathy.

2. Chest wall and breast lesions, likely metastases.

3. Large right pleural effusion.

4. Possible right middle lobe mass.

5. Right subclavian and internal jugular vein occlusion.

6. Right hydronephrosis.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2009.04.07, 5:30 p.m. Hawaii time]

R.I.P.

The incomparable Eartha Kitt:

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.12.26, 10:10 p.m. Hawaii time]

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mele kalikimaka

Aloha!

Drenching, sheeting downpours today. Sun peeking out in between 'em. Bromeliads breed mosquitos like nobody's bizness. I nearly became mosco lunch while snapping these. Still, preferable to being buried under 2 ft. of snow today, like some poor folks.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.12.25, 11:20 a.m. Hawaii time]

LitBoy.com is the brainchild of writer Bill Brent. If you enjoy this blog, please consider a donation in support of my work. You can either (1) send money via PayPal to info [!at] litboy [!dot] com, or better still, (2) use Revolution Money Exchange. Unlike PayPal, RME pays 100% of your donation. It's quick and easy!


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Unless otherwise indicated, all original materials here on LitBoy.com (writing, photos, drawings, graphics, etc.) belong to Bill Brent. If you want to re-use something here, Please Ask Me First. Higher resolution images are available, and sometimes additional unposted photos!