After watching a video about Charles Bukowski, I decided to obtain āPost Officeā and am eagerly awaiting it!
See, my dadās name was Charles and he worked for the USPS, could be very charming, and was born in 1926, three years after Buk.
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I got the book today!
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The float ball assembly broke off at the bracket, and I was going out, so I just put something under the flap to keep it open, so the tank wouldnāt flood out.
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I fixed the above by somehow getting it back in its bracket and bent the rod so that the water would actually reach the float ball.
I got sprayed a few times, but I figgered it out!
addendum: i decided to hell with kerouac, kesey, and thompson. also, my dad had severe acne, like Buk did.
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I hope youāll let us know what you think of Bukās book. For me, heās in the same āIāll never read his books againā camp as those other macho wastrels.
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I had a job in a composing room for a couple years in the late 1980s, where I did this stuff daily. I enjoyed it. I still have some rolls of rule tape.
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My mediawiki site is a lot closer to being up again after a drive failure.
- I restored the databases from the daily backups on the backup drive. (Hooray for backups that work!)
- Switched the web server from Apache to Nginx.
- Got Nginx talking to mediawiki on the correct URLs.
- Theoretically, I could have booted from the backup image drive and been running, but ā¦ extremely bad practice without multiple backup drives.
Next steps are to configure my tools to talk the new Pi5, and then lockdown all the security before opening it up to the net. (When I started it in 2014, within an hour, bots arrived that knew how to create mediawiki accounts and post spam.)
After that, I can finally fix things like the Form 990s for ānon-profitā companies.
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Well, Iāve watched a doco about him, read snippets of Crumbās work re him in the āRobert Crumb Coffee Table Bookā, and I think he, out of all of them, didnāt bury his non-macho sensitivities as deep as the other men did. Those three other men, they did shit and were loud (Jack via Neal) and did all the things real men are sāposed to do.
Buk didnāt do that. He wrote. He wanted to be a a poet. And I understand not wanting to work with people - itās fucking exhausting to deal with people every fucking day.
Just the fact that he kept to himself for the most part is enough for me to respect him. Now, it depends on how well his puts words together.
OH, and I forgot Burroughs (William, not Edgar Rice, lol)! Surrealists were doing random cut-and-paste for years before he did it. Never could understand why anyone would look up to him. I tried reading āNaked Lunchā, and Iām pretty open-minded when I comes to literature; but it seemed to me to just be words that have no relation to each other trying to become even less related to each other via his sentence construcā¦I mean destruction.
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I hope you find that he puts them together well. I do remember him being more dedicated to craft that way than either Burroughs or Kerouac. And I agree about Naked Lunch. Members (ha) of Steely Dan may have seen fit to memorialize it with their band name, but I too could not finish it (same with the more straightforward Junky). Odd tidbit: IIRC, Kerouac typed its manuscript for Burroughs. Iāve wondered how much, if thatās true, he may have changed it.
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So far, heās reminding me a bit of Vonnegut and Joseph Wambaugh. And Iām only on page 9. Itās all PO stuff though, some of which my dad had to go through - like DOGS, LOLOLOL!
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The tech bro CEO where I work needed a presentation booklet in 24 hours. I had to come up with a corporate identity, including a logo, for his latest side project.
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Not to rain on your parade, but what are the odds that next time heāll give you 12 hours?
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The odds are pretty good.
Initially I was going to have until Tuesday, Then on Thursday evening I was told it was needed by noon, Friday.
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Last weekend my fencing class had a qualifying tournament. So after 8 hours of fighting other weird nerds with big swords I am now a Scholar, which means I can enter tournaments and fence members of other clubs. Iāve always hated sport, cos I was shit at it and couldnāt understand the point of āmove the ball aboutā type games (plus 70s/80s PE teachers. Ugh). Now Iām fit and good at A Thing. I even have a certificate and a badge to sew onto my jacket and everything.
Everything still hurts, but I donāt care 
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It turns out, the hardest part of this project was explaining to management how āa bookā works. They could not grasp that the cover is half the width of interior pages because you are seeing two side-by-side. It took two days and a few Zoom calls to explain the concept.
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Iād be great at fighting up staircases, cos Iām left-handed 
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The Rocky of fencing.
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Yesterday I took the last dose (out of 9 monthsā worth) of an industrial strength antibiotic to cure TB. No more nausea, no more dietary limitations (cheese, fish, cured meat, etc.). Now I can try switching immunosuppressants from a more damaging one (a steroid). Fewer side effects too (I hope).
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Congrats! I hope youāre feeling back to normal too. 
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So far so good! And tonight weāre getting pizza!!!
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