I think most of you know that i occasionally copy the link to some of my posts and send them out to different people. These people probably get about on average 10% of my posts (maybe a higher percentage more lately). Anyway, one of the more important lists of people that i used to send those particular posts started out at about 25--mostly friends, family, associates, just people who i knew and thought might be interested.
Well, that list over a two-year period of time has dropped down to about ten people who get my blogs. People have dropped from my list for different reasons, but my favorite reason is the one that an old friend gave me. He told me to quit sending him my bullshit and "to get a life".
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I told Linda that that really shook me up a bit. At one point, i told Linda that i thought that i would make that the next book that i wrote. I would call it Get a Life, then i would write my autobiography--asking myself throughout whether what i had done consisted of a "life" or not.
ps. In all honesty, i feel pretty good that ten people have stuck with me throughout this little globanomic exercise of mine. I get more feedback from this group than i do my Talkmarkets group.
ps2. Ukraine needs to start putting Putin on the defensive--but i know you know that already.
Wow, even I think that's really harsh. Just because your friend (if he's still a friend) considers it BS, he should recognize it's important to you and have been more considerate. Sounds like a jerk.
No, he is no longer a friend. I know i can be a pest--heck, i think i am a pest to my Talkmarkets crowd sometimes--but when i send things out to people, i don't send it out for "oh, look at me, look at how fucking smart i am), but simply for feedback purposes. You would be surprised at how "little feedback" that i get from my Talkmarkets crowd. What else is a person supposed to do to help understand whether you are going "crazy" or not.
In the long run, i don't think i lost in the friendship area. I keep "foregiveness" in my back pocked, but that does not mean we will ever be friends again.
And i know that i have had my little run-ups with "an angry old lady" at times. I have even taken some pretty "hard jabs" from her, but it wasn't too long ago, that i discovered that maybe the "angry old lady" might not be as "angry" as she would like you to believe. She may be "old", but i don't think she is "angry". She isn't as pretty as Linda was--i know that.