Today is the six month anniversary of the most frightening thing I've ever had happen to me.

On October 25th, 2005, I suffered "The Incident."

Since then, I've had no repeat, no difficulties of any kind. I'm not proclaiming myself 'healthy,' but it's clear I've dodged a bullet.

I said it back then, and I'll say it now: If something weird is happening to your heart, CALL 9-1-1 IMMEDIATELY! It may save your life... it may have saved mine.

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1 Glad to hear you are doing so well

Posted by: flotsky at April 26, 2006 07:43 PM (6T2ID)

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Good news: Clowns didn't eat me.

Bad news: District Manager didn't name me Manager of the Duck U. Bookstore.

No News: YET. We'll have a decision "by next Friday."

So the fretting and stress will go on for at least another week. I've actually past the point where I just want it over. I'm to the point where I no longer CARE if I get the job. I've been assured of keeping my position as Assistant Manager if they name someone else, so I won't be unemployed.

I just want them to name SOMEone. I've been in limbo now for over five months.

Oh, and there's a F1 race this weekend... on my birthday, no less. As a present, I'd like to see Super Aguri on the podium. Or Zsolt Baumgartner have a drive.

Hey, everybody's gotta have a dream.

The 'funny' thing is that this was the race that S.A. was supposed to have their new car. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they don't. Really, it's a miracle that they're racing at all; three months from startup to first race would strain a major name team like Ferrari or McLaren after all. Sure, they're not competitive yet, but S.A. is getting race experience, with zero pressure or expectations.

If they ever DO field a modern car, having these races under their belt can only help.

Friday night is PockyPalooza 2006, so F1 UPDATE!'s report on the 2nd Friday practice session will be delayed.

In other F1 news, my BATracer F1 2006 league is in the final few races, and I've got a 9 point lead for the driver's championship. I've won 4 races, had pole 9 times, and had 3 fastest laps... IN A TORO ROSSO. Second is a Renault entry, so it's not like the league is completely ack-bassward.

How's everybody else's entries? Would there be any interest in a 'private league'?

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1 Sorry to hear that about your work. Horrible to have something hanging over your head like that, just wanting it sorted so you can move on and deal with whatever is happening. Will keep various things crossed for you.

Yep, feel like we have gone too long without another race. We also get the GP2 races starting now we are in Europe.

I'm doing pretty rubbish in my F1 league, finally got a podium in my midlands car today. Am doing a little better in the CART series I am in.

I'll be up for a league once I've donated and got the kooltools thing sorted (I could be wrong, but I think you can only do two without donation). I should be sorted for that around the 26th (no coincidence with payday at all)

Posted by: flotsky at April 20, 2006 08:29 PM (6T2ID)

2 According to my teammate in the F1 league, you can do 2 public and X amount of private leagues... "X" because he's not found the limit yet.

I'm having a hard enough time keeping two different ones straight... "How in the world did F1 decide to drive at Nazareth, PA?!?!"... yet he's in SIX.

I'm leading in my CART league, too, but that's only because I won one of three races and had a 5th in a second. Too early to brag.

Posted by: Wonderduck at April 21, 2006 01:17 AM (Ffvoi)

3 I'm running fourth in my league right now in a Honda. 20 points back of the leader, who's in a BMW. Second and third are Toro Rossos, so my championship is a little odd too.

I've crashed out of a couple of races, and completely missed setting up for the last event (work was busy and the cutoff times suddenly changed without me noticing).

My driver has a nasty habit of goofing up during practice so my setup data isn't all that great. He does well in the races typically though. The first several races were on The Raikkonen Plan.

I'd be interested in a private league! Let us know if one gets set up! I call a McLaren!

Posted by: SkarTisu at April 21, 2006 03:55 AM (FVDkH)

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Can't blog, clowns'll get me.

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For those of you that celebrate, of course. If you don't, enjoy Sunday. If it's not Sunday where you are, then... um... enjoy the day at work?

Now I'm off for a slice or two of pig, slathered in lingonberry, a scoop or two of corn souffle, and my family!

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Ever have one of those days? Ever have it stretch out to cover a week? How about one week stretching to cover a whole month?

That's me these days. As many of you know, I'm the acting store manager of the Duck U. Bookstore. I started in that position back in November, when the store manager went on maternity leave... but she never came back, deciding instead to be a stay-at-home mom (and who could blame her?).

Since she left to expel her parasite, though, I've had THREE different district managers. I've had to interview for the position of store manager with four other people, and I've got another one (with the newest district manager) coming up towards the end of next week.

Throw in the time of year, when the Spring semester is drawing towards a close (which means textbook buyback) and both Summer AND Fall semester textbook adoption forms are due in, and I'd be hard-pressed to do my job anyway... my OLD job, back when there was both an assistant manager (moi, who handled most of the text decisions) and a store manager (who did much of the paperwork). Now, though, I'm doing the equivalent of TWO different jobs, both of which need full attention.

Throw in my impending birthday (on the same day as Imola), inching closer to the frightening 40, and I'm crispy around the edges to say the least.

Then Momduck called. She told me to meet her outside the store (understandable, since parking is nightmarish around Duck U.). "Well, okay, sure." So she drives up, and hands me a tupperware container. "It's for dinner tonight, enjoy!"

So tonight, I got to enjoy a meal that I haven't had in AT LEAST seven years: tuna-noodle casserole. Yep, it's pretty simple stuff: can or two of tuna, peas, can of cream-of-something-white soup, stir, serve over bowtie pasta.

But I can't make it like Momzerduck can. Comfort food... is there anything better when you're in the middle of a bad patch?

Thanks, Momzerduck! Love ya, quack!

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1 Awwwww! Damn right on the comfort food front, nothing in the world like familiar tastes. When I was very young, Mama Flotsky would make a breakfast for my sister and I called coddled eggs. This was buttered bread cut into squares, with the contents of a boiled egg mushed into it. These days I add a fair bit of pepper, but it is an instant doorway back in time.

Mrsfb a while back had some medication which had the side effect of killing her appetite. I was a bit lost for things to tempt her with, but that was the one that worked

Posted by: flotsky at April 12, 2006 08:08 PM (Dl1rW)

2 I am hereafter known as DuckyNoodle. Glad you enjoyed dinner last night...it seems to have done it's job!
Wish you could go outside and play. It is a warm and sunny day. Both kitties are in the catnip patch and their furry faces are looking very happy.

Posted by: Duckydoodle at April 13, 2006 05:55 AM (Ffvoi)

3 My mom, ladies and gentlemen! With guest stars, Rumpole and Hercule, the cats!

Posted by: Wonderduck at April 13, 2006 06:34 PM (y6n8O)

4 "expel her parasite" LOL!!

Posted by: SkarTisu at April 14, 2006 12:53 AM (FVDkH)

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