Hey, everybody, I could use some input!

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Delurking again to post News Flash from trendy southern California: Fights on the playground as a form of entertainment are passe' after age 5. The hip 6 year old pulls the wings off flies in his spare moments.

From what I can tell, Mari, you appear to be living on some sort of government hand out program at the moment and want to get off it. Well, good for you! I for one would stand up and cheer if more welfare recipients would post asking for job advice and take their hands out out of my pocketbook. What the hell, send the outfit a resume and a suitably snappy cover letter. It's just some charity, for God's sake - we're not talking about an executive position with a Fortune 500 Company. They might just jump at the chance to hire you because it will make THEM look good, practice what you preach, blah, blah, blah.

Remind me to never post anything personal on this board. I'd rather slash a vein and go swim with the sharks off Malibu beach. At least some hot young life guard might come rescue me.

Elspode, sorry to hear about your kid, dude. Sometimes life really sucks. Hope things work out for him and you, as well.

LJ, you amuse me, but I have to say that you are very boring on this topic. Even someone like me who has been around only a few months, mostly lurking, gets the picture already that you despise Marichiko. It's old news. Go in for a nice long session with your shrink, smoke some good weed, finance or sell or whatever the hell it is you do with cars and MOVE ON. Get over it. You whine more than Marichiko does and that's saying something. And please, the string of obscenities that you seem to enjoy using with your every other reply, indicate only a man with a limited vocabulary and an even more limited thought process. I deal with enough people like that in real life. They're called wanna-be ocean front property buyers who make 10K a year and have defaulted on about $100,000 in debts and want to sue ME because they can't get a bank loan.

Next topic.