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I got to Carona upstairs to Tim’s and ordered my breakfast sandwich. Very good. I saved myself a lemon donut for later. We did CCSD and we didn’t have 10 tap shooters and 20 front 20. No $2/hr for Saturday’s. I knew Rob would water that down. Anyway, I got a $50 and another $50 and then I got a $100 credit card. Then a $300 verified sale by Will (not on a credit card. By the noon break I was already at $900+ I ended up with 3 credit cards for a total of $145 and JT gave me a $10 bonus and the $5 bonus for the credit card. I think the credit card with 15 min to go I was getting a lot of “good job Jim‘s,” etc from management and a lot of pat on the backs for my total closing in at $1355. But JT took off early and Will wanted to let Dawn Phun call totals. Of course no public praise as is accustomed for counting high totals upon closing for high total. She did for the front 20. I just felt a bit put off by that. That really annoyed me. I felt a bit hurt because it’s a nice closing sense of achievement for all ones hard work. Sure she’s just breaking into lower management and all but it’s not everyday I get a total like that. I did $1,245 on March 10th Anne’s birthday and that was on a Saturday. Then she calls the font 20 and someone got a $200 total and she says “good job” I will not have her verify any of my sales for as long as we’re doing this.
Anyway, I met the security guard on my way out and had a chat with him. I wouldn’t mind doing the baker Center on a Saturday or Sunday. He’s there from 8-4pm today and tomorrow. I think on Monday I’m going to go to the guard company and enquire. See if I can get an on the spot interview.
I just concluded reading “Spin” by Robert Charles Wilson.
Upon reading the back cover, I was expecting a lot from this book. It delivered so much more then what I expected. Robert Charles Wilson’s (RCW) vocabulary is amazing. He takes the main characters on an adventure of stunning gloom and doom through child hood and adult hood of the Spin drawing the reader into a certain end of the world scenario. The aliens “The Hypotheticals” are off stage. We never really meet them and we don’t know the nature of the Spin until the end of the book. The real science fiction element of this book is off stage until the end. There is no real bad guy or good guy in the book and I think that’s the way modern science fiction should be.
Pro’s: Strong character development. A real sense of place and culture. Beautifully written prose with depth and meaning that works on many levels. Excellent execution of time and place and the delivery of ideas.
Cons: Science fiction element is off stage. This is a mainstream/SF Noir meets SF kind of a book. The narrator of this story seem a bit wooden. Examples of this is when a major character dies and our narrator reacts like “Oh well”
Bottom line if you want to introduce someone into reading science fiction this is the book to do it. This book reads more like mainstream meets SF Noir then SF. I really enjoyed this book. It does not come across as pretentious. It is easy to understand yet draws the reader into the storyline so expertly that one doesn’t think there are reading a science fiction book. The only thing that I found confusing was the 4X10-9 AD story line which takes place early in the book until the end. This is a hard act to follow.
On a scale from 1-10. 10
Anyway that’s all for now
e. Jim
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