What do you do when not on Mudcat

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: PoppaGator
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 06:07 PM

When not on Mudcat, I am either:

(a) at home, or

(b) doing the work for which I get paid.

You can deduce from the above that most of my Mudcat time occurs at work. I do check on this forum from home, on my own time, as I should, but only occasionally.

I work as a technical writer, and regularly suffer from writer's block. When my mind dries up and quits producing readable prose, I'll do some personal web surfing, lurk a bit here and there, until inspired to start writing something of personal, frivolous interest. Then I can get back to business and resume writing user instructions for the semi-computer-literate consumers of my employer's software products.

Mea culpa!

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 01:11 PM

If the 'Cat is unavailable I think of things to ask on the 'Cat.

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: beardedbruce
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 01:22 PM

For income I am a rocket scientist.

For my own sake I read, play with electronics, and write lyrical poetry.

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 05:46 PM

i produce decorative candles from ear wax,and on sundays i confuse hedgehogs with pin cushions

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 06:51 PM

Well, when I'm not at the Legion Hovel, I try to re-learn the piano (keyboard), write checks to pay bills, work to get the money so I can write the checks to pay the bills, try to stick people with swords, work around the house, eat, bathe, sleep, shoot guns, shoot arrows, try to get money from the city council and blood from turnips, cook, read, write, work on my emboucher, look out the window, raise the dead, and a host of other things.

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 08:28 PM

Rap, you say: "...work on my emboucher..." Do you play the horn?

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 08:37 PM

I listen to as many tunes as I can..... l like good old shit kickin Southern Blues. .

Amongst all the others.

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 09:44 PM

Ebbie my dear, I like to think that I am a trumpeter. The very instrument of the Judgement Day, you know.

Has to be a trumpet. It's just not the same to say, "When the last D7sus has sounded" or "Hark! 'Tis the last banjo!" or even "When Gabriel blows his oboe...."

No, the trumpet is THE instrument. And I attempt to play it.

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: GUEST,Warwick Slade
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 11:29 AM

Rap,play the Kazoo Voluntary

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 11:52 AM

And work on spelling your embouchure.


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Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: GUEST,Big Mick
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 12:13 PM

When not on Mudcat, I am usually travelling around the US (currently in South Dakota, Western Iowa, and NE Nebraska) organizing unions. Currently working with a mostly hispanic workforce in the Packinghouse/slaughter industry. Tough work, and tougher workers. The conditions are appalling. We read books like "The Jungle" and think these conditions don't exist anymore. Some do, some don't. In the high pressure world of production, management will push humans ever farther and harder to get a little more out of them. Machines are made of steel and they break down, imagine what happens with bodies.

Of course, I play music. More and more this is music about the struggles of peoples to simply better themselves and give their children a decent life. These days we try to criminalize something that has been a way of life in this country for generations. And the children are usually the victims. I am writing songs and collecting songs about the plight of these decent, hardworking folks. I am trying to put together a collection that takes the songs of the earlier age of immigration when my people (Irish) were coming to this country, along with Germans, Poles, and others, and then add songs, either of my own, or other folks songs, that show that some things really don't change. Music can affect social change, and I am moving in that direction.

Also, now that we have moved home to Michigan, we are trying to get our house back in order after a 2 1/2 year abandonment. During that time there was a flooded basement (looked like a swimming pool), a blown fuse that left a freezer full of food to rot, and critters. So we are a bit busy to say the least.

How's that for a regular Mudcatter report?

Mick

Subject: RE: What do you do when not on Mudcat
From: Pistachio
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:21 PM

My seasonal, part-time day job involves getting paid to shout at kids! I teach primary school across East Yorkshire children 'cycling proficiency' so I have varied locations to reach daily.
I referee my family - and the household. I seem to do everything 'domestic' and I have a thing about folding bedding/towels/clothes 'just so'. It's an affliction from time in HM Forces, but it's me.
My husband runs his business from home and I'm tasked to create training booklets, record invoices, key in incident reports as well as track the receipts and payments. Luckily I have Linda Kelly on hand to assist with the accounts.
I sing harmony with Linda - (she's a great songwriter)- as often as possible - and we go to festivals when we can. Our husbands 'don't do folk' ( my husband barely does time off) so I represent him!
I watch one 'soap' regularly and get one magazine a month! I stay too long on Mudcat and I cry at the sad threads. I can go on and on and on... so I'll just go now.
Hazel.