justanotherjames

The interesting point of working in a jail is that you reach a point where threats of physical violence don't even slightly phase you, this seems like in a real world application it may be problematic and lead me to testing people, but I'm really not that sort of cat, so I suppose that's a bridge I'll cross when I come to it. When a...
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Well...I've done it...I've become an iPhone person. It was a calculated decision, I consulted with the biggest phone diva I've ever met in my life and it received his glowing recommendation. I know it's weird to refer to a man as a diva, but the way this guy is with phones it's pretty fitting. So my Blackberry is retired. The list of things I can...
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My friend Jimmy had his realtor call me the other day, he in turn gave me the number of a lady that handles loans, I suspect I'll give her a call on one of my off days coming up here. So many things to do on my two days off. Call a loan lady, I don't want to call her a shark yet, but I...
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Gotta tell ya, this whole catching a cold every three weeks or so shit is getting old pretty quick. On the bright side I assume shortly here I will catch every feasible permutation of the common cold (or rhino virus, which could be an awesome metal band name) and then I'll never get another cold ever again, though more than likely that shan't be the...
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Had an odd thought on the drive home. Different animals taste different depending on their diet, for example grass fed beef versus grain fed beef. The same is true of venison or lamb meat, the taste can vary greatly based upon the local fauna upon which they nibble. Logically the same would be true of humans as well. So what I wonder is, in the...
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Having a routine is an odd sort of animal. I think I find it equal parts comforting and loathsome. Weeks go by fast, days off go even faster and pay checks go somewhere in the middle. Is this being grown up?

I like to consider myself a rather calm and collected fellow, but low and behold from time to time you come across a person who knows all the wrong buttons to press. Long story short, there was a brief internet "flame war" (as they used to be called [and maybe still are]) the other day, which went from a snarky post that I assumed was...
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The other day I was talking to my brother in law, who is Dutch and he said that in the same day he read the 2011 murder statistics for both St. Louis City and the entirety of the Netherlands, he went on to state that the City of St. Louis (which has just under 350,000 citizens by the way) had 30 more homicides than the...
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I like to fancy myself a man of limited vice,,,I drink, I'm prone to being protective and at times perchance a smidgen on the jealous side. But I'm not a man prone to anger, nor violence, hell, I can't even hold a proper grudge worth a shit unless it's against someone who's harmed someone I care about and not myself. My drinks of choice are...
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My most frequent co-worker was assaulted by an inmate tonight. I'm a bit put off by this, I know it's an omnipresent situation given our present calling, but he's a good guy and he got attacked (albeit poorly) by a punk motherfucker who doesn't understand the action-consequence principle. It turned out okay in the end, my fellow officer wasn't injured and the cocksucker who came...
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