mountebank

Generally, I am quite a laid back person.

Generally, I am agreeable.

Generally, I am not succeeding like I need to.

Any ideas to help me change the third point without messing around too much with the first two?

From Der Spiegel:
I'M SORRY, MR G. RAFFE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Dublin Zoo has issued an appeal to the public to stop calling its switchboard. It warns people responding to text messages urging them to call people with names like G. Raffe, Anna Conda and Rory Lyons are falling victim to one of the oldest practical jokes in the book.

Sometimes the oldest practical jokes...
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Today's motto is "Grin and bear it."

If I can make it to the weekend it might become "Gin and bare it."

BBC News: The rodent to ruin
The Scottish Wildlife Trust talks of a "charismatic creature", citing a study which estimates that beaver-tourism could be worth 101 per household.

"Beaver tourism"? They knew exactly what they were writing...

All the photos from my trip to Australia and New Zealand came out terribly. The developers tried to claim that they were all taken with the sun behind the subject - quite how I would have managed this on five different films I don't know, particularly on the indoor shots.

Another set of holiday memories ruined - first Guatemala, now this...

After three weeks on the other side of the world, I felt like a new man.

After four days back home, my shoulders are tight, my head is throbbing and I'm not sleeping.

Time moves on, but sometimes we do not.

It's just after midnight, and I can't sleep. It's cold, and we've argued. In these dark days, it's even more important to keep hold of the things that keep you warm, and the people that keep you warm. No matter what sacrifices you need to make, and the compromises that life forces you to make. But it gets harder to keep hold of that sense...
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Just remember, ladies, when you're awash with hormones, that there may be someone who loves you very much caught in the crossfire.

Friendly fire is still fire, collateral damage is still damage.

I've woken up feeling awful. Not physically sick, but emotional battered.

Last night, I had a shockingly intense dream, a dream of infidelity to my partner. A dream about I girl I used to know, superhot, a model and artist, with whom I trained capoeira a lot. I haven't seen her in over a year, and nothing had ever happened or was even on the...
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He shoots, he scores.

This week is all about first aid. Bandages, blood, pooping. Makes me feel like a six-year old playing doctors and nurses. Most bizarre.

This week is also about stew, and Cansei de Ser Sexy. A truly great album, for this year at any rate.