Everyone goes home and celebrates the holidays by ripping open presents and squealing in joy. Not me, good readers – I spend it watching horror films. This year’s lineup is:

• The Adjustment Bureau
• Ichi (not ‘Ichi: The Killer’ – I’ve looked for it here to no luck – which is rare because they specialize in the hard to find video. I might have to buy it before next year.)
• Cloverfield (I saw it before, so I’m not going to watch it on Christmas.)
• Slit Mouthed Woman (kicking off Christmas)
• Uzumaki
• Orphan
• Teeth
• Population 436
• Drag Me to Hell (hopefully wrapping things up by midnight.)
• A Christmas Story

Not all the films here are horror films, but when midnight rolls around, the screaming will start. J I am alone for the holidays, which is how I like to spend time when I’m not where fragments shook with a whir that creeps through my bones. I am not a huge fan of big parties or a lot of crowds, which is why I am staying home for the most part – just me, my menu and the movies. I might write reviews of these films after the New Year starts.

Speaking of the New Year – here are the traditional resolutions for the coming year. The tradition is I announce the resolutions on January 1^st and promptly forget them by January 2^nd. This year, I’m declaring them now, so I can forget them sooner – this way, I can fulfill the ‘no longer procrastinate’ resolution and actually get something done for a change. Now… on the oldies but goodies”

1. This will be my last year on the plantation (as it were). I will bend every effort to getting a book written and published (even if it’s through Amazon or Barnes and Noble).
2. Speaking of arduous labor… I am taking a couple of weeks off, but on January 3^rd, I am right back to the workout regimen – hey, I got to be up at five AM anyways, might as well do something with my time.
3. Procrastination… whatever…
4. I am actually going to put forth effort into putting a little more of my money aside. When I quit my job (and what a glorious day that will be), I will need to have something for when the royalties aren’t as high as they should be (not that I’m getting anything, anyways…).
5. Here’s an odd one – try to get more sleep. I admit, I try to pack in 26 hours in a 24 hour day and getting 4 or 5 hours a night might not be the best thing. So, with that being said, if I can keep #3 and #1 – hopefully #5 will fall in line. We hope.

Well – I wish everyone who reads this a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Solstice and a Happy Festivus for the rest of you. As for me – more movies!

With all sincerity to you, Good Reader,

Seething With Apathy

I am going to say it and be done with it: I hate the holiday season. I get depressed… very depressed… during this time. I wake up to the darkness, and I spend all the daylight hours inside and I travel home in the darkness. All I want to do is stay home and play Borderlands and drink absinthe. I haven’t written anything outside of this for a couple of weeks. I have been working out regularly, but it’s now getting to be tedious. I just want to be left alone.

So in that spirit – I am making myself write something, even if it’s this dinky little blog. I’ve been getting some good ideas, but it’s a hassle just to get to the laptop to put them down. Thankfully, I’ve got some notebooks nearby, so I’m not losing anything – in fact, I got one for the ‘Pentateuch of Able’ and I am hoping to get some more traction on it… but really… who am I kidding? It’s a chore to get out of bed, much less psyche myself up to get to the gym and then work – especially work. Those of you who know what I do for a day job can understand why I am less than enthused to go there even on my best day. Now? *Snirk*

How tired am I? It’s not just ‘running on 5 hours of sleep’ tired. It’s something deeper than that. I’m just tired of being here, under these circumstances, with this life. If there was a way I could shed this life like an old coat, I would feel better. No pain, no muss, no fuss – just a step to the side and far better circumstances than what I have now.

I’m just tired.

Well – at this point, I would link something from YouTube with someone saying “Dead Man Walking” – but for some odd reason, the link function won’t work. Worked the last time I used it – not that long ago. Oh, well – that pales in the idea that I am going to have to go back to work on Tuesday. Heck, hell and hoolies – this was a fast week. Of course, I know why it was fast… I was enjoying myself. Waking up when I wanted, going to sleep when I was tired… bliss. On the up side, I only have to work Tuesday through Friday, and take the next Monday off. I get Thanksgiving off, and I only really have to work one full week – the last week of the month, which should be somewhat slow.

Anyways – I had mentioned in a previous posting that I was going to take my book down from $1.50 to free just to get some sort of traction. Well… as it ends up, I can’t do that. I can reduce it to 99 cents (did you know there is no cent symbol anywhere in Windows?), but I can’t make it free. Interesting… but at least I’ve gotten one additional sale so far. I told some friends of mine in the AHS and I think one person has bought it. Hey, each sale brings me closer of actually having a profit.

If I seem a little flighty, it’s because I am going to stay up rather late tonight to finish off the show Ringer on my DVR and try to squeeze in a movie. I need that space on my DVR. I was down to 70% from 95% last Monday – quite a feat since I got caught up on Homeland, Boardwalk Empire and watched Darkness (not a good movie). If I can get through Ringer and watch Tangled and Nikita, maybe throw in another movie for giggles – I should get down to 50%, and work on the other series (NCIS, Unforgettable) on the weekend.

As far as the other novel goes – a delightful cram session got up to average. Seriously, I re-did the opening and now everything flows better and I can even have an ‘incident’ on the first page gets everything moving. Feels great! I think this is going to be one of my rare ‘one-shot’ novels. No sprawling universe, no sequels – just one story to entertain you all for a few hours. I don’t want to get any more into it than I already have for fear of giving away too much, but you’re going to love it! I swear.

There is also another neat thing coming down the pipe – Halo’s 10^th anniversary edition is coming out next Tuesday, and yes – I am going to have my copy on that great day. Once I get Halo 2, Halo 3 (if that wasn’t stolen) and Halo Wars – I am going to play each one in order. It’ll be nice to see the whole story unfold from the beginning – from Halo: Reach to Halo 3: ODST. Good times – for me at least.

Well, I have one thing left to try in order to try to fix my Office problem. If that doesn’t work, then this computer will be just for writing and I’ll use my net top for blogging.

That’s all I have for now, Good Reader. Sleep well.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

Well, it’s Wednesday here. Still on vacation, but like that trip to the doctor or your mom telling you that ‘we need to talk when you get home’ – or any woman in my case – there is a lingering feeling of dread. I know I still have 3 more days of vacation and Saturday and Sunday to get through… not that it’s been a chore. I finally got caught up on Boardwalk Empire and now going to work on Sons of Anarchy. When that’s done, I’m going to work on Homeland and maybe Ringer. I am going to give Revenge one more chance, but if it can’t hook me in the second episode, it’s going to get flushed out. I’m not obsessed with TV, mind you – but I have some films that I want to watch later on today and I don’t want to lose them. Just to show you that I am not obsessed with TV, I am going to go on to my other obsession.

I’ve started a new project, and I have to give an unofficial shout-out to the writing software Writeway Pro. There is setting in it that allows you to figure out how many words you would need to write a day to obtain a goal. You type in the number of words in your work and the deadline you have – adjust it so that certain days aren’t counted (I take off Sundays) and it figured out how many words you need to write a day to hit that deadline. I plugged in 30,000 words for my new project and the deadline of January 31^st, 2012. Get this… I have to type in about 400 words a day in order to hit my deadline. I can do that. Seriously, I can do 400 a day Monday through Saturday. The think that is going to be tricky is trying to stay under the 30K limit. I think that’s going to be enough to tell the story. With any luck, I can get it over to Amy for editing and get some cover art done and put it out there by summer. Expect a lot of updates about this to keep me motivated.

About the story: think of it as the frenzied three-way love child of Gaslight, Event Horizon and I, Robot conceived aboard the Mary Celeste. This is going along the idea of that the Three Laws of Robotics, while very sound; don’t cover the idea of paranormal phenomenon. I don’t know if Isaac Asimov was an atheist, but the laws, while they handle conduct very well, are not very metempirical. The First Law isn’t very friendly to the idea that there are corporeal and incorporeal humans – so, how it is going to differentiate between Uncle Bob and Recently Deceased Uncle Max? Of course, Isaac Asimov was a noticed scientist, so I doubt that the idea of ghosts factored into the Laws. That notion – the idea that there is no overt mechanism for a robot to acknowledge that the thing giving it a command is indeed a human – gave me the idea for the book which is going to be titled I/O Error for now. I did have to add some definitions to the Laws and added in a new Law, but the fundamentals are still the same:

1. A machine cannot harm, or allow to come to harm by either action or by lack of action, a human being
   

   1a) Human is defined as any non-permanent, non-essential person either aboard the ship or on the immediate vicinity of the vessel.
   

2. So long as it does not contravene the First Law, the machine cannot harm or allow to come to harm, either by action or inaction, a member of the crew
   

   2a) Crew is defined as a permanent, essential person charged with maintaining the continuing function of the ship.
   

3. So long as it does not contravene the First and Second Law, the machine will obey the orders of the crew.
   
4. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second and Third Law, the machine will obey the orders of the governing AI.
   

   4a) Governing AI is defined as the current operating system in the mainframe tasked with observing and operating the major functions of the ship.
   

5. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second, Third, or Fourth Laws, the machine will obey the requests of human passengers to the best of its abilities.
   
6. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second, Third, Fourth or Fifth Laws, the machine will obey the requests of any legal authority.
   

   6a) Legal authority is defined as any single person with power granted through appointment by properly sworn-in personnel at the city, state or federal level.
   

7. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth or Sixth Laws, the machine will preserve its own existence.
   

OK – that’s a lot of laws to go through, but the idea is similar to Asimov’s Three Laws, but I added in more definitions that would suit a litigious society. That should cover all major points of interaction, and leave enough of a loophole for me to run about in. I did some research about ghost vessels – there are a lot more than the Mary Celeste and the Flying Dutchman, which is good for me. It gives me a wider pool to draw from story wise. This story is heading right to Kindle and Nook once it’s edited. For me, this is a pure profit book and I look forward to putting it out.

Well, I have a couple of errands to run and the 400 words. To show there is no doubt – there is about 1000 words in this post and I was only blathering about this book. Just think how much I can do when I am actually writing the book.

The caffeine calls.

Good Afternoon to you, Good Reader.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

The balloons have gone, the indictments have been submitted and The Hague is meeting in secret – my birthday was a success! I was taken out to Red Robin and had their burger (I recommend the Bacon Cheeseburger with Cheddar) along with some sweet potato fries – tasted really good actually. I was somewhat surprised at the taste. For presents:

The Cinnamon Sugar Kettlecorn is amazing! It’s like Cinnamon Toast and Kettlecorn had drunken sex and decided to keep the baby anyway. The book Gun: A Visual History is going to be used a great dear for research into some of my other novels. The Forbidden Kingdom is one of my favorite films – Jackie Chan and Jet Li are both outstanding actors in this movie and it was a visual treat to watch work. Yeah – I love HK films (one of my favorite ones is The Bride with White Hair).

Anyway – enough of that – I am on Vacation until the 8^th of November when I return here (I took that short movie to show people something. If you look, we start at GEM and go through Research, Banks, Merchant Services, Quality Control / Retention and end up at Tech Support, then reverse that route. Notice that everyone else has some cutesy little Hallowe’en ornaments and we don’t? You know why? We have a job to do and no time to hang tchotchkes). During this time, I am going to try to get something going, something finished and something limping – with all luck, I won’t be the limping.
I am going to run down and get the ravioli for tomorrow and – oh, I need to tell you this: I found something called a chocolate stout. I am not a huge fan of beer, but I am definitely going to try this out Monday after the work out. I have also ordered a bottle of Gold 68 and I should get it soon – hopefully before I have to go back to work. I have a good idea for a novella in my head and I want to have the time to really get it out on paper and get it neatened up and posted on Kindle before summer. I have confidence in my abilities. The quiet will help, too.

On the TV front, I finally finished up Doctor Who and got in the premiere of Sons of Anarchy. This is going to be a good season for our friends at SAMCRO – with both the King and Crown Prince deciding to leave after they make enough money to step down. The staff and actors do a really good job of paining them as a close knit band of brothers that we root for, but I am trying to remember where I’ve seen the actor who plays the DoJ lawyer – oh, wait! He’s the pastor from Deadwood! This is going to be a great season, then!

Well, dinner is almost burned and I still have to watch another episode of SoA before I break down and get to work on the novella with the current title of “I/O Error”.

Until later, Good Reader

Seething With Apathy

That’s right one and all – I am going to be on vacation starting at 4:00 PM this Friday and not come back to jib myths about the toy pins on unsuspecting towns that are sly to a cinematographic folly. I am looking forward to it for a lot of reasons:

1. No more getting up a half-hour before God to get ready for work. It’s bad when I consider waking up at 8:00 sleeping in.
   
2. Getting a project done for a change (anyone out there who’s actually subscribing to this blog – any suggestions?)
   
3. Perhaps getting caught up on some of my overdue series (Doctor Who anyone?)
   
4. Hey – it’s a vacation on my Birthday! I also get paid this week – might see if I can get some glorious add-ons for my X-Box.
   

I haven’t looked at Amazon or Barnes and Noble (I am going to link them however), but I am going to make this statement: I can see where an agent would come in handy. Getting these little stories out there is going to cost me more money… money which I am not going to spend on this anthology until I have volumes 2-4 done and bound together in one story. I think the advertising money would be better spent on a novel. A novel which I should try to at least either finish (with one) or get at least half way through (with the other) – and I might even get a steadier schedule for this blog. I’m not going to turn this blog into a commercial for anything I do – it’s more of a combined therapy and resume.

Speaking of volumes 2-4, I do have three short stories to get written up. I just have to keep on hammering it out in my head.

Oh – note to advertisers: a rain montage in a commercial about a colon cancer center? That’s just wrong.

The Walking Dead and Dexter are going along in some nice directions. I like seeing Dexter having to grapple with matters of faith and its unspoken implications for what Dexter does as a hobby. I also like his slide box falling and becoming jumbled (with one slide being broken!) as a metaphor for what’s happening to him this season so far – I just wonder if the broken slide is an indication of his faith in science being broken, or his notion of him being a monster destroyed by Brother Sam. Who knows? We’ll have to watch.

The Walking Dead is showing some signs of breaking away from the comic, but there is a scene (baby seat) that really throws the whole ‘zombie apocalypse’ thing back in our face. As someone who doesn’t shock or scare easily… I find that one scene – not even over a minute – is the most disturbing scene of the series so far, and serves as a reminder that this is indeed a horror story: not everyone is going to get their happy ending.

Well, there is little other news right now – I did find a place (previously mentioned here) that sells pasta by the sheet, so I am going to make some ravioli to get ready for the Thanksgiving experiment. I am also going to buy a bottle of Gold 68 when I get paid again and drink it down during vacation. I love Gold 68 because you can mix it with any citrus drink (I prefer lemonade) and there is no taste. Better still, you don’t need to add sugar to it (unless you have a sweet tooth like me).

I am going off to bed, so I wish everyone a good night. 7 days and counting.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

OK – I just finished the premiere if “The Walking Dead”. If this is one of Darabont’s episodes, I can see why he was let go. If not, they why did you let him go? This is kinda going a little further away from the comic book series, but not ‘It’s the CDC! We’re saved!’ far away. While I understand that they want to have some distance from the series, but… come on, man. I’ll have to re-read the series, but I don’t think that happens. I’m also trying not to say anything out right in case someone reading this blog hasn’t seen the series. Here, let me put the main part of my argument in white text and hope none of it goes awry:

Stealth text to follow – spoilers for both the series and the comics:

Carl getting shot through a deer? Is this some sort of way of trying to establish that we’re neither Darabont’s nor Kirkland’s ‘Walking Dead’? In the series, I know that Carl gets a bullet to the head in the latest volume, but are we going to have him shot this early? Does this mean that they’re not going to have the Governor? That’s the only thing I want to see. Not the Prison, certainly not the Town until much later on (it gets its horror from the idea that in the middle of this madness, there is an island of normality… and our intrepid group – which has survived much worse – won’t stay happy long here.) in the series. Like I said earlier, I would have to read the series again – I remember Carl getting shot only once.

Stealth text done.

Well – the book is still chirping along. Thanks to my writer’s group, I was able to get at least one more sale. Someone however gave a bit of advice that she had gleaned from some other side: if I want to have my book sell better – make it free. Now, given that this book really is nothing more than a way to get my name out there and to see what all entails. I am understand about visibility – the higher something is rated, the more visible it is – and if it’s only a $1.50 and it is ranked way above 150,000 – it might generate more hits. Really, I have no notions that this is going to be a huge hit – that’s for the novels, but this will at least get my name out there, which is what I am looking for. So – with that in mind, I’m going to let it ride until after my break. It goes free and then I work hard to get a novel finished. I guess the need for visibility should take a higher priority. With any luck, one can feed the other. It’s still on the Nook, so maybe I can keep it paying there and use the visibility of the Kindle to get more sales. But not until after November 8^th – I really want to get some cash off of the book club. Hey, I love the business, but it’s still the business.

Well, sweet dreams to you Gentle Reader.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

Well – it finally got on line. You can find it here. So far, I’ve had at least 5 sales (totaling $2.12 cents) and ePub is still dithering about. Something about my social security number not matching the IRS records. If worse comes to worse, I’ll just try to get a tax ID number and try that. I’m trying not to stress out over it, but it would be nice to another stream of income. With the anthology behind me, I can now focus on my big novel project… if I can find some uninterrupted time. What’s killing me is that by the time dinner is done, dishes are cleaned, I have maybe 30 minutes at best to write something, and I have some interference — a bedridden honey handing me a thorn and wilt salad almost as soon as I walk through the door at times. By the time that everything is done, I am too tired to really get something done – hopefully having the book out there will help me get some money and get out of where I am working now.

On to other things: Nook finally got their act together: it’s here. Only took two phone calls, three re-typings of my name and a solemn oath that I am an American citizen. A good friend of mine forwarded the link I supplied to his friends; I am hoping that it’s going to translate into some sales later on. The novelty of all this has as of yet to really wear off. Of course, now that I have one thing out there, I must follow it up… with what, I have no idea. I’ve got a few good ideas in my common book that I am going to flesh out. Oh – I also got Changeling: The Lost. I like the themes in this particular game – way, way, way better than the earlier incarnation. I’m going to get Promethean next… and I am considering getting Geist and seeing if I can fold it into the current idea or have it branch off into something else. Who knows? I can only hope that this will get me something – a freelance gig or something. I’ll even take a half-eaten cheese sandwich – just something to show for my efforts.

Nothing much else here of note – just trying to find a fourth short story so I can get started on the second volume of “4 Bits and a Dollar” and have that done in 6 months (looking at a March deadline for publication, with an eye for 4 volumes to be put into dead tree version for wider selling). I also joined a Kindle message group in hopes of getting some more sales. Yes – I hate sales people, but hey – if I want to get out of where I am now, I need to put forth all efforts – “Who Dares, Wins”.

I am off to bed – sleep well one and all.

With all sincerity to you, Good Reader,

Seething Apathy

Well, believe it or not – I might let a little private information get out unaltered. I will have a book published by Kindle this time tomorrow called “Four Bits and a Dollar”. On my next blog entry, I’ll put up the link. I am looking more forward to changing some of my statuses to “Published Author”. This excites me more than anything. Even when I got the weird idea that I could be published waaaaay back in 1997 with joining the company of the grilled and abashed vets on the Internet. I should give a thank-you note to “Salon” for their article on fan fiction, which got me started in all of this. I am very interested in see what happens – this isn’t a way of making money immediately (I mean, come on – 35% of $1.50 is .53 cents – that ain’t walkin-round money), but it shows me what I will need to do when the Big Book comes out.

OK – for those of you who are considering this, here are the pros and cons of the two big services:

Kindle:

Pros:

• Up and running in about 24 hours
  
• Amazon has high visibility
  
• Two words: Amazon Flame
  
• Two more words: iPad Killer
  
• Two Tiered Royalty structure – either 35% or 70%
  
• Don’t have a Kindle? Kindle readers can be loading into almost everything.
  

Cons:

• Formatting: for Pete’s sake – who cares how I made the paragraphs?
  
• That two tiered structure? Dependent on how much I am charging in the first place.
  
• While e-books are definitely on the upswing, there is still nothing better than having that book in your hand.
  
• Kindle’s format is exclusive, so you have to have their reader to have their stuff.
  
• Takes forever to get it looking just right. Took me hours to get it close to right.
  

Nook

Pros:

• The format is fairly open – means if you don’t like the Nook, there are other places to go to.
  
• Fairly easy to use and set up. WYSISYG.
  
• As easily available as the Kindle’s program.
  

Cons:

• 48 to 72 hours… only after you’ve been vetted – which I still have to go through in between the hours of 9:00 – 5:30. Very
  convenient for those of us who have [censored] day jobs.
  
• When someone says e-reader – quick, what’s your first thought. I can guarantee it ain’t Nook.
  

Well, I will definitely keep everyone here up to date about what goes on with the Kindle and the Nook. With any luck, I can get both readers with the anthology, and hopefully be able to break even one day: ($215.00 is the break-even point).

On to other things: just watched the premiere of the Season 6 of Dexter – and I like the two Big Bads this season: Bill Adama and Tom Hank’s kid. I also like the burgeoning theme of religion in the series. I doubt that Dexter is going to find Jesus and repent by the end of the series, but I like the idea that each season has him evolving as a human in one way or the other… and the nudity is always nice, too. Speaking of movies, I went to go see Moneyball. The trailers say ‘wacky comedy’, but the movie is a rather stark drama. It’s a good movie, but I have to admit that I like to see Brad Pitt in lighter things, like Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Fight Club.

Well, this will be all for now. I’ve only had 4 hours of sleep total over the last 48 hours (thanks, Kindle!). I hope that tomorrow I will have better news and a link to the anthology.

I commend you, Dear Reader.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

I know that I am late (ever so slightly) with this particular entry, but there is a very good reason – at least as far as where I am concerned… and this is also bending the rules a little bit, because I am going to go into a bit of local news (rule number three of anonymous blogging – no locations, no news, deny, deny, deny) about this instance.

There is a bridge that I take in the mornings to go to work… I’m going to call it the Helmsley-Chocolate Coin Bridge (I assure you, that’s not the real name, but if you squint and look sideways, you can figure out what it is). When this bridge was open and running freely, it was about a thirty minute drive from where I live to where I work upfront dealing with nonlivings that a stony carapace for a skull and vomit for brains and try to tell them that they need a checkup: that’s a long but accurate gist of the disaster porn that’s my job. It wasn’t bad getting to work – about thirty minutes, so I could enjoy my favorite radio show in the morning (They Rock) and my favorite music on the way home. The intervening eight hours? Not so much, but that’s neither here nor there.

Then they started construction – still, not too bad, had to get up fifteen minutes earlier, not bad. That was until two weeks ago. Then they closed the whole bridge down. Little in the way of warnings and now I have to get up 3 hours
earlier (note to the local politicians:
I am not happy) to get to work on time. Why? Because the only other bridge that I can get to takes me thirty minutes out of my way. Adding my normal time to get up and get ready to work: 1 hour and just the travel time from here to there is another thirty minutes. That’s not including the stop and go traffic just getting to the bridge which tacks on another twenty minutes. If I add in the side stops to get caffeine, then it comes out to a little under two hours. The only reason why I give myself such a large cushion is because the traffic here is unpredictable at best. All of this means that when I get home, I have enough time to eat dinner and wash dishes… and go to bed so I can get up on time. Which means I have no time to write anything – you may ask why don’t I write at work? Simple – I’ll get interrupted every five minutes if I’m lucky. This is another good reason why I am trying to get out of this job and get something published – more on that when it happens.

Enough of the doom and gloom – on to the Shout-Outs! Today, I am giving a Shout-Out to two writers. Both of them are friends of mine, one I have known for several years and the other I have known for a couple, but she is also an editor who worked on my anthology. Lisa Townsend-Crow has some works out there, and I recommend buying them now. She’s currently working on a creative writing degree and she is a very talented writer. Better than I am by far and also a wonderful friend to have known outside of writing. Go check her out.

Amy Valenti is not only another published author, but she also runs an editing service which I have used with nothing but complete satisfaction. She is quick, very accurate and will let you know what’s going on with the work. She works in England, so be prepared to pay in Pounds Sterling – but it’s worth it. When my novel is finished, she is on the short list to edit it. Very inexpensive (if you’re a student, she does take a lot of mercy on you) to hire, but worth every one of the few pennies you are going to spend (currency exchange rates may apply).

Well – there’s little else to report here. I am growing sleep deprived and slightly mad. However, next Sunday, I might go to the movies and check out something. I will supply a movie review which more than likely dissolve in a rant about why Hollywood is running out of original ideas.

Until then, Good Reader – Good Night to You All.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy