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Subject:Re: Being a writer on opiates From:Barry Kieffer <bkieffer -at- ims -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
I can just picture it:
Technical writer hard at work, his cubicle cluttered with discarded beer cans.
SME stops in to return a marked up copy.
Technical writer starts crying to the SME: "My wife just left me, she just does
not understand my life style, she can not understand why I come home from work
drunk every day..."
Technical writer drains another can of beer and crushes it against his head.
The SME, looking a little bewildered, backs away quickly, never to return to the
drunk technical writers cube again.
> From: Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>
> Guess what? My friend Scott, now missing in a Colorado avalanche, used to work
> tanked, yup! he drank all day while he worked, he could bike 50 miles a day
and
> crank out a 50 pages for a manual in the afternoon--drunk. And it was good, a
> bit poetic, but that's his style, sober or not.
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