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| DATE | 2024-01-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Just an odd email I got today
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Real or not?
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Subject: the intro
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:50:07 +0000
From: califool
To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com
CC: mrbrklyn-at-panix.com
working title: A fool named Wanda
Mr. Ruben Israel Safir, [MrBrklyn! the man (CEO of brooklyn!), the myth,
and yes the Living Legend!]
I'll have to reintroduce myself but it must have been late 2020 maybe
2021. I remember that we (the four of us: Kristen, Miranda, Stephen, and
myself -Michael) were amazed at how no one was wearing masks and just
continuing on with their lives compared to us up in communist
Williamsburg!! What a night as most normal nights were not forgotten
during years that we didn't have to quarantine like moles and listen to
bureaucrats and filthy greasy crooked politicians. I digress.... That
fishing trip was just one of our adventures we had absolutely no
delusions from the very start which common sense governed. elderly
immune compromised, pregnant etc. we avoid and if not possible mask up
and be cognizant of who you were around. We knew that it wasn't affected
us.
So back to the fishing....
Sheepshead bay along with the rest of south Brooklyn is special and even
though I am a native CA (never judge a book by its cover, but I would
never direct that statement towards you, if you know. you know.)
The fishing was awesome! I caught nothing except sharks! and I remember
taking a big bloody lick shark -that could have been some unusual side
effects of the covid! OR because my dad told me about a captain on a
charter off the coast of Santa BarbarA that dug an albacore's heart out
and downed it with a beer. Ever since then it has become something on my
bucket list.
Now on to the meat of this recollection or short story if you will, 'All
that meat and noooo potatoes, that ain't right like green tomatoes"
~F.Waller
fishing at night right off the shores of south Brooklyn..... fugetaboutit!
I was a chef and worked in the kitchen since I was 15 and could legally
work. I loved it especially in my 20's and early 30's and had no regard
not did anyone hold me to it. I worked hard and partied! unfortunately
that ended in some detox after crazy months to year long benders... When
I met Kristen I knew the writing was on the wall and I began the long
drawn out breakup with the best/worst relationship I really ever knew up
until then. Last cooking job I had was at Lincoln center in 2017, I set
up my line, I was working the garde manger (salad/cold apps) station
grabbed my 3 foot pepper grinder and never looked back. That was
awesome, one of the main reasons I cooked was I feed on the unknown
nothing quite like being out of your own comfort zone. At least for me.
Now I was faced with the dilemma of figuring out what the f*## I was
going to do or could do next. LOVE YOU NYC; the answer was anything I
wanted to! I dried out for a solid year and ended up working for The
man, the bald man that owns a giant river! Amazon. I worked down the
street from my last cooking job at Columbus circle. It was amazing
dealing with moron customers and moron bosses. And we are talking about
a really really dunce bread of human. given, then since our shirts said
amazon the customers would come in and literally shit on us and blame us
for their lost packages to everything you could fathom. Those stories
are for another time.
I got almost a decade of front facing customer service experience with
the worst kind of customer imaginable in just 2 short years. Honestly It
was awesome. Then 2020 march .........
The pandemic hit like a dust devil in the nevada desert.
What I got out of the pandemic is: I have less faith that our government
has our best interest at hand, most republicans are more full of shit
that I could ever imagine and they are just RINO's, and you never let an
opportunity pass you up. So I started to learn to code and I studied and
obtained my CompTia A+ certification. Now I continue to learn Linux (I
use aRch by the way.... LOL) I switched to learning Julia instead of
python and I work for my Father and have become a Licensed Insurance
Producer in the beautiful, awful, and almost communist state of
California. -where I was born and raised.
So the point of this letter Mr. Safir is that people do indeed read your
webpage and some people like myself absolutely love it! I miss brooklyn
more than anything but my life and future family will be in California.
Not too bad, Ventura has perfect weather so I can't complain about the
best thing in NYC to complain about THE WEATHER! I even miss that.
Fast forward to planning a fishing trip to not hang ourselves with
fishing line! "oooooo that smell, can't you smell that smell, the
smell that surrounds you!" ~L.Skynyrd
I look forward to keeping in touch with you and I hope you won't mind me
asking some computer questions from time to time.
I hate my cell phone.... so I will be downgrading to a flip phone soon,
then one day when the landline comes back (and it will~!) I will get
rid of it, maybe throw it off the boat!
Sincerely,
Michael Joseph Adams -the Biggest New Yorker born in Southern California
ever!
My handle has and will always be califool (califool85 sometimes)
Office direct line: (332)322-4322
cell: (332)334-1233
mailing: 4777 rosini lane apt 103
ventura, ca 93003
personal: califool-at-proton.me
work: michael-at-adamshis.net
p.s. I rushed the ending because I drafted the letter and forgot about
it, so when I found it today I took some time to push it out instead of
forgettingaboutit and repeating that cycle endlessly...
started: 2023.12.12 aprox 23:00 eastern standard time
ended: 2024.01.13 aprox 23:30 eastern standard time
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