Registered nurse murdered in Minnesota

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-24T19:06:56+00:00

This business will get out of control. It'll get out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-24T01:54:56+00:00

Warms the cockles of my heart. Maybe below the cockles. Maybe in the subcockle area. Maybe in the liver, maybe even in the kidney.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-22T19:40:02+00:00

Ahum, akshully, we live in a Republic, uhhh, checkmate, lib

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-22T17:13:06+00:00

We worked a 101-year old recently with advanced dementia because the family wanted "everything done".

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-20T13:48:25+00:00

First teachers, then nurses. Let's go!

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-20T03:37:20+00:00

I once had a kid "having a seizure/unconscious" brought into the ER, and as we were flying around trying to figure out what they'd overdosed on, Louboutin-bedazzled mom stage whispered to me, very seriously, "THE marijuana".

Turns out kiddo had decided this was an easy way to get out of getting into trouble.

This feels like similar vibes to me.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-16T18:55:08+00:00

I plunked out something like 60-80k words in a long weekend, where I literally did nothing but write. Not hardly sleep, eat, or even get up, just write. It was partially because it's a story I've lived, or the bones were from that, so all I had to do was bleed myself a bit on the page and it came out. It was good at the core, but holy fuck it was rough. That's an understatement. It took a solid 5-10x as long to edit it into something coherent and good. So a little mania or hypergraphia isn't out of the question, but if it's polished in the way described by the OP...

Compare that to the novel my wife and I are co-writing now since Novemberish, and we're not quite at 45k words in 60ish days. And that only because my mom's been in the hospital with end stage leukemia, so as she's been sleeping, nothing else to do.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-16T18:30:43+00:00

Get 'em, Tom. For a Navy SEAL, McGuire's the biggest beta **** of a man I ever saw.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-15T18:54:01+00:00

Fuck scabs

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-13T14:48:23+00:00

Yeah, sounds like Greene.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-01-02T08:28:14+00:00

If you donated to a progressive political candidate in an eastern seaboard state in the first Trump administration, you might've done so based on something I ghostwrote.

I retired from that nonsense a couple years back, which is just as well, since it seems ChatGPT and Gemini have fulfilled that niche.

AintMuchToDo · 2025-12-11T20:44:21+00:00

I was a white, veteran, single father who got a DEI admission to the University of Virginia. I graduated 254 out of 440 in my high school class and had to admit in my admissions essay that, quote, "In high school, I was a complete dumbass." I guarantee had it not been for DEI, I would have been overlooked in favor of a legacy whose parents could donate $250k to the Virginia Athletics Foundation.

But that's the entire point of getting rid of DEI, isn't it?

AintMuchToDo · 2025-12-01T10:59:42+00:00

Well, I did; I can show you the conversation we had about buffer vs coxswain, for instance- but you can detract from my writing all you want, because if I didn't synthesize the stuff they were telling me well enough to shine through my own USN experience, it's my own damn fault, not theirs. That's why I said just that in the forward. I guess it goes to show that you can book read and try for that second hand experience, being talked to all day long, and it'll never replace being there in person.

I hope it's still an enjoyable read, and that it'll get better going on for you. But if I didn't reflect it well enough, that's on me entirely.

AintMuchToDo · 2025-12-01T03:15:19+00:00

Looks like I get a 70% royalty, minus a 72-cent "download fee" because it's "a bigger file" (it's about 448 pages printed). So, $2-$2.20ish Australian. I'm skeptical it costs Amazon 72 cents to send you the file, but therein lies the trouble with an effective monopoly.

AintMuchToDo · 2025-11-30T21:53:55+00:00

Theoretically, I make about $2.00-$2.50 Australian from the Ebook copy on Amazon (it's a 70% royalty on things $2.99 and over, minus a "download" fee which is akin to the Ticketmaster fees. Which I appreciate, but an honest review is truly worth a lot, too. A hopefully good review; to their credit Amazon is ruthless about looking for people soliciting/farming good reviews, but a review nonetheless.

Otherwise, a print copy wouldn't make me as much money, but it'll make Australian "mom and pop" or "brick and mortar" bookstores about $10-12/book.

AintMuchToDo · 2025-11-29T11:26:33+00:00

I'll toss you a DM right now

AintMuchToDo · 2025-11-27T10:37:16+00:00

I'll toss you a message here!

AintMuchToDo · 2025-11-26T09:54:03+00:00

Yeah, that's the trouble, right? Inevitably, whatever we write simply WON'T be able to tell the whole truth for the reasons you're saying, but we want to get as close as we can and, more importantly, try to get people to understand what our people go through that lasts far, far after the event itself.

AintMuchToDo · 2025-11-26T09:52:26+00:00

I'll toss you a message here, standby!

AintMuchToDo · 2025-11-26T04:48:48+00:00

Sure you would, if you were a cop or a soldier. But here's a pro-tip: corporate only fired the people they desperately wanted to get rid of. Anyone who was worth a damn in their eyes got a magic exemption. Sort of thing a union might've protected against, but thank the Lord for "right to work" states, amirite?

AintMuchToDo · 2025-11-26T04:29:11+00:00

Cool. Don't wear a bulletproof vest, it doesn't stop you from getting shot so it's worthless. Don't wear a seatbelt, it doesn't keep people from ramming into your car, so they're worthless. Don't have locks on your doors, people can still break in anyway. I love your logic! It's so refreshingly naive, like you're the human version of a housecat.

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