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Empire Avenue Etiquette
A beginner’s guide to life on Empire Avenue Okay here’s some quick dos and donts in regards to Empire Avenue the online social networking site where you buy and sell shares in influencers. (And yes, influencers are people — which means that you are buying and selling pieces of people. This tends to cause some confusion.) Hopefully the following helps newcomers avoid embarrassing or awkward situations. Don’t Write: “Sweet… I own him now.” Do Write: “What an astounding influencer! I am greatly pleased that I have purchased shares in such a dynamic individual.” Comment: Most of the standard ways of discussing economic transactions when applied to Empire Avenue tend to…
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Back from Vacation
Been away for several days visiting family back in the homeland. Very pleased that I had the iPad this time around. In the past I’ve brought one of my laptops and I have to say that the iPad was more useful than they. I had no problems with battery life, maybe not quite getting 10 hrs but close and much of it on borrowed wifi. For draft writing (I finished a good portion of initial planning on the second novel) and semi-formal blog posts, the iPad is more than sufficient. Not certain I’d want to use it for final draft material but on the short vacations I take, that is…