If you’re genuinely interested, go back to them and repeat that. A good recruiter still misses things - depending on the role, we can get inundated with applications and sometimes you just don’t catch things.
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I have known good recruiters. I’ve also, alas, known ones who just wanted to put forward as many candidates as possible on the basis that one of them might fit, and by the time that agency gets blacklisted they’ll have moved on somewhere else.
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We were giving out (factory-packaged) bags of popcorn and had 140 to give out; 20 remained at the end of the night, suggesting 120 trick-or-treaters. The actual result may have been higher as we were also giving out glow-stick bracelets and some of the trick-or-treaters may not have realized they could take both.
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You got fence-post problems, I’m telling you son,
You’ve got 99 problems but you count 101.
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After an evening at Pub Choir I am feeling wonderful.
SO much fun. Thoroughly recommended.
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So our tire fell off today.
Like, rubber tire no longer on rim.
Haven’t seen that one before.
Yesterday the babysitter said the pressure was low and we assumed it was the arctic blast, just go top it off… fortunately this was caught in the driveway before we drove away on the rim.
Changing tires - one of those skills you hopefully use less than 10 times in your life but you really need it when you need it. Fortunately all those steps are still in my brain.
Should be back on the road by nightfall.
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Happened to me once. Popped right off the rim. Very scary. Luckily I was going through tyres monthly at that point
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“Du hast wohl ein Rad ab”
(apparently your tire came off. The idiom means “you must be crazy”. There’s also “Ich glaub ich dreh am Rad” which means “I think I am going crazy” with literal translation being “I think I am turning a wheel” )
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I tested positive for Covid today 
This might be directly connected to my previous post
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What were you doing to go through tyres monthly?!
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Terrible car, terrible driver, terrible roads.
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And there we have the salad.
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Back on April 14th of this year, I submitted a short story titled “Mech Bay Blues” to the Battletech fiction magazine (“Shrapnel”).
Yesterday, 212 days after I submitted it, they responded to say they like the story very much, but could I make a few editing changes (for example, Mech is always written 'Mech, but that single quote is actually a right single quote, and “Dropship” is written “DropShip” and so on).
But they like it!
So I did all the edits yesterday and resubmitted it directly to the editor. I’m hopeful that it won’t take another 7 months to respond this time… and cautiously optimistic that I might have a professional-rate story sold this year! And, if I’m really lucky, I can submit a few other short stories I’ve written (and will write) in the Battletech universe and they might buy those too (or, dare I dream, buy a novel…).
One step at a time. They haven’t bought the story yet, and they could still change their mind. But exciting.
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Heyyyy that’s great news! Well done! The short story market is tough.
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