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Quote of the Day; also, siege warfare in ancient Greece and Rome
A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)
---Dave Barry
That holds for all customer service jobs, I think. :-)
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Today was Memorial Day, so the smoke shop closed early: 6pm rather than 9pm. Business was very, very slow all afternoon, which meant I spent most of my time reading random entertainment industry magazines, and then reading several articles on siege warfare in the ancient Hellenic world.
A few months ago we started carrying a magazine called, IIRC, Ancient Warfare among our other military magazines. I am not much interested in the minutiae of WWII or the Civil War, but articles on pre-gunpowder warfare, even skewed toward Greece and Rome and sometimes in dire need of a copy editor (and, given that this is a mass market magazine, probably of dubious scholarly rigor), are fascinating and often of use as background information in world-building. *grin*
---Dave Barry
That holds for all customer service jobs, I think. :-)
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Today was Memorial Day, so the smoke shop closed early: 6pm rather than 9pm. Business was very, very slow all afternoon, which meant I spent most of my time reading random entertainment industry magazines, and then reading several articles on siege warfare in the ancient Hellenic world.
A few months ago we started carrying a magazine called, IIRC, Ancient Warfare among our other military magazines. I am not much interested in the minutiae of WWII or the Civil War, but articles on pre-gunpowder warfare, even skewed toward Greece and Rome and sometimes in dire need of a copy editor (and, given that this is a mass market magazine, probably of dubious scholarly rigor), are fascinating and often of use as background information in world-building. *grin*