I'm free today – other days I'm reasonable.

I'm sure the above will get lost in translation – but here goes an explanation.

When I came “Up To Dublin” from “The Bogs” I was a raw inexperienced young lad – but I had ambitions.

One of these centred around the more experienced girl, who was secretary to the Big Boss.

During training and set up of my employee record, and getting a listing of my duties, and being introduced, she was my handler.

Apparently my performance at the oral interview was even at that early stage of my short career in The Civil Service gaining me some notoriety.

Down home I was appearing in an amateur production of Walter Macken's Home Is The Hero, playing the part of Manchester Monaghan, and came to the interview in character – explaining “I don't normally look as scruffy as this but I'm playing a Teddy-boy in a play.”

That rainy day in Dublin, three men sat in a hot stuffy room asking questions of young nervous candidates, until late in the afternoon, when I arrived on the scene.

We laughed, and joked about my appearance and the play and the part, and I gave a short performance and somewhere along the way these men decided – we like this youngster – and we will employ him.

So weeks later there I am dreaming of a date with Mary, full of the joys of spring, hoping I had a reputation as a ladies man: so I asked her out.

“Mary, what night are you free? The reply put me firmly back in my box. “I'm not free any night! But most nights I'm reasonable.”

So for Monday and Tuesday – the kindle edition of my book is Free and Reasonable.

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Do I really need to be #(number sign) Lazarian?

In the dim – getting dimmer every day – and distant past when I joined the Airline I was introduced to a “Computer” .

IBM told us “This Computer sent the men to the Moon!” Its introduced to Ireland as an IBM platform for European marketing, was to run the International Programmed Airline Reservation System – IPARS. In other words it would enable computerised bookings for passenger details for flights.

By the way - when used as a chat up line - the answer to “What do you do?” being “I work on the computer that sent the men to the moon” was a killer.

We worked on small 12 inch screens with a green glow – we wondered if it was radioactive – and an attached keyboard.

This is where the symbols come in. To enter a name you prefixed it with The Name Item -: a dash.

Explaining it this way is going to get tedious and uninteresting – when all I want to talk about is the @ and # keys -so I will just simulate a booking!

-Lazarian/Wordsmith/Mr <Return Key> which we called the enter key.

Then a slashed zero was used to enter the flight details, a 9 preceded the phone number and a 6 the identity of who made the booking – 6PAX.

But when you wanted to change any of these details as the booking proceeded and you made a “Small Mistake” or as we began calling it a “Deliberate Error” like messing up the phone number we used the CHNG to rectify the error 91234567@2345678. Not an AT key then a CHNG key.

And the # key in communications to denote a number only.

Happy days – when a phone sat on a desk and you left it behind you at COB – Close Of Business – and a Mobile hung over babies' cot.

Oh! Look...#IBM #EarlyComputers #GettingTooOldforThis and my Spell Checker suggested #GoodForNothing.....

Bloomsday 2014

In honour of Blooms Day, I'm going to have my cereal and tea and go for a long walk.

 I'll sing a few songs along the way, then after I will meet my Pals and have a few pints, and sing a few more songs. 

Perhaps as an extra party piece I will play the comb. 

Then I will slowly meander back home and collapse into bed.

Well - that's about all Joyce did - on 16 June 1904!

And we have to continually read and hear about it since.

When I was fourteen I started to read Ulysses, perhaps I will have it finished in a few weeks time!

My Book is available for a week of the Amazon Countdown Deal - 5 Stars and a 3 star review, so far.

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The Knowledge Seekers and The Land Of Cudhabeen is available for a week on the Amazon Countdown Deal.

So far two 5 Star and one 3 Star reviews.

5.0 out of 5 star A fascinating book about Irish legend 9 June 2014

By Frances Cave

Lazarian Wordsmith weaves Irish legend and history into a book written from his own poetic viewpoint. He includes some of his evocative poetry which sheds a special light on this country where magic and legend still hold so much sway. For visitors to Ireland, this book should be read alongside a standard travel guide. For those who know the county well, it will be an added ingredient to the great melting-pot of Celtic mystery.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good read 3 June 2014

By Emma Tackney

I would endorse this book to anyone who is interested in Irish culture from the first settlers to the computer literate generation of today. The Twitter and Micro-poetry poems use a minimum of words to convey emotion and social comment.

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Wordsmith, June 2, 2014

By Michael Sweeney

The author has a unique style and is expert at telling a story in an entertaining and interesting way.
Some of his stories have echoes of Flann O'Brien's "At Swim Two Birds"
He obviously cares about language and his work is true art.