In the book, it looks like Sheridan's position was US AID FSR 4

from other sources, FSR 5 was equivalent to an army captain, and was for technicians.
FSR 5 was lower than FSR 4.

FSR 4 was reserved for supervisory jobs.

There were in-grade promotions...if you did good, you could get one per year.

So Sheridan's FSR 4 status means he wasn't bottom rung..Makes the $20k sound more plausible..

In fact, Sheridan's character brags that FSR 4 is equivalent to brigadier general..I suppose in pay scale!

Basically, Sheridan's treated me like an ass.

He doesn't deserve any extra kid-gloves handling from me.

He dug his own hole. He's a Marine, he can dig his way out.

The only constraint: I acknowledge he's 92 years old. So elder abuse is a fair thing to be concerned about.

Well, that didn't take long. I went out for a bite to eat and when I got back I had an email waiting for me from Bobby B declaring that he has an existing claim to publish Petey's book - saying they entered into an agreement to publish several years ago, with emails, etc. to prove it.

Now this could be One Hellava Mud Wrestling Match!

Well, that didn't take long. I went out for a bite to eat and when I got back I had an email waiting for me from Bobby B declaring that he has an existing claim to publish Petey's book - saying they entered into an agreement to publish several years ago, with emails, etc. to prove it.

Now this could be One Hellava Mud Wrestling Match!

Will Bobby be represented by Mickey, Dickey, and Howe? 

Sheridan had the book for sale online. He wanted it available to the public then and now. He said Amazon took it down. I dont think that is accurate but what he did make clear is that he did not remove it.

Snow is restoring online sale of the same book at the same site where it previously resided, Lulu. He is sending 100% of any income to Sheridan.

You can get all lawyered up and indignant or you can look at it another way.
A train got derailed. Some good snaritan is putting it back on the track, for free.

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Ask to see a copy of Blevins' contract and his filing socalled!     Blevins has threatened people for years and people gave in to him - he has never shown his cards once relying on fear and intimidation to get his way. He may have Sheridan intimidated. Ask to see his contract with Sheridan!   

Petey getting in bed with Bobby B?

Whew, I never saw that one comin'.

Speaking of RMB, he set a personal record for most emails sent to me within a two-hour period - 7. He's crowing like a rooster. I can hear him all the way from Auburn. Sigh.

Of course he would try to get some elderly guy nailed down, in Cooperland. That's what Bobby is all about. That was his tactic with Kenny and his elderly family and friends, why not Petey! That was visible from 500 miles away. Bobby knows who to pitch to -   

Bruce:
Here's how I think of it.

Remember in 1971 when we went to the Grateful Dead concert at Gaelic Park in NY, and it was the first time you dropped acid, and I taped the concert with a mike taped to the end of a crutch I held upside down on my shoulders? And we played that tape endlesslly on road trips and at parties. And finally I said "You know, I'm going to put this on the web. Everyone should hear it"

The only questions are should it be free or should I collect money for Sheridan. And what price to put on it if so. And whether Sheridan doesn't want his name on it as author.

Information wants to be free. Welcome to the brave new world. Remember when bands panicked and started suing when mp3's were being distributed surreptiously? Those who embraced the future and went to a mp3 distribution model succeeded.

Fighting the digitization of the world, fails.

Sheridan has some bad writing habits. It's interesting to see the sentence structures he repeatedly uses.

His overuse of the word "however" is painful at times.

One punctuation thing I'm wrestling with, is how he frequently uses semicolon, then "however" between two phrases that are opposing thoughts.
It would read better, if the however was removed..2 short sentences would be better...it's not necessary to point out to the reader that the thoughts go against each other.

In the original document, there is no comma after however.
But, the better usage is to add a comma so it it flows better for the reader. My microsoft word suggests that style

Example:
Original
Grecco both admired and despised Max; however if he had known Max's parents, he might have felt more conciliatory.

My edit:
Grecco both admired and despised Max; however, if he had known Max's parents, he might have felt more conciliatory.

These are the things I worry about, not RMB.

But Sheridan likes long complex sentences with lots of clauses. He just needs some commas. Sometimes he has unnecessary commas. He also is weak at recognizing all the places that need hyphenated words.

He's stunningly good at getting all his Vietnamese nouns spelled correctly everywhere. And names and places..all accurate with the same spelling everywhere. It stuns me that he did this 11 years ago when he was 81.