Dad and I may not have always agreed on everything,
It's a lead-pipe cinch that Sweet Sr. was right 100 per cent of the time. Jon's never right about anything.
but he supported me and my dreams, and I know he was very proud of me.
The last two decades have clearly demonstrated that he shouldn't have supported Jon, shouldn't have been proud of Jon, and would have abandoned such feelings by now were he alive today.
He used to like it when I did my funny voices for him,
Uh-huh. And Jon had a hot girlfriend in college.
esp., I think, my Edward G. Robinson impression. "Look alive, ya mugs, see? You'll never take me alive, copper. Nyeh...nyeah...nyeeeeah."
So, basically, Jon was never original, and never funny. Sheesh.
I would be more sympathetic, but this post, in addition to a previous post he made sometime back, does less to show a love for his dad than it does to say "Poor me." He doesn't say anything about, say, the stuff he did with his dad, or his smile, or anything like that. It's all about Jon. What he does say is that his dad was proud of him and supported his dreams, but later on, he mentions that his mother discouraged him from starting another shop. It's kind of evident through this whole post that Jon is trying to make himself seem important, (read
relevant) to his 'family,' which, in his household, consists of his mother.
Check out his passively self-congratulatory attitude about his presence at his house.
I've been spending most of my time helping out my family in this time of need.
By doing what? Average chores that would barely serve as a challenge to a nine-year old?
It's times like this I'm glad I work at home and make my own hours,
Sweet does not work, thus he does not make his own hours. He sits around, stuffing himself with lard on the taxpayer's dime, listening to right-wing blather and dreaming up silly revenge schemes over horribly mis-percieved slights.
because a 9-to-5 simply wouldn't permit the leeway I need.
He doesn't need that much leeway.
My mom was wise to discourage me from trying to open another shop so soon after the second one tanked,
Yes, because she knew that Jon was hopelessly incompetent, and that any attempt on his part to open a can of corn without someone thoroughly explaining it to him would result in fire and jail. Opening another shop - something that Sweet cannot figure out how to do to this very day - would be a complete waste of time.
because I shudder to think what would happen here if I was off at work and was unable to be reached, or couldn't reach home in time.
She'd survive in perfect health, without her cowardly son watching in terror, waiting for it all to go away before calling 911. There'd likely be
less risk with Jon away at the time of crisis.
He also discusses his recent output:
I've also nearly finished the research and data-gathering for the apology to the Red, Yellow, and Blue trade paperback,
He ... what?
Okay, "research and data-gathering"? Two ways of saying the same thing. He's putting this information together
"for the apology" to a book he's supposed to have put out quite some time ago. What's the apology for? You're guess is as good as mine.
Oh, of course, it goes without saying:
Red, Yellow, and Blue will be garbage and won't sell.
and am reformatting some old Microsoft Word files I had copied of my Win 98 (the formatting, for some reason, screwed up, and everything is weirdly spaced, which means painstakingly fixing the text, line after line) for my next book.
An easy fix if Jon had any competence with computers or their applications. Sadly ...
