Ohh, boy...

You know, I probably need to get a SCC and a SPN beta for this story so I can be told exactly how AU I've made it since my knowledge of SCC (especially second season) is mostly from TWoP reviews and osmosis from Lithy and Diya. And SPN is just based on my own recollections except when i decide I absolutely have to know an important point...

Sometimes there is the distinct possibility that fanfic is more trouble than its worth.

Burn Notice - Asset Management 101

Title: Asset Management 101
author: jebbypal
rating: everyone
summary: Every management techique has an asset that it won't work for.
author note: Unbeta-ed. Written for challenge 28 of winter_deaddrop: Asset
word count:254

Managing assets is a bit like managing parents. Or, from what I’ve observed, managing in-laws that have come to visit without specifying a departure date. One must carefully define and catalog each safe and unsafe topic. Except with assets, one will occasionally utilize unsafe topics to generate a desired response. Since I’ve never had in-laws (or at least, I’ve only had them for as long as I needed to maintain a cover), I only assume that this would be a frowned upon activity. Unless you spouse detests their parents. Of course, like all good management plans, even this one can be neutralized (sometimes this actually means backfire). The key to successful asset management is to quickly identify the personality and exactly how they will respond to regulation tactics.

Case-in-point: Fiona.

Within twenty minutes of meeting my brand new (and hot, in more than one way) IRA asset, I knew that I had to throw my entire book of asset management techniques out the window. Unsafe topics only generated fights, and there is little that Fiona enjoys more than fights. Safe topics could be rendered unsafe depending on her mood, her clothing, her drink, or the color of the sky.

In fact, the best way that I have found to manage Fiona involves going along with whatever she wants to do.

When gathering intelligence on IRA terrorists, it was a management technique that worked. When trying to discover who burned me so I could leave Miami and resume my jet-setting spy ways, not so much.

New Burn Notice Fic

Title: Asset Management 101
author: jebbypal
rating: everyone
summary: Every management techique has an asset that it won't work for.
author note: Unbeta-ed. Written for challenge 28 of winter_deaddrop: Asset
word count:254

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Asset Management 101

\0/ and NY Resolultions (a bit late, sue me)

Have I mentioned how much better my brain feels once the psuedophedrine leaves it? Seriously, my brain must be wired differently because I don't see how people would pay to feel that jumpy and shit. Fingers crossed the ears cooperate.

Okay, so here we are to NY resolutions, which while they can be annoying as hell, I figure this year I actually feel like making some.

1) Write enough each week to make a post on at least one of the several WIP that I'd like to actually finish....though one will be held until it is actually finished as it hasn't seen the light of day for some years. *feeds frog*

2) Resume some form of physical activity on at least a twice weekly basis! Should have taken a photo of my parents to provide myself with visual incentive.

3) Plan and price a vacation that I can afford somewhere this year. Preferably with human interaction instead of all on my lonesome. (I have about 19 days to use, 4 of which must be done before end of march as they are carryover, and our company does not give the option of paying you money for any amount of unused time).

4) #3 is contingent upon maintaining my savings account above the point of having more than 2 months rent in it for emergencies.

5) Kick myself in the ass to remember to find some sort of friends in the area to do things with. Though of course, this is also hampered by my gut instinct that me and most people in the area are not compatible (this may or may not be an issue with almost every single place on earth, but I think this place may have an even higher concentration of incompatibility).

6) Get in, and stay in, better touch with my small circle of really good friends. I've been far too lax on this in the past decade, and as more and more of them have gotten married, careers, and/or had kids, it's not gotten any easier. Use it or lose it, baby.

7) Pass 5000 posts, preferably before my LJ anniversary (yes, this is just petty and weird). Also, post more public posts because I doubt anyone really cares about reading my flocked whining.

Umm, think that's it for now.

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