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It sounds like he should be looking for a nanny!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

http://home.earthlink.net/~hrabbin/custpics/mpoppinkidsv.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.project-hope.net/images/sanctuary/nanny.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

I think I have a megalomaniacal side.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

I think I have two.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

you always have to one-up me!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

That's what I'm talking about!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

I'm off now kiddywinks, y'all have yourselves a great w/e now y'hear?!! Adios!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

it's like the job is a girlfriend that I don't get along with anymore, but I don't want to have to WATCH someone else have their way with either.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

ps, ttfn, pp

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

No, that would be kinda pervy. You should stand up on you desk and say, "THIS IS KINDA PERVY!" until it stops.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, there's just no way for me, being megalomaniacal, paranoid, hypersensitive and vengeful to live in this city anymore.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

Are you kidding? It sounds like you will have lots to do to feed your neuroses!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

I know what you mean about being critical of someone whose work is replacing you. I used to take pictures for a website and had to discontinue that work some time ago. I still feel all superior when I see the latest pics they've put up, because I was SO MUCH BETTER than the current photographers. I like to go and look at the pics just to feed my ego. I think I've gotten over the insanely-jealous-because-I-loved-that-damn-job bit. Partly maybe. Kind of.

Whoooooooooo Kate! You should fit some beer into that doing-nothing.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

hey, Julia, maybe you and I should start up some kind of Irreplaceably Us magazine or something together.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

Today I made some bad art using photoshop and some ilxor favs.
http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Dec/200312127670016089256743.jpg

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Dec/200312125227197854874472.jpg

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Dec/200312123702549351694203.jpg

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Dec/200312128252344410395206.jpg

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

WHoo hoo! I'm in a work of bad art!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

That final one of me is truly unsettling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

Are you a raver, Ned?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

I am everything and nothing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

it actually makes you look like a woman.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

Sounds good, Horace. (xp--Chris, you totally rock photoshop)

When I had to leave my software testing job, there was this software that only I worked with, and it involved a lot of workaround coding so I had to learn the code and all of the little dances you had to do to get around bugs. You tilt your hip just so...

I'd written out super-detailed instructions for the people who replaced me, but they never got the software to work again and had to abandon the stuff that the company had spent shitloads of cash on because they weren't as good as me.

And naturally I was evilly happy to hear this.

This is the thread where I get all vain to try to evade feeling a bit worthless right now.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

My boss to me about fifteen minutes ago:
"Have you put in your manual how to reach the various county websites?"

me: "No, because anyone who has ever used the internet knows how to do that."

Him: "I am interviewing several people who have never used the internet before so you have to consider it!"

He also asked me to write out instructions on how to find out someone's phone number without their address and vice versa.

I guess this means he plans to hire someone who is really stupid?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm, has the deadline passed on this?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha, Mr. Mann.

What's especially funny (well, kind of) is that almost everyone has asked for a higher salary than I would have been getting had I stayed!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

"Be sure to type out those instructions on how to type! Also maybe a page or two about how to read -- I can imagine that being handy for some of these applicants!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

One more.

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Dec/200312123237886609861112.jpg

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

I dig his Arsenio finger.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

You think I joke Sarah?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

You don't want to move to Richmond, Huck.

I am sick of work today. No, I am calling in sick to work today. Well, e-mailing.

Right now, my cat is on my chest as I type this on my bed, and she seems pretty happy with the whole arrangement. I live to serve!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

Are you playing into my contrarian nature, Chris? Counting on the idea that the more people tell me not to do something, the more likely I am to do it?
Fuck, yeah! Richmond! Is it warm there? It was minus 33 (windchill incl.) here this morning. Would I be free to lick lampposts? Free from tuque-head? Free from darkness from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m.? Plus, as I understand it, Va is for lovers!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah but Sarah and Nick are leaving, so they'll have to revise that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

Also you'd have to learn to call it "hat-head" (It took me a while to figure out what Anth was saying when he said I had tuque-head, and I was well prepared!).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Also they get hurricanes, which -- OK, hurricanes are cool, forget I mentioned it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

It is a balmy 45 degrees F. right now in Richmond. It is dark from about 5:00 PM until about 7:00 AM though. We get hurricanes and earthquakes.

Chris, Sarah and I are totally going to use your bad art of us for the Petrified Forest album if it's ever done.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

Cool. I want $. ;)

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

It is now 44 degrees. There is a projected low today of 24 and high of 51. Sunny.

You know, I love Richmond, but I also love Virginia in general. There are lots of people here (ie: almost all of my friends) who complain that it sucks all the time. I say, if you don't like it, move! I'm not really moving because I don't like it, but because I would like to try living in a bigger city that has more going for it culturally. Also, I want to try out not living in the south.

If you were serious about having my job, why didn't you ask a long time ago?! I could have easily hooked you up. My boss would much prefer me to tell him who to hire than to have to go through all these interviews.

But I'm sure that, honestly, you would not want to work with him, though I am certain you would be the person to put him in his place.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

shit, wrong thread!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

man im bored.
http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Dec/200312122973361237289803.jpg

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

My black eyes make me look soulless in that pic.

Black Hole SUn, won't you come...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

A telemarketer just called for my boss. When I came on the line she said, "I asked for #$#% #$%$##!" I said, "I'm his assistant, how may I help you?" She goes off on this long boring schpiel that she's obviously reading from a script. I interrupt her, "Excuse me, do you have anything you could just FAX or mail to us and we could take a look at it?" She proceeds to tell me this is a GREAT opportunity and she is so busy with people who are actually interested in the product over the phone that she is not going to waste her time talking to me!

OTCH.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

"But you just did!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Uh huh. She already wasted some of my time.

I'm being crazy and wearing my hair down at my desk right now. You know, Friday afternoon - letting it all hang out.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

It's not like they're gonna fire you, you might as well let it ALL hang out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

What does that entail exactly, Casuistry?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

Well, I don't know, I'm not a lady.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

as george jones used to say of dolly parton: "i can think of two big reasons..."

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

I'm gone, probably for the whole weekend. Luna, remember your vow!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

Later, Huck!

I've still got an hour and a half left of work today. I'm still hammering away at these expense reports. Blah. But soon I will be home for the weekend. :)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

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