I'm watching History Channel and they mentioned a saloon in San Fran surviving prohibition by becoming a restaurant, yeah? "They served oysters and clams." My reaction was an involuntary "Oh..."-type groan of desire ( Read more... )

...please move along. Or rather read this amusing Pearls Before Swine strip and then move along.

Okay, so I got myself set up with an orientation at the employment office in Hackensack at 2 tomorrow and even scored the info sheet they want us to fill out. So yay me being ahead of the game. Of course this does mean I had fun getting lostish in this ( Read more... )

Marketing FX, Inc. wants me. They really like me, They've called, they've emailed, they want an interview tomorrow ( Read more... )

I was going to do a nice frivilous post here, but since I just got let go.... I won't.

From the maintainer of FF.org, via slacken_ties"FF were in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge half an hour ago where they performed new single 'Walk Away' and also covered Gwen Stefani's 'What You Waiting For?' with a slice of Billy Idol's 'White Wedding' thrown in for good measure ( Read more... )

Sigh. Poor dead NOLA.

Rebuilding New Orleans may be futileOn the other hand, the Quarter is gonna make an awesome Atlantis in a couple centuries. Wait a minute. ::cries more ( Read more... )

I can't even explain the sort of "training" I'm getting here. "Here are some tutorials, mess around with that, I'll be looking at Maine Coon cats to adopt." Oooookay ( Read more... )

Ta, airline scum! No, wait, I still love airlines on principle, and I'll still salute every NWA plane I see (along with any of our SkyTeam partners; and JetBlue; and any Hilton family property), I'm just going to cease holding back any Henry-Rollins-at-the-airport style rants. Lemme give you all some facts of airtravel ( Read more... )

Just caught the tail end of the Daria episode "Misery Chick," and it made me part nostalgic and partly... depressed? Something. Go figure.

Put in my notice at work tonight. Sigh. I'm gonna miss the people again. Not sure how I'll function in that tiny office, but... we'll find out. Please God don't let me fuck this up.

So...AmEx called back today. I'm starting on the 21st.

Kids, I'm working Mon-Fri, 8:30 to 5, two weeks paid vacation, six personal days, holidays off with pay, $100 a month towards health insurance, 401k, plus some otehr random cash and time for fam (familiarization) trips.

Erm..... wow?

And: Jon wants to sing "Take Me Out" at Ronnie. Karaoke-