New England Off Topic and Banter as Most Brilliantly Proposed by Cape Cod MINI

[MetalMiniMayhem]

the girl sort of looks like Dakota Fanning..

[NoNo]

That's freaky. Not quite as freaky as the guy that just came to my door with a mask, a grim reaper-esque cape, and a Minnie Mouse doll playing "Lullabye".

Jared, good to hear. My dad had an incident like that a few years back. Scary as hell. Timmy was a clown. It's easier to tell when you see the whole outfit.

[GadgetGav]

Quote: Originally Posted by MetalMiniMayhem

yeah, no kidding.. I thought that too.. the whole digital kaleidoscope car thing has been done before.. I thought it was just me that noticed that...

Haven't seen the ads (thanks Tivo) but isn't the kaleidoscope thing being done by Hummer too..? I thought I'd seen H3 ads that I thought were Beetle ads...

[MetalMiniMayhem]

yep... same adv group, I'm almost certain of it... weird... they need a new gig, I'm thinkin'..

[NoNo]

Hehehe. Some kids just came to my door at the precise moment of the shower scene in Psycho. I flung the door open just as the violins started shrieking, dishing out candy while Janet Leigh is biting the big one on the tv behind me. High comedy.

[GadgetGav]

Anyone else scared by the fact that NoNo was threatening to go postal and is now watching Psycho..?? Be afraid, be very afraid..!

[NoNo]

Bwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

[kgouin]

Are those your kids Annette? They are adorable!!!

[jwardell]

Quote: Originally Posted by MetalMiniMayhem

it's the new Chevy HHR.. it's a pretty good looking SUV

3M you have truly gone too far now. I sincerely hope that you hit your head and not just your finger, because a fingernail isn't the only thing you're losing.
That HHR has looked like all the cheap crappy qualities of the PTCrapper, and now that I have seen it a few times on the road, it is even worse. What the heck kind of a name for a car (and that is NOT a truck) is Heritage High Roof??

Caught three mice in the house tonight, and also one last night. No room at this inn.

[GadgetGav]

Quote: Originally Posted by jwardell

What the heck kind of a name for a car (and that is NOT a truck) is Heritage High Roof??

Is that what it's supposed to stand for..? Lame. It's all just for their marketing thing of three letters isn't it, like SSR wasn't that the pickup...? How about the ..?

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Caught three mice in the house tonight, and also one last night. No room at this inn.

Who needs a cat if you can just catch them yourself...? Want to come over to our place, I've never seen our cat go for a real mouse. He plays with the toy ones, but has never brought us a dead (or alive) real one.

[jwardell]

They usually just play with them, but too violently that they don't quite survive...just as effective.

[pezboy]

Gavin, that's pretty bad considering your cat is gigantic.

[MGB Boy]

Anyone want any chocolates? The candy to trick-or-treater ratio was way off this year, and now I'm swimming in little Snickers and Milky Ways. Hmm? No takers? Oh well, I guess I'll take it in to work and fatten up the colleagues a bit more...

-Ricardo

[Actual Size]

Quote: Originally Posted by MGB Boy

Anyone want any chocolates? The candy to trick-or-treater ratio was way off this year, and now I'm swimming in little Snickers and Milky Ways. Hmm? No takers? Oh well, I guess I'll take it in to work and fatten up the colleagues a bit more...

Just send it all to terrylynne.

[NoNo]

MILKY WAYS!!!! Please.

No, those were my neighbors, but the little boy is my godson. Sort of. We never actually got around to doing the paperwork.

As for my fit of homicidal rage last night, I'm rather frustrated at work. I asked my boss what I thought was an innocent enough question: If I were doing this training offsite, I'd be able to call it a day after class ended (it's 6 hours, plus an hour for lunch). But, because the training facility changed things and made me take it online, and therefore from the office, I have to put in 8 hours, simply because I'm sitting in the office? How was that fair? If you've ever sat through a programming class you know that after 6 hours your mind is mush. How they expect to get an additional two hours out of me, I don't know. Now my boss and I are on good terms, hang out after work, that kind of stuff. She's really cool and usually very accomodating. Well she fired back this email and it was in her official "business voice". Something to the effect of "we're doing you a favor by letting you better yourself through these classes, and you're expected to put in an 8 hour work day." I guess it wasn't so much what she said as it was the way she said it. The tone was so unlike her. But it just annoyed the hell out of me that I'm the one doing them a favor, and this is the thanks I get. I'm learning a completely new skill set, something completely different from what I went to school for. I'm doing it so that I can essentially double my work load (I'll still have to do my mapping on top of designing/maintaining applications now) but without a change in title or any additional pay. And she's going to get snippy with me because I asked a question? Just made me realize how little they care about you in this company and how they'll work you into the ground so long as they get what they want. I thought "Why am I doing this? What's my incentive to do anything for these people?" I've gone to every conference I could, every training class offered, and now changing my job duties and what do I get for it? Nothing. So either I just stop trying, or I move on. I have to start looking out for number one. That's my rant for the day. I'm sitting here now killing time. They can make me come in for 8 hours, but they can't make me do any work.