They had the first part of the auction of the horses belonging to the woman who stole billions of dollars from Dixon, IL. The live auction is this weekend - this woman owned 100s of horses.
100s.
Xander: I still don't get why we came here to get info about a killer snot monster. Giles: Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
'Never Leave Me'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Sep 21, 2012 1:33:04 pm PDT #22972 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Sep 21, 2012 1:36:40 pm PDT #22973 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, Steph. At least you have good new folks now.
I was just listening to the Aisha Tyler interview with Nathan Fillion and he spent time in my ancestral home of Trois Rivieres, Quebec! In a government program to get kids outside of Quebec speaking French.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2012 1:42:58 pm PDT #22974 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, yeah, that requires some nuclear bitching.
I was just given a ... very professional come to Jesus talk about my platform and my project. My manager has been sitting on an issue since February that my boss just heard about from the CIO, and he's FURIOUS. Uh, I reported it in February up my chain of command? And I repeatedly don't think it's appropriate to go over her head? (Once I asked the CIO a question without clearing it with my boss, and he went pretty nuclear on me then...) I don't always know where to step.
But he was calmly furious. It wasn't like the time he yelled at me. But we have a serious application defect, and I've been begging and borrowing developers to work on it for half a year, and it's still not fixed. If I'm not officially assigned resources, there's very little I can do. Politely, I defended the few developers that pretended to work on it, but the current developer is telling me how little they did...
I don't even know who to believe right now. My ass isn't on the line, but my rep is.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2012 1:43:51 pm PDT #22975 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, the shooting thing was allegedly Kelly Preston.
Jesse - Sep 21, 2012 1:46:34 pm PDT #22976 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, my fucking cable. Now it's not showing anything and the best she could do was suggest I go to their office in the morning to get a new box. I hate my cable!
Jesse - Sep 21, 2012 1:49:01 pm PDT #22977 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sheesh, ita. Sounds like you're in a no-win situation.
And I just realized if I get a new cable box, I will lose all of the movies I have carefully been taping off the HBO for when I cancel it! Boooo.
Edit: And of course I un- and re-plugged it and that made it work...for now.
JenP - Sep 21, 2012 2:02:47 pm PDT #22978 of 30001
OMG, someone make me do my dishes, please. Jesus.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2012 2:05:11 pm PDT #22979 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sounds like you're in a no-win situation.
Who doesn't hate you if you escalate over them? I'm under instruction to be all business with the users that escalated, but nah. That's not how I work. I'm not going to do them favours or stuff, but I'm a sympathetic ear, I take them seriously, and I agitate in their favour over IT's, because no one else will. I consider that my job responsibility as a Business Systems Analyst. To be the avatar for the business when talking to IT, and the avatar for IT when talking to the business, but using the same language as everyone else in the room.
Liese S. - Sep 21, 2012 2:11:36 pm PDT #22980 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yup, that's absolutely it, and a vital role at that. But you know what you can't do? Magic.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2012 2:19:43 pm PDT #22981 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ah, well.
I just called a co-worker for something, and he said "Cool cool cool" as he was signing off. I freaked! I was all "Wait! Don't hang up! You watch COMMUNITY????"
And then we blabbered mindlessly for five minutes (at some point previously he took a picture of my Abed and Troy mug and posted it online...and I think that's hysterical), and now I'm going to drive the fancy car back to the dealership and I will consider the abbreviated work week to have ended on an uptick.