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I sent emails back and forth with somebody who currently holds the same position yesterday and, from what I can tell, I don't know if I'd have the time to hang here during the work day let alone the ability. I'll be talking to her on the phone at some point today to ask a few more questions and I've got a feeler email out to the recruiter. I seem to be in good with all the freaking recruiters around here but I don't even recognize the name of this one! Guess I'll have to go at this one legitimately.

Hopefully not sidetracking things too early: I found an internal job posting within my company for a position I think I'd be a good fit for that could make somewhere in the neighborhood of double what I currently make. That's not to say it pays a ton...but for a 25-year-old with no degree it'll be a huge step in the right direction. I'm gathering info and will hopefully apply today or tomorrow.

I've worked in retaurants (as I'm sure many others here have) and that is inexusable. I have absolutely no qualm with not leaving a tip for horrible service.

Because you're getting weak in your old age, moot. I'm here to help.

Those were all excellent episodes, moot. Was that the entire first season? EDIT: Nevermind...I just looked. Those were from the first two seasons. According to Wikipedia, Poland was recently introduced to the show in 2007.

Tongue Shaving

"(Your) soul is less than (my) hunger"?

Read the first post.

Truth. I don't have a PS3 or 360 yet but I have a rack set up with just about every other popular game system going back to ColecoVision. I've recently been buying out the used PS2 game inventory at Newbury Comics and the clearance section at Best Buy. I'm stocking up for when the gf's little bro comes to visit. That's my excuse, anyway...

I saw this while scoping menus for promising grub around town this afternoon. This one's for Tater: http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o92/shadow1784/tater%20nuts/Smuuthies.jpg

Did a day at work without the LDL suck for anybody else?

Is Keanu Reeves getting married or something?

PhotoShop isn't the AntiChrist...it's just a gateway for him.

Um...yeah...that...no..."plained" - lacking ornament, free of extraneous matter, free of impediments to view. That kinda works too...wait...what? That's what happens when I post before coffee.

...could go with "Minty Fresh" and always cary some Tic-Tacs in a shirt pocket...or get a green pickguard... That just came to mind because Minty Fresh is the name of a character in a very funny book I recently read. Maybe I could even find a mint green suit.

"Silky (a white mouse when I was ~3) Seventeenth" doesn't really work for me. My next option has some potential, though: "Silky Central."

I like it. How 'bout: Hugh Manatee Hue Manatee (you could hold a coloring contest for the fans and have them paint little manatee models...and donate proceeds to the local zoo...or something)

So many things... I got my URB back from a bass player in the Boston Symphony who does repairs. He plained my fingerboard, put in a new sound post, adjusted the cut on the top of the bridge to fit the new finish of the fingerboard, set the bridge properly, put a new tail piece wire on and fixed the endpin which was starting to tilt at a dangerous angle. All for a steal at $150! REALLY looking forward to playing it tonight! Gig with the disco band went amazingly well. The Tri112L was a dream as was the fantastic sound guy the BL hired (their regular if the venue doesn't have sufficient PA & sound guy). BL asked me to be their regular sub since they haven't had the best of luck with bass subs in the recent past. Also asked if I'd consider taking the gig on full time if/when the current bass player moves away this Summer. They gig ~3x/month...and get paid better than I ever have as a band member. Only catch is I have to come up with a disco name. Current band members are: Linkavitch, PiXi StiX, Buck Nasty, Ebop, GingerSNAP, Disco Moto, Professor Spoon, Gold Fingah, Honeychild, Doc Voodoo, Siter Nancy and Sammy Funkenstein (who warned me to come up with something before they give me one since he put it off until they started calling him S**t F**k for lack of a name...which evolved into Sammy Funkenstein because of the initials). Maybe time for a thread about that... Picked up a wicked cheap Boss Bass Synth pedal off craigslist. I don't know if I'll get too much use out of it but I had fun playing with it for all of one intro at the gig. I can resell it for an extra $20 if I end up not wanting it. My Bassman400 head is now the heaviest piece of equipment I own at 45 lbs. I actually whined a little when loading and unloading it. What's happened to me?

On another subject: I'm about to leave for the gig with the funk band. Load-in is @ 5:30. This should be fun!

Come on, come over.

Yeah, I might have to drop Civic as well next season. It was good to keep me playing regularly after I moved to town but I've been making enough connections through it that I don't know if I need it anymore. It's starting to feel more like work than play anyway...which is no good if it doesn't pay.

This is awesome...I keep getting calls for classical gigs that pay well! A graduate of the NE Conservatory who used to play with me in the Boston Civic Symphony (who recently dropped out because she was getting too many paying gigs that conflicted with the schedule) has been passing on whichever gigs she can't play to me. I've already had to pass two of them off to other bass players I have on my sub list! Man I hope this keeps up...

Some people piss me off. That's all.

I concur with Flank's first post...not the pony thing. *shudder*