The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Heeeeyyyyyyy . . . my grandpa was an Aggie. So don't go knockin' it.

tm
Texas roots, really!

Never mind that he left in 1930 and basically never went back . . . .

Iron this
 

Okay, what's with fucking bandwidth-sucking ellipses? Brevity is the soul of wit, Lester.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

I'm not an Aggie, but I'm the offspring of one. When we were visiting Austin as kids, my dad used to comment that it'd be the place where we'd end up if we didn't study hard enough. He wisely never took us to College Station to show us the cesspool we'd end up in if, in his opinion, we did study. We even had a maroon and white suburban. It didn't work. A&M tried to lure me in their honors program with a free weekend on campus, and I fled the state.

A friend of mine is a sociology professor there. She says she could do YEARS of research of that cult.

More or Less
 

For years, I felt the same way about Hudson Hawk.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

Harden's only 3-1. Hell, Wells and Delgado are a hell of a 3 - 4 punch! Tear him up baby!

Less is More aka Learn to Edit
 

Lester tried subtlety and sarcasm. I'll go for baseball bat to the head.

When you hit "quote" to reply to a post, the button on your screen doesn't know which part of the post you want to quote, so it includes all of it. This does not mean you must leave it at way. Oh, no no no. You can put your cursor into the quote and delete anything from the quote of the original post the rest of us don't need to read again to appreciate the great wit of your response. And if there are a couple of things in the original post that you'd want us to read to put your reply into context, you can use an ellipsis, just like you did back in your 1L legal writing class. Imagine that. Something from law school is relevant to GA posting!!!

Wonky, I don't mean to pick on you alone and you are far from the worst offender, but you had the bad luck to over-quote when I was feeling cranky about it.

Fu(it always amazes me when Lester and I agree on something)gee

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Don't forget bonfires.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Although you have been a bit mean to me (NTTAWWT), I need to give you the kudos on that one. I usually let the discussion go on for some time and then point out to all involved that no one else really cares to hear any of it. It's like MIT and CalTech alumni arguing over who has the best liberal arts classes.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

MIT

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

In the spirit of the end of Friday, I am sorry I have been mean to you and I take it all back. Well, I don't take it back but I will endeavor to be less mean in future, unless you irritate or annoy me in any way.
Thank you! You are so sweet.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Perfect. May we all enjoy our Friday happy hours in peace (and absence of Texas school talk).

And to NotFromHere, my new hero, a nice weekend to you.

Friday Happy Hour Toast
 

To our dear FB friends in NYC and others without power:

We raise our chilled Martini glasses in your honor. Stay cool, folks and have a good weekend...

Bitching, please.
 

I am sick of the following work-related happenings:

people going out of town without providing status reports on the stuff they're doing and expecting you to cover for them

"covering" closings for other people (Dude, it's your transaction. Do you really want me coming in at the last minute and beating the other side up about issues you already (wrongly) caved on?

secretaries who don't even try to do a good job, no matter how much I kiss their asses, praise them when they do good work, etc.

clients who don't understand that it's not my fault that Bear Sterns can't run their computers by candlelight and that we JUST CAN'T CLOSE today

the other parts of my firm which can't get their shit together but which the partnership or others in charge just let slide because "that's just how [insert shitty department here] is"

and, last, but not least, whoever stole my free Starbucks coupon off my desk. FUCK YOU! I WILL GET YOU!

Craigslist poll
 

me: penske bedroom music is girlfriend in a coma:



careful, that's the kind of line Kobe was cracking a few months back

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Funny you should mention grandparental matriculation. There's a news story today about a liberal arts college in Maryland that offers financial aid enabling new students to pay the same tuition as their alumnus parent or grandparent. You coulda been an Aggie for, what, $2.50?

As for me, there's no way I would have survived my grandmother's college. It's a notorious party school, and she necessarily had a much higher alcohol tolerance, having been born on the Old Sod. I'm very glad she went, because as a result we evolved from Shanty to Lace Curtain in one generation. Sláinte, Grandma!

More or Less
 

Do attorneys have any obligation under SOX to report such "cash under the table" payments?

I too would be uncomfortable having someone clean my house, but I also know of at least one former assistant from a previous who is now cleaning houses part-time as a way to make ends meet. She's a single Mom and the firm reduced her hours to part time. If she is willing to provide a service, and I need that service, what is so demeaning about it? It's not like she has a pimp who's forcing her to scrub the toilet bowl.

Anne
Just back from DC. Are they ever going to finish all the construction projects down there? Every time I go there are more fences and memorials, and condo projects being built.

Bitching, please.
 

If it will make you feel any better, you can have my Starbucks 'credit card' that a vendor sent me. I don't drink coffee (or mocha chai latte's anyways so it just sets in my wallet).

Anne
Hate to see people having bad Fridays.

Bedroom theme music
 

Not that anyone still cares, but my bedroom theme music is:

• "Rock & Roll, Part I," Gary Glitter
• "Pump It Up," Elvis Costello
• "Theme from 'Shaft'," Isaac Hayes
• "Meet the G That Killed Me," Public Enemy
• "88 Lines About 44 Women," The Nails
• "Missionary Man," Eurythmics

Huh. I would have gone with "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" or "William, It Was Really Nothing" or "Hand in Glove" or "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" or "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me," but I won't tell you how to do your job.

Bitching, please.
 

Weren't you supposed to be getting your atm installed?

Bedroom theme music
 

now that is the atticus i know, fully internet empowered. thursday about 3:45 a member of my terror cell called and told me we were taking down the power grid at 4:10 so i didn't have time to look up smiths' songs. i just posted on the first that came to mind.

Bedroom theme music
 

if i had internet access i'd have posted "you've got everything now" or maybe "i don't owe you anything"

Less is More aka Learn to Edit
 

Bitch.

Tax(kisses, Fugee)wonk

More or Less
 

That depends. Is the house a registrant? Time for a little perspective here, kids. This SOX shit has the lawyers sounding like a bunch of Final Four accountants hawking the same lame tax shelter.

Wake up and smell the Pinesol
 

Are you all crazy? Do you really want to work GA hours and then spend your free time cleaning? There is nothing like coming home to a clean house.

The only thing to feel uncomfortable about is finding someone you can trust with a key to your house. I found my cleaning lady by calling a nearby wingnut church and had her come on Saturdays a couple times until I got comfortable with the idea. She has kids in pre-school and kindergarten and cleaning houses gives her more flexibility and money than she'd earn at a lot of part-time jobs. I don't know what I'll do when her kids are both in full-day school and she goes back to her real career of speech therapy.

Wake up and smell the Pinesol
 

Screw you. GA hours aren't that bad. Show me some associate complaining about GA hours and I'll show you an associate who doesn't know how to pad a bill.

Fucking amateurs.

review and revise draft contract: 4.2 hours
review documents re closing: 4.1
prepare for telco to V.Gina 2.5
telco to V.Gina .30
review correspondence from DOJ: 1.5
review informational matrix re closing: 1.0

Bedroom theme music
 

Very good Atticus, very good. Often most of what I post is at least 50% bullshit and the other half is partly embellished, but from time to time, fwiw, I actually go on the record and acknowledge the true reality of the fabulousness of me.

Back in the hippies dayz, on the boulevards of G-town, when I was in my Smiths faze, my bedroom song alternated between "Its Over" and "Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me".

In a nod to the vibe that BoL got, my roommate's song actually was Girlfriend in a Coma.

Apropos of none of that, on hazy, lazy, crazy doggie style dayz of summer evening, when the wife and kids are asleep, and I have my deck with a view to myself and there is half a bottle of Delille D2 breathing and waiting to be poured into the crystal to wash down some dilettante chocolate truffles, I might say the Smith's song would be "You've Got Everything Now" (and if BoL had predicted that he would have been hailed as a genius of Nostradamus proportions!). The only thing that would truly make it everything would be strippers with a heart a gold, if you know what I mean;);) <nudge> <nudge> NTTAWWT

Bedroom theme music
 

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Wake up and smell the Pinesol
 

Concur.

Wake up and smell the Pinesol
 

Yep. Me too.

More or Less
 

I'm guessing someone needs help with the old sarcasm meter.

I have no trouble hiring help, I don't think it is demeaning. The only reason I haven't thus far is I am a bit nervous about having someone running around inside my home.

More or Less
 

Whoops. My bad.

I'm with you and Fugee on the trust issue. That's my hang up. Unfortunately the person I know who does house cleaning lives about 30 miles from me.

Anne
Back to my scrubbing bubbles and loads of laundry.

More or Less
 

What's the big deal? Just make sure that all of your porno and sex toys (I'm guessing: vibrating eggs, ben wa balls, the jeff stryker strap-on apparatus et al) are locked up in a closet and you are the only one with the key.

More or Less
 

Where do you live, North Dakota?

Craigslist poll
 

you're from Hoboken?

More or Less
 

Yes, what with all the gay men wandering in and out, a housekeeper running around might cause an accident.

Bigmouth Strikes Again
 

I don't think you're showing proper appreciation for the enormous range of superficial knowledge necessary to Google as I do. You can't simply type "Morrissey bon mot tuxedo Koran" into the search box, you know. You've got to narrow it down a bit first or you'll wind up with too many hits.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

Str8, I know you're probably out picking flowers for the wedding or some such, but let me just thank you and your boys and can I say I told you so.

Tear Huddie up tonight!!!

More or Less
 

Well, as Idle suggests, all the gay men wandering in and out can be very distracting.

Frankly I was a little more concerned about the electronics, and other valuables, but I guess one could be worried about porn too. And of course, I am worried someone could take off with my pussycats and we couldn't have that.

I was thinking about getting one of those fireproof safes and then I thought gee, how generous of me to gift wrap everything valuable for the burgler in one place. That and I don't think the cats would want to stay in there.

More or Less
 

I have a cleaning woman. I got a recommendation from someone in the Firm. I trust her, and I think others mistrust is misplaced. A cleaning woman would be unlikely to take electronics. You'd come home and notice if the TV wasn't there. I don't leave cash lying around, and I don't really have any jewelry (although I suppose she could pocket my cufflinks).

As for bedroom songs...

Let's Get Lost, Chet Baker...or maybe...
Give It Away, Zero 7

clean me
 

We tried several cleaning services before we actually found people who didn't ruin stuff. We actually liked the "cleaning team" system (ala Maid Brigade, Molly maid etc). They are really fast and 4 people can do the work in like an hour, even while you're there and then they're gone and your place is all smelly fresh. As long as they're bonded, don't worry about them stealing shit, they need the job more than your stuff.

It's just that some of them are careless with the vacuum (hit your furniture, drag that black cord around corners leaving black marks on the walls). One nearly ruined the finish on a black lacquer piece by using the wrong rag. They offered to "fix" it, but it took weeks and lots of different chemicals to get the oily stuff out of the finish. Besides refinishing is not an option on some pieces.

Other than that, they're a lot more careful while you're there. But that was the old days, pre-student-loan days. Ah yes, carefree.