As Bushie's World Turns (The Update Thread)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

When he looks at Obama, he sees the faces of his Kenyan children.

Aha!  I knew E would nail it. 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Things have changed dramatically just over the last 5 hours. First of all, the opportunity in Kansas busted.  That wasn’t the end of it, though.  I got a call from a firm in, guess…, Utah, Ogden, Utah.  I’ve got a job up there as a junior web developer if I want it starting Monday, September 10, 2012.  I have talked it over with my parents, and I will be on my way to Utah on Monday, September 3, 2012.  I will be staying in an extended stay hotel for probably the first two months until I get a real good feel for how I will like the job.  This is my opportunity, and I’m taking it!!  This application process started earlier in August even while Xerox was playing its game with me, but I just kept it under my hat for a while as Kansas was my first choice.

So you lied again?  You said you were putting all of your eggs in one basket (being Kansas).  Come on, man...

I did not lie.  I was putting all my eggs in the Kansas basket, then when Kansas went down, I withdrew the eggs and placed them in the Utah basket.  I was all in for Kansas should they have accepted me.

Fair enough, but since J-Mann, properly I might add, won't provide details, what happened and what did you learn?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I heart my fraternity brother Bacon King.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Maybe J-Mann knows if this is real or not?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I just hope he's following J-Mann's advice.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Are you selling your OK house?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

When are you meeting up with jamespol and texaswhackjob?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Just tell us when you meet up with jamespol and save the rest.....k? Thx.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

He's arrived in Utah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Have you set up a meeting with jamespol yet?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Or am I being too cynical?

Yes, and I didn't know you had it in you    Well, actually I did but it's nice you let some of it out once in a while

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Out of curiosity, how are you managing the hotel bill? I can't imagine that it's cheap, even for a long-term stay. I'd think a month-to-month apartment lease would be significantly cheaper.

I imagine it's the normal answer?

That would be my guess.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

How did lunch go with the new boss?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

...I will need to make a quick Walmart run on my way home so I don't have to keep eating out and blowing money and gaining weight.

What can you get at Walmart that won't make you fat?

Apparently nothing



(thanks to waltermitty for the pic)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

2 1/2 months in a hotel is f[inks]ing crazy......crazy!!!!!!!!

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Disaster is coming....patience, dear viewers, patience.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Disaster is coming....patience, dear viewers, patience.

Exactly what I was thinking, George.

I'm sure his parents are going to be thrilled about paying for this hotel room till god knows when...

It's got to be $2K for 2 and half months.....just for the room.....yowza.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

How can his parents afford that? $2,000 for 2 months? I don't think they are particularly wealthy in the first place.

Maybe they're financing things the way the US government does?

Stealing from the poors to give to the riches? 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

...a good shaper of minds.

Oh good lord.  Stop discouraging him, guys.  Teaching is NOT a job that requires special talent.  I it is a job that requires stomaching abysmal pay and loads of unpleasant duty - rather like most jobs. 

One thing the neophyte teacher better understand from the get-go - you aren't going to shape anything, must less a young 'mind'.

We don't want young minds destroyed, opebo.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Is it safe to assume that Jeff really has a job now? 

Has it ever been safe?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Easy, Inks and (not so) Fat Daddy TX.....opebo's engaging in a bit of excessive hyperbole now.....if we weren't talking about teachers he probably wouldn't even be involved in the discussion

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

  I look forward to going back in just 6 months!

You'll be fired.  Another job down the drain.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Whatever happnened to the thread of mod review if Bushie fails to lose x pounds? Has the time elapsed yet? I would love an update on this particular subplot.

Deadline is two weeks from now.

Deadline is two weeks away and I'm just 3 pounds away!

Pics or it didn't happen.

Put a piece of paper that says "Atlas" while you're on the scale and we can see the weight.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

OK I've missed a lot. Anyone have the Sparknotes?

He got a job in Utah, living in an extended stay hotel, getting his own aparment.

So far it's been a boring month....

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'm back!!!!! Off moderator review and ready to debate the debate!

I will forever hate Mikado for letting you out of jail.