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scaeagles

08-11-2006, 09:00 AM

Well, today marks the last day of an era for me. For 10 years, 2 months, I have been self employed, working from a home office, able to distract my mind from certain tedium with sometimes (often) lengthy excursions into the LoT.

Monday, I will be in a cube farm (though thankful for the opportunity) where, as an employee of someone else, I would not feel right to take such excursions, and I'm certain they would not be permitted anyway.

So, while I will be around, I will no longer be able to keep up with all the interesting and intelligent people around here, and this makes me quite sad. I'll get on in the evenings, I'm sure, but there is no way I'll be able to read a couple 100 posts and respond as I would love to and have done for these 18 months (or so) of the existance of the LoT.

I will truly miss it.

Ponine

08-11-2006, 09:07 AM

Your presence will be missed.
Come back and join us when you can, and know that we will miss your running witty commentary during the day.

That said, best of luck in the cube farm!
I hope your new job is a rewarding one!

Ghoulish Delight

08-11-2006, 09:10 AM

Missed indeed. Although, just go ahead and ask for a show of hands of people who have made similar posts...only to be posting away a few short months later. :D

scaeagles

08-11-2006, 09:12 AM

I hope I will be so fortunate.

Gemini Cricket

08-11-2006, 09:12 AM

You'll be able to post. You just gotta know how to do it...
I didn't think I'd be able to at my current job and well...
:)

Nephythys

08-11-2006, 09:13 AM

nooooooooooooo

Leo- how can I survive without you! :( :(

Congrats on the new opportunities (sorry about the veal bin cubicle) but I am SO going to miss you!

Check in often!

BarTopDancer

08-11-2006, 09:17 AM

/snicker

Famous last words.

DreadPirateRoberts

08-11-2006, 09:22 AM

Look forward to seeing your posts, bright and early monday morning. If not, you will be missed.

Cadaverous Pallor

08-11-2006, 09:23 AM

I feel your pain.

Gemini Cricket

08-11-2006, 09:27 AM

Look forward to seeing your posts, bright and early monday morning. If not, you will be missed.
If not, we can pretend to be scaeagles.

Here:

Blah blah blah Democrats. Blah blah blah Hillary. Yaddah yaddah Bush yaddah. I disagree. Iraq quack quack quack. Ann Coulter is hot. Blah blah darn kids. Yack yack I love Dominio's. You mean to say that yaddah yaddah... Clinton blah blah...

See? Easy peasy.
:D :evil:

LSPoorEeyorick

08-11-2006, 09:27 AM

Been there. It's hard but you'll get the hang of dipping in and out of the conversations. Not as fun, but it suffices.

Best of luck with the new gig!

scaeagles

08-11-2006, 09:30 AM

If not, we can pretend to be scaeagles.

Here:

Blah blah blah Democrats. Blah blah blah Hillary. Yaddah yaddah Bush yaddah. I disagree. Iraq quack quack quack. Ann Coulter is hot. Blah blah darn kids. Yack yack I love Dominio's. You mean to say that yaddah yaddah... Clinton blah blah...

See? Easy peasy.
:D :evil:

Except for the Dominos part, that about sums it up.
:)

Andrew

08-11-2006, 10:02 AM

Missed indeed. Although, just go ahead and ask for a show of hands of people who have made similar posts...only to be posting away a few short months later. :D
Yeah, I don't even bother pretending anymore.

scaeagles, best of luck in your new job!

Stan4dSteph

08-11-2006, 10:11 AM

Yeah, I don't even bother pretending anymore.

scaeagles, best of luck in your new job!I am also in this club. Every once in a while I get paranoid, then I say eff it.

Best of luck with your new job, scaeagles.

blueerica

08-11-2006, 10:12 AM

Hey, Leo! Good luck with the new job, and hopefully you won't be too scarce!

Snowflake

08-11-2006, 10:12 AM

I've been here just over a week, and here I am!

Leo, best of luck in your cube farm! Being gainfully employed does have perks, even in a cube farm!

We'll miss your seemingly constant presence here and hope you will be back in force as you can.:evil:

scaeagles

08-11-2006, 10:14 AM

Thanks for the well wishes, all.

I do have a three month probationary period. Something tells me it's going to be a least three months before i even see if it is possible to log on to the LoT from work.

katiesue

08-11-2006, 10:17 AM

Don't be so paranoid :)

Ghoulish Delight

08-11-2006, 10:35 AM

Don't be so paranoid :)
You know how conservatives are with their paranoid conspiracy theories.

BarTopDancer

08-11-2006, 10:36 AM

Don't be so paranoid :)

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

scaeagles

08-11-2006, 10:47 AM

You know how conservatives are with their paranoid conspiracy theories.

Nah - last time I was paranoid was June 11.

RStar

08-11-2006, 12:31 PM

Hey, I'm posting at work right now!

There was an article in the paper a couple days ago that the average worker waists 2 hours a day at work. I think they expect it!

:D

Good luck with the transition!

~Bob

Not Afraid

08-11-2006, 12:55 PM

Have fun with the new job but I doubt you'll be away from LoT for long. You'll hear the siren call of a bunch of liberals stating what you consider BS and you'll come a-running.

Motorboat Cruiser

08-11-2006, 01:03 PM

scaeagles, can't the missus make up the missing salary by working all night at a diner or something more perverse so you don't have to go? Options are there if you look for them. Paper routes for the kids, selling blood, Amway, etc...

Seriously, you are going to have to work this out. :(

Motorboat Cruiser

08-11-2006, 01:05 PM

Nah - last time I was paranoid was June 11.

We'll just ignore the part about the russians moving the WMD's then and go with the June 11 line. ;)

scaeagles

08-11-2006, 01:07 PM

We're a one-ho family, MBC, and I have already taken the position.

Actually, what makes me saddest is that working from home provides lots of contact with my kids. After school, during spring break and summer and Christmas vacations, etc. Those are no more. Thankfully, my eldest is babysitting age and being with the other two at home from 3:15 until 4:30 or so when the wife gets home won't be a problem, but....it's just a bummer.

scaeagles

08-11-2006, 01:07 PM

We'll just ignore the part about the russians moving the WMD's then and go with the June 11 line. ;)

NA is scarier to me than the Russians, MBC.

Not Afraid

08-11-2006, 01:11 PM

Such POWER! ;)

Ghoulish Delight

08-11-2006, 01:14 PM

Hey, I'm posting at work right now!

There was an article in the paper a couple days ago that the average worker waists 2 hours a day at work. I think they expect it!
Woohoo! I'm above average!

sleepyjeff

08-11-2006, 01:30 PM

Good luck Scaeagles:)

innerSpaceman

08-11-2006, 07:22 PM

That is a lame-o about the kids. I hope the transition manages to show some serious silver linings before long.

But, hey, since I can't post from work anymore ... and now scaeagles, too ... and there's others ....

well, i propose we close the board from nine to five weekdays. Howzabout it?

(I've been finding it hard to play catch-up for an hour or so in the evenings, but it's doable ... and although I participate in a much more limited fashion, I still feel this is my cyberhome.)

RStar

08-11-2006, 08:51 PM

Woohoo! I'm above average!

I've known that for years!;)

scaeagles

08-11-2006, 08:53 PM

well, i propose we close the board from nine to five weekdays. Howzabout it?

For perhaps the first time ever, I am completely with you, ISM.

wendybeth

08-11-2006, 09:06 PM

Good luck with the new job, Scaeagles- gonna be a bit of a transition, but you'll figure out a new posting pattern: Get up early, do a quick scan and apply any retorts your sleep-muddled brain will allow, then get ready for work at the last possible moment and run like hell to get there on time. When you get home, go straight to your comp and edit all the early morning grammatical and comprehension errors you made, and then fire off some more potshots at the whacky libs. Check in on MBC to make sure he isn't giving appliances to others in your absence, then scan the Drudge Report for anything that is Daily Grind-worthy. Oh, eat dinner and stuff somewhere in there as well. Probably should say hey to the family, too. Then back online for late night last minute fix, and your good until the next a.m!

It's totally doable.

CoasterMatt

08-11-2006, 09:13 PM

Good luck with the new job, your posts are really fun.

Sub la Goon

08-11-2006, 09:45 PM

As a long time denizen of Cubeville, I would just like to say:

One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble!

http://perso.orange.fr/les.barbus/images/freaks.jpg

lashbear

08-12-2006, 01:19 AM

Don't tell them about your Hamneggtomy or they'll all want one ! :D

..And have fun !

Motorboat Cruiser

08-12-2006, 11:49 AM

Hamneggtomy

Great band name. :)

€uroMeinke

08-12-2006, 01:33 PM

Damnit - your new sad face avatar makes all your posts sound so...sad

Sub la Goon

08-12-2006, 01:38 PM

The best advice I can give is to become highly familiar with the film Office Space.

I have had several Temp (and now Perm) jobs in offices over the past few years and I don't think a week has gone by without a reference to Storage Room B or the Red Stapler. The term Flair is also fairly prevalent and people love to do their little Gary Cole impressions ("Yeah, uh...")

Office Space has definitely replaced Dilbert as the in-joke. What happened to Dilbert? Did he jump the shark with that TV cartoon? Or was it way earlier?

scaeagles

08-14-2006, 05:31 AM

I had to grow up and buy brown dress shoes yesterday.

I had to wake up and shave this morning. I haven't shaved on a Monday in I don't know how long. Perhaps the worst is behind me already.

Gemini Cricket

08-14-2006, 05:52 AM

Yuck! Dress shoes.
:(

Hang in there, Leo! First day blues go away.

scaeagles

08-14-2006, 06:28 AM

I would complain about having to wear pants, but I thought that might be pushing it.

Hey! I've been on the LoT twice today already! Yay! Perhaps I'll have to change my avatar.

katiesue

08-14-2006, 06:39 AM

Good luck on your first day!

innerSpaceman

08-14-2006, 07:01 AM

um, no, I'd like to hear you complain about wearing pants. ;)

Gemini Cricket

08-14-2006, 07:02 AM

Our scaeagles is all grown up now. Wearing pants and dress shoes...
:sniff:

:D

DreadPirateRoberts

08-14-2006, 07:12 AM

I had to grow up and buy brown dress shoes yesterday.

You may have bought dress shoes, but the growing up part? I don't believe it. Good luck on your first day.

Sub la Goon

08-14-2006, 07:15 AM

(scaegles mom) I bet he looks so handsome!

For what it's worth, I get to go to Jury Duty today.

So I hope none of you are on the docket... :evil:

BarTopDancer

08-14-2006, 07:16 AM

Aww... our Leo is all growed up.

We expect a report on your first day when you get home!

Snowflake

08-14-2006, 07:54 AM

:cheers: Good luck Leo! Have a great first day!
Don't worry, soon enough you can be a slacker in terms of dress like the rest of the cube farm people.

That's one plus of this firm, this office is beyond casual!

JWBear

08-14-2006, 09:16 AM

I had to grow up and buy brown dress shoes yesterday...
At first, I read this as "I had to grow up and buy a brown dress." :eek:

Moonliner

08-14-2006, 09:26 AM

I'll just have to start posting all sorts of inflammatory political posts during your work day so that you won't be able to resist checking in at the LoT. :evil:

Ps. Regarding work and LoT access, You are familiar with windows "Remote Desktop Connection" aren't you? ;)

Motorboat Cruiser

08-14-2006, 10:04 AM

Right about now, his co-workers are starting to notice a distinct ham smell in the building. :)

scaeagles

08-14-2006, 07:11 PM

We expect a report on your first day when you get home!

I have never felt more completely inadequate and stupid in my entire life.:(

I really don't have anything else to say.

Sub la Goon

08-14-2006, 07:17 PM

Sounds like it can only get better from here.

I'm sure the rest of the week will get better and in a month you will look back at this and laugh.
At least I hope so.
Because I feel kind of bad for you right now.

innerSpaceman

08-14-2006, 07:24 PM

To hell with scaeagles ... what's this "Remote Desktop Connection" thingy??????

(not that he can't use it, too, if it pans out)

Not Afraid

08-14-2006, 07:50 PM

First days always make you feel like a dummy, no matter what you're doing. It's all very unfamiliar and I know I always feel like an idiot no matter what I do.

Hang in there. It WILL get better.

BarTopDancer

08-14-2006, 08:11 PM

Aww. I'm sure it's not nearly as bad as you think.

To hell with scaeagles ... what's this "Remote Desktop Connection" thingy??????

(not that he can't use it, too, if it pans out)

Remote Desktop is a way to connect to your computer from another computer, or for others to connect to your computer from another computer. Once logged in you will see your desktop, your pograms, your comptuer. It needs your IP address and a password. I think only XP Pro has it.

Not Afraid

08-14-2006, 08:14 PM

Once logged in you will see your desktop, your pograms........

I want this. I think it is important to see what pograms I'm involved with at all times. :evil:

innerSpaceman

08-14-2006, 08:36 PM

BarTopDancer

08-14-2006, 08:45 PM

I want this. I think it is important to see what pograms I'm involved with at all times. :evil:

It is very important to see what pograms one is involved with at all times. Without a close watch on ones pograms they can spiral out of control.

scaeagles

08-14-2006, 09:24 PM

Oh, is this thread about Leo?

sorry.

No need to apologize. I am not a good topic for conversation at the moment.

Moonliner

08-14-2006, 09:52 PM

Ah, yes, now that I recall, it does need XP Pro, which I don't have. And, I'd have to leave the remote computer on all day just so's I could have access to it ... and through it's own internet connection back out the LoT, thwarting my office's firewall?????

Eh, I think a wifi laptop at work is still a better idea.

Oh, is this thread about Leo?

sorry.

If you don't have XP, you can also use a free program called WinVNC to accomplish the same goal. I'd be happy to walk you through setting it up if you like.

Yes, you do need to leave a PC on all day, but if you turn off the monitor and don't use a fancy 3d screen saver (which keeps the CPU busy) then it takes very little juice to run a modern PC, unless of course you have a cheeseburger model...

Using a separate laptop can be, how shall we put this, conspicuous. Whereas a remote desktop is gone with a click.

innerSpaceman

08-14-2006, 09:57 PM

Well, I have XP ... just not XP Pro. And yeah, I'd be interested in trying this out .... just to thwart the muthafukas at work who are suddenly being so petty with me ... cutting off my LoT access after years and years of free reign.

Bastards!!!

oh, ahem, i'm fine .... really.

BarTopDancer

08-14-2006, 09:58 PM

If you don't have XP, you can also use a free program called WinVNC to accomplish the same goal. I'd be happy to walk you through setting it up if you like.

Only problem with VNC is the download of the software, and the brows it may raise for being installed when it shouldn't be.

mousepod

08-14-2006, 11:36 PM

...and it would of course be silly of me to point out that remote access works on apple computers...

chin up, Leo! You've got to bring the thread back...

€uroMeinke

08-15-2006, 05:54 AM

I'm thinking someone needs to give me a primer on remote access

Cadaverous Pallor

08-15-2006, 08:02 AM

I had a thought. Leo has mentioned he has less time with the kids since he no longer works at home. I hate the idea that he's chopping into what little time he has by being here instead of with them.

You know we love you but your family needs you more than we do...but of course you knew that already and are going to be able to balance things well. :)

Hang in there at the new job. If the first day wasn't over your head then the job wouldn't be challenging enough to keep your attention.

Ponine

08-15-2006, 12:29 PM

I have never felt more completely inadequate and stupid in my entire life.:(

I really don't have anything else to say.
I feel it.
When I got hired for my job, my boss really wanted me in her office. She'd worked with me before, I'd been her admin aide, she wanted me back.

That first week, month.... I agree.
How totally useless can one person feel you know?
And the worst part?

It comes back to haunt me all the time.
I feel your pain. The only good thing I have to say? There will come a moment, when for that instant, YOU will know the answer, and they wont.

Chin up. Hugs to you and your family. It'll get better.

scaeagles

08-15-2006, 09:49 PM

I had a thought. Leo has mentioned he has less time with the kids since he no longer works at home. I hate the idea that he's chopping into what little time he has by being here instead of with them.

I won't be on nearly as much because of that. It will be now only early in the a.m. prior to their awakening and late in the evening after the kids are in bed.

Sigh.

However, today I was only severly depressed after work, rather than suicidal and despondent. Even small improvements are important.

DreadPirateRoberts

08-15-2006, 10:27 PM

I won't be on nearly as much because of that. It will be now only early in the a.m. prior to their awakening and late in the evening after the kids are in bed.

Sigh.

However, today I was only severly depressed after work, rather than suicidal and despondent. Even small improvements are important.

At least the trend is in the right direction. At this pace, think how great you will feel next week.

scaeagles

08-16-2006, 05:47 AM

I got out of bed willingly again. This is a good thing.

As I sit here and type, my little almost 5 year old (Sept 17 bday) came downstairs and she gave me a big hug. Best damn feeling in the world.

Snowflake

08-16-2006, 06:03 AM

Good for you Sceagles! A perfect start to your day. So? Sneaking the little sprite to DL for her birthday are you?

MickeyLumbo

08-16-2006, 06:16 AM

I got out of bed willingly again. This is a good thing.

As I sit here and type, my little almost 5 year old (Sept 17 bday) came downstairs and she gave me a big hug. Best damn feeling in the world.

Thank God she didn't catch you wearing that brown dress!

what a joy to have a hug from your little princess to start the day:)

hey Leo, look on the bright side - you could have my life. i came downstairs this morning and was startled awake at my housekeeper busy at work:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/MickeyLumbo/12a68140.jpg (http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/MickeyLumbo/?start=#imgAnch4)

(Just kidding - I don't have a downstairs.)

:D

Motorboat Cruiser

08-16-2006, 09:35 AM

As I sit here and type, my little almost 5 year old (Sept 17 bday) came downstairs and she gave me a big hug. Best damn feeling in the world.

Maybe she is just happy to not have to listen to Fox news all day anymore. :evil:

And, ML. That is disturbing...and hilarious.

scaeagles

08-16-2006, 09:34 PM

Maybe she is just happy to not have to listen to Fox news all day anymore. :evil:

Actually, it's Rush and another local guy, and she's usually telling me to turn it down because she can't hear Jimmy Neutron or something on the TV.

To quote Herbert Lom from the Pink Panther movies - "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better...and better." Just a little better every day is all I can ask for.

SzczerbiakManiac

08-17-2006, 11:13 AM

I just hope you don't go "Now Now" on us! ;)

lashbear

08-17-2006, 07:48 PM

i came downstairs this morning and was startled awake at my housekeeper busy at work:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/MickeyLumbo/12a68140.jpg (http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/MickeyLumbo/?start=#imgAnch4)

Thank goodness he wasn't hard at work....

scaeagles

08-17-2006, 07:54 PM

I just hope you don't go "Now Now" on us! ;)

HA! I was "now now" before the job change.

tracilicious

08-17-2006, 08:33 PM

So how was it today? Exactly what sucks so much about it? Are you the only republican there?

RStar

08-17-2006, 08:54 PM

Are you the only republican there?
Oh no!!!! Say it isn't so!!

scaeagles

08-17-2006, 09:49 PM

No - not the only republican. My contact there that hired me that I had worked with some 11-12 years earlier is also on the conservative side. I haven't delved into any sort of political discussions or anything personal with anyone, really. Only my first week. I have to become more valuable before I start alienating everyone.

What sucks about it? It has nothing to do with the people or organization. Both are great from what I've experienced thus far. It has to do with the change for me. I have gone instanteously from being a one man show with all the answers to a know nothing. I'm also now bound by a cube. For over 10 years I worked from a home office, picking up my kids from school almost every single day of their school existance. I can't do that now, and it makes me profoundly sad. I have two hours less every day with them now than I used to. I am seriously considering giving up coaching because I can't go to work at 7:30, come home for an hour, and then go to practice. That would not be right. I am hoping to just have to take a year off as a pseudo sabbatical (sp?), and be able to adjust my work schedule to perhaps 6:00-3:00 when I'm up to speed and productive.

I ran into the CEO (figuratively, not literally) today in the bathroom and he asked how I was doing. I was honest about how overwhelmed I was feeling. He basically said "We didn't hire you because you were Scott's friend (the guy I used to work with). I know about your background and experience and talked to some people about you, and you were hired because we know you will be a valuable asset very shortly. We want you around for the long term." Not an exact quote, but close enough. Helped immensely. May have been a load of crap, but it helped immensely.

It was a good time for it, because about 10 minutes later I changed a program that caused an application to crash that everyone who knows what they are doing are working toward a new release on next Monday. I fixed it pretty quickly - maybe 30 minutes or so - but it wasn't a good way for the new guy to become popular.