BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!

Subject: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: SDShad
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 06:18 PM

This is totally nonmusical news, but y'all are my friends, so I want to celebrate by sharing my happines with ya....

I have been offered, and have accepted, a new job in Networking Services here at USD, as a Communications Network Analyst, which is a couple of rungs higher in career service (and a good chunk of change higher in salary) than my old job as the primary network support person for Residential Life (I run the ResNet, the network in the "dorms," full of Napster users and porn surfers no doubt :-)). I'll miss my old department, but I'll get to work on all kinds of new and nifty network stuff in my new job, such as Internet 2!

So, I'm grabbin' one of the comfy chairs, and a draught of Guinness. C'mon in and what's your poison? It's a Friday night in the Mudcat Tavern, and the craic'll be ninety....

First song is my new "theme song," a la Ally McBeal (and yes, I've been singing it under my breath the last couple of days). Somebody back me up on harpoon, if you please....

Guy Clark "The Cape"

Eight years old with a flour sack cape Tied all around his neck He climbed up on the garage He's figurin' what the heck He screwed his courage up so tight That the whole thing come unwound He got a runnin' start and bless his heart He headed for the ground

CHORUS: Well he's one of those who knows that life Is just a leap of faith Spread your arms and hold your breath And always trust your cape

Now he's all grown up with a flour sack cape Tied all around his dreams And he's full of piss and vinegar And he's bustin at the seams So he licked his finger and checked the wind It's gonna be do or die He wasn't scared of nothin', boys He was pretty sure he could fly

CHORUS

Now he's old and grey with a flour sack cape Tied all around his head And he's still jumpin' off the garage And will be 'till he's dead All these years the people said He's actin like a kid He did not know he could not fly And so he did

CHORUS * 2

Trustin' my cape,

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 06:25 PM

CONGRATS!! A good way to roll the Tavern out anew!!!Let me purchase you some more of that quaffable....
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: SDShad
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 06:31 PM

Thanks, Peter! In my excitement, I forgot how to put breaks on lines, but you get the idea on the song....

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Brendy
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 06:37 PM

Well done, man.
Landlord? A coke, please!
Do you happen to know "Desperadoes waiting for a Train"?

B.

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Mbo
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 06:46 PM

I DO I DO!!!! Here ye go! Highwaymen RULE!!!

I'd play the Red River Valley, and he'd sit in his kitchen and cry
And run his fingers through 70 years of livin'
And wonder Lord, has every well I drilled run dry?
We were friends me and this old man

LIKE DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN
LIKE DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN

He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells And an old school man of this world
He taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives was like some old western movie

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
And there was old men with beer guts and dominoes
Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play
And I was just a kid they all called his sidekick

One day I looked up and he's pushin' 80
And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin
To me he's one of the heroes of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon & 42

The day before he died I went to see him I was grown and he was almost gone
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang another verse to that old song
Come on Jack, that son of a bitch is coming

LIKE DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN
LIKE DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Brendy
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 06:48 PM

Well pulled out there Emmbs
I've done that on MP3; play it for you one day!

B.

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 07:26 PM

Congratulations, SDShad!! I have something here for you: click here I'll just sit back with a pint of Guinness, while you check it out....

Amergin

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Brendy
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 07:29 PM

Brilliant!!

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 07:37 PM

You're very, very bad Amerg(r)in. :-)

It's so much more personal than the letter I got from Personnel.....

When I saw the "ohmygoodness" in the web address, I figured it'd be part of the "My Goodness, My Guinness" ad campaign.

Go figure.

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: SDShad
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 07:44 PM

Oops. Lost my at-home cookie. That was, in fact, me the last post.

Non-virtual Guinness in hand,

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: SDShad
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 10:22 PM

Dang, it's quite in the ol' Tavern tonight. Well, we're transporting our meatspace celebration to a friend's house with hot tub!

G'night!

Shad

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Brendy
Date: 23 Jun 00 - 10:26 PM

Take it easy, man

B.

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jun 00 - 01:34 AM

Congratulations, Chris!! YeeHaw!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Morticia
Date: 24 Jun 00 - 07:30 AM

well done Chris, I'll just pour myself a beer and wait till you get back. I loved your song btw, I once persuaded my little brother he could fly...he was within inches of breaking his neck when my father intervened .( We get on okay now :) I also just got a new job...back working with people with learning disability...I'd only taken a couple of years break but found I missed it too much to stay away...so what say I'll buy the next round?

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Peter T.
Date: 24 Jun 00 - 11:43 AM

"That Old Time Feeling" is a nice song too.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: SDShad
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 10:57 AM

Congrats to you, too, Morticia. What's your new work gig? And I'll take you up on that next round. Haven't been able to get a drink around here for a couple of days, though. The bartender just stares blankly and keeps saying "server busy or unable to fulfill request."

Guess we'll have to sneak behind the bar and pour our own.

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 11:54 AM

Congrats to all with new gigs. I believe I may have to settle myself into a recliner, here..... scrunch.... there. I have lap available if wanted, BTW, having been so well-lapped myself in the last round...

Pssst! BTW (ssshhh!) ... there is ANOTHER well-known 'Catter with a BRAND new job, and I believe he may wander in here soon to tell us about it! (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, NOW 'FESS UP!!! Brag, boy, or I'll brag onya!)

Par-tee! Par-tee! Sparkle-fizzy wine coolers for me!

And I will wind up my present job in October and will we party then!!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:06 PM

Conga rats to all. (Warning - excursion into the back corners of my mind ahead. Enter at your own risk) Ever wonder why we give conga rats to people? I mean, sure, it's a good beat, but they're still rodents!?! Now why not give people something like a good Tango Turtle, much lower maintaince then a conga rat; except of course in the winter when you have to buy those hot house roses they insist on carrying around in their mouths. or Even possibly when people have good news we should give them Ballad Bunnies. But then you'd have to worry about multiplication, and possibly the person wouldn't be good at arithmatic.

'tis a puzzlement

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:09 PM

I'm sorry, I meant Kongrats, not Congrats.

Go, MM.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:13 PM

So, is the position you left still open?...he says as he plies the new Communications Network Analyst with copius amounts of Guinness...Know anybody that might be able to get me an interview? hint, hint

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Morticia
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 04:11 PM

My new gig is out in the community working with people with learning disability as a case manager(social worker). I have been working with cancer patients but it takes a toll after a while, you'd be welcome to that job, Guest. Mmario, darling, I'd like a Ballad Bunny but just one :)!

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: SDShad
Date: 26 Jun 00 - 06:34 PM

Hey! Where'sh muh Tando Turgle!

Well, th'lap offer shounds enteyshing, Praishe, but I'm kinda glued to thish here comfy chair a-thanksh to our Guesht'sh kind offer of plyin' me wid more Guinnesssssh.

Arctually, Guesht, I'm shtill in my old job. Ah dhon't leaf it for t'ree weeksh yet. Sho it ain't open yet. We're prob'ly gonna do a temporary, emergenshy-type hire and they'll do a full shearch later. Sho you wanna come work in Shoush Dakota, huh? You shurtain? Shure, we'll offer ya a hunnert t'ousand. *shnort* *giggle*

Shorry, 'Tish, sho it's th'job you already menshunned in yer earlier posht? I notished that and then forgot it when I asked. Musht be all th' Guidda...Guigga, th' Gishma...all th' shtout. Congrats agin.

Shay, Praishe, howc'n you be at two parties at wonsh, huh? Sheems unnatural fer a Christian woman. I'll try and shtop by the virtual porshun of th'houshe party dough. Ah'll shober up, honessh.

A shong! Shumbudy shing a shong! Whack fol-the-derry-ho, there'sh troushersh on th' door!

Gettin' virtu'ly shoushed at m'own partay,

SSSSh...ShuhShuh...Shuh...uhm, Chrish

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Amergin
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 01:43 AM

Here I am drinking the Guinness again, oiling my throat to recite:

Shades of Memory

In silence she walks across the floor
Naked, softly padding towards me
Smiling with her gleaming eyes
Arms open in the siren's decree

She bends down to squash her lips
Pressed against my bearded face
My head starts to spin and flip
Succumbing to her female grace

I look up into her shining eyes
Her smile stretches up her cheeks
Her blushing face glows in the sun
As the rays kiss the mountain peaks

She lays down her body beside me
Snuggles her head close by my ear
Whispering to me with the wind
Body shaking in her glistening tears

I listen to the music of her voice
As her soft breathing sings to me
I arise from my slumber to find
She was but shades of my memory

Amergin

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 04:39 AM

Here's all the best to all here!
Just under two working days to go before I head off for Greece so I better get into practice: a large Metaxa 3-star please while I tune up the old kazoo. What'll it be: "Taverna of the Risin' Sun"?, "Frankie and Stavros" ? "Eime ble"? "Ble suede papoutses"?
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: SDShad
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 08:32 AM

I think that'd be "Frankie and Yanni," wouldn'it?

Ducking,

Shad

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 09:34 AM

SDS, yes, I thought for once I'd be less obvious so chose Stavros! Now I'm working on "Doste mou mia podi hirini kai ena boukali bira". As my Greek never progresses beyond food and drink after 20 years of trying to improve it, my repertoire is limited!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 10:27 AM

Morticia....thanks but no thanks on the job offer with the cancer patients. I'm not prejudiced - it's just that I've done the human services gig and it takes a special kind of person to do that kind of job, and I'm not that kind of person. Tons of admiration for those who can do it and not let it get to them, though. I'm sure the ones who need those services appreciate it also.

South Dakota, huh? Hmmmmm....good public schools; low crime rate; sparse population; lots of space; corn fields for making yer own corn likker; Mt. Rushmore; the Badlands; Black Hills.

On the other hand: winter.

Got to take the bad with the good. I'm sprucing up my resume and gassing up the Yugo now!!

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 11:01 AM

This looks like the start of a new Mudcat feature-- the job bulletin board-- oh yeah... we post what it is we do for a living, and see if anyone will take the job off our hands and maybe give up one we want!!

Take my Day Job-- please!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Party in the Tavern: New Job!
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 11:09 AM

I don't have one! HA HA HA!!!

--Mbo