Dallas, Texas

Yawns, I've tumbleweeds in my yard...

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Seven-Eleven, hands over eyes. I used to stop there at one or two in the morning to get ice cream and hershey's chocolate syrup and a Newsweek, back when I did printmaking at the big etching press at ucla (popular at the time, plus etching involves a bunch of hours). Tough to show up at work the next a.m. I'd doubt they're any good for real apples.

Nose around, Thomas. In LA, there is a (to me excellent) website called Downtown LA, very urban design and architecture oriented, but I bet the people manning or womanning that site could tell you about where the stores are in core LA ---- so maybe so could people interested in downtown Ft. Worth. It might be that one edge, however the edges fan out, is better than another re store access.

Or not.

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Thomas, I don't recall a grocery store downtown. But I did a search (looks as though you did too) and came up with this:

http://tinyurl.com/3aya45

There are a few grocery stores near downtown, though they're not big chains, so it's hard to know what they'll be like.

Have you seen this website? http://www.dfwi.org/

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Ah, another case of urban planning sucking. (I can say this as friend of planners, or would anyway).

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7-11 @ 2am

Shocked

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Congratulations on the job offer, Thomas. Does this mean that you'll drop that disgusting personal habit of yours and become a Texas Rangers fan instead of a St. Louis Cardinals fan?

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joefromchicago wrote:

Congratulations on the job offer, Thomas. Does this mean that you'll drop that disgusting personal habit of yours and become a Texas Rangers fan instead of a St. Louis Cardinals fan?

Sure! I always had this secret wish to cheer for George W. Bush's team.

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Thomas wrote:

Also, my future boss called me in the afternoon and said they want me, and are going to make me an offer next week.

I hope, you were pleased and positively surprised by that offer!

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I was. Only now there's the new problem. My old boss says he can't let me go until he has a successor, and finding a successor may prove hard. The complicated part of the problem is that I'll need to work together with my old boss in my new job, so I can't just tell him to go get lost. Oh well, we'll work something out.

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I have to read up and see what Dallas is like. I've never been there (not outside the airport, in any event).

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So will you be in Texas for campaign season?

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Thomas wrote:

joefromchicago wrote:
Congratulations on the job offer, Thomas. Does this mean that you'll drop that disgusting personal habit of yours and become a Texas Rangers fan instead of a St. Louis Cardinals fan?

Sure! I always had this secret wish to cheer for George W. Bush's team.

I detect irony.

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Uh oh. I posted this whole bit about being able to imagine Thomas in Texas, including a photo of newly chic "big hair" - and lost it.

Is there another thread on this?
Am I crazy? Kerazy?
Oh, I am?

Didn't Dlowan say she can't quite imagine Thomas in Texas?

I believe I need a nice cup of tea.

I'll admit I sometimes get all caught up in posting with a photo and previewing that I fail to press "submit".

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Thomas wrote:

I was. Only now there's the new problem. My old boss says he can't let me go until he has a successor, and finding a successor may prove hard. The complicated part of the problem is that I'll need to work together with my old boss in my new job, so I can't just tell him to go get lost. Oh well, we'll work something out.

Can't let you go? What, you're an indentured servant? Horseshit! Ask new boss to discuss timing with old boss and come up with a mutually acceptable endpoint after which you will be free to swim the ocean, replacement or not. If it's a good work relationship between entities, they will come up with an agreement.

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Over here, Osso:

http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2901584#2901584

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Thanks, Sozobe, and another friend by pm -

throws out the tea...

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In Dallas, Germans are loved. The three there presently are often invited to parties where they are enthusiastically enjoined to yodel.

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dlowan wrote:

Thomas wrote:
joefromchicago wrote:
Congratulations on the job offer, Thomas. Does this mean that you'll drop that disgusting personal habit of yours and become a Texas Rangers fan instead of a St. Louis Cardinals fan?

Sure! I always had this secret wish to cheer for George W. Bush's team.

I detect irony.

Impossible. I don't do irony.

JPB wrote:

Can't let you go? What, you're an indentured servant? Horseshit!

I know it sounds like that, but the dynamics are different. The problem is that our customers are threatening to purchase our products just as our bean-counters are finishing a new round of cost-cutting. In both teams, new boss's and old boss's, personel is stretched to the limits. And since all the resulting mess is neither boss's fault -- both the beancounters and the customers are out of their control -- I actually have a fair degree of sympathy for old boss's problems.

JPB wrote:

Ask new boss to discuss timing with old boss and come up with a mutually acceptable endpoint after which you will be free to swim the ocean, replacement or not. If it's a good work relationship between entities, they will come up with an agreement.

I did, and they will. My shorthand for that was "Oh well, we'll work something out."

ossobuco wrote:

Thanks, Sozobe, and another friend by pm -

throws out the tea...

I saw that -- but you talked about a picture of Big Hair. Do you still have that lying around?

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blatham wrote:

In Dallas, Germans are loved. The three there presently are often invited to parties where they are enthusiastically enjoined to yodel.

Sounds great! How about Nietsche recitations? "God is dead" and all that stuff?

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ehBeth wrote:

So will you be in Texas for campaign season?

Certainly for the national campaign, probably for the end of the primary campaign. The national campaign in Texas should be boring though. Texas isn't in play, is it?

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