Jonsey - WTF man, when are you visiting?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 12:02 pm

Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:When's that gonna be? It'd suck if they cough up a healthy bunch of cabbage your way, but only if you stay on until, say, August - at which point, you either move to CA or find yourself at the soup kitchen.

Not totally sure. We were told sometime between May and August. We get one week's additional pay for every four weeks they take starting the last week of February (and it's pro-rated). So if they take until August, then I'm looking at a bonus check for like 4 weeks pay.

Any idea if your lease would allow single-month extensions, should such a circumstance present itself?

Probably not. We're not on great terms with them, because they demanded that we take our dish down from the roof and we ignored them. So worst case scenario would be that my lease expires on July 31st, and we get sold in August and they lay us all off. I'd have to find a new place that is on a month-to-month deal. So far I haven't found any place like that out here.

Hey, if you don't know, you don't know. From what you've said so far, it sounds pretty likely that you'll end up back here in Rochester, the only question is approximately when.

Yeah, I gotta decide what I want to do. If we get sold here and it's business as usual, I may stay: the economy is still shitty, and a job where I can roll in at 10:30 any given day means a lot to me. If we get sold and they lay us all off, then I gotta decide if I want to move back where all my friends are and try to find a programming job there, or if I want to try to get a video game job and move to an area where I know nobody.

However, it would not be proper logic to conclude that because we don't consider you a "prettyboy", that we don't consider you a flaming fagmonkey - I mean, c'mon, dying your hair is awfully odd behavior for any true man.

I haven't done that since the Saints won their first playoff game, Rip Van Winkle. That was like December of 2000-ish. That game, coupled with my victory in Front Page Sports Football 96 signaled a new and exciting time for me. The dawning of a new age. Get with the times, man! This is like me giving you shit because you used to program in ATASCII.

by **Jethro Q. Walrustitty** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 11:51 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Yeah, I don't know yet.

There are three companies that are in Santa Clara, CA right now getting a presentation from management here. It is currently more likely than not that we will have a buyer. Either way, I stand to make a substantial chunk of change if I stick around for the retention bonus.

When's that gonna be? It'd suck if they cough up a healthy bunch of cabbage your way, but only if you stay on until, say, August - at which point, you either move to CA or find yourself at the soup kitchen. Any idea if your lease would allow single-month extensions, should such a circumstance present itself? Guess it's unclear to me if you expect to be finished with them in May, or in December, or somewhere inbetween - or just plain have no idea. (Presumably sooner rather than later, otherwise I would expect that this wouldn't be affecting your annual summer trek out East, nor the apparent question of whether or not you'll renew your lease.)

Hey, if you don't know, you don't know. From what you've said so far, it sounds pretty likely that you'll end up back here in Rochester, the only question is approximately when.

However, I will keep your statement in mind the next time the Rochester posse is calling me out as being either:

1) Gay
2) Flaming
3) Possessing a "Gay" Aura
4) Possessing a "Gay, Flaming" Aura

... as you lot do constantly. Luckily, logic dictates that one cannot have it both ways: either I come off as an unattainable homosexual bitch and can therefore make a quality play for a high maintenance girl like the one being discussed, or else I am a rugged "man's man" who is straighter than the trajectory of a volley of shots from the Green Arrow.

How typically homophobic and insensitive of you to lump all queens, knobgrabbers, lunchpushers, and nutslurpers into one group. Not all gays are "prettyboys" - hell, few men of any kind qualify as "prettyboys", but there is likely a higher percentage of fruitiness amongst that select group. However, it would not be proper logic to conclude that because we don't consider you a "prettyboy", that we don't consider you a flaming fagmonkey - I mean, c'mon, dying your hair is awfully odd behavior for any true man.

That being said, I would have to honestly say that I suspect that you're probably not gay - for example, when we were sharing the townhouse out here, I don't think you ever slipped me the tongue when we kissed goodnight.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 11:31 am

Yeah, I don't know yet.

There are three companies that are in Santa Clara, CA right now getting a presentation from management here. It is currently more likely than not that we will have a buyer. Either way, I stand to make a substantial chunk of change if I stick around for the retention bonus.

Oh, and I regret to inform you that Mrs W reminded me that Cleo would probably be a tough nut for you to crack (so to speak), her last boyfriend was a bit of a "prettyboy".

I may have misrepresented my position; I am not exactly looking to be anybody's "boyfriend," if you follow me here. Ha, heh, ha.

However, I will keep your statement in mind the next time the Rochester posse is calling me out as being either:

1) Gay
2) Flaming
3) Possessing a "Gay" Aura
4) Possessing a "Gay, Flaming" Aura

... as you lot do constantly. Luckily, logic dictates that one cannot have it both ways: either I come off as an unattainable homosexual bitch and can therefore make a quality play for a high maintenance girl like the one being discussed, or else I am a rugged "man's man" who is straighter than the trajectory of a volley of shots from the Green Arrow.

EVERYTHING'S COMING UP JONSEY!

by **Jethro Q. Walrustitty** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 11:13 am

So, was there ever a definitive answer? Is there one yet?

The question being, what's Jonsey's doing when his lease is up?

a) Renewing if a replacement job can be found
b) Moving to Rochester if no replacement job can be found
c) Moving to Rochester without looking for a job
d) Moving to Syracuse to try to recapture long-lost college memories and mammories
e) Staying in Colorado and making like John Denver and living in the moutains
f) Moving to the "Tattooine of the northeast", Buffalo
g) Moving to California to begin dating Aaron's ex-wife
h) Moving to Baghdad to become new despot
i) Just don't know yet

Oh, and in this case, the answer is not "42".

Oh, and I regret to inform you that Mrs W reminded me that Cleo would probably be a tough nut for you to crack (so to speak), her last boyfriend was a bit of a "prettyboy" - the current feeling that she wants a "pretty" boyfriend, y'know, an Abercrombie model who spends more time on his appearance than she does. In other words, that rarest-of-all men - a heterosexual well-groomed man.

by **bruce** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 8:07 am

The JC Comedy Players wrote:
Greg wrote:What IS it about St. Louis girls? I've had more luck with St. Louis girls than natives of any other city, and I've never actually, y'know, lived there.
What else is there to do in St. Louis?

The answer is, in both cases, The Arch.

That giant vaginal symbol acts as a Mystic Focus for the female sex drive in St. Louis and environs, and it also gives you something to do on a weekend afternoon, if you like riding in tiny little elevator cars.

Bruce

by **The JC Comedy Players** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 1:27 am

Greg wrote:What IS it about St. Louis girls? I've had more luck with St. Louis girls than natives of any other city, and I've never actually, y'know, lived there.

What else is there to do in St. Louis?

by **Greg** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 1:00 am

bruce wrote:I was hoping to talk you into moving to St. Louis, where the rent is low, the girls are easy, and you can

What IS it about St. Louis girls? I've had more luck with St. Louis girls than natives of any other city, and I've never actually, y'know, lived there.

bruce wrote:But the pizza in St. Louis, not to put too fine a point on it, completely blows dead rancid syphilitic goats.

Ahh, but you've got the ravioli.

Greg

by **bruce** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 1:50 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: It's got to be something like 63 degrees and sunny out here. Even Longmont is behaving nicely today.

Big Bad thunderstorms, maybe tornadoes coming here. It's 75 degrees now, going to be 35 before morning, and shedding that heat is going to get violent.

Whee.

Adam

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 1:23 pm

Jesus Christ, you're not kidding. I've read that 65,000 are without power in Syracuse and Oswego.

It's got to be something like 63 degrees and sunny out here. Even Longmont is behaving nicely today. It was nice that we got a spring in Colorado this year -- it seems like it's been 90 with no sign of precipitation the last two years by April.

At any rate, while an ice storm is cool with me, being without power is definitely not. I'd go bonkers.

by **Jethro Q. Walrustitty** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 8:06 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:But shit yeah, I didn't mean to imply that I wanted to "e-date" her or anything. I can barely manage to keep a woman's extended interest when in the same city -- outside of an ability to "drop," if I may use a Banky Edwardsism, well, I'm just some guy posting as anonymous gimmicks on the Internet.

No, I didn't mean to imply that I thought you were trying to e-date her. Geez, that's Lex's stock in trade, not yours! I'm just saying that that is why she's single again, not because her eyes suddenly opened to what a colossal fucking jerkoff he was (because he wasn't.) And I don't like any of my female friend's boyfriends, so that's a bit of an endorsement, coming from me.

Syracuse is where I was happiest though. Ali Baba's pizza truck right outside the campus door, a chick one floor up to sleep with, and no real responsibility when I gave up studying.

Well, unfortunately, I expect that you will not be able to recapture that "lightning in a bottle" no matter where you move. However, Rochester can offer quality pizza and no responsibility (outside of finding a job and then performing said job), and at the very least, you have a couple leads on chicks here.

I don't think I could fit it all in a U-haul tugged by the Rage. I've only got a Wega, Washing Machine and the Crystal Castles game that takes up any significant room, though. Maybe one of those U-hauls that also hauls your car. That might work.

That's what I meant - hence, the reference to a tow thing for the Neon. Probably worth selling the washing machine rather than moving it, unless it's particularly special in some way or has some special memories - or is permanently infected by your batterfunk from washing too many spankerchiefs.

So, hope to see you back here soon. You're missing a spectacular ice storm at the moment - power out lots of places, schools closed, that kind of thing. How can you possibly not want to leave the.... oh, I just checked the weather, assuming it to be very warm there, and apparently it's only 37' - slightly beating out 28'. Global warming, my ass! I tell you, on mornings like this, garages kick particular ass.

by **AArdvark** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:42 pm

Start mailing your stuff back. piece by piece. then when you are ready to leave pack up the car and blow town. I bet it costs less to mail a washing machine than it does to rent a truck cross country. ( I am not being serious, BTW)

If you go to Disney, be sure to kick mickey in the balls for me...

THE
TAKE A BOW
AARDVARK

by **bruce** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:37 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: At least otherwise I can be somewhere where I can get a good pizza.

Well, fuck.

I was hoping to talk you into moving to St. Louis, where the rent is low, the girls are easy, and you can play Super Pong/Atari 2600/Atari 7800/Colecovision/Intellivision/NES/SNES/Apple II/C64/(soon) Apple IIGS/DOS/BeOS/QNX/Mac/OS/2/Windows/Linux games EVERY NIGHT at chez Adam (with options on Atari 800 and Vic-20 if I can get the cabling).

But the pizza in St. Louis, not to put too fine a point on it, completely blows dead rancid syphilitic goats. Although Uno's is good, just like it is everywhere, and Talyana's and Racanelli's both do a decent--for the Midwest, but they'd be rightly sneered at in Jersey--New York style pizza.

Bruce

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 5:33 pm

JQW wrote:Geez, I dunno. Her ex is moving out of town and she doesn't want a long-distance thing. She's stuck living with Boop at the moment, which means that they're both stressed most of the time. But, she has expressed interest in going to a titty bar with the usual group. Bitchin'!
(And, FWIW, her ex seemed to be a fairly decent dude. Apparently he used to come over and call Boop his "favorite Bancroft", while he was dating Cleo - that's fucking comedy.)

It is good that she managed to find a nice fellow. (For everyone else following this thread, Cleo played "Clara" in Fallacy of Dawn. I hope that explains my fawning over of her in this thread. She is one of the five hottest women that have ever had multiple conversations with me.) But shit yeah, I didn't mean to imply that I wanted to "e-date" her or anything. I can barely manage to keep a woman's extended interest when in the same city -- outside of an ability to "drop," if I may use a Banky Edwardsism, well, I'm just some guy posting as anonymous gimmicks on the Internet.

(... Who still happens to be "Internet Famous," if you're reading this, Cleo. Better to have bagged one guy famous in that way in your life than none in any way at all, narmean?)

Ah, well, you didn't mention the environmental cabinet. (Probably the only known instance of Jonsey being environmentally-friendly.) There were standup cabinets for it, too, ya know. Still, the game itself sucks balls. If you're after a good sit-down game, you just can't touch the old Star Wars vector game. What a classic.

Yes, but can you get married in it?

Q.E.D., my friend. Q.E.D.

FWIW, the monitor is "in storage" on top of my parent's garage, completely seperate from the console itself. I'll need to retrieve that and maybe find a good arcade-restoration message board and get some feedback.

Jesus Christ. You know, in the graphic novel "Kingdom Come," Superman reveals that he eventually buried some of Brainiac's circuitry on Saturn, some on Argo, and some in the Pulitzer on Clark Kent's desk. It's nice to see that the "Brainiac Section Theory" has also found it's way to your Baby Pac Man machine. I now consider it a race against time -- which happens first, I return home for a week or you get that thing running again.

"Always bet on black" -- W. Snipes

(C'mon, Buffalo or Syracuse? Eccchhh!) Could it all fit in a U-Haul truck, with the Black Rage on a tow rig?

Syracuse is where I was happiest though. Ali Baba's pizza truck right outside the campus door, a chick one floor up to sleep with, and no real responsibility when I gave up studying.

I don't think I could fit it all in a U-haul tugged by the Rage. I've only got a Wega, Washing Machine and the Crystal Castles game that takes up any significant room, though. Maybe one of those U-hauls that also hauls your car. That might work.

Though, as Nessman will tell you, it's damn hard for anyone to get a job nowadays.

Well, it's hard for Nessman to get a job, if you know what I mean. He probably had a few interviews cinched but then he called the interviewer a "pink-wristed cattle fag" on the way out the door or something.

In other news, your local ex is preggers again...

If congratulations are in order, do send them on my behalf. It's oftentimes hard to know if they are or not based on the information and who's doing the telling.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 5:15 pm

DAMMIT. I couldn't recall which of you lived in the bunker.

Debaser, yours indeed should be changed to some sort of crime fighting reference, with a sub-reference to only fighting kids who commit crime, as based on what was put on the "About the author" field for your last JC Feature. (I can't get any more specific, as that would "unmask" your 10 or 12 aliases.)

by **Debaser** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 5:01 pm

I suppose there are worse people to be confused with than PTX.

by **Jethro Q. Walrustitty** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:42 pm

bruce wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Does EDS hire a lot of programmers?
You really, really don't want to work for them. They're all about policing their employees' morals during their off time and shit like that. Everyone I know who's worked for EDS has both hated it and not lasted very long.

Bruce

Listen, Incredible Hulk, I'm about to hit my five-year anniversary. I, of course, know people who have worked here at EDS a long time. This so-called "information" you're giving us about policing morals - it's utter fiction. The don't care what you do in your off hours. Hell, we've got one guy who claims to be a goddamn vampire, and only works at night, and he's still here. If they'll put up with that, they'll put up with almost anything.

I stayed at EDS while some others left during the heyday of IPOs and startups - and like I said, every single person who left has come crawling back. (And only one or two, if that, have been rehired, what with the shitty economy and the lousy leader that we had - now gone.)

by **Jethro Q. Walrustitty** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:38 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:You're anti Discs of Freaking Tron? What next? You're going to tell me that you saw an I, Robot in some Sugarcreek store and you kicked the monitor in?

I plan on getting married in a Discs of Tron environmental cabinet.

Ah, well, you didn't mention the environmental cabinet. (Probably the only known instance of Jonsey being environmentally-friendly.) There were standup cabinets for it, too, ya know. Still, the game itself sucks balls. If you're after a good sit-down game, you just can't touch the old Star Wars vector game. What a classic.

Get Baby Pac in the basement and let's get the party started! (Did you ever define what was wrong with it? I know it was the monitor, but is it as simple as just dropping a new one in?)

Well, it'll probably stay in the garage until it gets functional. If I do say "fuck it" and decide to pay some knob-twiddler to fix it proper, I don't want to have to lug it back upstairs, then downstairs again after said fixing. I haven't really touched in since we had the apartment - soon after, it was carted to my uncle's barn and there's where it's been ever since. I do see it in the spring and fall when I take my Lotus in/out of storage.
FWIW, the monitor is "in storage" on top of my parent's garage, completely seperate from the console itself. I'll need to retrieve that and maybe find a good arcade-restoration message board and get some feedback.

Right. Ideally I'd like my next job to be with somebody who is making computer games in some capacity, but shit, at least otherwise I can be somewhere where I can get a good pizza. Plus, who knows how many years mom and dad have left. Everybody gets along now like something out of a 50s Sit Com, so that could be pleasant as well.

Well, that's what happens when you're not actually living together (or at least, haven't been living non-stop together for 20 years.) I get along famously with everyone from my folks to my sister, which wasn't always the case.

Were I in your shoes, I would first spray them with antibacterial cleaner (who knows what kind of biological disasters are going on in there), then I would save my pennies & dimes and start figuring out how I was going to move all my shit to Rochester. (C'mon, Buffalo or Syracuse? Eccchhh!) Could it all fit in a U-Haul truck, with the Black Rage on a tow rig? If so, could you talk your brother or someone else into riding shotgun as so not to go bonkers on the long drive? Meanwhile, I'd keep my ears open as to whether or not anyone has considering hiring the group you work with to go work somewhere else. Hey, if you can stay gainfully employed, it's best to do that. Otherwise, make plans to crash at the folk's house for a least a couple months, until you "get back on your feet" and find a job, preferably not with the bitter, existance-hating short fat dude at EB.

Does EDS hire a lot of programmers? I only know of them, as they used to supply us with equipment like PCs and such at Xerox. I am not sure what really goes on there.

Well, nowhere hires a lot of anyone lately. I think one former developer (here, they're developers, not programmers) is imminently coming back - that'll be the first outside hire in while. Yeah, EDS does tons of programming. Though, as Nessman will tell you, it's damn hard for anyone to get a job nowadays. But, from what I understand, every single person who left EDS in the "boom years" of the internet has come sniffing around, looking for their old job back. Every one.

Has there ever been a determination as to whether or not I am "dating material" with that girl? Can we get a ruling there? That's all the reason any man should need to move any where, but if my lack of a criminal record is to be held against me, that's important information that I need to have.

Geez, I dunno. Her ex is moving out of town and she doesn't want a long-distance thing. She's stuck living with Boop at the moment, which means that they're both stressed most of the time. But, she has expressed interest in going to a titty bar with the usual group. Bitchin'!
(And, FWIW, her ex seemed to be a fairly decent dude. Apparently he used to come over and call Boop his "favorite Bancroft", while he was dating Cleo - that's fucking comedy.)

Cleo is working at the same library as Mrs Walrustitty now, and they work together every Thursday - hey, that's today!

In other news, your local ex is preggers again...

by **Base Monitor** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:27 pm

THAT GUITAR SOLO SOUNDS "LIKE A STONE" FELL ON HIS GUITAR.

GET IT?

n/t

by **ICJ** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:24 pm

I mentioned the "Audioslave" concert with you, Weepy.

SPR-ZZZZIEEERRRR WWRRRREERR WRRRREERRRRR WWEEERRR WEERRR WWEEERRRRRR

"LOL!"

(thwack)

-- Sounds of the guitar solo from "Like a Stone" being played in concert, and then either Jonsey or Ben saying "LOL" followed by the other one hitting him to shut the fuck up and let the song continue to play.

by **Ben** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:20 pm

Nobody ever visits me.

:(

Jonsey - WTF man, when are you visiting?

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