heard on the bus this morning

Dan: Hey Mark, how ya doin'?

Mark: Hi, Dan. Good, thanks. Yourself?

Dan: fine, fine. Say, it was your name day the other day. St. Mark, you know. Hey, you know, I took your namesake out to dinner the other night. Yeah, Friday. He couldn't make it on Wednesday.

Mark: Oh yeah? Hey, how's your sister Cindy?

Dan: She disappeared. Yeah, we don't know where they are. She was up in Vermont and she just took off--didn't leave me no forwarding address or nothin'.

Mark: Oh, wow.

Dan: Yeah. So where are you living these days?

Mark: Up near Westville. You know . . . you know where Ruby St. is?

Dan: Oh, yeah, up near the cemetery, right? Yeah. I got married two years ago . . .

Mark: Oh, yeah? Hey!

Dan: Worst mistake I ever made.

Mark: Oh, I don't know about that . . .

Dan: . . . It's OK, I guess, if you like being tied up and beaten with a whip. Hey, keep the faith, all right?

Mark: Yeah, I'll see ya.

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The union voted not to accept the university's latest contract offer last night. I wasn't too knocked out by Yale's offer, but at the same time I'd really like to have the whole thing over with. I've been working here since Sept. 2001, and I haven't received a raise since I've been here because they can't sign a freaking contract. And it's looking more and more like we're not going to receive the back pay that the union's been promising that the university would give us. Blockheads--nothing but blockheads on both sides of this deal.

Whine whine blah shit hell.

Crud. I just realized that I left my umbrella on the bus this morning. In the bus, rather. I was distracted by the freaks up in there.

just curious

At what setting do you keep your screen? Like 1024x768, 800x600, that kind of jazz. I'm 1280x1024 at home, 1024x768 at work.

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