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I'll still hold onto hope of the miracle happening where we get both of them. Things are going my way right now, so let's just keep that going.

1 hour and 9 minutes straight north from Durham on route 501 gets you to South Boston, VA. I think we found a winner. And no, I'm not going to mess with a good thing. I can live with the 21% raise for now.

The offer is $10k higher than I expected. :w00t:

I usually have an english muffin most mornings here at work. The toaster in our office is really crappy. The muffins are tough to take out without burning my hand. What you need to do is hit the lever on the toaster so that they spring out of the toaster high enough to catch. Today I was having no luck at all and got frustrated. I the lever so hard that the english muffin jumped up in the air and landed in the other slot on the toaster. It was amazing! I couldn't do that again if I tried... but of course I will from now on. Oh, and thanks to everyone that has offered advice so far.

Injury sure has ravaged his career.

I'm completely with Michael Scott on his thoughts about HR.

No, that's better. Nature is great.

So fast. Just had a quick follow up call and they will make me an offer but it just has to go through HR first. Hopefully that can be processed today. My would be boss even suggested a minor edit to my resume (deleting two words) that should lead to a higher offer.

Just finished call #2. I had to give a brief description of myself for about 5 minutes and then it quickly turned to a 30 minute sales pitch from Duke. I was told that they will probably make an offer as early as Monday. Wow, this has been one crazy week. This whole thing presented itself to me last Thursday and here we are already.

Watch him wind up in Boston.

He's heading to BC this fall, right? And hey, good to see you around here. It's been a while.

I was a catcher when was playing baseball back in my youth. I have no idea how exactly it happened, but one year back when I was 15 or 16, a pitch caught me just right in the glove to push my thumb back awkwardly. It almost immediately swelled up to softball size. I got that crazy multicolor bruise a little later in the week. That thing can still bug me to this day if I catch my hand in just the right way. You never realize just how important a thumb is until sprain it. Another one that is pretty crazy is that every so often when I'm golfing, the big toe in my back foot flairs up. It happens so innocently, but then I have trouble walking the rest of the day.

People can blame whoever the way, but that war neutered this country. It's going to take a long time to get that back.

She was actually more pro move yesterday than I was. But since she's a woman, I'm sure her mind will change several times. :P Her entire family is in this area, all within about 1.5 hours of each other tops. It would be a tough move for her. I think it would also be very good for her though. She needs a little more independence than she currently has.

I've got a brand new grill just sitting in storage. I know what I'm cooking first!

I just hung up. It actually went better than I could have imagined. The recommendation from my previous co-worker/boss is apparently through the roof. I now have the feeling that this could move incredibly fast. It also sounds like the money is actually better than Boston.

Hey, I used the sports real name once this month. That should count for something. And as for the rules, why actually create separate ones when you can just ignore the already existing ones when the stars are involved?

I have a phone call with Duke today. It actually got to this stage a lot faster than I thought it would. I assumed they were just taking my information in case a future spot opened up, but no, they have something already. I have already been given a "great recommendation" from the head of their department, so this should be a fun talk.

Amnesty buyout = bouncey ball (hope you're reading this UB) Compliance buyout = hockey Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. Our game is better, I do t want to take their terminology

He needs to free up cash to pay that team of forensic analyst who are still looking into the Cooke-Karlsson incident.

My supervisor who is retiring at the end of the month just busted out this little gem in a meeting:

His late 60s.

We also need an actual proposal before we can tell whether or not we like it.

Define a bunch. Three mini-Ditkas would have to be the equivalent of at least 2 regular sized Ditkas.

He's Ditka, but he has no arms.