Your Highly Irregular Quizo Update

Just to let people know if they hadn't heard already - tonight and next Thursday night I will be filling in for Johnny Goodtimes as he enjoys a well-deserved vacation. To mark the occasion, tonights games - 8PM at the Good Dog Tavern, 15th and Walnut, and 10-ish at the Bards, 20th and Walnut - will feature the return of what is generally considered to be the greatest speed round in Dark Horse history.

That's right - "Naughty, Evil, or Just Plain Disgusting" is back.

Also, if anyone else is from the general Mayfair vicinity and can explain why, when I stepped outside this morning, the entire neighborhood smelled like cookies I could really use that information. Fucking weird.

I was so consumed by the whole cookie thing that this morning, at a department breakfast (something to do with an upgrade project that apparently I worked on) I wasn't really paying attention while I was talking to this guy who kept asking these very pointed questions about the technology I spend most of my time working with. I was speaking very disparagingly about it since a) the technology I spend most of my day working with absolutely sucks, the fact that I designed small parts of it at my last job notwithstanding, and b) I am desperately trying to get rid of it, primarily because it sucks so much. Most of my mind, however, was still on the cookie thing so I probably was more disparaging than usual and the occasional colorful comment may have slipped in.

As I was leaving I asked one of my coworkers, "hey, who was that guy I was talking to, anyway?"

"That's Dr. Beck," he says.

"Oh, Dr. Beck, well." Whatever.

"He's the CIO."

At which point I realized that CIO = my departmental superboss = guy eventually responsible for buying dreck technology I work with/designed parts of.

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Son of a BITCH people need to tell me these things beforehand.

See you tonight, then, or if not Monday night.

JLK