Sinner's Alley Happy Hour (Part 1)

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<p>Just get him in, and then you can cross that bridge next. </p>

<p>Slugg shoud have some wisdom for you. I think it involves a Tiki theme?</p>

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<p>Ha ha. Went to Boston on business. Was sorely lacking in Tiki - in the spiritual or physical sense. I always lurk, even when I can’t post. This is somehow a source. A Sybelline source. Carry on.</p>

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<p>Bumping from page 2 purgatory
Went to a real life bar last night to meet a friend, was subconsciously comparing it to my imaginings of SA…one good thing here, no one in SA gets so drunk they barf!! And the men hear are not so obvious in their pick up lines :P</p>

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<p>Heard that the pomgranate martini was good. Winding down here. Everything is in, last SAT scores are back. First term ends next Thursday along with first term grades that need to go to EA schools. Then it is just waiting until mid-December. Since S got into a rolling school he would like to attend, there will be no more applications submitted.</p>

<p>The no hangover thing is good. No one picking you up, etc.</p>

<p>My niece planned on four EA schools, only got two of the four in on time. Rest will be normal. A little more stress in that household. She was hoping to break 700 yesterday on her latest SAT’s. Talked to my sister today, she didn’t bring it up.</p>

<p>Oldest S is coming in tonight from Pitt. Picking him up late at the airport. Turned 21 last weekend, might take him out for a drink.</p>

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<p>I now know why startups are for young’uns. At 50 it is hard to sit on the floor.</p>

<p>Just got back from Boston where one of our executives was speaking at an event and I had to set up our exhibitors table. And I mean really I had to set it up. And then I had to take it down again. No assistants or junior staffers. It’s just me right now and a team in China who really couldn’t help much at that point.</p>

<p>This was a moment I will take as a lesson. I had disassembled the literature rack, put the flat panel monitor back into its foam packing and inserted the whole thingie into its cardboard box, repacked all the collateral without bending it, put the lucite sign into its box with foam peanuts, left the hotel to purchase more foam peanuts when it was clear I did not have enough, and then taped all the aforementioned boxes together with that packing tape in some weird machine I never figured out how to make cut the tape without having to manually yank the tape across a sharp edge.</p>

<p>I was sitting on the floor, my legs in their tasteful and mildly hip pinstriped wool pants akimbo in front of me, Ferragamo slingbacks askew, reading glasses perched on my nose, and my Carly Fiorina hair in my eyes (yes, I need a haircut). And I had to fill out Fedex forms. I realized that while I do Fedex things on occasion, I always do it in the friendly FedexKinkos stores. I really did not know how to do it. I always get the friendly worker people to do it for me, figuring that at 50, and with a VP title, I deserve a little service.</p>

<p>Well, wudn’t any to be found on the floor there. Just me, my pen, and four Fedex forms to be filled out. I was sitting on the floor, thwarted by paperwork for a business that came into being in the second half of my life.</p>

<p>Finally a friendly worker guy - proving my theory that people who carry things for a living are nicer than people who fill out forms - told me what to do. Then miraculously and simultaneously the Fedex guy showed up in shorts and picked up all the boxes at once and carried them out the door.</p>

<p>I was beat. The Fedex guy was unphased. I am 50. He was maybe 28. Therein lies the lesson. From now on I am bringing my made-in-china soccer game seat to these things. At least I won’t have to sit on the floor. </p>

<p>Some day I will give my job to a young person. She/he will be thrilled. Cheers - tell your son to go to college but do the venture thing on the side and then he will never have to sit on the floor himself…</p>

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<p>Alumother–great story!</p>

<p>I worked for a small non-profit gallery for a long time (but part-time) and I liked everything about it except unpacking and packing the art. Crates, boxes, peanuts, clear tape, forms…you can have it! Especially, as you say, as you get older.</p>

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<p>Sympathies and empathies with the FedEx paperwork challenges, Alu. Since I have a home office, I have my own personal FedEx account, my own personal FedEx envelope and label thingies, my own personal discount for setting up the pickup online (or something). But my own personal self feels certain I am filling out the forms ALL WRONG every time I do it. </p>

<p>Now, getting down to the important stuff. Carly Fiorina hair? Great hint. Sent me scampering to Google Images for the below. Which is it? I’m leaning toward the second row, first and second from left as my own choices.</p>

<p>wouldn’t tsdad be happy! he’s always asking for: “Pictures?”
<a href=“http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Carly+Fiorina[/url]”>http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Carly+Fiorina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Our adminstrative assistant (I work in a small chemical plant) quit without notice a few weeks ago. One of the many things she did was to send my stuff out FedEx. First time I had to fill out a Fedex slip, I was praying it was going to get to the right place. The other challenge was trying to figure out how to order and pay for lunch for a meeting.</p>

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<p>Alu-
Ferragamo’s? Faaaaancy. Does that mean you can afford to buy everyone the next round in here? :)</p>

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<p>On the plus side, it sounds like alu was pooped, but her hair wasn’t–just like in the old hairspray commercial…</p>

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<p>I second Alu’s complaint about the horrible design of those tape dispenser thingies. Not only do you have to rip manually, you OFTEN get scraped by the sharp teeth on that thing.</p>

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<p>My shoes - now they are vintage and I only thought they were old…
<a href=“http://cgi.ebay.com/Salvatore-Ferragamo-VINTAGE-Slingback-Heels-Size-8-5_W0QQitemZ150053262690QQihZ005QQcategoryZ63889QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]”>http://cgi.ebay.com/Salvatore-Ferragamo-VINTAGE-Slingback-Heels-Size-8-5_W0QQitemZ150053262690QQihZ005QQcategoryZ63889QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>My hair on a bad day like today when I have no time for a haircut and leave for China Sunday…
<a href=“http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/images/idbb_02_img0094[/url]”>http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/images/idbb_02_img0094&lt;/a&gt;
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<p>My hair on a good day. Note the difference? Unfortunately I usually only have two weeks of good hair days and then spend the next six weeks thinking I ought to go to the hair place and failing to execute…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ncat.edu/~devinfo/2005/april/042005_files/Fiorina_Carly.jpg[/url]”>http://www.ncat.edu/~devinfo/2005/april/042005_files/Fiorina_Carly.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And sure. I don’t have Carly’s net worth, but I’m buying before I start my soju-only regime.</p>

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<p>You are hilarious!!</p>

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<p>Great to hear your musings, Alum. Personally, I think the empty next period is the best time to produce great fortunes. </p>

<p>At least the FedEx guy showed up in shorts. That’s a bonus for any 50 year old woman in Ferragamos.</p>

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<p>I love Ferragamos-got excited when I saw they were vintage. Wow maybe I could clean out my closet-till I saw the $8.99 starting bid-did that even pay our sales tax?. My Nordstroms hasn’t had them for about 2 yrs. At work I cross the street hospital to hospital. If one place needs meds I take them with me in a brown grocery type bag. I used to laugh that I am the bag lady in the Ferragamos. Now I just say I’m the best dressed bag lady in town.</p>

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<p>(/me peeks around the corner sheepishly…)</p>

<p>Are we still allowed to hang out here if our footwear consists mainly of Reeboks, Rockports, and Birkenstocks? (Although I do still have a few old pairs of Kalso Earth Shoes in my closet…) I’ve never even owned a pair of heels, do you think less of me now?</p>

<p>On a trendy note, I saw Blue Man Group’s “How To Be a Megastar 2.0” tour last night, and it was fabulous!</p>

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<p>How about matching Dansko clogs in black and brown, depending on the outfit.</p>

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<p>Kenneth Cole/Bostonian/Clarks/Sneaks?</p>

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<p>Robert Clergerie/BCBG/Nikes/Mansfield(best loafers EVER)/"Texas"cowboy boots/flipflops</p>

<p>And very fuzzy LL Bean slippers</p>

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<p>blue suede pumas, frye boots, ancient maud frizons, and bare feet… :)</p>