Ever get the feeling somebody's trying to tell you something?

[featherynscale]

Hypothesis: The guys at the office either have a very low opinion of my moral character, or they spend entirely too much time looking at my chest. Or something.

Supporting evidence: The passwords I've been assigned so far (note that none of these are my passwords anymore).
1st system: 8675309
2nd system: XXX
3rd system: escort399

What's up with that?

Comments

[malvito.livejournal.com]

If they are discreet enough to not appear to be looking at your chest, they apparently aren't enough so to not appear to be thinking about it.

OK, I think about your chest a lot, too, but it has no effect on my workplace performance. (I don't think.)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

they apparently aren't enough so to not appear to be thinking about it

Good gods, man, they're only human! Think what you're asking of them?!?

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Considering whose chest we are talking (and thinking) about, for the coworkers to be thinking about it would mean that they had a lot to think about.

One must wonder how they are to get anything else done ...;-)

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

::shrugs::

It may be that they give these passwords to everybody, and that they just spend a lot of time thinking about sex, and it's nothing personal.

Just a thought.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

*snort*
Sure.
I'm not sure if that's more funny or less funny.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I think it's very refreshing. I get to determine my own password, but the server and network names here have either have Star Wars character references, or Gospel/Apostle names.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

See, all our servers are characters on Cheers. I think that's an excellent summary of my work environment.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

If only the Department of Technology Services (DOTS for short) here in the UG of WyCo were so imaginative... this place is utterly boring... except for the personal lives stuff that always seems to come out of the wood work.

Plus the fun part where I am having a conversation with a lady in the office next too our secretary and my secretary calls security because she thought I was the crazy lady that wants to open a Day Care but can't seem to stay on her meds... That's what I get for socializing at work!

*laugh*

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, those are some funny passwords...I'd also like to ascribe it to generalized passwording bastardy (they may be still reeling from the fact that you're a Gal Who Can Run a Computer™!).

However, you *do* work in an auto parts shop, so anything's possible. escort399 could go either way.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

*falls over laughing*

That's pretty funny. I am overcome with jealousy over your work environment. Seems pretty relaxed and laid back.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I hear we're hiring CSRs...

twist

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Do I detect an effort to convince me to join you in the Great White North?

Hehe.

Re: twist

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's hardly great or white, or north, even. I just think it would be good for you to shake it up a bit.

I just can't seem to help it, even if it does engender a smack-down.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

*shake it, shake-shake-shake it, shake it like apolaroid pictchah.....*

Re: I just can't seem to help it, even if it does engender a smack-down.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

Yep just come more north than you are Bring more southern color LOL
T

Re: twist

[teross50.livejournal.com]

You were expecting what from the "Car boys"?

Re: twist

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

It's the mediocre brown center.

No real snow, just ice that makes our power go out like Iraqistan

Not really north, there's still a quarter dozen states up there. I think this is the most northern state where the non-city areas still have a lot of folks though.

Not great... not really even a city... more like a grand conglomeration of suburbs with a mean streak up by the river.

But it still beats NJ.

Re: twist

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

The cost of housing but higher standard of living (in the suburbs) is what lured me back to KC to hang my hat for a while. I've lived a lot of places, some really nice (Palm Springs), some not so nice (NJ) but KC is juuuust right. No matter how much I talk smack. ;-)

Re: twist

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Not meaning at all to put the KC conglomerate down. On first blush, the cost of housing seems a lot lower than Jax. Of course, I was only looking at apartments, and I may have been looking at apartments in "the mean streak by the river." I know the bad areas of Jax real estate pretty well, and what to avoid, but I know next to nothing about KC real estate.

Of course, what I've heard about the other aspects of living in KC seem pretty swell. I'm tempted.

Re: twist

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

If you want nice, Johnson County, KS or Lees Summit MO. Feathery lives in the Red Bridge area of Kansas City Proper... I also live in Kansas City Proper, but you have to really know the subdivisions out here. There are nice areas in KC proper, heck there are downright AWESOME places in KC proper (Brookside, Plaza, Waldo) but there is also a lot of chaff.

bad places

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

That's what I'd be concerned about. I know the bad spots in St. Augustine pretty well, having grown up there, and the bad spots in Jax, having worked 9-1-1 for over a year and getting to know the areas we continuously got calls for(mainly the northwest area(moncrief-dinsmore), downtown, murray hill, and certain parts of the westside). But another city? I'd be like a mid-west tourist visiting NY for the first time. Woo-woo.

I would really like to get out to Seattle eventually, or possibly Portland. Seems like really nice places to live, just at high cost. Eh.

Who knows what the future will bring. *shrug* I seem to have put down some pretty strong roots here (my coven, most of my maternal extended family, my goddessdaughter) so it'd probably be a pretty painful uprooting, unless something drastic happens. What's that saying? Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Trite, but true. ;)

But that doesn't preclude me coming up for a visit. If I can ever scrape up enough money and free time to do so. :)

Re: realty

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

For instance, I found a house for sale, MLS 1229624
(http://www.realtor.com/Prop/1045106179), 4 bed, 2 bath, list price $69,900. Pic looks pretty good, but you know, down here in jax that kind of list price for that size of a house would signify either a house in poor repair or a house in a really bad area of town. The rule here is, for purchases and rentals, if you can buy a 4+ bedroom house for less than $150,000, or rent it for less than $1000/mnth, then it's a piece of crap or in a crappy area of town.

The above house is in Park Gate Add, Jackson County. Analysis?

Re: realty

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That one is both labeled a fixer-upper, and in a bad part of town.
Cost of housing is a lot lower here than in Jacksonville, but it's not that much lower.

I think you can probably get something about that size that's decent and in a decent part of town for about 125,000, but it's been a while since I looked.

realty reality

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaah...thought it seemed a bit low.

*smacks forehead* and I missed the fixer upper part completely.

About how much is ya'll's income tax these days? Jest curious.

Income tax

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Taxes are much more of a bitch here than they are in Florida--
We've got a state income tax at (I think) 7% and a sales tax that varies depending on where you are in the metro. I think where we are at the sales tax is something on the order of 4.3%, but it's a lot higher in Kansas.
Also, if you live in KCMO, then you have a 1% municipal income tax.

I think though, that even given taxes, the cost of living here is still significantly lower than in Jax.

Re: Income tax

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is pretty steep. I also remember the saga you went through with getting your car registered/renewed. Yikes.

Ya'll still seem pretty content though, can't be all that bad. ;)

Re: Income tax

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It's pretty good, actually. There are definitely things that I don't like, but overall, I'm generally pleased with my surroundings.

Was thinking I'd post later the Things That Rule/Things That Suck About Kansas City post :)

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

*giggle* OK, that's far more amusing than it has any right to be. (And your password-assigning people are a bunch of right perverts is what's up with that.)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

That...thing, in your icon, is seriously shudder-inducing...

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

*giggle* MISERYYYYYYYYY!

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

It looks Kirby-esque.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Speaking of scary icons....

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

Only cretins and the occasional mocking bird need fear the UberSquirrel. But a generous offering of pecans will certainly keep you in his good graces. >;)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You should definintely come by sometime, then. I make a pecan pie to pillage and burn over.

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

Pillaging AND pecan pie? The UberSquirrel DEFINETLY has a soft spot for you. Or maybe NOT so soft... >;)

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

psycho squirrelly!

Lady, you're mistaken...

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

E's not psycho, e's an UberSquirrel. The difference is huge.

Re: Lady, you're mistaken...

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

apologies. :)

Still scary.