Gonna get this off my chest (long)

[SteveDallas]

Good luck, blue!!

I sympathize--I've done the "one man IT shop" thing. Well, OK, still doing it mostly, I have a little help now. And there are compensations. (I came from a situation where I was on a staff of 11 in the Academic Computing Center, so it was a chance to run things my own way, and build something from the ground up. There are worse things.)

The problem is, if you're good and you're conscientious, you can keep a lot of plates in the air, and that encourages your employer to think that it's OK, you really don't need any help because you're doing fine. Unfortunately sometimes it takes a failure or a catastrophe to drive home to people how frayed the shoestring you're working with is.

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Like Rho did.

How many times have you been married?

Yeah...that's what I thought.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally posted by sycamore


How many times have you been married?

Yeah...that's what I thought.

And how many times have you been married? None. Oh, wait, how many times have you been engaged? Smart chicks, were they? I think so. :p

[elSicomoro]

At least I bailed before it was too late.

[lumberjim]

Originally posted by blue58


The other one is like 20 years older than me but kind of smoking!

how can one be " kind of smoking" ?? Smoking is located at the far side of "hot" you can be "kind of hot".....but kind of smoking is like "moderately perfect" or "sorta pregnant" or "Mostly Dead"

if she's kind of smoking.....isn't she just "hot"?

and if she's 20 years older than you....i guess from your pics that you are 36.....she's 56? A 56 year old could be a "MILF" but she'd be more likely to be a "GMILF" which is just wrong by deifinition (unless you're bruce), but she's not hot.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally posted by sycamore
At least I bailed before it was too late.

At least they bailed before it was too late.:p

[elSicomoro]

Ooooookay...

[lumberjim]

syc, you're like 28 or 29, right? and you've been with Rho for a while, right? Did you ust go around asking girls that you'd dated a couple of times to marry you when you were in your early twenties? Or did they ask you because you were so intense and incredibly attractive, and you can't say no?

Maybe i'm naive because jinx and I hooked up when I was 21, so i missed the whole "dating in your 20's" scene....( from observing my younger brother, I understand that this is the main time when people reach toward one another for lasting relationships and life building, therefore you date A LOT)

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by lumberjim
syc, you're like 28 or 29, right?

28

and you've been with Rho for a while, right?

5 years

Did you ust go around asking girls that you'd dated a couple of times to marry you when you were in your early twenties?

First fiance asked me when I was 18. The second one I asked the first time at 22 and the second time at 23.

[lumberjim]

oh. that only counts as being engaged twice, for future reference.

[elSicomoro]

I'm currently engaged to Rho.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, no, that's definitely three if she said yes the first time(22).

[elSicomoro]

The first try second time around...Jesus Christ. The setting was damned near perfect...we were at the Cook County Forest Preserve in Tinley Park (south of Chicago), and I got down on one knee and everything. And what answer did I get? "I need to think about it."

[jaguar]

Is this a private bitchslap-syc session or is it open season to all comers?

[elSicomoro]

The only things these chuckleheads are slapping are their dicks.