From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #251 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, September 21 1998 Volume 03 : Number 251 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Dolby songbook [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Dolby songbook ["Michael and Denise Luckey" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:17:33 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Dolby songbook I'm happy to report that I was the highest bidder for the Dolby songbook on eBay! I just received confirmation that it's mine. Hee hee! Now I can figure it all out on cello once I transcribe it slightly. Thanks for the tip, Michael, I've been wanting this songbook for ages! Other good weekend news... Dave has sold another painting, and has generously offered to help me in paying for my new custom-made corset, which I'm ordering from an excellent seamstress in Canada. Isn't he a great husband? Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:05:54 -0700 From: "Michael and Denise Luckey" Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby songbook Good news seems to come in bunches doesn't it? Congratulations on both fronts Robin and Dave! M.L. - -----Original Message----- From: RThurF@aol.com To: alloy@smoe.org Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 1:24 PM Subject: Alloy: Dolby songbook > >I'm happy to report that I was the highest bidder for the Dolby songbook on >eBay! I just received confirmation that it's mine. Hee hee! Now I can figure >it all out on cello once I transcribe it slightly. Thanks for the tip, >Michael, I've been wanting this songbook for ages! > >Other good weekend news... Dave has sold another painting, and has generously >offered to help me in paying for my new custom-made corset, which I'm ordering >from an excellent seamstress in Canada. Isn't he a great husband? > > >Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:23:40 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby songbook Hey Robin.. Congrats to Dave for the sale ... and congrats to you for nailing that songbook! Quite a feat I'm sure!! And yes.. Dave sounds like a cool husband.. certainly one who deserves you.. it would appear. Ciao for now.. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:37:45 -0400 From: "Beth Meyer" Subject: RE: Alloy: Bad job interview Hi, folks; Well, amazingly enough, I just came out of having a whole batch of job interviews with relatively few disasters, except for the time last December I flew into White Plains (supposedly just for the day), drove a rental car an hour to an IBM location in Connecticut, then had to drive back as it started snowing really hard -- mind you, this is Beth the Atlanta native who doesn't know about snow, driving along with a death grip on the wheel, chanting "it's not sticking...it's not sticking..." Then got snowed in at the White Plains airport, couldn't get back to Atlanta, had to call around forever to find a hotel in New York City and take the train to Grand Central -- and then, find an all-night grocery for toothbrush, toothpaste, etc. Finally got back home at 3:00 the next afternoon, wearing the same clothes -- but it was an adventure! Microsoft apparently can be really bad about interviews (what a shock). They don't give you an agenda for the day; they deposit you in the lobby of a building, and each person who interviews you comes down and gets you, brings you up to their office to talk to you, and then brings you back down to the lobby, rather than directly to your next interview. It turns out that this is so that, if the first couple of people don't like you, they can just end the interview day right then. Fortunately, I lasted until late afternoon, but it was still pretty weird going up and down the same set of stairs over and over (especially when four people came out and started juggling with clubs at the base of the stairs). By the way, does anyone remember the old Monty Python job interview sketch? The one where John Cleese, interviewing the hapless candidate Terry Jones, suddenly picks up a little handbell and sings, "Good niiiiight, a-dinga-dinga-dinga"...then starts barking "5! 4! 3! 2! 1!" and writes some notes with this scowl on his face, while poor Terry can't figure out for the life of him what he's supposed to be doing...I always wanted to make a tape of that sketch for one of our organizational psychology classes. Then there was the scene in "The Full Monty" where this poor guy is going on an interview for a job that he's desperate to get, only to see his own garden gnomes dancing in the window behind the interviewers (courtesy of some mischievous and unemployed friends)... Oh, well. Good luck to Melissa anyway on the various projects -- and congrats to Slarv on finally getting the living room the right color. Since we may be moving into a new house a few weeks before the baby is due -- if not possibly afterwards (!) -- I shudder to think of the intense decoration efforts that will be going on in the Meyer household early next year... Cheers, Beth Beth Meyer bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #251 ***************************