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Argile:  you busy again today?

 Sven:  nope

in fact, the office is empty except for me right now

I know my boss has meetings all morning

you?

 Argile:  I’ve got a meeting at 10:30, some random stuff to do all day

 Sven:  nothing pressing?

 Argile:  not really

 Sven:  cool

or not, depends I guess

I’m kinda tired today, so I’m fine with not having much to do

 

 Sent at 8:07 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  oh yeah? up to wild things last night?

 Sven:  you know it

met my cousin at a hookah bar, but I didn’t partake there

and then it was dublin after that

helped his rather naive girlfriend of 1 week get in

ran into stacey

she made me promise to call her

 

 Sent at 8:10 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  lol, helped your cousin’s girlfriend of one week?

he’s already got one, huh?

 

 Sent at 8:12 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  yeah, he’s definitely a smooth operator

she’s pretty damn cute

 Argile:  solid

maybe he can hook you up?

 Sven:  he seems to think he can

I declined last night, but I may take him up on his offer later this year

 

 Sent at 8:16 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  don’t decline, but be discerning

for every dopey girl out there, I’m sure there are a bunch roughly like us, smart people just having fun for the night

so, whomever he introduces you to could be someone really cool

 Sven:  yep, I’ll bear that in mind

just, last night I was in no position to be putting forth the effort to score a hookup or whatever

I was there to chill w/my cousin, and I’d had a really long day

and I still had to come to work today

 

 Sent at 8:20 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  true, true

I was out w/ Kaylee and some other ppl till 1

so I’m a little zonked too

 Sven:  would expect nothing less

 Argile:  yeah, yeah

your derision has been noted

 Sven:  I have no idea what you’re talking about

 

 Sent at 8:23 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  I remind you that I’m coming down next week and I do so enjoy a good revenge

 Sven:  duly noted

 

 Sent at 8:26 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  Another critical debate for our times: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/08/great-geek-debates-stormtrooper-vs-redshirt/

 

 Sent at 8:27 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  also, view the results. Stormtrooper by a landslide!

 

 Sent at 8:30 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  that’s the second time this guy has sided with Trek over Wars

 

 Sent at 8:31 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  yeah… and his reasoning isn’t all that great this time

not sayin’ that stormtroopers are all that great, but the empire took over the galaxy somehow

 Sven:  not to mention, they had no problem hitting unimportant characters

 Argile:  true

 Sven:  it was just main characters that they couldn’t shoot to save their lives

 Argile:  and since I doubt a redshirt ever shot a major trek villain, you might say the same rule applies to them

 

Sent at 8:45 AM on Friday

 Sven:  I just made labels for 14 envelopes

that was a bit tedious

 

 Sent at 8:48 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  woo!

working hard today, huh?

 Sven:  today, and every day

I’m not alone in the office anymore, so I can’t fall asleep at my desk

kind of a bummer

 

 Sent at 8:50 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  so how’s the weekend looking for you?

 

 Sent at 8:52 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  well, it’s Kaylee’s last weekend in town, so I might have to make a move just on principle

I’m going to tone down on the drinking though, I want to stop pre-gaming before going out

booze is so cheap here that, unlike dsm, I wind up getting much more once I’m actually out

 Sven:  good notion

 Argile:  not like I’ve been getting drunk or anything

but I’ve still been having late, fuzzy mornings

 Sven:  no good

 

Sent at 9:01 AM on Friday

 Argile:  also, college kids are back in town, which means rampant craziness

there was someone dressed in a pig costume last night

 Sven:  like ya do

 Argile:  yeah, and the cops were having fun

 Sven:  oh I’m sure

see anyone get tasered?

 

Sent at 9:04 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  nah, just some shirtless guys getting taken away and flashing cherries and berries on every street corner

 Sven:  how tame

 

 Sent at 9:09 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  yeah

I’m sure it’ll improve

 

 Sent at 9:10 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  it’s to be hoped

 

 Sent at 9:12 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  but, more importantly, it means the utter availability of college girls

 Sven:  that is important

 Argile:  and wow, does it feel strange to say that

 Sven:  yeah…you’ve become one of “those guys”

 

 Sent at 9:15 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  not quite

if I were 5 years older, definitely

I’m still college-age, and I have a job, but I don’t have a kid

so I’m not quite creepy

 Sven:  knockin’ on the door…

 

 Sent at 9:18 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  says the guy who might use his younger cousin as a source for poon

 Sven:  hey, I said “might”

that’s if a couple other things don’t pan out

 

Sent at 9:21 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  couple of other things?

 Sven:  yep

 

 Sent at 9:25 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  elaboration not forthcoming, I assume?

 Sven:  I’m thinkin’ about it

see how frustrating it is when people you think are your friends withhold info?

 

 Sent at 9:28 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  that bitter tangy taste you are experiencing is a little flavor I like to call “your own medicine”

bwahahahahaha

 Argile:  meh

I’m taking a mafia quiz, so I’m not too concerned

http://popurls.com/go/howstuffworks.com/lda4ce02a84798092c580c157c895800b

see, the problem with keeping information from me is that I quickly lose interest

 Sven:  fair enough

 Argile:  not that I don’t care or anything, just that if it isn’t immediately going to impact my well-being, I’m not going to push it

 Sven:  uh huh

but inside, you’re still curious

your self-control of that curiosity is admirable

 

 Sent at 9:32 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  well, when you have this to look at, it’s not hard to repress other things: http://www.tofslie.com/hey/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/popeye-590×442.jpg

 

Sent at 9:36 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  meh, 6 out of 10 on the mafia quiz

and that popeye thing is a truly disturbing image

 

 Sent at 9:37 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  beat me on the mafia thing, and yes, I agree that popeye is a freakish thing

 Sven:  I’ll probably have nightmares tonight

 

 Sent at 9:41 AM on Friday

 

 Argile:  nope, because you’re such a ladies’ man that you’ll spend tonight wide awake and loving it

 

 Sent at 9:42 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  um, I don’t think I quite have the stones to go find a girl while visiting my grandparents and bring her back to their place for the night

 Argile:  lol

that would be amazing

 Sven:  that would be

 Argile:  where are your grandparents?

 Sven:  S*****.  my brother and his wife are stopping there for the weekend on their way to duluth

so I’m gonna go hang with them for the weekend

 

 Sent at 9:46 AM on Friday

 

 Sven:  get me some good cookin’

 Argile:  nice.

 

Sent at 9:59 AM on Friday

 

Argile:  brb

 

 Sent at 12:06 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  had to secure pizza for dinner tonight

 Sven:  pizza is secured?

 

 Sent at 12:21 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  parents normally get pizza on fridays

if I call soon enough, sometimes they’ll get me one

Also, I dare you not to burst into inappropriate hilariously laughter: http://www.cracked.com/blog/ted-kennedy-the-movie/

 

 Sent at 12:33 PM on Friday

 

 Sven:  wow that’s…I don’t even know to call that

seems like string reminiscent of the “don’t even reply” guy

 

 Sent at 12:40 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  yeah, but on a level above wackiness

that picture, with JFK, and the robot in the background is great

 Sven:  yeah, the pics were pretty sweet

 

 Sent at 12:42 PM on Friday

 

 Sven:  have I ever told you about our problem here with getting wrong numbers constantly from people looking for the same wrong company?

we get at least 2 or 3 calls a day from someone looking for Dana Corp

 

 Sent at 12:46 PM on Friday

 

 Sven:  anyway, I kinda feel like prank calling them a few times a day so they get a taste of what we constantly deal with ‘cuz our phone numbers are 1 digit apart

 

 Sent at 12:48 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  hahaha, I recently had to deal with a “Romance Messages” text spammer

who insisted I owed them $10 to receive romance messages

 Sven:  that’d be pretty irritating

 Argile:  yeah, but what annoyed me more was that they were able to actually put this on my account somehow

 Sven:  I suppose your parents saw that?

 Argile:  oh, no

this happened a couple of days ago, and I talked to Sprint and they took it off

 Sven:  ah

that must have been fun

 Argile:  but what was worse is that the message I got was stupid anyway

it suggested sharing food at dinner to create more intimacy

whoopee

 Sven:  how helpful

 Argile:  anyone who’s watched Lady and the Tramp knows that trick

I’m going to be doing a bunch of data entry, so I’ll be in and out here

 Sven:  okeydokey

I’m gonna be doin’ a whole lotta nothing

but I’ll probably also be leaving a little after 3 today

 S

ent at 1:11 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  yeah, I recommend just bouncing around cracked, it’s pretty funny stuff

 

 Sent at 1:12 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  and, of course, my data entry involves gmail

 Sven:  right on

 Argile:  yeah, but it involves creating new accounts for ppl

I’m trying to trick google, and it’s not completely working

 Sven:  I see

google is wily

 

Sent at 1:21 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  well, google hates me now

 Sven:  uh oh

I recommend groveling

 Argile:  it called me a spammer and won’t let me create more accounts

 Sven:  bwahahahaha

I mean, I’m sorry to hear that

so, you’re trying to create accounts for work?

 

Sent at 2:13 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  well, a bunch of our older clients have older stat-tracking things

so we need to update those

to google analytics

 Sven:  so what will you do now?

 Argile:  and, of course, we have a company profile that we’ve been using to host all of these reports

for all of our sites – but to prevent one client from seeing another client’s stats, we can’t give them administrator access

you know, if they’re administrators for our account, they could see everyones

so we’ve been restricting them to “view” the reports

but that limits customization and other options, plus it means they have to go through us to change anything

so we wanted to create independent accounts for each site so that they could do their own thing

get it?

 Sven:  I think I follow you

 Argile:  however, because several of us were creating gmail accounts for these clients

and it looked to google like all the requests were coming from the same location (sitepro)

it thinks we’re spamming it with new accounts

 Sven:  hmm

that’s a pickle

 

Sent at 2:24 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  yes, yes it is

 

 Sent at 2:29 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  bwahahaha

I don’t know if you remember, but I took a test last semester

for Drake that was a critical writing assesment

 

 Sent at 2:52 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  that they use to measure education nationwide

 Sven:  I don’t remember that

just got your results back?

 Argile:  it was only for a randomly chosen 15 kids

yeah

top 4% in the country biatch

 Sven:  well, congrats

it’s a good thing you’re the last person who’d ever have ego issues

 Argile:  oh, you bet your ass I’m gonna be parading this one around

 Sven:  how could you not?

put that on your business cards

 

 Sent at 2:56 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  tattoo it onto my forehead

 Sven:  that’d be subtle

 

 Sent at 3:02 PM on Friday

 

 Argile:  and I’ll put it on my t-shirts, and record a ring-tone with me stating my awesomeness

put it in my email signature, facebook profile

and hire a skywriter to write it over NYC

 Sven:  these are all excellent ideas

and, whatever the results of them, I’m sure that one of them wouldn’t be you getting punched in the throat

 Argile:  I’m sure I’ll get on CNN

 Sven:  they’ll be calling you any moment

 Argile:  actually, now that I know just how awesome I am, I plan to drink until I return to average

wouldn’t wanna be all superior

 

 Sent at 3:06 PM on Friday

 

 Sven:  I like this plan

 Argile:  2 hours till the starting gun goes off

 Sven:  neat

I’ll be bored on the road until about 7, feel free to drunk dial