On Responsibility, an epistle

My dear Room-mates...

I know what you're thinking. The last time you walked out of the house you probably took one look at our yard and muttered to yourself "That el Jefe is a Son-of-a-bitch". I know. I know. But I swear to you that in the words of that immortal love song-that-I-can't-quit-remember, tonight is the night.

That's right. No more fooling around. I'm going to mow the crap out of that fucker. And then I'm going to edge like a maniac.

I'm sorry it has been so long. Every time that I've said, "Enough. This lawn will be mowed." I've either slacked off, or God as put an end to my plans with his/her infernal weather. I'm sorry guys, I don't know what his/her plan is.

All that ends tonight though, after my guitar lesson.

Your roommate,

el "I brook no nonsense" Jefe

That's how its done
el Jefe

Not yet..

Yesterday morning I'm at my desk trying to earn a living when I get an IM from my boss E. He's young and pretty cool so when he ribs me about some faux pas I'd made the night before at a company dinner I replied with the following:

"Har fucking har"

Harmless enough, right? The conversation quickly ended and I proceeded with my day. fine. good.

That's my version of events. Now let's turn the clock back and sample them from my boss's perspective.

~~doodly-doo, doodly-doo~~

[addressing a room full of Directors and Managers]
"Now I'd like to introduce one of our newest technologies here at ----. Hopefully by the end of the year we will have rolled out our new Instant Messaging System to the entire company. Let's login here...
[doodles with computer]

Ok, and as you can see, the buddy list shows us who is available to chat. Ah, I see [el Jefe]'s in, let's have a chat with him.

[makes cute joke on IM and promptly receives profane reply]

Uhhhmm...

-silence-

Ok. Well that's enough of that...
[stabs at computer with wild gestures]

Luckily for me, my buddy JF was there and apparently started laughing which caused the rest of the room to join in. In retrospect E thought it was funny. My boss's boss assured me that I wasn't fired, yet. All in all another good day.

least they haven't seen the blog
el Jefe