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Moving to Chicago
« on: October 09, 2006, 05:12:52 pm »
Hey kids,

I accepted a position in Chicago today (and then received another job offer an hour later - that figures) and will be moving to Chicagoland next month (if not sooner).

Just keeping you all up to date.  Server admin duties will be falling to my business partner but I'll still be around to post here.

I'm a little nervous about the move but mostly excited about both the job and Chicago.  I expect the job to be awesome and Chicago looks like a great city, what little I've seen of it.  I'm sure I will find it a good home.  It will almost certainly be a step-up from Philly.

Anyway, over the next couple of weeks I'm going to try to hang a little with you east coast folks, so we should plan to set up a right-coast Achefest before the end of the month.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2006, 05:14:33 pm »
Good luck with the move and all that entails, Jough. Here's hoping life becomes EVEN MORE awesome for you!
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2006, 07:38:00 pm »
Congratulations!

I have just accepted a job where I will be working every weekend, which may interfere with my Achefest participation.  Is it too late to plan something for this coming weekend?  It is my last weekend off before I am supposed to start.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2006, 07:47:44 pm »
Congrats, Jough. May the windy city be a hospitable home to you, and this new job be something you can dig.
I don't really know Philly or Chicago, but I know which one I've heard of more, and more about... So good stuff.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2006, 10:37:36 pm »
Yea, good luck, man.  Hope you enjoy the windy city.  I may be moving there at the end of this summer, if I actually decide to graduate.  Hope you have fun, I always love new beginnings.  Chicago may not be the greatest city, but it is probably better than Philly.  At least Chicago is known for more than dumb fans that throw batteries.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2006, 11:47:49 pm »
Quote from: KeithHernandez on October 09, 2006, 10:37:36 pm
Yea, good luck, man.  Hope you enjoy the windy city.  I may be moving there at the end of this summer, if I actually decide to graduate.  Hope you have fun, I always love new beginnings.  Chicago may not be the greatest city, but it is probably better than Philly.  At least Chicago is known for more than dumb fans that throw batteries.

Hey, Philly fans invented the "sit the fuck down" clap-clap-clapclapclap chant and that has to be worth something.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2006, 12:12:11 am »
Quote from: CortJstr on October 09, 2006, 11:47:49 pm
Hey, Philly fans invented the "sit the fuck down" clap-clap-clapclapclap chant and that has to be worth something.

Explicit chanting, I would agrue, was made popular by Philly's ECW Arena, but to say they invented profane chanting is a stretch.  ECW Arena might never even have been named so if it wasn't for Queens, NY and the sounds of "YOU FUCKED UP - YOU FUCKED UP," bellowing from the Elk's Lodge.




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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2006, 12:42:50 am »
Congratulations and good luck, El Guapo!
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2006, 03:07:13 am »
But what does this mean in regard to your relative proximity to India?

Congratulations.

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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2006, 03:28:20 am »
I was hoping it would be Montana.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2006, 03:31:03 am »
Congrats!  Many happy returns! 

This is even further encouragement to make good on my promise to take Pedro to Chicago someday.  He's never been and we have a dear friend from college who lives there as well.  Now that he has a job with actual, y'know, vacation time we just might be able to swing it. 

How sad is it that you have to move further away to get us to consider visiting you? 
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2006, 03:39:49 am »
Quote from: jldunston on October 10, 2006, 03:31:03 am
How sad is it that you have to move further away to get us to consider visiting you? 

Chicago is only about 5 hours away from me.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2006, 03:41:40 am »
That is awesome! Congratulations. Good luck on the move, btw.  I will have to swing by and say hello the next time I'm anywhere remotely close to the Midwest.
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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2006, 03:44:18 am »
it makes perfect sense to me, JL. I mean, it's not like I've spent the last 10 years only a few hours away from you, or anything. *sobs*


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Re: Moving to Chicago
« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2006, 05:06:56 am »
Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home chicago

That's all I got.
But Good news man.
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