Hi! and, um, what did Cheney do this time?

At the Auschwitz memorial ceremony, everyone else had the respect to wear black overcoat, nice shoes, and formal black hat. He had hiking boots, parka, and knit hat. The parka had his name embroidered on it. The knit hat had a logo. Not a major anything, but not really respectful.

So wait, people have to have the check ARRIVE on the first of the month? My deal is either hand deliver (which I do) or it has to be postmarked the day of.

Phbbt, Burrell. I'll warn you, I don't respond to Sam. For a while, not to Sara, either, but that's a different problem.

So wait, people have to have the check ARRIVE on the first of the month?

They never prorated my first month, or anything. So my rent is due the 13th. If I mail it by the 13th, it's a very on the ball month. Usually I mail it around the 15th. Three times in two years I've been called on that -- but I feel no guilt because I once overpaid my rent by $300, and they didn't say a word about it.

Where's UPS? I'm here, dammit, waiting for the cable guy, and I swear the package is to be delivered today. Don't let this drag out until Monday, when I'll not be home so early...

So wait, people have to have the check ARRIVE on the first of the month?

Yep. Or I can hand-deliver.

ita, that like here. Though I think there is a 3 day grace period on top of the postmark/deliver deal. I've never run into it, since I'm kinda of anal about paying my bills, so the latest it'll be is after hours on the first or the first working day after (no staff in rental office on weekends.)

I just drop my rent off in the drop box outside of their offices, a few blocks down the street from my building. The technical due date is the first, but as long as you get it in by the end of business on the 5th, they're cool with it. After that, though, you get nailed with a $25 fee.

Hi.

I'm sorry, but if you don't pay, I can't argue with you.

I would like to tag this and also use it randomly in discussions.

OK, Sue won the cold morning game.

For those of you who don't frequent the Music thread, The Times of London enthusiastically reviewed Lost In The Grooves today.

Awesome, Hec!

Speaking of random: You know when you water a really dry plant, the soil just sucks the water down so fast that it barely looks like you've watered until you get enough water in there for the top layer of soil to get wet? That is how my skin is. I just put lotion on my hands and had to do a second round because my skin just sucked up the first coating so thoroughly. Winter dry=sad.

I'm still waiting for my W-2, and I wish it would come soon. I don't stay in the mood to do my taxes for very long.

I'm in the last few minutes of my last day at work before I fly to the land of Hobbits and Uruk-hai very large beetles and endangered kea birds.

I told someone I would do something for him 2 weeks ago, by the end of business today. It is now 5:30 and all I've done is look at the first 12 pages of this 700-page document.

I feel guilty. But am I really trying to do it, now? No.

I just put lotion on my hands and had to do a second round because my skin just sucked up the first coating so thoroughly. Winter dry=sad.

I've got that now, too. When I was at the bookstore today, I bought a sample pack of a bunch of Burt's Bees lotions to keep in my desk, because my hands and face are always so completely dry from walking outside between classes.