We put a window unit in because the central air didn't get the bedroom cool enough. No shame in having A/C.

It always used to amuse me when my uncle would apologize about how humid it was when we'd visit California. 'It's so muggy" he'd say, and we'd laugh and laugh.

The office copy machine isn't working. The maintenance people aren't calling me back. A good 60% of my job is making copies. Fortunately, nothing in my copy-when-the-machine-is-fixed pile is urgently needed 5 minutes ago, but I am going to be so bored until they get the damn thing fixed.

I woke up this morning thinking about Aimée's disturbing link and Gris's WHOIS results, and I'm starting to wonder if maybe she should call the police. I have a big visceral squick about curtailing free speech and regulating the internets, and a childish squick about tattling; on the other hand, this Graham Casady person has posted fairly explicit directions for hunting down toxic plants and poisoning members of a specific ethnic group.

Thing is, which police do I call? The ones here, the ones in Colorado, or the ones in Cambridge which is the return address?

vw, is there a way that you could work the extra 5 hours a week to get the insurance? I hate when mistakes like that happen. {{{vw}}}

They can't afford it. They're budget is really tight right now, which is why they cut the hours of the position in the first place.

Aimee, I think that it would be appropriate to call your Postmaster or Postal Inspector and your local FBI office because it involves the federal mail.

Oh, vw, I'm sorry. That's a bad mistake for them to have made.

Aimee, I think that it would be appropriate to call your Postmaster or Postal Inspector and your local FBI office because it involves the federal mail.

LAPD has a non-emergency line. I'll try to call them tonight. Also, we have an LAPD substation in our bulding, maybe I'll go down there at lunch or something.

They should at least be able to tell you who you should call, Aimee.

I'll bet they'll tell you the mailing isn't specific enough for them to do anything, but it would be nice if someone in law enforcement was interested.

18 USCS § 876 (2005)

§ 876. Mailing threatening communications

(b) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value, so deposits, or causes to be delivered, as aforesaid, any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(b) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value,

Not sure that'll cut it. But I'd call the post office anyway.