She's still being extremely pretty.

Broken nose might solve that problem. ijs.

I wish you as much peace as is possible. In fact, a little bit more.

Thanks, babe.

Until they make DVDs and Internet access available off the grid, I'm so not interested.

For the former, the Kmart parking lot, that sketchy looking explorer. For the latter, steal other people's wireless! So easy!

The Government always had a hard time with my uncle's location. See, it's in Minnesota. But until very recently, the mailing address was a three building town in South Dakota because that was the nearest postal distribution point. So you could address something to Uncle Lastname, Ward, SD and it would get to him. Heck, we used to address stuff to Uncle Charlie and Aunt Red and it would get to them.

Now they have an honest to goodness street address, house number, street name, everything. And it isn't even a Farm Road address.

The really funny part is, no one can remember it, because no one local uses the newfangled address system to give directions.

It's her eyes that are the extremely pretty part. They're very bright. She has great lashes, and lovely brows. Gah. Made me stare again.

It's very depressing to realise I'll need to be in thist training all week, because it means that it's going that slowly. I only need three days of material. Tops. It's just going to take him five days to do it.

She has great lashes, and lovely brows. Gah. Made me stare again.

Hmmm, that's a problem. If you split her brow, the scar might just make her look cooler.

because no one local uses the newfangled address system to give directions.

Hee. In one of the locations we visit, they recently changed all the rural roads from names to numbers. Which, okay, whatever. But they never created or published a chart that correlates which ones are which. So it only really exists in their minds. But now all documentation that comes out using the newfangled numbers, so no one ever knows where anyone is talking about.

My library makes me use my card. Which is tied to my SSN, after years of resistance. Glargh.

ouch. When we moved to an automated system for time management on our computers, we were very careful to find a way for people to be as unknow as possible. we have cards that sit at the desk that you pick up to go log into the system - the cards rotate, can only be used once a day, and data is purged every night. We have no idea what person used card 0066 anyway. All we wanted was to make sure everybody that wanted to use a computer, could get on. and we occassional use it to break up the noisier groups. Everyone gets their hour - maybe more( averge time a patron gets to stay on a computer is often 90 minutes). But that was the big push - we wanted no records we could conect to people. We Don't Like the Patriot Act and Do Our Best to Make it a Stupid Waste of Time to Get Our Records.

I got tired of the phone company, cable company, etc wanting the last four digits of my SS# so I asked if I could get those changed to a password and they agreed.

When I was living in Georgia your driver's license number was your social security number unless you requested another number which I did.

They used to use if for a lot of university IDs too.

They used to use if for a lot of university IDs too.

At UW-Madison, they acknowledged that it would be against the law for them to use our SS# for our univeristy ID number. So, they would take your SS# and stick an extra number on the end. Clever, huh?