Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Kat - Jan 28, 2006 4:03:14 pm PST #3315 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I love the saturday posts about house issues, curtains, people fixin' stuff! It's happymaking.

I love taxes! With turbo tax, it's like being paid to take a quiz!

bon, this made me laugh so hard! It's fantastic. I wish I had all my W2s, but I only have my parttime job ones. I have a lot of jobs. Esp. for someone who works full time.


Kat - Jan 28, 2006 4:04:11 pm PST #3316 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

bon bon, can you google the names and see if there is a new address? And if not, then just write "no longer at this address" on the envelope and put them back in the post. They should be returned to sender then.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 28, 2006 4:04:59 pm PST #3317 of 10002
What is even happening?

before I return her to Hec
Why would you do this?

What the hell? First of all, why would I get TWO W2s from two different people who no longer live at this address-- wouldn't the PO be careful about forwarding that stuff?!-- and second, what do I do with these?

If you have their forwarding address, I'd write it on there and give it back to the mail carrier or drop it in a mailbox. If not, I think I'd write "return to sender" and "not at this address" and give it back to the mail carrier or drop it in a mailbox.


P.M. Marc - Jan 28, 2006 4:06:52 pm PST #3318 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Ack! Small annoying biting blackish ants in basement. Send help. And boric acid.

I think it's the same type that are in my yard, and suspect they've come to hide under my laundry through the basement drain. Hate them. And now my arm hurts.


Jesse - Jan 28, 2006 4:12:46 pm PST #3319 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh thank GOD. I'm not going to this jackass party tonight, but may get drinks with a couple of other friends instead. Jackass party = "cohosted" by a girl I know, at someone else's house, literally 100+ yesses on the evite, none of whom I know, $5 cover charge, located in Brooklyn and only accessible by jackass trains this weekend. Seriously?


bon bon - Jan 28, 2006 4:15:40 pm PST #3320 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

And if not, then just write "no longer at this address" on the envelope and put them back in the post. They should be returned to sender then.

If not, I think I'd write "return to sender" and "not at this address" and give it back to the mail carrier or drop it in a mailbox.

Thanks guys! It's dumb not to know how to deal with returning mail, but I had no idea if you could do that anymore.


Kat - Jan 28, 2006 4:17:50 pm PST #3321 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Okay. NO. That's crazy, Jesse. No Jackhole party for you.

I'm watching a PBS show and it mentioned the Fantasyland Hotel which is in a MALL with a waterpark, ice rink, and roller coaster inside.

I'm strangely enchanted by this idea.


Sue - Jan 28, 2006 4:20:14 pm PST #3322 of 10002
hip deep in pie

So I'm applying for a librarian job at the CBC, where I recently applied for a similar position, that I had an interview for, but didn't get. Do you think I have to make major changes to my cover letter, if it got me an interview the first time, or will the HR people look at it and say, "It's the same letter! How lazy!"


Cass - Jan 28, 2006 4:21:11 pm PST #3323 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Send help. And boric acid.
t harnesses 20 Mule Team Borax

t sends north

Portland is going to mean fleas, isn't it? Damn.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 28, 2006 4:23:31 pm PST #3324 of 10002
What is even happening?

Thanks guys! It's dumb not to know how to deal with returning mail, but I had no idea if you could do that anymore.
Nah. Not dumb. I don't live in a big city, but I don't have that rural (or what I think of as rural) sort of mail service where I can raise a flag on the box, and have the mail carrier take my outgoing mail.

When I've gotten the wrong person's mail, I've just written on the envelope and left it sticking out of my mail box, and either my mail carrier or the letter fairies have taken it away. That's at a single family house, though. I'm imagining you live in a big apartment building with those little locked boxes, and I don't know what you'd do either (save hauling your cookies to the post office) except stick it a U.S. mailbox. It's tricksy.