I just had to pay my credit card bill by phone. At a surcharge of almost $15. How irritating of me to forget to set up the electronic payment. I don't know how much wiggle room this card has with late fees, and its whole purpose is to put a whole bunch on and pay off right away for the reward points.

I have no idea what slipped. I hate that.

Drama at work. But not mine, thankfully. Tears have been shed, and meetings behind closed doors.

Most of the time the refund thing is even more confusing, because for most classes there is a sliding scale of how much you get refunded to you depending on when in the semester you drop a class (this particular class is a weeklong class). So as an employee, you actually OWE the reverse of the percent of refund. So if there is a 90% refund, you own 10%. And this is big bucks as 1 class is $3800.

I mean, I did understand it pretty clearly because I read both the disclaimer on the tuition benefit form AND the refund policy and I put 2 and 2 together, but frankly, I don't think most people read instructions. When I used to deal with the actual drop adds, I would always tell people what they would own when they handed me the drop form to give them a chance to finish the class, because as long as they didn't fail, they wouldn't owe money.

I have the Office Depot card.

I am so tempted to order a bright pink office chair.

Do it! do it!

Ooooh! Leopard print! PINK LEOPARD PRINT!

You HAVE to get it! you have to sit on something, right?

Corwood, stop taunting your friend the hooplehead with your obscure fuckin' references. I know I'm ignorant. Dag, bunk, what's next? Taking a bolt off my brake pedal? That'd be funny too.

Oh, but Balthazar wouldn't approve. Hasn't that poor donkey suffered enough?

(N.B. Link added to offset obscure and unfunny joke herein.)

One of my co-workers just got back from Lebanon. His wife's family lives in the strike zone and he's wound pretty tightly about it (as you tend to be when there are bombs falling on people you love).

Timelies all!

So, my folks are visiting this weekend. Haven't figured out all the plans, but we do have dinner settled. Friday night, dinner with G's mom, Saturday with G's dad and stepmom and Sunday we take my folks out.(As a belated birthday treat for them, since we didn't get to take them out around the actual birthdays like we do for G's parents. Nevermind that G's parents are local to us and my parents are 8 hours away or that this isn't a competition. @@)

Wow. I thought, as an Arizona Democrat, I knew all there was about suffering Donkeys. And I'm not really a hoople. Just obsessed with television. Not that there isn't some overlap.

Almost every series I've ever watched requires that couple days, or even just one day, between episodes so you don't notice all the continuity errors and reset buttons. (The first season of 24 was terrible this way.)

I'm exactly the opposite. The main problem I have with Netflix is that I sometimes have to wait a week between eps (the horror!), and I love watching them on DVD because then I don't forget stuff in between. Different strokes, and all that. I also miss the episode guides and pictures that often come with, but I'm still happy with my 2 at a time subscription.