I felt lucky I wasn't the victim of road rage or profanity or anything.

You may have been the victim of profanity.

What's really scary is when the ice & snow starts flying off the tops of the big tractor trailers.

Do you absolutely *have* to pay rent on the 1st? I'd try to work the landlord instead if you're on good terms

This is a good idea. If you have a good relationship with your landlord, I can't seem him/her minding getting paid on the 5th--it's only four days later, after all.

You better not! I curse madly at the people who clear barely enough to see and then strew their debris down the road with abandon.

Well, at least I always clear all the windows, as well as the headlights and all signal lights. I'm amazed at the number of cars I see with the windows mostly obscured or signal lights completely obscured.

I just don't drive that much, so it had been three or four years since I had to deal with the thick ice on my car...

IT'S OUT!! IT'S OUT!

We just had a building meeting in which we had to name our favorite flavor ice cream. I feel the need to change my answer now (was Dulce de Leche).

I think I get paid like sara does. Timesheets at the end of the pay period, paid the following Friday.

But then I tried to dig through the 4 feet of snow-slush-ick between my rear tires and the path the plow cleared.

When I was still in college, we had a massive snowstorm a day before winter break. After the plows were done, I had a pile of hardened ice chunks about the size of my four-door Dodge behind my car, about eight feet high.

I remember standing on top of that snowbank with a shovel, staring down at the roof of my car, thinking, "You have got to be fucking kidding me."

Do you absolutely *have* to pay rent on the 1st? I'd try to work the landlord instead if you're on good terms

Yeah, I suppose it's worth asking them.

Timesheets at the end of the pay period, paid the following Friday.

Yep, me too. I think we were doing this even before we started direct deposit, so there was no traumatic switch of pay dates. My rent is due the first but not counted late until after the fifth; if yours is the same, you could inform your landlord, and then mail your check on the fourth (if it'll get there in time). Unless you have fear that the paycheck won't clear, you should be fine.

My rent is due the first but not counted late until after the fifth; if yours is the same, you could inform your landlord, and then mail your check on the fourth

Yeah, they count it late on the fourth or fifth (I forget the exact amount late I can be).

I was all in a good mood today until my lunch break, when:

1) The owner of the comic shop bitched at me in pointless fashion as if I were one of his slacking gamer friends who hang around all day to play halo. Dude, I'm not your buddy, I'm a paying customer. And only that because a friend of mine works behind the counter.

2) The cashier at the supermarket's only express checkout lane snotted at me that it was for valentines only, forcing me to

3) take my cooling roasted chicken and warming yogurt to one of the full cart lines, where I ended up behind the Crazy Cat Lady. Who bought $74 worth of cat food, ONE. CAN. AT. A. TIME.

I remember standing on top of that snowbank with a shovel, staring down at the roof of my car, thinking, "You have got to be fucking kidding me."

If that happened to me, I'd just stay put until summer, I swear. The Presidents' Day storm a few years back had me losing my mind. Snow as tall as my car!

Timesheets at the end of the pay period, paid the following Friday.

Let me tell you, it really sucks to start a new job and get no paycheck for three weeks. Everything had to go on the credit card, since I'd been mostly cleaned out by rent and deposits. And I had no bed! Didn't wait for that paycheck to get Devi, though. Priorities, heh.