((( S & Sean))))

Billytea the pictures are just beautiful! Your wife is a very lovely woman and you both look extremely happy and content. It was definitely a highlight of my day to see those.

The other highlight was the Em-Mat story! I love hearing about Matilda and Emmett!

I had my oral surgeon consultation for getting my wisdom teeth removed. Because I get panicky about the dentist (and especially having dentist stuff in my mouth) he said I'd need to go under with general anesthesia, which is going to tack on another $2000 to the cost of getting my teeth removed. Luckily my dental insurance will cover 80% of the procedure. I'm not getting this done until the summer though.

My mother sent me a card with $20 for no real reason, and the card arrived opened with no money in it.

the card arrived opened with no money in it.

Obvious card-shaped things are notorious targets for crooked postal workers, unfortunately.

When I did customer support for USPS (AKA hell support), Christmas was a horrific time of year for that. Though it happens a lot other times. Honest postal employees want to smack around those losers.

I'm not going to call and yell at anybody. It doesn't seem worth it. It just kind of sucks and Mom's aggravated.

It just kind of sucks and Mom's aggravated.

Oh, yeah, it's a very sleazy thing to do. But if she wants to send you stuff again, she might want to put it in a regular envelope. Somewhere in your postal connection system is a sleaze.

cereal

You might want to report it anyway, at least to the postmasters on either end. If there are multiple reports, they will pay more attention and check for a bad apple in their offices.

Though it's not always the postal workers... in my grandfather's neighborhood there was a thief who just went up and down the streets checking mailboxes and taking card-shaped envelopes; s/he, whoever it was, knew the neighborhood was populated by lots of older people who had trouble seeing out to the street (and their mailboxes) and weren't mobile enough to jump up and run after someone rifling through their mailbox even if they did see something suspicious. I think the asshole was eventually caught, but just about exactly none of the money was recovered.

Stupid mail thieving bastards.

Owen's been singing about making pies all day and our pie store is closed. Feh. I'm craving PIE.

Luckily my dental insurance will cover 80% of the procedure. I'm not getting this done until the summer though.

askye, I'm glad you're getting this done. And yay for the coverage to pay for most of it!

Though it's not always the postal workers... in my grandfather's neighborhood there was a thief who just went up and down the streets checking mailboxes and taking card-shaped envelopes; s/he, whoever it was, knew the neighborhood was populated by lots of older people who had trouble seeing out to the street (and their mailboxes) and weren't mobile enough to jump up and run after someone rifling through their mailbox even if they did see something suspicious. I think the asshole was eventually caught, but just about exactly none of the money was recovered.

I was home and went to get the mail a couple seconds after I heard it arrive, otherwise I would have suspected my neighbors.

Sean, I hope you can get S's script filled, and that she's feeling better, soon. Gah.

Owen's been singing about making pies all day and our pie store is closed. Feh. I'm craving PIE.

Great. Now I am, too.